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A collaboration of faculty members from the Social Sciences and the Medical School, as well as administrators from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital, this workshop examines the impact of public policy on health care delivery, particularly the role of financial incentives in shaping medical practice.
Convened by Denise Anthony, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology; Adjunct, Community and Family Medicine; and Amitabh Chandra,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine
For more information, please contact
Jane DaSilva by email or by calling (603) 646-2229.
Previous Presentations:
Dr. Erin Strumpf, B.A., Ph.D., Departments of Economics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University, "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Outpatient Primary Care: The Role of Physician-Patient Concordance"
Gwyn Bevan, Professor of Management Science, Operational Research Group of the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, "Did transforming the National Health Service in England pay political dividends for the
Labour Party under Tony Blair?"
Dr. Jan Blustein, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, New York University, "No Patient Left Behind?: Accountability for Racial Equity in Health Care"
Dr. Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy,
"The Spread of Health Phenomena in Social Networks"
Dr. Anna Aizer, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Brown University, "Biology, Stress, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status"
William Weeks, M.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont,
"Opportunities to improve access, improve outcomes, and reduce taxpayer burden in the VA"
Joe Doyle, Ph.D., Jon D. Gruber Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home"
Mary Burke, Economist, Boston Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
"The Diffusion of a Medical Innovation: Is Success in the Stars?"
Sienna Craig, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
"Himalayan Healers in Transition: Thoughts on the Professionalization of Tibetan Medicine in Nepal"
Travis Crump, Ph.D., Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
"Medicare Beneficiaries' Preferences for Intensity of End-of-Life Care; Are They Distributed Differently Across Geographic Regions?"
Kevin Grumbach, Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, Chief, Family and Community Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
"Moving From Documenting Problems to Evaluating Solutions: A Study of Postbaccalaureate Programs to Increase Diversity in the Physician Workforce"
Frank R. Lichtenberg, Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, Columbia University
"Cancer Drug Vintage and Survival"
Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Departments of Society, Human Development, and Health and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
"In the Eye of the Storm: Clinical Trials Versus Observational Studies"
Amitabh Chandra, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College and
Douglas Staiger, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
"The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare"
Amal Trivedi, M.D., Research Fellow in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy
"Quality and Inequality in Medicare Managed Care"
Mitali Das, Visiting Professor, Economics, Dartmouth College
"Peers' use of Charity Care and its Effects on the Individual Health Insurance Decision"
Lisa Schwartz, M.D., M.S. Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and of Community and Family Medicine and
Steven Woloshin, M.D., M.S. Associate Professor of Medicine and of Community and Family Medicine
"Giving Legs to Restless Legs: A Case Study of How the Media Can Help Make People Sick"
Denise Anthony, Assistant Professor, Sociology, and
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth College
and M. Brooke Herndon, M.D., General Internal Medicine Physician, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
"Do All Patients Think More is Better? Understanding Patient Preferences for Tests and Treatment"
Donald Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Washington University at St. Louis
"The Impact of Hospital Racialization on Racial Differences in Medical Treatment"
Paul Cleary, Ph.D, Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
"Facilitating Change in Health Care Organizations"
Laurence [Loren] Baker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
"Claims Data and Analysis of Practice Patterns by Physician Group Size"
Bill Weeks, M.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor, Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT
“Directing Veterans' Private Sector Coronary Revascularization Care to Improve Outcomes”
Brenda Sirovich, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT
"Regional Variation in the Threshold to Intervene Among Primary Care Physicians"
Mary Beth Landrum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
"Does Disseminating Information about Provider Quality Lead to Improved Quality of Care: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery"
Jon Skinner, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth College
"Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers"
Oguzhan Alagoz, Ph.D. , Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
"Optimal Policies for the Acceptance of Living- and Cadaveric-Donor Livers: A Markov Decision Processes (MDP) Approach"
Donny Likosky, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School
"A Regional Approach for Reducing Neurologic Injury after Cardiac Surgery"
Richard Scott, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Stanford University
"Evolving Professions: An Institutional Field Approach"
David Henry, Professor, Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Australia
"The Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: Buyer's Market or Trade Barrier?"
Nicole Lurie, Senior Natural Scientist and Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor of Health Policy, RAND Corporation
"Assessing the Public Health Infrastructures"
Richard Scott, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Stanford University
"Studying Change in Health Care Institutions"
Elliott Fisher, Professor of Medicine, Community & Family Medicine, Dartmouth College
"Physician Perceptions of Practice in Regions of Differing Practice Intensity"
John C. Baldwin, Associate Provost for Health Affairs & Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth College
"Cost and Efficacy in U.S. Health Care"
Scott Grafton, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Director of Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center
"Diagnosing Brain Death in a Noisy Context: Challenges for the Clinician"
David Cutler, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
"Your Money or Your Life: Medicine for America's Medical Care System"
Matthew Hudson, Research Associate Professor, Community & Family Medicine, Dartmouth College "Examining the Relationship Between Health Beliefs and Medical Decisions in the Context of Medical Uncertainty"
Milton Weinstein, Professor of Health Policy Management, Harvard School of Public Health
"Getting Value for Money in Health Care: Who Cares About Cost-Effectiveness Analysis?"
Denise Anthony, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
"Managed Care and the Profession of Medicine"
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