Staff

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Joie Acosta
(Ph.D., University of Hawai'i)

Research and evaluation of multi-level comprehensive community initiatives; violence and substance abuse prevention; public health/emergency preparedness and response; adolescent health.

John Adams
(Ph.D., Statistics,
University of Minnesota)

Meta-analysis; statistical methods; sampling and design issues.

David M. Adamson
(Ph.D., English and Rhetoric, University of California, Los Angeles)

Deputy Communications Director, RAND Health. Research communication, document design, audience analysis.

Marisa Adelson
(BA, Duke University)

Women's health, quality of care, health care promotion.

Emma Aguila
(Ph.D., Economics, University College London)

Economics of Aging; Health Economics; Labor Economics; Development Economics.

Julia E. Aledort
(Ph.D., Health Policy,
Harvard University)

Medical decision-making; cost-effectiveness analysis in health technology assessment, public health and prevention; international health policy.

C. Ross Anthony
(Ph.D., Economics,
University of Pennsylvania)

Director of Global Health and Co-Director of the Center for Domestic and International Health Security; health economics; health care finance; military health care; international health care and economic development.

Jeremy Arkes
(Ph.D., Economics,
University of Wisconsin)

Adolescent drug use; prescription drug abuse; teenage pregnancy; effects of divorce on children.

Steven Asch
(M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Associate Professor of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and UCLA. Quality and access measurement and improvement, HIV care.

Chantal Avila
(M.A., Cognitive Psychology,
Claremont Graduate University)

Research Programmer Analyst; data cleaning; variable construction; documentation and data analysis.

Megan Beckett
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan; MHSA, School of Public Health, University of Michigan)

Aging; social and racial inequalities in health; survey methodology; demography; physician workforce projections.

Douglas Bell
(M.D., Harvard; Ph.D., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles; medical informatics; online education; patient safety; practice-based research; evidence-based medicine.

Tanya G. K. Bentley
(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University)

Medical decision-making; cost-effectiveness analysis; simulation modeling; health care and health policy evaluation; public health and prevention; social and environmental determinants of health; social, health, and economic effects of illicit drug use.

Claude Berrebi
(Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University;
MBA, Finance, Hebrew University)

Terrorism and conflicts; Defense; Education; Poverty; Military manpower; Health networks; Labor market reforms; Aging and retirement; Workforce; Israel and Middle-East studies.

Sandra Berry
(M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Co-Director, Center for Research on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Sexual Behavior; design and methodology for data collection; management of data collection design and operations; health decisionmaking; behavior/risk assessment/HIV/special-population data collection.

James Bigelow
(Ph.D., Operations Research, Stanford University)

Roles of information technology in health care; cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and systems analysis.

Chloe E. Bird
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Social determinants of health and health care; gender, race and socioeconomic disparities in access to, utilization of, and quality of care; contexual effects on health.

Janice Blanchard
(MD, MPH, Harvard Ph.D., RAND Graduate School)

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University. Interests: racial disparities, vulnerable populations, the uninsured, access to health care.

Ricky Bluthenthal
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Berkeley)

Professor of Sociology and Director, Urban Community Research Center, California State University Dominguez Hills; alcohol and drug use epidemiology, HIV and Hepatitis B and C risk and prevention, community influences on health behaviors and outcomes, and community-based, participatory research.

Laura Bogart
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Pittsburgh)

HIV prevention and care; ethnic disparities in health-related attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes.

Rob Boer
(Ph.D., Public Health Epidemiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Medical technology assessment; simulation modeling; cost-effectiveness analysis.

Samuel Bozzette
(M.D., University of Rochester; M.Phil., Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of International Relations, University of California San Diego. Member, American Association for Clinical Research, Association of American Physicians. Treatment evaluation; cost of care; health status; clinical epidemiology of AIDS and other infectious diseases; bioterrorism.

Robert Brook
(M.D., Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, RWJ/UCLA Clinical Scholars Program; Vice President of RAND and Director, RAND Health; quality of care; appropriateness; rationing; guidelines; health status.

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
(Ph.D., Health Policy & Economics, Harvard University)

Co-Director, Bing Center for Health Economics and Director, Public Sector Initiatives. Health economics; health care financing; health insurance markets; Medicare; "consumer-directed" care; risk selection and risk adjustment; organization and financing of care for the chronically and/or terminally ill.

