Notes on Contributors

Richard H. Angell is program director of child and adolescent training, Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Angell’s major interests include transcultural psychiatry and service systems for seriously psychiatrically disturbed youth. He is currently a consultant to public mental health services for youth in schools, health care, juvenile corrections, and child welfare agencies.

Linda J. Blumberg is a research associate at The Urban Institute. Her research interests include health care financing and reform, Medicaid, and the social welfare effects of tax policy. She is currently working with the Office of Management and Budget to estimate the cost implications of health care reform proposals. Nancy Breen is an economist at the National Cancer Institute. Her recent work has involved economic analysis of the financial and family costs of services, efficient allocation of services, and the determinants underlying differential access to, and use of, cancer prevention and control services.

Martin L. Brown is an economist at the National Cancer Institute where he has been performing economic analyses of issues related to cancer prevention and control. Topics of interest have included cost effectiveness, efficient organization of health care resources, and socioeconomic determinants of access and use of preventive services.

Daniel Callahan is president of The Hastings Center. His current interest is how modern medicine can better cope with human mortality and economic constraints; he is currently writing a book on this topic entitled The Gods of Medicine.

Sandy Gamliel is a senior economist in the Office of Health Professions Analysis, Bureau of Health Professions. She has published articles analyzing health personnel in the United States and has written on occupational projections and training for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Robert A. George is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University. In addition to clinical work as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, he has helped direct the Oregon Psychiatric Association legislative effort since 1985. Dr. George is interested in political and ethical issues as they apply to psychiatry and in clinical matters as they relate to psychopharmacology and learning disabilities.

Gerald N. Grob is Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research and the Department of History, Rutgers University. His work over the past 35 years on the history of the care and treatment of the mentally ill in America resulted in a three-volume national history, published between 1973 and 1991. His latest book is a one-volume history entitled The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill.

John Holahan is director of the Health Policy Research Center at The Urban Institute. Among his interests are health care reform, Medicare and Medicaid, and physician payment.

Bentson H. McFarland is associate professor of psychiatry, public health, and preventive medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University and an investigator for the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland. Dr. McFarland is a psychiatrist whose research pertains to health policy, managed care, and pharmacoepidemiology. He is president of the Oregon Psychiatric Association.

David Mechanic is Rene Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences and director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His work focuses on national health care policy, the organization and financing of mental health care, and the behavioral aspects of health. Mr. Mechanic is a frequent contributor to the Milbank Quarterly.

Fitzhugh Mullan is director of the Bureau of Health Professions and assistant surgeon general. He served as co-chair of the workforce work group of the First Lady’s Task Force on Health Care Reform. His writings have included the fields of medical workforce policy, public health practice, and medical history. Dr. Mullan is the author of Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service.

Robert M. Politzer is associate bureau director for primary care policy of the Bureau of Health Professions. His published articles include analyses of primary care physician supply, international medical graduates, primary care dentistry, public health, and undergraduate and graduate medical education policy.

David A. Pollack is medical director of Mental Health Services West and adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Dr. Pollack is a community psychiatrist whose academic and policy work, in addition to health care reform, has included the role of psychiatrists in public mental health settings, mental health care delivery systems, standards of care in community mental health, and HIV-related mental health issues.

Marc L. Rivo is director of the Division of Medicine, Bureau of Health Professions; he also serves as executive secretary to the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Rivo is on the medical teaching staff at George Washington and Georgetown universities, and he is an associate editor for American Family Physician. He has written on physician work-force reform and public health epidemiology.

Stephen Zuckerman is senior research associate at The Urban Institute where he is currently investigating physician and hospital payment and health care reform. He is currently studying how Medicare physician payment policies and beneficiaries’ access affect care and also how hospitals respond to financial pressure.

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Volume 72, Issue 3 (pages 551–553)
Published in 1994