Notes on Contributors

Brian T. Austin is manager of the W.A. (Sandy) MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation at the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, in Seattle. Mr. Austin is interested in the innovative uses of technology for health care delivery.

Dan W. Brock is a professor of philosophy and biomedical ethics and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his extensive writings on surrogate decision making is Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making, which he co-authored with Allen Buchanan in 1989. Among his current interests are genetics and justice and health care resource prioritization and rationing.

Merwyn R. Greenlick is professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. He is working to create models that could one day replace our current health care system with a more humanistic one.

Deborah Lucas is professor of finance at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. Her research is primarily in the areas of asset pricing and corporate finance. Her interest in long-term care dates from her participation in President Clinton’s Healthcare Task Force. (At the time she was serving on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.) She has continued to work on long-term-care issues and is currently examining the economics of partnership policies.

Harold S. Luft is the Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor of Health Policy and Health Economics and director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California in San Francisco. His research covers a wide range, as he has studied medical care quality, the relation between hospital volume and patient outcomes, adverse selection in multiple option health insurance settings, competition in the medical care market, and health maintenance organizations.

Jean M. Mitchell is associate professor at the Graduate Public Policy Program, Georgetown University, and a scholar at the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She is interested in the effects of managed care on physicians’ practices and of Medicare fee reductions on their behavior. She is evaluating as well the impacts of waivers for Medicaid beneficiaries with AIDS, of provider taxes, and of access to specific treatment protocols.

Stephen A. Norton is a research associate at the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. His primary interests are in maternal and child health and Medicaid expansions.

Robert S. Thompson is director of the Department of Preventive Care, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, in Seattle. He is interested in the application of evidence- and population-based approaches to clinical prevention services and in achieving their integration at all levels of care for the population served. His research interests include injury, immunizations, cancer interventions, and epidemiology.

Michael Von Korff is a senior investigator at the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, in Seattle. He is a health services researcher/epidemiologist who is concerned primarily with health care for common chronic illnesses. Mr. Von Korff is currently conducting experimental studies to evaluate self-management training and support interventions for depression and back pain in primary care.

Edward H. Wagner is director of the Center for Health Studies and the W.A. (Sandy) MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, in Seattle. Dr. Wagner is a physician/epidemiologist whose current research interests are diabetes, disability prevention in older adults, and the organization of primary care practice to meet the needs of chronically ill patients.

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Volume 74, Issue 4 (pages 619–621)
Published in 1996