Q Burkhart
(M.Stat., North Carolina State University)

Access to care; quality assessment and improvement; mental health; prison health care.

Audrey Burnam
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Texas)

Mental health and substances abuse services and policy evaluation; behavioral health quality improvement.

Rachel Burns
(MPH, University of Michigan; BS, Ohio State University)

Mental and behavioral health, psychiatric epidemiology, military health care, substance abuse.

Brittany Butler
(B.A., Psychology, Yale University)

Community health and health policy in New Orleans; access to care; quality of care; social networks; health networks; public-private partnerships; community-based participatory research methods; labor market effects of health reform; disparities.

Maureen Carney
(M.S., Clinical Psychology, St. Louis University)

Social science; mental health.

Nicholas G. Castle
(Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Penn State)

Long-term care; nursing home quality; innovation; top management teams.

Gary Cecchine
(Ph.D., Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Toxicology; military medicine; environmental health; risk assessment and communication; biotechnology; medical consequences of terrorism.

Edward Chan
(Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University)

Public health preparedness; emergency services; logistics; performance measurement and process improvement; mathematical and computer modeling.

Anita Chandra
(Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Child and adolescent health; mental health services; community–based participatory research and evaluation ; public health systems; school health; military child health; health disparities.

Sandy Chien
(M.S., Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison)

Statistical design, implementation, and analysis.

Matthew J. Chinman
(Ph.D., Clinical/Community Psychology, University of South Carolina)

Substance abuse prevention; dissemination of evidence-based prevention; program evaluation; quality assurance in mental health systems; mutual support; mental health consumers.

Paul Chung
(M.D., Harvard Medical School; M.S., University of Chicago)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA; child health policy, work-family policy, youth advertising..

Deborah Cohen
(M.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.P.H., Epidemiology, UCLA )

Public health; social and environmental (structural) risk factors; prevention policy; built environment; physical activity; diet and obesity; STD/HIV and alcohol.

Tumaini Coker
(M.D., Drew/UCLA Medical School, M.B.A., UCLA)

Pediatric preventive care; delivery of well–child care and system redesign; racial/ethnic health disparities.

Rebecca Collins
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

HIV and substance-use prevention; media effects on health behavior; adjustment to illness.

Ian Coulter
(Ph.D., Sociology, London School of Economics)

Samueli/RAND Chair for Integrative Medicine; Professor, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles; alternative health care; integrative medicine; chiropractic; oral health.

Robert Cox
(MHA, Ohio State University; BSN, College of Mount St. Joseph)

Health services management and research; quality of care and patient outcomes; military health.

Alison Cuellar
(Ph.D., Health Services and Policy Analysis, University of California, Berkeley)

Mental health and criminal justice; competition, antitrust; vulnerable populations.

Elizabeth D'Amico
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Texas at Austin)

Antecedents and consequences of adolescent and young adult risk-taking behaviors; development and implementation of interventions for youth targeting alcohol and drug use, HIV risk behaviors, and violence and victimization.

Cheryl Damberg
(Ph.D., Public Policy and Health Services Research, RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies)

Quality of care measurement and evaluation; consumer information/report cards on quality; structure and organization of medical groups; managed care and health economics; evaluating payment incentives for quality; consumer directed health care; patient safety.

Ashlesha Datar
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Child care; child health; early childhood education; social policy.

David J. Dausey
(Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, Yale University)

Program evaluation; performance measurement; public health systems; health services; health policy; public health preparedness; mental health; military health.

Lois Davis
(Ph.D., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Public health and emergency preparedness; prisoner reentry; and public safety..

Kristin Dean
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University)

Project Director, University of Tennessee-Cherokee Health Systems Center of Excellence; child and adolescent mental health; trauma; community mental health; public health preparedness.

Alison H. DeCristofaro
(MPH, University of Texas; PhD, Health Services, UCLA - in progress)

Quality of care evaluation and measurement; maternal and child health; health service organization and delivery.

Adeline Delavande
(Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University)

Applied econometrics; development; labor.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose
(Ph.D., Health Services, and MPH, University of California, Los Angeles)

Underserved populations; community partnerships; faith communities; Latinos; health literacy; social environment, access to health care, and Latin America.

Allison Diamant
(MD Hahnemann University; MSHS University of California, Los Angeles)

Disparities, access to care, quality of care, women's health; health care and sexual orientation.

