Notes on Contributors

Laurie J. Bassi is associate professor of economics and public policy at Georgetown University. She is a labor economist with an interest in the intersections of economics and public policy. She recently coedited Labor Economics and Public Policy and is the author of many articles on education and training policy, welfare policy, and the economics of the family.

Yen-pin Chiang is an instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Mr. Chiang also is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at the University of Rochester. His fields of interest are cost-effectiveness analysis, U.S. disability policy, and health care utilization.

Llewellyn J. Cornelius is a service fellow at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His research focuses primarily on access to medical care, health insurance, and health status of the disadvantaged. He is the author of “Access to Medical Care for Black Americans with an Episode of Illness,” which appeared in the Journal of the National Medical Association in 1991.

Christine Hunter is director of clinical services at Medical Dimensions, Inc., in San Jose, California. Her professional interests include the provider and consumer incentives in managed health care programs.

Jonathan C. Javitt is assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Georgetown University Medical Center, with joint appointments in the programs on public policy and medical technology assessment. Dr. Javitt also directs the Worthen Center for Eye Care Research.

Peter Kemper is director of the Division of Long Term Care Studies, Center for Intramural Research, at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. His main areas of interest are long-term care financing, home care policy, and lifetime nursing-home use. He is a coauthor of “A Lifetime Perspective on Proposals for Financing Nursing Home Care,” which appeared in Inquiry in 1991.

J. Paul Leigh is a professor of economics at San Jose State University and a consulting economist with the Stanford Medical Center in California. He is interested in socioeconomic predictors of health and econometric applications in epidemiology. He is the author of a recent paper that ranked jobs according to the blood pressures of incumbents.

Timothy D. McBride is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His fields of interest are public economics, aging, and econometrics. He is a coauthor of “Predicting Nursing Home Ad-missions and Length of Stay: A Duration Analysis,” which appeared in Medical Care in 1991.

Gordon T. Moore is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of teaching programs at the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston, Massachusetts. His fields of interest are medical education, primary care, and health services management. Dr. Moore’s most recent work is an evaluation of the new pathway project in general medical education at Harvard.

Fitzhugh Mullan is the director of the Bureau of Health Professions and an assistant surgeon general in the U.S. Public Health Service. His writings have included the fields of medical manpower 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.

Jeffrey M. Prottas is research professor and deputy director of the Bigel Institute at Brandeis University. His research focuses on organ and tissue transplantation, organizational behavior, and substance abuse. He is the author of “Human Tissues as Medical Treatment,” which appeared in the Southern California Law Review.

Pamela Farley Short is deputy director of the Division of National Medical Expenditure Studies, Center for Intramural Research, at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Her major area of interest is health care finance. She is a coauthor of “Standardizing Nursing Home Admission Dates for Short-term Hospital Stays,” which appeared in Medical Care in 1991.

Daniel C. Walden is director of the Division of Medical Expenditure Studies at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. His major areas of research are insurance coverage and expenditures for care.

Sheila Rafferty Zedlewski is director of the Program for Aging and Retirement Policy at The Urban Institute in Washington, D .C. Her research focuses on retirement income security, health insurance coverage, and health care reform. She is a coauthor of “Insuring Low-Income Americans: Is Medicaid the Answer?” which appeared in Health Affairs in 1991.

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Volume 70, Issue 2 (pages 387–389)
Published in 1992