APPENDIX D.
Examples of Career Trajectories
Information in this index comes from the Directories of Pew Health Policy Fellows and Alumni published by the National Academy of Sciences. The information regarding title before the Pew Program was retrieved from the directory that was published during the year that the fellow started the program and represents the position that the fellow held immediately before entering the program. The information regarding title after the Pew Program represents the current title held by the alumni, and this information was retrieved from the 1996 Pew Directory. Positions held between the time of completion of the program and 1996 are not provided. For each category at least one to a maximum of three examples of career trajectories are provided. The numbers in parentheses represent the total number of fellows whose career trajectories followed the stated pattern. Career trajectories for those fellows who remained in the same field are
ACADEMIA - GOVERNMENT (4)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Associate Director, Division of Public Health, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Deputy Director, Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Sacramento, CA |
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Research Assistant, University of California, San Francisco |
Scientist, Air Policy Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC |
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Deputy Director of the Supportive Services Program for Older Persons, Heller School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
Project Leader, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
ACADEMIA - RESEARCH (7)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida |
Research Scientist, New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA |
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Lecturer, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, WA |
Biostatistician, Clinical Quality Management Department, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Brookline, MA |
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Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles |
RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
ACADEMIA - CONSULTING (4)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Senior Research Associate, Heller School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
Project Manager, The MEDSTAT Group, Cambridge, MA |
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Instructor of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
Consultant, Interactive Technologies in Health Care, San Francisco, CA |
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Project Director, Institute for Health and Aging and Adjunct Professor, Social and Behavioral Science, University of California, San Francisco |
Vice President and Health of California Office, The Lewin Group, Sausalito, CA |
ACADEMIA - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT (5)
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Tittle Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Assistant Professor of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa |
Vice President for Performance Improvement, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD |
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Project Manager, Multi-Hospital Study of Variations in Medical Practice and Clinical Outcomes, University of California, Los Angeles |
Associate Chief, Evaluation and Decision Support Service, Sepulveda VA Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA |
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Coordinator of Educational Programs, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
Research Coordinator, Department of Occupational Therapy, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL |
ACADEMIA - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (0)
ACADEMIA - OTHER (1)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Research Associate, Division of Population and Family Health, School of Public Health, UCLA |
Founding Partner, 2 Cow HERD, Internet Service Provider, Venice, CA |
RESEARCH - ACADEMIA (3)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Research Scientist, Aerospace Medical Research, Douglas Aircraft Company, Santa Monica, CA |
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center |
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Research Assistant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
Research Associate, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of Southern California School for Medicine |
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Research Assistant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago |
RESEARCH - GOVERNMENT (3)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Research Assistant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
Director, Medicare Part A Analysis, Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, Health Care Financing Administration, Washington, DC |
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Research Assistant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
National Expert, European Commission, Directorate of Public Health and Safety at Work, Office of Public Health Analysis, Policy and Program Coordination, Development and Evaluation, Luxembourg |
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Research Assistant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
Senior Analyst, Prospective Payment Review Commission, Washington, DC |
RESEARCH - CONSULTING (0)
RESEARCH - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT (2)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Director of Research, Arizona Long Term Care Gerontology Center, AZ |
Pew Health Policy Program, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA |
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Research Assistant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
Vice President, Client Services/UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, First Health Services, Coraopolis, PA |
RESEARCH - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (0)
RESEARCH - OTHER (0)
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - ACADEMIA (8)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Executive Vice President, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA |
Assistant Professor, Clark University, Worcester, MA |
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Manager of Health Care Cost Containment, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ |
Senior Research Associate, Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, University of Alaska |
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Hospital Administrator, Westworld Community Health Care |
Project Manager, Department of Health Services Management and Policy, University of Michigan |
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - RESEARCH (5)
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Tittle Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Director of Research, California, Association of Public Hospitals |
Director, Quality Measurement and Analysis, Department of Quality, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Oakland, CA |
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Research Director, Multicultural AIDS Coalition, Boston, MA |
Senior Research Analyst, COSMOS Corporation Rockville, MD |
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Senior Planner, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporations, NYC |
Senior Policy Analyst, Health Department of Public Policy, Community Service Society of New York |
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - GOVERNMENT (6)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Project Coordinator, US Corporation for Health Management |
Acting Deputy Director, Health Policy and Planning Division, Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, Sacramento, CA |
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Medical Director, Alaska Native Hospital, Kotzebue, AK |
State Epidemiologist, Director of Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources |
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Interim Medical Director, West Berkeley Community Health Center, Berkeley, CA |
Medical Officer, National Center on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD |
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - CONSULTING (8)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Tittle After Pew Program |
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Manager of program Development and Planning, Dallas Region, Kaiser Permanent, Dallas, TX |