Andrew Dick
(Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University)

Health care reform; access to and quality of care; financing of care for children; technology assessment and medical decision making.

Tamara Dubowitz
(ScD, Harvard University; SM, Harvard University; MSc, University of Pennsylvania)

Social epidemiology; neighborhood effects on health and nutrition, maternal and child health and nutrition, the effect of social determinants (e.g. racial and socioeconomic residential segregation) on health disparities, especially diet and diet-related disease (i.e. obesity), monitoring and evaluation of programs and interventions.

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Patricia Ebener
(B.A., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University)

Substance abuse epidemiology; substance abuse treatment services; substance abuse/social services policy; research-practice partnerships; survey research methods.

Rachel M. Effros
(MD, Emory University School of Medicine; MPH, University of California, Los Angeles)

Health system organization and delivery; health care public policy; quality assessment and improvement; access to care

Christine Eibner
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park)

Health insurance access; military health policy; substance abuse; socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Elisa Eiseman
(Ph.D., Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Genetics; cancer research; biotechnology; biomedicine; bioethics; research involving human biospecimens.

David Eisenman
(M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; M.S.H.S., UCLA School of Public Health)

Violence and terrorism; integrated services delivery; international and immigrant health.

Phyllis Ellickson
(Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Adolescent health; substance abuse prevention; patterns, antecedents, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; adolescent/young adult violence; effects of advertising on alcohol use.

Marc Elliott
(Ph.D., Statistics, Rice University)

Substantive: Medicare, racial/ethnic disparities; consumer evaluation of health care; adolescent health; vulnerable populations. Methodological: Sampling, including weights and non-response adjustment; categorical data analysis; case-mix adjustment; multivariate exploratory data analysis; propensity score techniques; experimental design; survey mode effects.

John Engberg
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Non-experimental causal inference; long term care; behavioral health services.

José Escarce
(Ph.D., Health Care Systems, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School; M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

Health economics; physician behavior; managed care; technology diffusion; disparities in health and health care; immigrant health.

David Evans
(Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University)

International health and development; implications of the HIV/AIDS crisis (domestic and international); education in developing nations; children's well-being (domestic and international).

Carol Fan
(Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Michigan)

Public health preparedness; emergency services; logistics; performance measurement and process improvement; mathematical and computer modeling.

Donna O. Farley
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.P.H., Environmental Health Management, University of Illinois)

Co-Director, RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute. Research interests in health care markets; financing policy and payment design, Medicare policy, evaluation of program and quality improvement initiatives, military health.

Brian Karl Finch
(Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin)

Social epidemiology; social determinants of health; immigrant health; neighborhood effects on health and multilevel analysis.

Gail Fisher
(M.A., Journalism, University of Texas, Austin; M.P.H., Eastern Virginia Medical School)

Military health, social determinants of health and health disparities.

Donna Fossum
(Ph.D., Sociology, and J.D., SUNY at Buffalo)

Tracking health resources; the contents of the U.S. Government's health R&D portfolio.

Allen Fremont
(M.D., Dartmouth Medical School; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana)

Disparities in care; quality improvement; geospatial mapping and community effects on healthcare; patient-centered care; organizational change in managed care; community research networks; psychosocial factors and disease.

Steven Garber
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin)

Health care markets; effects of law on health; pharmaceutical economics; health care technology adoption; medical malpractice.

Walid Gellad
(M.D. University of Maryland, M.P.H Harvard)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System;  pharmaceutical cost and spending; Medicare; primary care medicine

Sandy Geschwind
(Dr.P.H., Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University)

Environmental epidemiology; international environmental health.

Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar
(Ph.D., Statistics, Pennsylvania State University)

Statistical: analysis, sampling, non-response, multiple imputation, multi-level modeling. Substantive: drug prevention, mental health, public health.

Mary Lou Gilbert
(J.D., UCLA School of Law; M.A., UCLA, Latin American Studies and Public Health)

Health law; maternal and child health in developing countries; domestic violence and child abuse and neglect; general Latino health issues.

Federico Girosi
(Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University; Ph.D., Physics, University of Genova, Italy)

Microsimulation modeling of health care reform; health insurance expansions; health information technology; aging; international health.

Dana Goldman
(Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University)

Director, Program, Health Economics; labor market effects of health reform; managed care; technology assessment; pharmaceutical regulation and innovation.

