Robert H. Brook
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Education
Overview
Biography
Robert H. Brook holds the Distinguished Chair in Health Care Services at the RAND Corporation, where he previously served for 19 years as vice president and director of RAND Health. He is also Professor of Medicine and Health Services at UCLA and directs the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. He led the Health and Quality Group on the $80M Health Insurance Experiment and was co-principal investigator on the Health Services Utilization Study. He was the co-principal investigator on the only national study that has investigated, at a clinical level, how Medicare's prospective payment system affected the quality and outcome of acute hospital care. He was also the co-principal investigator on a joint activity of 12 academic medical centers, the American Medical Association, and RAND, the purpose of which was to develop appropriateness criteria and parameters for the use of procedures.
Brook is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Association of Physicians. In 2005, Brook won the Institute of Medicine's Gustav O. Lienhard Award, cited "as the individual who, more than any other, developed the science of measuring the quality of medical care and focused U.S. policymakers' attention on quality-of-care issues and their implications for the nation's health." He has been awarded the HRET Trust Award, the David E. Rogers Award of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Baxter Foundation Prize, the Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American College of Physicians, the Distinguished Health Services Researcher Award of the Association of Health Services Research, and the Robert J. Glaser Award of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Brook received his M.D. and Sc.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Research Focus
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, UCLA; Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public HealthSelected Publications
Corita R Grudzen, MD, MSHS, Marc N Elliott, PhD, Peter R. Kerndt, MD, MPH, Mark A Schuster, MD, PhD, Robert H Brook, MD, ScD, and Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH, "Condom Use and High-Risk Sexual Acts in Adult Films: A Comparison of Heterosexual and Homosexual Films," American Journal of Public Health, 2009
Alicia TF Bazzano, MD, MPH, Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH, Matthias Schonlau, PhD, Marika J Suttorp, MPH, and Robert H Brook, MD, ScD, "Off-Label Prescribing to Children in the United States Outpatient Setting," Academic Pediatrics, 9(2):81-8, 2009
Teryl K Nuckols, MD, MSHS, Anthony G Bower, PhD, Susan M Paddock, PhD, Lee H Hillborne, MD, MPH, Peggy Wallace, RN, MSN, Jeffrey M Rothschild, MD, MPH, Anne Griffin, RN, MPH, Rollin J Fairbanks, MD, MS, Beverly Carlson, MS, RN, CNS, Robert J Panzer,, "Programmable Infusion Pumps in ICUs: An Analysis of Corresponding Adverse Drug Events," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(S1):41-5, 2008
Tseng CW, Mangione CM, Brook RH, Keeler E, Dudley RA, "Identifying Widely Covered Drugs and Drug Coverage Variation Among Medicare Part D Formularies," Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 297(23):2596-2602, 2007
Liu JH, Zingmond DS, McGory ML, SooHoo NF, Ettner SL, Brook RH, Ko CK, "Disparities in the utilization of high-volume hospitals for complex surgery," Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 296(16):1973-80, 2006
M. A. Schuster et al., "How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?" The Milbank Quarterly, 83(4), 2005
P. G. Shekelle et al., "Identifying Potential Health Care Innovations for the Future Elderly," Health Affairs [Web exclusive], 2005
Douglas S. Bell et al., "Recommendations for Comparing Electronic Prescribing Systems: Results of an Expert Consensus Process," Health Affairs [Web exclusive], 2004
Honors & Awards
- Gustav O Leinhard Award, Institute of Medicine
- TRUST Award, Health Research and Educational Trust
- Rosenthal Foundation Award, American College of Physicians
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: American Medical News; Business Times Singapore; Business Week; Forbes; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; Sacramento Bee
Video Interviews: Brook discusses the challenges of mandatory health care and looks at the critical health care issues in the 2008 election
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