Contributors
- Contributors
David Barnard is professor of medicine and director of the Institute to Enhance Palliative Care at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Center for Bioethics and Health Law. He is coauthor, with Anna Towers, Patricia Boston, and Yanna Lambrinidou, of Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics third edition, currently in preparation. He is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Palliative Medicine and the Journal of Palliative Care. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1999, he was university professor of humanities and chair of the Department of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Medicine, the first such department ever established at any medical school.
Lynn A. Blewett is an assistant professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She directs the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct targeted policy research and assist state analysts in measuring access to health insurance coverage. Additional research addresses health access issues of new Latino populations in the Midwest. Blewett received her M.A. in public affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and her Ph.D. in health services research policy and administration from the University of Minnesota.
Kathleen Thiede Call is an associate professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Call has completed several statewide surveys of Minnesotans documenting rates of insurance coverage, characteristics of people with different kinds of coverage, and rates of access to insurance and health care. She also has developed an area of research concerning the complexities of estimating rates of insurance coverage. She is co-principal investigator for the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC). Call received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota.
Helen Carrillo is a senior statistician in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Formerly she was with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, where she collected and analyzed data for a number of nursing home and long-term care research studies.
Michael Davern is a research associate with the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota. Davern uses his expertise in federal population surveys to help states translate and use national population survey data for state health policy work. He also consults with states collecting their own survey data on sampling, weighting, data editing/imputation, data analyses strategies, and survey instrument design. Before joining SHADAC, Davern worked as a statistician for the U.S. Bureau of the Census. His research interests include survey research methodology, health insurance coverage, policy analysis, and social networks.
Margaret Brown Good is an assistant professor in the Policy Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Brown’s experience includes work as a research associate for a survey research company and for the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC). Her research includes an analysis of access to health insurance coverage by those leaving welfare, and her interests include health policy, health insurance, and health care access. Brown earned her Ph.D. in health services research and policy from the University of Minnesota.
Charlene Harrington is a professor of sociology and nursing in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, where she has been principal investigator for numerous research studies on state long-term care policies and program characteristics and nursing home regulation, staffing, utilization, and expenditures. She is principal investigator on the project that designed the California Nursing Home Search Web site (www.calnhs.org) launched by the California Health Care Foundation in 2002. She also is principal investigator for the new Center for Personal Assistance Services funded for five years by the National Center for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Christine H. Morton received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She previously conducted research...