Daniela Golinelli
(Ph.D., Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle)

Bayesian statistics; MCMC methods; inference in stochastic population processes; hierarchical models; Bayes networks; mental health policy.

Jonathan Grant
(Ph.D., Population Studies, London School of Economics, King's College, London)

Health and research policy, with a focus on research translation and research evaluation methodologies.

Harold (Hank) Green
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida)

Health promotion and disease prevention; mental health; subtance abuse; gender and minorities; social network analysis; qualitative and quantitative methods of social research.

Michael Greenberg
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Duke University; J.D., Harvard Law School)

Healthcare law and regulation; mental health; managed care; privacy and bioinformatics; public health and health security.

Carole Roan Gresenz
(Ph.D., Economics, Brown University)

Vulnerable populations, the uninsured, access to health care, mental health, managed care, health care law and regulation, community partnerships.

Beth Ann Griffin
(Ph.D., Biostatistics, Harvard University)

Survival analysis; design of clinical and non-clinical studies; sampling; biostatistics; public health interventions; HIV/AIDS.

Marla Haims
(Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deputy Director Global Health; international health policy and systems design; organizational design and management; quality improvement; quality of care; patient safety.

Bing Han
(Ph.D., Penn State University)

Statistical modeling and data analysis; statistical application in health studies.

Katherine M. Harris
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)

Mental health care; substance abuse treatment; utilization and access; consumer satisfaction and demand for care.

Evi Hatziandreou
(Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health)

Director of RAND Health Europe

Amelia M. Haviland
(Ph.D., Statistics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University)

Research design; analyzing complex sample data; causality; inequality.

Jennifer Hawes-Dawson
(B.A., Sociology, Goucher College)

Survey research design and management; community-based participatory research; qualitative and quantitative research methods; adolescent health care and promotion; school-based interventions; church-based health promotion and educational programs; and health care for the elderly, military families, and low-income/underserved populations.

Ron D. Hays
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Riverside)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; health-related quality of life; patient evaluations of care; health-related behaviors.

Kimberly A. Hepner
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology,
University of Arizona)

Mental health; dissemination of effective treatments for anxiety and depression; quality of care measurement; patient satisfaction.

Liisa Hiatt
(M.S., Public Policy, University of Rochester)

Project Director, Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE); quality of health care; health care reform issues.

Laura Hickman
(Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland)

Policing; violence against women; courts and sentencing; institutional and community corrections; crime prevention; illegal immigration.

Lee H. Hilborne
(M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)

Appropriateness; guidelines; pathology; patient safety, quality of care.

Laural Hill
(B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Survey Analyst; computerized data collection.

Richard Hillestad
(Ph.D., Operations Research, UCLA)

Health Information Technology; health system reform.

Lara Jungvig Hilton
(B.A., Sociology, UC Berkeley)

Research Programmer Analyst; data cleaning, management, analysis and documentation; surveys and data collection instruments; qualitative text analysis; training and implementation of qualitative analysis tools.

Lauren Honess-Morreale
(M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Health and behavior; program evaluation; qualitative research.

Susan Hosek
(M.A., Economics, Northwestern University)

Co-Director, Center for Research on Military Health, military health care; preferred provider organizations.

Meilinda Huang
(B.A., Economics, Princeton University)

Health Economics, Law and Economics, Civil Justice and Education Policy.

Angela Hung
(Ph.D., Social Science, California Institute of Technology)

Economic models of addictive substance use; experimental studies of decision-making.

Sarah Hunter
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Substance abuse prevention and treatment; mental health; community participatory research; program evaluation.

Peter Hussey
(Ph.D., Health Services Research, Johns Hopkins University)

Health care financing; health care costs; quality of care; international health.

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Martin Y. Iguchi
(Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Boston University)

Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; substance abuse; substance abuse treatment; HIV risk behaviors; sexual transmission of HIV; street outreach; behavioral medicine; contingency management; health disparities; drug courts; California's Proposition 36; drug using social networks; drug policy; impact of drug policies on minority communities.

Lisa Jaycox
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

Mental health with a focus on children and adolescents; traumatic experiences; dissemination of effective psychotherapy into community settings; school mental health programs.

Breanne Johnsen
(B.S., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Washington)

Quality of life; quality of care; aural rehabilitation; quality assessment and improvement.

Geoffrey Joyce
(Ph.D., Economics, City University of New York; M.P.P., University of Michigan)

Medical care utilization and costs; pharmaceuticals; Medicare; HIV; Managed care.