Consultant, Comparative Medical Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Golden, CO |
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Risk Manager, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation |
Senior Manager, The Lewin Group, Fairfax, VA |
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Executive Director, AIDS Action Council |
Health Policy Consultant |
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (1)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Staffing Coordinator, stanford Hospital Stanford, CA |
Washington Health Foundation |
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT - OTHER (1)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Associate Director, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
Physician, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
GOVERNMENT - ACADEMIA (12)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Program Analyst, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Tufts School of Nutrition, Cambridge, MA |
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Regional Coordinator, Center for Health Promotion and Environmental Disease Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health |
Associate Professor of Health Policy, Director, Joint Program in Public Policy and Public Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley |
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Coordinator, Protocol for Comparison of CT and MRI, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Indiana State University |
GOVERNMENT - RESEARCH (10)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Deputy Director for Special Projects, Policy and Budget Coordination, Governor's Office, SC |
Research Director, Sarah Shuptrine and Associates and Research Director, Columbia, SC |
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Policy Analyst, Legislative and Budget Analysis Branch, Office of Analysis and Evaluation, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC |
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Special Assistant to the Director/Senior Research Analyst, Office of Research and Demonstration, Health Care Financing Administration |
Economist, Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD |
GOVERNMENT - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT (6)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Director, Indigent Health Care Project, Texas Department of Human Services |
President, Children's Hospital Association of Texas, Austin |
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Project Director, Bureau of Ambulatory Care Reimbursement, NY State Department of Health |
Director, HIV Special Needs Plan The Partnership/Village Center for Care, New York |
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Deputy Director, Office of Policy Analysis, National Institute of Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Vice President, Public Policy and Counsel to the President, Managed Care and Employee Benefit Operations, The Travelers Companies, Hartford, CT |
GOVERNMENT - CONSULTING (4)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Director, Bureau of Long Term Care, Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission, Boston |
Program Manager, The MEDSTAT Group, Cambridge, MA |
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Chief, Evaluation Branch, Office of Program Development, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health Resource Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Health Planning and Policy Consultant |
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Research Associate, Health Services Research and Development, Veterans Administration, UT |
Senior Scientist, Health and Human Development Programs, Education Development Center, MA |
GOVERNMENT - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (1)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Nurse Practitioner, Multnomah County. Health Department, Portland, OR |
Health Policy Analyst, Oregon Nurse Association |
GOVERNMENT - OTHER (0)
CONSULTING - ACADEMIA (4)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Senior Consultant, MEDSTAT Systems, Inc., Boston, MA |
Research Associate, Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
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Consultant, Center for Social Scientist Computation, and Research, University of Washington |
Research Assistant Professional, Department of Psychosocial and Community, Health, School of Nursing University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
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Senior Consultant, National Health Mothers, Health Babies Coalition, Washington, DC |
Clinical Core Faculty, Department of Health Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, Campus, CA |
CONSULTING - RESEARCH (3)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Health Policy Consultant |
Senior Project Manager, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA |
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Senior Consultant, MEDSTAT Systems, inc., Cambridge, MA |
Director of Research, Pacific Business Group on Health, Los Angeles, CA |
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Resident Consultant, School of Public Health University of California, Los Angeles |
RAND, Santa Monica, CA |
CONSULTING - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT (0)
CONSULTING - GOVERNMENT (0)
CONSULTING - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (0)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Financing Specialist, On Lok Senior Health Services, San Francisco, CA |
Executive Director, National PACE Association |
CONSULTING - OTHER (2)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Senior Associate, Lewin ICF, Inc., Fairfax, VA |
Attorney, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, Washington, DC |
OTHER - ACADEMIA (11)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Executive Director, Managing Attorney and Clinical Social Worker, The Hawkins Center of Law and Services for the Disabled, Richmond, CA |
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Los Angeles, CA |
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Associate Attorney, Fordham & Starrett and Sullivan & Worcester |
Associate professor of Law and Public Policy, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington |
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Medical Practitioner, Mission Neighborhood Health Center |
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco |
OTHER - RESEARCH (1)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Physician, Neighborhood Health Centers, Boston, MA |
Senior Research Scientist Research Scientist, John Snow, Inc., Boston, MA |
OTHER - GOVERNMENTS (3)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Staff Attorney, ABLE, Inc., Boston, MA |
Assistant Attorney General, State of Tennessee, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville |
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Dentist, Clinical Practice |
California Epidemiologic Investigation Service Resident, Office of Dental Health, Alameda County Health Care Services, Oakland |
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Assistant Director of Public Affairs, American Trucking Association |
Health Policy Analyst, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, DC |
OTHER - CONSULTING (2)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Staff Attorney, Youth Law Center, San Francisco Psychotherapist |
Consultant, National Center for Youth Law, CA Research Consultant, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Washington, DC |
OTHER - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT (6)
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Title Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Attorney, Sidely & Austin, Washington, DC |
Senior Director of Policy and Research, National Institute for Health Care Management |
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Physician |
Director, Alternative Medicine and Complementary Therapies, St. Elizabeth's Medical Centre, Brighton, MA |
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Emergency Physician |
Physician Director for National Accounts, Kaiser Permanent Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA |
OTHER - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (1)
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Tittle Before Pew Program |
Title After Pew Program |
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Associate Editor, Health Care Reporter, Times Journal Company |
Director, Community Programs, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, DC |
