Notes on Contributors

George J. Annas is Edward R. Utley Professor and chair of the Health Law Department at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. His primary research interests are patients’ rights, bioethics, and the regulation of science and technology. His most recent books are American Health Law and The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code.

David J. Ballard is associate professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and director of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Health Policy Studies. His research centers on clinical epidemiology, health services research, and health care effectiveness. He is a coauthor with Cynthia L. Leibson of a recent study on the impact of prospective payment on trends in hospitalization and readmission rates of the elderly.

Randall R. Bovbjerg is a policy analyst and lawyer. A senior research associate at the Urban Institute, his principal research interests are health insurance and financing; regulation, competition, and the appropriate role for government action; and the influence of law and legal culture on policy. He is a coauthor of Insuring Medical Malpractice.

Norman Daniels is Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and professor of biomedical ethics at Tufts University. His work has centered on ethics, political philosophy, and health policy. He is completing a book on justice and AIDS policy.

Leonard H. Glantz is professor of health law at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He is associate director of the School of Public Health. Mr. Glantz’s research has focused on health law and policy, with a special emphasis on the impact of public health policy on civil liberties.

Thomas A. Hodgson is chief economist in the Office of Analysis and Epidemiology of the National Center for Health Statistics. He has been a close student of the economic costs of illness and the international comparability of health data. He is an author of a recent study of the socioeconomic impact of immunology and allergic disease in the United States.

Jessica Spira Kahn is a student at the Harvard Medical School. She is particularly interested in pediatrics, adolescent medicine, and access to health care by disadvantaged populations.

Cynthia L. Leibson is a research associate in the Department of Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic. The focus of her work has been on aging, health services research, and epidemiology. Ms. Leibson is the author of a recent study of the impact of prospective payment on trends in hospitalization and readmission rates of the elderly.

Carol Levine is executive director of the Orphan Project: The HIV Epidemic and New York City’s Children. Her research interests have focused on HIV policies, clinical research ethics, and controversies in bioethics. She is the editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, now in its fourth edition.

Wendy K. Mariner is associate professor of health law at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Her research focuses on AIDS, access to health care, legal rights of patients, drug and vaccine policy, and research ethics. Ms. Mariner’s recent publications include an analysis of the implications of Rust v. Sullivan on family planning and other government-funded programs, and an evaluation of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

L. Joseph Melton III is a physician who is head of the Section of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation. His work has centered on the epidemiology of endocrine and metabolic disorders, especially osteoporosis and fractures, and gastrointestinal disease.

Dennis Ross-Degnan is a member of the Drug Policy Research Group at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He is involved in studies of pharmaceutical policy and interventions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of medication use. With Stephen B. Soumerai he is a coauthor of a recent article on the effects of Medicaid drug payment on institutionalization and hospital use.

Alan Ryan is professor of politics at Princeton University. His work focuses on modern political theory, the work of John Dewey, and theories of the welfare state.

Stephen B. Soumerai is associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He is involved in studies of cost containment and the quality of health care, access to care by vulnerable populations, and methods of improving medical decision making. He is a coauthor of a recent article on the effects of Medicaid drug payment on institutionalization and hospital use.

Laurence R. Tancredi is a psychiatrist and lawyer on the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine. His research has centered on law and health care policy and on the biological correlates of violent behavior. Many of his recent publications have addressed malpractice and tort reform.

Jack P. Whisnant is chair of the Department of Health Sciences Research, professor of neurology, and director of the Cerebrovascular Research Center at the Mayo Clinic. His research focuses on cerebrovascular disease and epidemiology. He is a coauthor of a recent study of the impact of cigarette smoking and hypertension on intracranial carotid artery atherosclerosis.

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Volume 70, Issue 1 (pages 241–243)
Published in 1992