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annual research meeting

Friday, June 27, 2003

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Implementation of Medicaid PCCM and Use of Primary Care by Children of Different Races/Ethnicity
E. Kathleen Adams, Emory University

Pathways Through SCHIP: A Longitudinal Analysis of Enrollment and Coverage Patterns
R. Andrew Allison, Kansas Health Institute

Three Opportunities to Improve Risk Adjustment
R. Adams Dudley, IHPS, UCSF

CDC Research Agenda
Lawrence Green, CDC

The Impace of Mandatory HMO Enrollment on Prenatal Care, Smoking, and Birth Outcomes in Ohio Medicaid
Embry Howell, Urban Institute

The Effects of Medicaid Managed Care Upon Processes, Outcomes and Quality of Obstetric Care
Denise Kruzikas, The Medstat Group

Real World Uses of Risk Adjustment
Robert Reid, Group Health Cooperative

Challenges & Opportunities for Consumer-Driven Health Insurance
James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Medicare in the Market for Physician Services
Julie A. Schoenman, Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs

Insurance Status and Source of Healthcare Among Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Children in the US
Natasha K. Sriraman, MD, MPH

The Long-Term Effects of the Obesity Epidemic on Chronic Conditions, Disability & Long-Term Care
Roland Sturm, RAND Health

Comparing Pharmacy and Diagnosis-based Risk Adjustment Models
Yang Zhao, DxCG, Inc.

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

AHRQ Quality Indicators
Kathy Ciccone, HANYS

Controlling Medicaid Prescription Drug expenditures
Linda Elam, Kaiser Family Foundation

Population-Based County Health Assessment: The State of Mississippi Experience
Peter Fos, Mississippi State Department Of Health

Controlling Rx Costs: Lessons from the Public & Private Sector
Lisa Ghotbi, Blue Shield of California

CMS Research Agenda
Stuart Guterman, CMS

Knowledge Management, Knowledge Creation, and Quality Improvement in a Large Health Care System: An Exploratory Field Study
Sylvia Hysong, University of Houston

The Relationship Between Local Public Health Agency Performance & Community Health Improvement
Norma Kanarek, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Issues in Patient Safety: Translating Research into Action
Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH

Issues in Patient Safety: Translating Research into Action
Lucian Leape, Harvard University

Casting a Narrow Net: Does Proximity to the Safety Net Improve Access and Use?
Sharon Long, Urban Institute

Physician Practice Strategies in the New Millenium: Implications for Access and Cost Containment in Medicare
Hoangmai Pham, Center for Studying Health System Change

Health Equity Research: Beyond The Sound of One Hand Clapping
International Exchange for Health Services Research and Policy: Learning from Cross-Country Comparisons

Patricia Pittman, AcademyHealth

AHRQ Quality Indicators
Denise Remus, AHRQ

Issues in Patient Safety: Translating Research into Action
Roger Resar, Luther Midelfort Mayo Health System

Issues in Patient Safety: Translating Research into Action
Daniel Stryer, MD; Acting Director Acting Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Consumer-Directed Home Care in the Netherlands, England and Germany
Joshua M. Wiener, Jane Tilly and Alison Evans Cuellar

Local Public Health System Partnerships
Susan Zahner, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Costs of Churning and Sources of Instability in Medicaid and SCHIP: The New York Experience
Deborah Bachrach, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Increasing the Impact of Your Research
Brian Biles, George Washington University

Modeling Population Health: Stochastic Microsimulation
Jonathan Brown, MPP, PhD, KP Center for Health Research

Social Insurance Systems: Where Are They Coming From and Where Are They Going?
Reinhard Busse, European Observatory

Web : News from NLM & Beyond
Marjorie Cahn, National Library of Medicine

The Global Cost and Prevalence of Chronic Disease
Judy Canny, WHO

Rite of Passage?: Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help
Sara Collins, The Commonwealth Fund

Web : News from NLM & Beyond
Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine

Staying Covered: Retaining Health Insurance for Low-income Families (Part 1)
Leighton Ku, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Trends in the Health of Older Persons: Data from the Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging
James Lubitz, NCHS

Responding to the Challenge of Complexity: Ideas from Europe
Martin McKee, European Observatory

Prescription After Hospital Discharge Decreases Mortality in Congestive Heart Failure Patients
Hude Quan, University of Calgary

Staying Covered: Strategies for Simplifying Renewal and Promoting Retention of Health Coverage for Low-Income Families
Donna Cohen Ross, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

From Researcher to Expert
Robert St. Peter, Kansas Health Institute

Staying Covered: Instability in Insurance and Policy Options To Improve Continuity and Expand Coverage
Cathy Schoen, The Commonwealth Fund

Health Insurance Dynamics:Implications for Coverage Reforms
Pamela Farley Short, Penn State University

Economics of planning and preparing for a catastrophic infectious disease event
Raymond Strikas, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Sooner, the Better: How Choice & Assignment Delays Can Lead to Preventive Care Delays Among Infant Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees
Shanna Shulman, Harvard University

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

IOM Priority Areas
Karen Adams, Institute of Medicine

Developing Indicators for the National Healthcare Quality Report Using NCHS/CDC Data: Methodological Issues
Irma Arispe, NCHS/CDC

Identifying Future High-Cost Users of Medical Care
Arlene Ash, Boston University & DxCG, Inc.