James P. Kahan
(Ph.D., Mathematical Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Individual and small group decisionmaking processes, especially with respect to guidelines for care; appropriateness of care; detection of consensus in health care policy debates.

Katherine Kahn
(M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine)

Professor of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine; quality of care measurement; quality improvement; clinical epidemiology; clinical research design; influence of health policy on quality of care; structure and quality of medical organizations.

Caren Kamberg
(M.S., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Research Administrator.

David Kanouse
(Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University)

Co-Director, Center for Research on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Sexual Behavior; health decisionmaking; sexual risk behavior; HIV-related services research; quality of care; guidelines.

Kanika Kapur
(Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University)

Health insurance and labor outcomes; managed care; health care utilization and expenditures; health care reform.

Pinar Karaca-Mandic
(Ph.D., Economics, U.C. Berkeley)

Health care reform; pharmacy benefit design; pharmaceutical innovation; health plan choice models.

Benjamin Karney
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Interpersonal relationships, interpersonal communication, marriage, families, longitudinal methods.

Lynn Karoly
(Ph.D., Economics, Yale University)

Retiree health care benefits; health insurance and labor markets; economics of early intervention programs.

Emmett Keeler
(Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard University)

Evaluating quality improvement interventions; insurance design; cost-effectiveness; effects of market structure on hospital prices.

Joan Keesey
(B.A., Mathematics, Pomona College)

Senior Programmer Analyst; data management.

David Kennedy
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida)

Health promotion and disease prevention; mental health; health care access and satisfaction; HIV; gender; quality of care; families and children; mixed qualitative and quantitative methodology; romantic relationships; depression; fertility; culture change; adherence to antiretroviral therapy.

Donna Keyser
(Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University; M.B.A., Columbia Business School)

Associate Director, RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute; community-based quality improvement initiatives; development and qualitative assessment of interdisciplinary research initiatives; maternal and child health care; mental health care; institutional roles in supporting research mentoring.

Beau Kilmer
(Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University)

Substance use; crime control; illicit markets; mental health.

David J. Klein
(M.S., Biometry, University of Southern California)

Health statistics.

Paul Koegel
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Associate Director, RAND Health; homelessness; poverty; mental health; community-based participatory research approaches.

Darius Lakdawalla
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago)

Health economics; labor economics; economics of education.

Marielena Lara
(M.D., Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine; Director of UCLA/RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma, RAND Health; asthma; access and quality of care for underserved populations; Latino health; pediatrics; disparities research; health care policy.

Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo
(Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Columbia University)

Child and adolescent well-being; parent mental health; effects of context on intellectual and emotional development; parenting; qualitative and quantitative research.

Kristin Leuschner
(PhD, English, UCLA)

Communications Coordinator for Domestic and Global Health Security, RAND Health. Health Care Access and Satisfaction, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Janet Lever
(Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University)

AIDS.

Tom Ling
(Ph.D., Government, University of Essex, UK)

Evaluation of complex health interventions and health quality assessment.

Yee-Wei Lim
(Ph.D., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, M.D., National University of Singapore)

Access to care for vulnerable populations; quality of care assessment; international health.

Mark S. Litwin
(M.D., Emory University; M.P.H., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Professor of Urology and Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles; prostate cancer; quality of life; quality of health care; urological outcomes; burden of illness and practice patterns.

J.R. Lockwood
(Ph.D., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Bayesian hierarchical and spatial modeling, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, environmental statistics.

Karl Lorenz
(M.D.,Medical College of Georgia; MSHS, UCLA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine UCLA; VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; chronic illness and palliative care; veterans care; organization and financing of hospice and palliative services; symptom care; quality of care.

Hangsheng Liu
(Ph.D., Health Services Research and Policy, University of Rochester)

Quality of care; risk adjustment for managed care payment; evaluation of policy impacts; insurance/provider competition; pharmaceutical economics; consumer choice of providers/health plans; global health.

Nicole Lurie
(M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; MSPH, University of California, Los Angeles)

Co-Director, Center for Domestic and International Health Security; Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor of Policy Analysis at RAND; access; quality; disadvantaged populations; health disparities; mental health; nonmedical determinants of health; public health systems.

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John M. MacDonald
(Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland)

Violence prevention; substance abuse; prevention of risk taking behavior.

