Notes on Contributors

John D. Arras is associate clinical professor of bioethics, Division of Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His work centers on ethical issues in AIDS treatment and research, and philosophical foundations of bioethics. Dr. Arras’s latest article examined noncompliance in AIDS research.

Marjorie K. Bauman is senior research associate at the Centers for Health Policy Research and Health Services Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Her work focuses on monitoring and evaluating home health-care quality systems. Ms. Bauman recently coauthored an article on key considerations in measuring home health-care quality.

Jill Bernstein is senior policy analyst, Office of Program Development at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Her fields of interest include utilization review and quality assurance, and health-care financing systems. Dr. Bernstein contributed the chapter on the federal role in volume performance standards to the Physician Payment Review Commission’s 1990 report to Congress.

Martha J. Breslow is senior research associate in the Survey Research Center of The University of Michigan. Social epidemiology and survey methodology are her primary fields of professional interest.

Kathryn S. Crisler is senior research associate at the Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is professionally interested in measurement of quality in home health care. Ms. Crisler is coauthor of a study of quality indicators for health care in home settings.

Nancy Neveloff Dubler is director of the Division of Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. An attorney, she works in the fields of health law, gerontology, and medical ethics. Ms. Dubler has recently published articles on moral dimensions of home care and AIDS in prisons.

A. Regula Herzog is associate research scientist in the Survey Research Center at The University of Michigan. She is interested in the subjects of aging, health and well-being, and survey methodology. Dr. Herzog is coauthor of a forthcoming article on the use of survey methods in research on older Americans, and another on the relation of work activity to health and well-being over the life course.

James S. House is professor of sociology and research scientist in the Survey Research Center at The University of Michigan. He works professionally on the psychosocial epidemiology of health and illness, among other themes in the areas of survey research and social psychology. Dr. House is the coauthor of an article on employment status and emotional functioning in a community sample.

Ronald C. Kessler is professor of sociology and program director in the Survey Research Center at The University of Michigan. He is currently directing the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Ad- ministration’s National Comorbidity Survey, an investigation of the joint occurrence of clinically significant psychiatric disorders and substance abuse in the general population. Dr. Kessler recently completed a study of social support, depressed mood, and adjustment to stress.

Ann M. Kinney is research assistant in the Survey Research Center and a doctoral candidate in sociology at The University of Michigan. Her professional fields of investigation include work and health, stress and coping, and women and work.

Andrew M. Kramer is associate director of the Center for Health Services Research and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. A physician, he is interested in the study of geriatrics and assessments of quality of care. Dr. Kramer’s latest article looks at the import of physicians’ and rehabilitative care on nursing-home patients.

Carol Levine is executive director of the Citizens Commission on AIDS for New York City and Northern New Jersey. AIDS, biomedical ethics, and human subjects research are her major fields of professional interest. Ms. Levine is the editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, and the author of numerous articles on ethics and the AIDS epidemic.

Barbara Marzetta Liu is scientific program specialist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Her current professional interests focus on program planning and evaluation. Ms. Liu is the coauthor of a monograph on health statistics on older persons.

Korbin Liu is senior research associate at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. His fields of work include long-term care, Medicare and Medicaid policies, and catastrophic health-care costs. Dr. Liu has coauthored a forthcoming article on predicting nursing-home admissions and length of stay, using techniques of duration analysis.

Kenneth G. Manton is research professor in the Center for Demo- graphic Studies at Duke University. He is interested in the dimensions of morbidity and mortality in human aging, primarily using mathematical models. Dr. Manton most recently coauthored an article surveying statistical and measurement issues in assessing the status of aged individuals and populations.

Richard P. Mero is research associate in the Survey Research Center at The University of Michigan. Among his professional interests are themes in health and social behavior, political alienation, and research methodology. Mr. Mero is coauthor of a forthcoming article on work stress, nonwork stress, and health.

Thomas Rice is associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Physician payment systems, health insurance for the elderly, and long-term care are among his fields of work. Dr. Rice’s latest article examines the impact of owning long-term-care insurance policies on out-of-pocket costs.

Peter W. Shaughnessy is director of the Center for Health Services Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. His primary interests in the field of health services research include measuring quality of care and research methodology. Dr. Shaughnessy is at work on a book-length study on improving the cost-effectiveness of providing long-term care.

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Volume 68, Issue 3 (pages 493–495)
Published in 1990