Profiling, Risk Adjustment, Predictive Modeling: Using Risk Adjustment to Manage Care
Arlene Ash, Boston University & DxCG, Inc.

Coordinated Care Trials Around Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Peter Broadhead, Harkness Fellow

Empowering Arizona Border Communities for Diabetes Prevention and Control
Stuart Cohen, University of Arizona

Exploring the Link Between Depression & Nursing Home Admissions for People with Medicare: Results from a National Study
Samuel Haffer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Research Agenda of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): Research that Makes a Difference in Health Care Policy & Practice
Rodney Hayward, University of Michigan

Patient Safety Issues in Ambulatory Care: Use of Counseling and Education Services in the Outpatient Setting
Julia Holmes, National Center for Health Statistics

New to Improve Health Plan Adherence to National Chlamydia Screening Guidelines
Kathleen Irwin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

New Horizons in Long-Term Care Policy
Robert Lee, University of Kansas

Early Experience of Employees with a Consumer-Driven Health Plan
Stephen Parente, University of Minnesota

PCP Profiling Using Risk Adjustment
Elizabeth Pappius, Provider Service Network

Using Start of Care OASIS Data to Predict and Case Mix Adjust Home Health Aid Utilization
Robert Rosati, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Fiscal Challenges to Coverage
Victoria Wachino, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Research Agenda of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): Research that Makes a Difference in Health Care Policy & Practice
Nelda Wray, Department of Veterans Affairs

6:45 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.

The Economic Burden of Health Care and Illness on Massachusetts Families
Paul Dryfoos, Dryfoos Consulting

How Do Stressful Family Environments Relate to Enrollment in Health Insurance by Low-Income Children and their Parents?
Gerry Fairbrother, New York Academy of Medicine

Post-Traumatic Stress in New York City Children after the September 11th Terrorist Attacks and Subsequent Use of Counseling Services
Gerry Fairbrother, New York Academy of Medicine


Saturday, June 28, 2003

8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

The Economics of Alcohol Treatment
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Stanford University

Hospital-Level Characteristics and 30-Day Risk-Adjusted Mortality of AMI Patients
Jeanne Black, UCLA School of Public Health

The Economics of Alcohol Treatment
Michael French, Medical University of South Carolina

Consistency in Performance Evaluation Reports
Ching-to Albert Ma, Boston University

Understanding the Dynamics of the Individual Insurance Market
Timothy McBride, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Assessing the Implementation of the Chronic Care Model in Quality Improvement Collaboratives
Marjorie Pearson, RAND

The Economics of Alcohol Treatment
Harold Perl, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Use of Clinical Outcomes Data for Physical Therapist Provider Profiling
Linda Resnik, Brown University

Controlling Costs in a Medicare Risk Plan: Evaluation of a Geriatric Collaborative Model of Care
Paul Shelton, Carle Foundation

The Economics of Alcohol Treatment
Roland Sturm, RAND Health

CMS Databases
Daniel Waldo, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Promoting Health, Identifying Needs & Improving Benefits in the Military Health System
Thomas Williams, TRICARE Management Activity, Department of Defense

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Advancing Research, Policy & Practice: Spotlight on AcademyHealth Programs

Building Rigorous Evidence on Welfare and Employment Policy
Gordon Berlin, MDRC

Academic Health Organizations: An International Perspective
Stephen Davies, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust

OECD Health Data: What Do the Numbers Mean for the United States?
Elizabeth Docteur, Organization for Economics Cooperation and Development

Discrimination and Calibration of 3 Mortality Prediction Models Being Considered for Quality Asssessment in Intensive Care Units
R. Adams Dudley, Dept of Med, Inst for Health Pol Studies, UCSF

Communicating Your Research to the Media
Lucian Leape, Harvard University

Restructing Medicare for the Long-Term
Jeff Lemieux, Centrists.Org, Progressive Policy Institute

Research Agenda at NCI: New Opportunities in HSR, Outcomes, Behavioral & Survivorship Research
Joseph Lipscomb, National Cancer Institute

Monitoring and Improving Quality of Care: Is there an International Paradigm Shift from Professional Self-Regulation to Accountability?
Soeren Mattke, OECD

International Exchange for Health Services Research and Policy: Learning from Cross-Country Comparisons - An initiative of AcademyHealth
Patricia Pittman, AcademyHealth

