Notes on Contributors

Charles K. Atkin is professor of communication and telecommunication at Michigan State University. He is co-editor, with Lawrence Wallack, of Mass Communication and Public Health, published by Sage in 1990. Mr. Atkin specializes in the design of public information campaigns.

William DeJong is a lecturer in the Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health. His specialty is the study of mass media strategies for promoting public health and he is the author of a forthcoming book on violence prevention.

Norman Fost is professor and vice-chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Dr. Fost’s major interests are ethical and legal issues in health care, particularly those involving children. His current work focuses on genetic screening, particularly for cystic fibrosis, and growth hormone for non-growth-hormone deficient children.

Mita K. Giacomini is a doctoral candidate in health services and policy analysis at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds masters degrees in public health and in the history of health sciences. Her research interests include equity in health resource rationing and the impact of high technology on health and social organization. Ms. Giacomini’s dissertation topic is the equity of implicit rationing of high technology surgery in California.

Peter Hurley is associate director for vital and health care statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In his capacity at NCHS, Mr. Hurley is concerned with the production of policy-related health statistics.

Mark R. Meiners is associate professor and director of the Division of Economics of Aging and Health at the University of Maryland’s Center on Aging. He specializes in long-term-care financing and reimbursement issues. Mr. Meiners is working on developing programs that encourage volunteers to provide informal care for the elderly in exchange for similar services, if needed.

Elizabeth A. Petty is the deputy director for Medicaid at the Monroe County Department of Social Services in New York. She oversees the Medicaid eligibility system for the county, and is actively involved in designing several innovative delivery and financing programs for Medicaid clients.

Glenn Pinder is special assistant to the associate director for vital and health statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. A clinical psychologist by training, he has a longtime interest in the collection of behavioral data for surveys. Mr. Pinder has done volunteer work with the gay men’s counseling collective as well as HIV-test counseling at the Whitman-Walker clinic in Washington, D.C.

James C. Robinson‘s research interests are in environmental policy and the economics of medical care. His book, Toil and Toxics: Work-place Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health, was published by the University of California Press in 1991. Mr. Robinson directs projects on pesticides, air pollution, and toxic substances and has also focused on how transactions cost and principal-agent models apply to hospitals and health insurance. He is a member of an advisory committee on health insurance to California commissioner John Garamendi.

Marc A. Rodwin is associate professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His research focuses on the relations between regulation, markets, ethics, and public policy. Mr. Rodwin is the author of Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians’ Conflicts of Interest in the United States, which will be published by Oxford University Press in the spring of 1993.

Jill S. Szydlowski is director of special projects at Rochester Healthcare Information Group, Inc., a subsidiary of the Rochester Area Hospitals Corporation. Her field of work involves development and analysis of health care data bases. Ms. Szydlowski recently has been involved in developing the Elderly Data Base in conjunction with the Community Coalition for Long Term Care in Rochester, New York.

Helena Temkin-Greener is the director of research for the Community Coalition for Long Term Care in Rochester, New York. Her work involves design and implementation of innovative programs in delivering and financing health care for older persons. Ms. Temkin-Greener’s principal areas of research are in long-term care and Medicaid.

Lawrence Wallack is associate professor and head of the Community Health Education Program at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. His fields of interest are mass communication and public health. Mr. Wallack is completing a book on the use of mass media for public health advocacy.

Benjamin S. Wilfond is assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona. His major interest lies in ethical issues related to clinical genetics. As a pediatric pulmonologist, Dr. Wilfond is particularly interested in the ethical issues of cystic fibrosis (CF) screening and he is co-author of a forthcoming study on the application of DNA technology to CF newborn screening.

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Volume 70, Issue 4 (pages 743–745)
Published in 1992