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PRIMARY CARE POLICY CENTER
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The following faculty are associated with the Primary Care Policy Center:
Barbara
Starfield, M.D., M.P.H., Director
Dr. Starfield is a pediatrician
and health services researcher who is a University Distinguished Service
Professor and Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy
and Management. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Starfield is an internationally known expert in primary care. Her book,
Primary
Care: Concept, Evaluation, and Policy is widely recognized as the seminal
work in the field. Her contributions to knowledge in aspects of health
services related to primary care are reflected in a variety of recent awards
and citations. Dr. Starfield's expertise makes her a sought-after consultant
to government, academia, and clinical organizations both in this country
and abroad. She has been instrumental in leading projects to develop important
methodologic tools in the field, including the Primary Care Assessment
Tool, the CHIP-AE (an instrument to assess adolescent health status), and
the Ambulatory Care Mix Assessment Tool. Dr. Starfield's work thus focuses
on quality of care, health status assessment, and primary care assessment.
Leiyu
Shi, Dr.PH, M.B.A., M.P.A., Associate Director
Dr. Shi is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. His research
contributions concern primary care with particular emphasis on Community
Health Centers. He has conducted numerous national surveys with the administrators,
medical directors, and board of directors of Community Health Centers on
the staffing, recruitment, retention, financing, and satisfaction related
to Community Health Centers. Dr. Shi is the author of the book, Health
Services Research Methods and many papers evaluating various aspects
of health services provision. Working closely with Dr. Starfield and others,
Dr. Shi manages the research agenda of the Center and serves as a liaison
between Center Faculty and the BPHC. His own research is in the areas of
primary care and managed care related to Community Health Centers.
Christopher
Forrest, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Forrest is a general
pediatrician and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy
and Management. Dr. Forrest is nationally recognized for his work on referrals
to specialists, with particular emphasis on the impact of organizational
and financing arrangements on this process. He also devotes research efforts
to studies on medical effectiveness for children, methods for assessing
case-mix of patient populations, and studies that evaluate primary care
and managed care systems. Dr. Forrest's work with the PCPC is in the areas
of practice patterns, the primary-specialty care interface, and health
status assessment.
Marie
Flake, M.P.H, B.S.N.
Ms. Flake is the Director
of the Health Program Alliance. She has worked closely with Maryland County
Health Officers in assessing needs and defining the role of local health
departments in Medicaid managed care. She has been involved in developing
local health department needs assessments and evaluations, and has experience
in the development of national public health practice guidelines and in
designing a conceptual framework for organizing and disseminating public
health information. Ms. Flake is involved in the MATCH fellowship program
designed to develop future leaders for Community Health Centers. Her work
with the PCPC is in the areas of training of primary care personnel and
the role of non-physician practitioners in CHCs.
Kevin
Frick, M.A., Ph.D.
Dr. Frick is a health economist
and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
He has extensive experience with modeling consumer choice of health insurance
plans. His research has concentrated on modeling the tradeoffs consumers
are willing to make to enroll in managed care arrangements. Dr. Frick's
research with the PCPC focuses on the sustainability of CHCs and the utilization
of preventive care services.
Thomas
Oliver, PH.D., M.H.A.
Dr. Oliver is a political
scientist on the faculty of the Department of Health Policy and Management.
His research focuses on the process of policy making and implementation.
His principal areas of interest are in policy innovation and the influence
of research and analysis, political interests, and leadership on policy
design. His most recent research includes studies of comprehensive and
small-group health insurance reforms in the states, Medicaid managed care
reform, and the evolution of Medicare policy. Dr. Oliver is currently working
on a study of the state-level variations in the design of the new Children's
Health Insurance Program with Dr. Shi.
Anne
Riley, Ph.D.
Dr. Riley is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and holds a
joint appointment in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine. Dr. Riley is
trained in psychology and nursing and works in the areas concerning factors
associated with the use of mental health care by mentally disturbed adolescents,
the use of health care by various groups of children, and the mental health
and functioning of children of homeless and poor domiciled mothers. She
is also actively involved in developing health status assessment instruments
for children. Dr. Riley's work with the PCPC is in the area of mental health
service delivery needs in CHCs.
Jonathan
Weiner, Dr. P.H.
Dr. Weiner is a Professor
of Health Policy and Management and the Deputy Director of the JHU Health
Services Research and Development Center. He also has a joint appointment
in the Department of Medicine. He is a nationally recognized expert in
several health care areas including, measurement of primary care, planning
and evaluation of managed care, quality of care, national and local health
workforce policy, and case-mix and risk adjustment methodologies. For the
past few years, Dr. Weiner has been very involved in the MATCH training
fellowship. His work with the PCPC is in the areas of managed care and
primary care.
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