Katie Mack
(M.P.P., University of Southern California; B.A., Economics, Union College)

Healthcare financing and economics; long-term care; access to and quality of health care; disease prevention.

Catherine H. MacLean
(M.D., Washington University, St. Louis; Ph.D., Health Services, UCLA)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; quality of health care; administrative data; rheumatic diseases.

Rodger Madison
(M.A., Sociology/Demography, University of Southern California)

Senior Programmer; health data management; data security and privacy.

Nicole Maestas
(Ph.D. Economics, UC Berkeley)

Health and retirement; effects of health insurance on health outcomes; medical expenditure risk.

Elizabeth J. Maggio
(B.A., Geology, New York University; B.A., Italian, University of Arizona)

Editorial services: editing/writing evidence-based reports, grant proposals, technical documents, general health publications.

Margaret Maglione
(M.PP., University of Southern California; B.A., Economics, Columbia University)

Policy analysis; health promotion /disease prevention; drug policy; HIV.

Carol Mangione
(M.D., University of California, San Francisco; M.S.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health)

Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; measurement of health-related quality of life; quality of care; eye care; community-based interventions in diabetes.

Joyce Mann
(Ph.D., Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles)

Health system reform; financing of health care; access for the poor; Medicaid; health systems in developing countries.

Susan Marquis
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan)

Physician payment; health care reform; health plan choice.

Grant Marshall
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Mental health; affects of trauma exposure; refugee and minority health; and quality of life.

Laurie Martin
Sc.D., Havard School of Public Health; M.P.H., Boston University)

Trajectories of physical and mental health over the lifecourse; health disparities; maternal and child health; education and health; cognitive and literacy skills.

Linda Martin
(Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University)

Health trends; health disparities; aging; international health.

Homero Martinez
(M.D. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; PhD, International Nutrition, Cornell University)

Micronutrient deficiencies; childhood obesity, health services research; public nutrition; international health.

Steven Martino
(Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota)

Health decision making; psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use; physician-patient interaction; media effects on health risk behavior.

Francisco Martorell
(Ph.D., Economics, UC Berkeley)

Labor economics; public economics; health economics.

Teryn Mattox
(M.P.A., International Development, Harvard University; B.A., Economics, Pomona College)

Public health, public health preparedness, international social policy, decision theory and the economics of health care policy.

Dan McCaffrey
(Ph.D., Statistics, North Carolina State)

Analysis of clustered data; hierarchical models; drug prevention.

Elizabeth McGlynn
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School)

Associate Director, RAND Health; RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Care Quality; quality and appropriateness of medical care; measurement of efficiency; analysis of health reform options.

Sarah Meadows
(Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University)

Mental health; child and adolescent well-being; family structure; social indicators.

Ateev Mehrotra
(M.D., University of California, San Francisco)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Quality assessment and improvement; measuring cost-efficiency; pay-for-performance incentives.

Robin Meili
(M.B.A., Finance, New York University)

Impact of health information technology in health care delivery and decision support; the roles of information and incentives in motivating and modifying behavior; the organization and financing of health and behavioral health systems; organ transplantation.

Glenn Melnick
(Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan)

Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Hospital competition.

Peter Mendel
(Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University)

Organization of health services; dynamics of health care systems; diffusion of health interventions and organizational innovations; health care reform and quality improvement.

John Mendeloff
(Ph.D., Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley)

Director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace. Occupational health and safety policy. Government regulation of risks to health, safety and the environment. Pharmaceutical policy. Worthwhile investments to promote public health.

Lisa Meredith
(Ph.D., Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University)

Measurement and assessment of health care provider behavior; quality improvement for depression; primary care for mental health problems; quality of patient-provider relationships; social and psychological aspects of decision making; mental health needs associated with terrorism.

Jeremy Miles
(Ph.D., Quant Psychology, University of Derby, UK)

Structural equation modeling; multilevel modelling; psychometrics; RCT design and analysis.

Melinda Moore
(M.D., Harvard; M.P.H., Harvard)

Global health; public health; health and foreign policy; pandemic influenza preparedness; public health surveillance; public health emergency preparedness; military health; health security; public health systems; infectious diseases.

Leo Morales
(Ph.D., Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.D., University of Washington; M.P.H., University of Washington)

Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Health policy for low-income, minority, and immigrant populations; cross-cultrual health outcomes measurement.

