Notes on Contributors

Jeffrey A. Alexander is the Richard C. Jelinek Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. His research focuses on the organization and management of health care delivery: hospital and system governance, strategic change, physician-system integration, and the effects of managed care on organizational structures and practices.

Gloria J. Bazzoli is Vice President for Research at the Hospital Research and Educational Trust in Chicago and a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In her work, which centers on the restructuring of health care organizations and markets, she has examined hospital consolidation, vertical integration of hospitals with physicians and insurance activities, and the development of community partnerships to serve local health needs.

Michelle Casey is a Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center in Minneapolis. In her studies of rural areas, she has focused on how they have been affected by health networks, managed care, state-level health policy, and workforce issues. Recently she has analyzed commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid HMO enrollment in rural localities, and she has also conducted case studies of HMOs serving rural constituents.

Jon Christianson is a Professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis. As an economist, his research interests include managed care, rural health financing and delivery, and mental health care.

Douglas A. Conrad is a Professor in the Department of Health Services at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the Department of Dental Public Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Finance and Business Economics, School of Business Administration. He specializes in industrial organization and corporate finance and is currently examining physician compensation models in group practices, integrated health systems, and community care networks.

Sue E. Estroff is a Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work is focused on illness-identity interactions and their influence on the life course; people with severe, persistent psychiatric disorders; and cultural and interpretive approaches to disablement and chronic illness.

Judith Feder is a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. Her interest in issues of long-term health care coverage has led her to examine the impact of the new legislative initiatives on Medicare and Medicaid. From 1993 through 1995, she served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she played a critical role in the effort to enact comprehensive health reform legislation.

David Hartley is Director of the Division of Rural Health at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. He has conducted research on rural medical technology and the rural uninsured, and he is currently studying mental health services and managed care networks in rural areas.

Michelle Huckaby is a medical student at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She recently analyzed the uninsured population in Louisiana and evaluated the conversion of not-for-profit health care organizations to for-profit status. She is interested as well in the health care needs of children, medical malpractice reform, and health insurance reform.

William S. Lachicotte, Jr., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His broad interests lie in social and cultural studies of psychiatric practice, and he has recently been exploring the interrelation and interaction of professional and popular notions of “personhood” and personal identity.

Jeanne M. Lambrew is a Senior Health Policy Analyst for the National Economic Council at the White House, where she conducts and coordinates health policy analysis related to Medicaid, Medicare, and new health initiatives. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

Korbin Liu is Principal Research Associate at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he is studying acute and long-term care of disabled, elderly people. Currently he is examining the determinants and costs of Medicare postacute skilled nursing facilities and home health care use. The program efficiencies in managed long-term-care projects constitute another research interest.

Ira Moscovice is a Professor and the Director of the Rural Health Research Center, Division of Health Services Research and Policy, at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis. Among his research interests are rural health networks and managed care and the implications of technology diffusion in rural areas.

Donald L. Patrick is a Professor in the Department of Health Services and the Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle. He has worked extensively in the assessment of health and quality-of-life out-comes. Currently he is conducting research on health promotion and public health policy for people with disabilities.

Stephen M. Shortell is the A.C. Buehler Distinguished Professor of Health Services Management and a Professor of Organization Behavior at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. Professor Shortell is conducting research on integrated health systems, physician group practices, community care networks, and the clinical application of total quality management.

Shoshanna Sofaer is Director of the Center for Health Outcomes Improvement Research at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Among her research interests are the ways in which community-based coalitions are used to improve the health of the public and health care services delivery and the measures that are used to assess improvements in community health.

Rebecca Stein is a doctoral candidate in economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she is examining how managed care affects the operation of health care organizations, especially in the area of quality assurance.

Susan Wall is a Research Associate at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Among her interests are the programs and financing of health services for low-income people. She is currently working in the areas of Medicaid managed care, public health departments, and rural health delivery systems.

Anthony Wellever is a Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center. His research encompasses rural health networks, managed care in rural areas, and alternative models for small, rural hospitals.

Douglas Wissoker, a labor economist and econometrician, is a Senior Research Associate at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. In his recent work, which has involved an examination of issues of race, he completed a paired-testing study of discrimination in home insurance and an analysis of government use of minority-owned businesses in contracting.

Barbara Yawn is a Senior Investigator at the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center in Minneapolis. Dr. Yawn conducts both clinical and health services research on care for rural residents. In other work, she studied the degree to which the care of rural Medicare and Medicaid recipients conformed to clinical practice guidelines.

Catherine R. Zimmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. She provides analytical and statistical expertise to social scientists in many fields. Her research has led her to explore the application of quantitative methodology, the links between organizations and their environments, and the work commitment of women and men managers.

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Volume 75, Issue 4 (pages 589–593)
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00070
Published in 1997