Are Preventable Hospitalization Rates Sensitive to Changes in Access to Primary Care?
Somnath Saha, Oregon Health & Science University

Communicating Your Research to the Media
Jonathan Weiner, Johns Hopkins University

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Management Projects in the Veterans Health Administration
Rick Best, Veterans Evidence Based Research Dissemination & Implementation Center

NIAAA, NIDA & NIMH Research Agendas
Susan Farrell, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Employer-Driven Quality Initiatives: Best Practices
Roger Feldman, University of Minnesota

Who Pays for What? Integrating Data Bases from Multiple Existing Sources to Examine Publicly-Funded Substance Abuse Services for Adolescents
Craig Anne Heflinger, Vanderbilt University

Competitive Bidding for Medicare Services
Thomas Hoerger, RTI International

Local Public Health System Performance and Its Relationship to Community Health Improvement
Jennifer Stanley, The Public Health Foundation

How Does Race/Ethnicity Affect Patients' Perceptions of Health System Cultural Competence?
Rachel Johnson, Johns Hopkins University

Job and Career Satisfaction Predictors for Older Nurses
Linda Lacey, North Carolina Center for Nursing

Methods & Policy for Oral Health Personnel Planning
Elizabeth Mertz, University of California, San Francisco

NIAAA, NIDA & NIMH Research Agendas
Harold Perl, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

A National Profile of Patient Safety in U.S. Hospitals Based on Administrative Data
Patrick Romano, University of California, Davis

Patient-Physician Relationships and Racial Disparities in the Quality of Care
Somnath Saha, Oregon Health & Science University

Organization of nursing services in the VHA
Anne Sales, VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety
David West, CNA Corporation

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Alice Hersh Lecture
Robert Blendon, Harvard School of Public Health

AcademyHealth Member Input: Ethical Guidelines for our Fields
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, National Institutes of Health

Cost-Effectiveness of Pediatric Cochlear Implants: Incorporating Recipients' Own Decisions & Lifetime Modeling
James H. Ford, University of Wisconsin

OECD Health Data: What Do the Numbers Mean for the United States?
Soeren Mattke, Organization for Economics Cooperation and Development

National SCHIP Evaluation Focus Group Study
Renee Schwalberg, Health Systems Research, Inc.

Physician Discussion of Affect Issues with Their Patients
Ming Tai-Seale, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health

OECD Health Data: What Do the Numbers Mean for the United States?
Daniel Waldo, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services


Sunday, June 29, 2003

7:30 a.m. poster session

Predicting Organizational Change Sustainability
James Ford II, University of Wisconsin

9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Reasons for Disenrolling and CAHPS® Measures
Randall Bender, RTI International

Linking Medicare Claims Data to the MFFS Survey to Understand Subgroup Variation
Shulamit Bernard, RTI International

Inside the Black Box: How Actuaries Price Health Insurance
Cathi Callahan, Actuarial Research Corporation

Inside the Black Box: How Actuaries Price Health Insurance
John Lloyd, Ernst & Young LLP

Challenging Assumptions: How Vulnerable MMC Beneficiaries’ Understand Their Plans & Health Care Experiences
Cynthia Robins, Westat

Comparison of Screening Mammography in the United States & the United Kingdom
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, University of California, San Francisco

How Much of the Variation Across States in Mental Health Service Use & Need Among Children Is Related to Market Characteristics & Health Care Legislation?
Roland Sturm, RAND Health

Inside the Black Box: How Actuaries Price Health Insurance
Lisa Tourville, Ingenix

11:15 a.m -12:45 p.m.

Adjusting PPS Rates for Geographic Wage Variation: What is a fair labor-related share?
Kathleen Dalton, Univ of North Carolina

Improving the Identification of Members with Suicidal Ideation in a Managed Behavioral Healthcare Delivery System
Christy Beaudin, PacifiCare Health Systems

Translating Research into Clinical Practice: Challenges of Innovating in the Hospital Setting
Elizabeth Bradley, Yale University

A Budget Nuetral Method fo Modeling Changes in the Inpatient Medicare Prospective Payment System
Walter Linde-Zwirble, Health Process Management LLC

The Wellspring Model of Quality Improvement: Moving Evaluation Findings into Nursing Home Practice
Debra Lipson, AAHSA/IFAS

Perinatal Health Framework
Dawn Misra, University of Michigan

The Community Tracking Study's (CTS) Household and Physician Surveys
Elizabeth Schaefer, Center for Studying Health System Change

Rehabilitation Therapy in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Effects of Medicare's New Prospective Payment System
Chapin White, Harvard University

What do we know about delivering comprehensive primary care to women?
Elizabeth Yano, VA Greater Los Angeles HSR&D Center of Excellence

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