Notes on Contributors

Charles L. Bennett is associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University Medical School and senior research associate at VA Chicago Health Care Systems in Chicago. Dr. Bennett is also chairman of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center program on policy and outcomes. He currently directs several projects for implementing quality improvement and establishing guidelines in oncology.

David Blumenthal is director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System in Boston. Among Dr. Blumenthal’s research interests are the future of academic health centers under health care reform, quality management in health care, the determinants of physician behavior, access to health services, and academic-industrial relations in the health sciences. Troyen A. Brennan is president of the Brigham and Women’s Physician Hospital Organization, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and professor of law and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Dr. Brennan’s research centers on the quality and regulation of health care.

Robert H. Brook is vice president and director of RAND Health, professor of medicine and health services at the Center for Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Robert Wood Johnson/UCLA Clinical Scholars Program. He is an internationally recognized expert on the measurement of quality and health status and on evaluating the effects of policy changes on health status and quality of care.

Charles R. Buck, Jr. is program leader of Health Care Quality and Strategy Initiatives at the General Electric Company in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is leading the application of GE’s company-wide Six Sigma Quality program to more than 50 managed health care suppliers and 100 in-house medical treatment sites. He also participates in various forums that address the organizational and public policy aspects of medical error and quality.

Gayle R. Byck is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, and was formerly with the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is primarily interested in health policy and access to care. Ms. Byck is studying and analyzing the policy that led to the recent expansions in children’s health insurance.

Mark R. Chassin is professor and chairman of the Department of Health Policy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He is also senior vice president for clinical quality at Mount Sinai Hospital. His research focuses on developing new measures of the quality of health care and on how these measures can be used to improve quality.

Molly Joel Coye is senior vice president and director of the West Coast office of The Lewin Group, a strategic and management consulting firm. Dr. Coye focuses on clinical care management within managed care and integrated health systems, Medicare risk plans, and public-sector policy on quality and health services delivery systems.

Helen Darling is practice leader of group benefits and health care at Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Stamford, Connecticut. She acts as a benefits consultant for large employers and other purchasers. Her specialty is the design and selection of health plans, cost management techniques, and health care performance measures.

Don E. Detmer is university professor of health policy and codirector of the health policy center at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. His most recent work has been on the topics of policy for universal access to care, management issues of academic health centers, knowledge management, and information technology.

R. Adams Dudley is assistant adjunct professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Dudley’s major research interests include risk adjustment, quality of care, and reform of the health care market. He is currently involved in a project to collect data from four health maintenance organizations regarding the costs incurred and the quality of care received by patients with certain chronic, expensive diseases.

Paul B. Ginsburg is president of the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, D.C. His broad interests lie in tracking changes in the financing and delivery of health care, and he has worked extensively on cost trends, managed care plans, and physician organizations.

Charles M. Kilo is affiliated with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston. Dr. Kilo’s work and research center on collaborative improvement models, the quality of care, improvement methodologies, and the spread of innovation.

Tamir Y. Korenbrot was a policy intern during the summer of 1997 at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, where he worked on quality assessment and risk adjustment issues.

Harold S. Luft is the Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor of Health Policy and Health Economics at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco. Among his research interests are medical care utilization, health maintenance organizations, risk adjustment of payments to health plans, hospital market competition, the quality and outcomes of hospital care, and health care market reforms. He has written numerous articles and four books, most recently, HMOs and the Elderly.

Patrick H. Mattingly is senior vice president of planning and development at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he is responsible for strategy, policy, and legislation, as well as delivery system expansion and development. Dr. Mattingly is particularly interested in health system organization, public policy, particularly for the uninsured, and medical decision making and ethics. Elizabeth A. McGlynn is director of the Center for Research on Quality in Health Care at RAND, Santa Monica, California. She has conducted quality-of-care research across multiple population groups for over a decade. Currently, she is leading the development of a global system to measure quality in managed care settings.

Catherine G. McLaughlin is associate professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research is on health maintenance organizations, health care cost containment, market competition, Medicaid managed care, the working uninsured, and employee benefit choice.

Robert H. Miller is associate professor of health economics at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, the School of Medicine, and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. He has studied managed care and health system changes and is now engaged in several projects on the effects of capitation and liability incentives in reducing patient injury in large physician organizations; risk-adjusted payment rates for persons with chronic conditions and diseases; and the determinants of health care use for persons with dementia.

Velvet G. Miller is former deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services in Trenton and is currently the executive director of Children’s Futures New Jersey in Princeton. Her focus is on improving access to health care and maximizing the utilization of health services by the low-income population. Most recently, she has been working to enroll New Jersey’s low-income children and most of the Medicaid-covered populations in the managed care delivery system.

Mark A. Schuster is senior natural scientist at RAND in Santa Monica, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Dr. Schuster’s research is primarily on the quality of care for children and adolescents. His other work covers adolescent sexual behavior and risk reduction, strategies to improve childhood immunization rates, and children of HIV-infected adults.

Stephen M. Shortell is Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and professor of organization behavior at the University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley. His current research is on the relation between physician groups and integrated health systems and the impact of total quality management on outcomes of care for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery and total hip replacement.

Jane E. Sisk is a professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York City. Her recent work includes the evaluation of managed care, especially for Medicaid, the implementation of evidence-based recommendations, and cost-effectiveness analysis.

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Volume 76, Issue 4 (pages 769–773)
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00118
Published in 1998