Notes on Contributors

Brian Abel-Smith is professor of social administration at the London School of Economics. Mr. Abel-Smith is a health economist who works on international health, devoting equal time to the problems of developed and developing countries.

Judith K. Barr is associate director for programs at the New York Business Group on Health, and adjunct associate professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. Recent research activities include a survey about stress among working women. Her report, coauthored with Dr. Warshaw, on a study of work-place AIDS education appeared in the American Journal of Public Health.

Jon Christianson is a professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. His research interests include utilization, costs, and enrollee outcomes under capitated payment systems, market structure, and competition in the HMO industry, and rural health care. He is the author of a recent article addressing HMO failures.

Bryan Dowd is associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where he is also director of graduate studies for the masters program in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy. His research interests include markets for health insurance and health care services, evaluation research, and quantitative methods.

Roger Feldman is professor of health services research and economics at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. His field of research is health economics. Since 1988, he has directed one of the four national research centers sponsored by the Health Care Financing Administration.

Judith Fifield is an assistant professor of behavioral science in the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Connecticut. Her current research interests include gender and health and the role of work stress and symptom perception in chronic disease. She has recently coauthored an article with Susan Reisine on work disability and the illness experience of rheumatoid arthritis.

Bradford H. Gray is adjunct professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Program on Non-Profit Organizations in the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies. A sociologist, he has broad interests in policy and ethical issues in the organization and financing of health care. His most recent book is The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and Hospitals.

Katrina W. Johnson is chief of the section on Older People in Society in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging. Her current professional interests include work site issues for aging research, family and community caregiving for older people, and elder abuse and family conflict in later life. Ms. Johnson particularly stresses the cultural and ethnic aspects of aging in her work.

John Klein is manager of the Public Employees Insurance Plan in the Minnesota Department of Employee Relations. His work involves development of a competitive environment for health plans available through a state-sponsored multiple-employer pool. Mr. Klein recently served as research director of the Minnesota Health Care Access Commission, which made recommendations leading to health care reform legislation.

Melissa Constable Musliner is a research health science specialist for the Great Lakes Health Services Research and Development Field Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ms. Musliner is particularly interested in the provision of health services to the chronically ill. Her current projects include a study of the longitudinal utilization patterns of veterans with chronic mental illness.

Susan Reisine is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. She is also the director of the epidemiology, education, and health services research component of the Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center. Her fields of interest include disability in chronic conditions, social impacts of oral health problems, and women’s health issues. Ms. Reisine has recently written an article on the effects of role demands and role autonomy on family role functioning.

Andrew Scull is professor of sociology and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he also chairs the Department of Sociology. His major research interests lie in the history of psychiatry, and his new book, Museums of Madness Revisited: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England, will be published by Yale University Press early in 1993.

Lawrence H. Thompson is assistant comptroller general in charge of the division of the General Accounting Office that handles studies of human resources programs. In this capacity, he is concerned with the rate of growth of health care costs, the quality of care in government hospitals, the quality of service at the Social Security Administration, the fiscal condition of state and local governments, and the quality of the U.S. education and job training system.

Leon J. Warshaw, executive director of the New York Business Group on Health, is clinical professor of environmental medicine at New York University. Dr. Warshaw’s current work focuses on the cost, availability, and quality of health care and factors affecting the health, well-being, and productivity of the workplace.

William G. Weissert is professor of health policy in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy, School of Public Health, at the University of Michigan, where he also works as a research scientist for the Institute of Gerontology. He is interested in the role of health care policy in shaping management decision making in the health care delivery system. Mr. Weissert teaches health politics, long-term care policy, and research methods.

Catherine Wisner is a health research methodologist at the Park Nicollet Medical Foundation in Minneapolis and a student in the doctoral program in the Division of Health Services Research, Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota. Her current area of research is the effect of health plan choice on the health status of Medicare beneficiaries.

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Volume 70, Issue 3 (page 581)
Published in 1992