Notes on Contributors

Arthur I. Alterman is scientific director of the Penn-VA Center for Studies of Addiction in Philadelphia. He is currently evaluating the outcomes of different forms of alcohol and cocaine treatment and is investigating the impact of diagnostic factors on patients who are undergoing these treatments.

Charlyn Black is assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She is also a senior researcher at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation. Dr. Black is investigating the use of administrative databases in assessing population health; the links between illness and the utilization of medical services; patterns of resource allocation in health care; and the measurement and monitoring of quality, effectiveness, and outcomes of medical care.

Bogdan Bogdanovic is a programmer analyst at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation in Winnipeg. He is currently developing a database of physician resources.

Charles A. Burchill is a programmer analyst at the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation in Winnipeg. He is examining the utilization of health services by regional populations.

K. C. Carriere is an assistant professor of statistics in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She is interested in longitudinal data analysis and the design of repeated measurement experiments. Currently she is working on a small area variation analysis.

Joel W. Cohen is senior research manager at the Center for Health Expenditure and Insurance Studies, located in the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, Maryland. He has recently studied the impact of Medicaid nursing-home reimbursement methods on quality of care and the effect of stringent Medicaid physician fees on poor children’s access to care. He is managing the work on the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Marsha Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration at the University of Toronto. She has explored the field of population-based outcomes and effectiveness research, especially the use of large administrative databases. Dr. Cohen has recently evaluated the outcomes of anesthesia and surgery.

Carolyn DeCoster is a researcher/administrator at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She is interested in the patterns of use of health care services, particularly how socioeconomic factors affect the use of services by the elderly. She is also studying the appropriate use of acute care services.

Jack Durell is executive director of the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Durell studies alcohol, drug, and mental health treatments and evaluates their outcomes.

Alan I. Faden is a professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology and Dean of Research and Graduate Education at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Norman Frohlich is a senior researcher at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation and a professor of business administration at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

Lee Greenfield is a state representative in Minnesota. He chairs the Health and Human Services Finance Division of the Health and Human Services Committee and the Steering Committee of the Reforming States Group. Representative Greenfield helped to initiate health care reform in Minnesota in 1992.

Leonard MacWilliam is a senior programmer at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation and the Department of Community Health Sciences, both at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He is currently measuring population health status using administrative health claims data. His interests include computer-assisted statistical analysis of epidemiological data.

James McKay is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is studying the prevention of relapses among cocaine addicts in treatment and comparing the cost-effectiveness of various types of treatments for alcohol and cocaine dependence.

A. Thomas McLellan is director of the Center for Instrument and Methods Development at the University of Pennsylvania and of the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. He and his colleagues are evaluating substance abuse and psychiatric treatments through controlled trials and field studies. Dr. McLellan is also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

David Metzger is chief of the Opiate Division at the Penn-VA Center for Studies of Addiction in Philadelphia. His various AIDS research projects include studies of community prevalence rates and of vaccine preparation.

Josephine W.I. Musser is commissioner of insurance for the state of Wisconsin where she addresses the insurance, health delivery, and social issues facing today’s society. She has recently been appointed to the Wisconsin Glass Ceiling Commission, reflecting her interest in women’s issues.

Cameron A. Mustard is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. In his research on health services and chronic disease epidemiology, he focuses particularly on socioeconomic disparities in health status and how they affect the utilization of health services.

David R. Nerenz is director of the Center for Health System Studies at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit where his work centers on three areas: refining measures of performance for vertically integrated health systems; measuring functional health status outcomes; and developing health system-community partnership models of primary care.

Charles P. O’Brien is a director of the Penn-VA Center for Studies of Addiction in Philadelphia. Dr. O’Brien directs a program of studies that includes the development of new medications to be used in the treatment of cocaine addiction and the investigation of the neurochemical substrates of drug reward among addicted persons.

James D. Reschovsky is a research fellow at the Center for Delivery Systems Research, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in Rockville, Maryland. He is primarily interested in long-term-care policy and has recently studied the financing and operation of nursing homes, personal care homes, and home care markets.

Leslie L. Roos is a professor and a National Health Scientist at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He is particularly interested in the use of administrative databases, in comparisons of the health care outcomes in Canada and the United States, and in software to increase research productivity.

Noralou P. Roos is director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Among her research interests are variations in physician practice studies, outcomes of care, technology assessment, and the use of administrative data for managing the health care system.

Virginia A. Sharpe is assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., where she teaches medical ethics and environmental philosophy and ethics. Her article in the Quarterly represents part of her current research into the historical, conceptual, and ethical dimensions of iatrogenic illness.

William D. Spector is a senior researcher at the Center for Delivery Systems Research, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, Maryland. He is concerned with factors that affect access to long-term care as well as the quality of that care. He also studies the measurement of functional disability and its use in public policy.

Douglas J. Tataryn is assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Using his training in clinical psychology, he is conducting research in behavioral medicine, specifically in the psychosocial predictors of chronic disease.

Fred Toll is a consultant at Manitoba Health in Winnipeg, which pro-vides liaison services with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation.

Dave Wendler is a fellow in the bioethics program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. His primary areas of interest are the philosophy of biology, medical ethics, and moral theory. He has recently been working on issues in informed consent and the nature of innateness.

George E. Woody is the chief of substance abuse treatment at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Woody is studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy in substance abuse and is conducting AIDS research.

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Volume 74, Issue 1 (pages 161–163)
Published in 1996