Kristy Gonzalez Morganti
(Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Global health, program evaluation, health economics, access to care, quality of care and health disparities.

Andrew Morral
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York)

Emergency preparedness, Substance abuse; violence; risk management.

Kathleen Mullen
(Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago)

Organization of healthcare markets; quality assessment and improvement.

Erin K. Murphy
(M.P.P., University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. Sociology/Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)

Health and Aging policy; chronic disease prevention; health disparities; Medicare reform; public health preparedness.

Christopher Nelson
(Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Public health preparedness; performance measurement; program evaluation; occupational safety and health; public management

Sydne Newberry
(Ph.D., Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism, MIT)

Communications Analyst. Health communication, nutrition, military health and manpower readiness.

Nancy Nicosia
(Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley)

Health; substance abuse; crime.

Teryl Nuckols
(M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.S., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles)

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Quality of care and patient safety, particularly the cost implications of improving quality.

Allison Ober
(M.S.W., Catholic University of America; B.A., Psychology, University of Vermont)

Project management, coordination, and implementation; substance abuse; HIV; child welfare.

Carole Oken
(M.A., Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles)

Project coordination and management; quality of care; guidelines; community health.

Stuart Olmsted
(Ph.D., Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University)

Military health; sexually transmitted diseases and HIV; microbiology; bioterrorism; public health preparedness.

Karen Chan Osilla
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Washington)

Substance abuse, health promotion, and dual disorders in workforce, minority, and military populations; prevention; intervention; motivational interviewing.

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
(Ph.D., Economics, Duke University)

Co-Director, Drug Policy Research Center; economics of substance use and abuse; drug policy and drug markets; social cost of substance abuse; impact of legislation on funding for mental health/substance abuse treatment and outcomes; economics consequences of mental health problems

Susan Paddock
(Ph.D., Statistics, Duke University)

Substantive: substance abuse treatment, drug policy, mental health, Medicare, patient safety, performance evaluation. Methodological: Bayesian statistics, multilevel (hierarchical) modeling, longitudinal data analysis, missing data methods

John Pane
(Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)

Education technology; data driven decision-making in education; math and science education; human-computer interaction; computer interface design; impact of technology on individuals and organizations; randomized controlled experiments on the effectiveness of educational interventions.

Anant Patel
(B.A., Stanford University)

Health economics; quality improvement in health care; cardiovascular disease treatment; neurodegenerative disorders disease management.

Andrew Parker
(Ph.D., Behavioral Decision Theory, M.S., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Decision–making competencies; risk perception and subjective expectations; risk–taking behavior; public health preparedness; group decision making; adolescence.

Marjorie Pearson
(M.S., Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles)

Quality improvement evaluation; implementation analysis; quality of care (focus on nursing and care manager quality); chronic care management; self-management support.

Judith Perlman
(M.A., Educational Psychology, California State University, Northridge)

Survey Director, RAND Survey Research Group; survey research budgeting, design, management and operations for data collection including surveys of difficult and hard to reach populations.

Harold Alan Pincus
(M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine )

Vice Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University; Director of Quality and Outcomes Research, New York-Presbyterian Hospital; RAND-Pittsburgh Health Program; mental health; primary care; substance use disorders; quality and appropriateness of care; practice-based research.

Amber K. Price
(M.P.H., University of Michigan; B.A., Vassar College)

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in health; maternal and child health; health care reform; international health.

Ellen Pint
(Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)

Military health care.

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Denise Quigley
(Ph.D., Public Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School; M.A., International Policy, M.A., German Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies)

Health care markets; mental health; delivery of care; evaluation of program and quality improvement initiatives.

Rajeev Ramchand
(Ph.D., Public Health, Johns Hopkins University)

Substance use and abuse; mental health; access to health care for vulnerable populations; youth labor.

Nadine R. Rayburn
(Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Southern California)

Trauma; hate crimes; mental health; cognitive behavioral mental health interventions.

Daniel Relles
(Ph.D., Statistics, Yale University)

Medicare payment status; effects of insurance status on health expenditures.

Richard Rettig
(Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

End-stage renal disease; technology assessment, clinical research and clinical trials; high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplant for breast cancer; Food and Drug Administration-related issues.

Kerry A. Reynolds
(Ph.D., Health/Social Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University)

Adolescent health; diabetes; adjustment to chronic illness; health decision making; peer and family relationships and health