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Julia Abelson is a research coordinator for health policy at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her research interests include alternative delivery modalities and the advancement of disease prevention and health promotions activities in clinical practice.
David Blumenthal is chief of the Health Policy Research and Development Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, and assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Blumenthal is a practicing general internist and health policy researcher. He is currently examining the determinants of physician involvement with uninsured patients, the application of industrial-quality techniques to physician decision making, and nonfinancial barriers to health care access.
Arnold M. Epstein is chief of the Section on Health Services and Policy Research, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and associate professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Epstein’s research focuses on the impact of organizational factors, financial incentives, and patients’ socioeconomic characteristics on the processes and outcomes of care. He is particularly interested in economically disadvantaged populations, the elderly, and persons with chronic disease.
Jonathan S. Feinstein is associate professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management. His fields of interest are applied economics, the economics of aging, public policy, and American social thought. He was a fellow in the Economics of Aging Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research during 1991-92.
Eric E. Fortess is associate professor and director of the Health Administration Concentration in the Department of Public Management at Suffolk University School of Management in Boston. His research is in health policy, diagnostic testing, and technology assessment.
Allan V. Horwitz is professor at the Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research and the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. His major interests include the social control of mental illness and social support for the mentally ill. He is the author of The Social Control of Mental Illness and The Logic of Social Control.
Robert B. Hudson is professor and chair, Department of Social Welfare Policy, Boston University School of Social Work. He has written widely on the politics of aging, social policy in an aging society, and issues in the design and implementation of social programs.
Dennis Ross-Degnan is assistant professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School. As a member of the Drug Policy Research Group, he has coauthored numerous articles with Stephen Soumerai. He is a founder of the International Network for Rational Use of Drugs, which promotes behavioral interventions to improve pharmaceutical use in developing countries.
Stephen B. Soumerai is associate professor of social medicine and director of the Drug Policy Research Group at Harvard Medical School. He is involved in studies of cost containment and the quality of ambulatory care; adherence to practice guidelines and health outcomes; and methods of improving clinical decision making.
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