Adopting New Medical Technology (1994) / Chapter Skim
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B. CONTRIBUTORS
B. CONTRIBUTORS
Pages 206-216
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One book, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, examines how academic medical centers are being affected by changes in the competitive environment and how they must alter their behavior to cope with changes in the financing for uncompensated care, graduate medical education, biomedical research, and patient care services. A second book, also published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, describes and analyses the impact of the myriad of public and private cost containment efforts launched over the past 15 years and sets forth long range policy proposals for the future.
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Since joining the Institute of Medicine in June 1988, she has worked on over a dozen IOM projects, ranging from the IOM program on technological innovation in medicine to two studies evaluating the development and use of clinical practice guidelines. Current studies she is working on address substance abuse and mental health issues in federal AIDS research; the Health Care Financing Administration's evaluation of its peer review organization program; and
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Upon return, Dr. Fendrick spent two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, where he completed his postgraduate training in health services research, medical technology diffusion, and physician decisionmaking.
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His fellowships and awards include a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Christopher Walker Research Fellowship, John Harvard Scholarship, Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholarship in General Internal Medicine, and the Young Investigator Award of the Association for Health Services Research.
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He joined Kaiser Permanente in 1966 as an internist in the Northwest Region, later holding positions of medical director of the extended care facility, director of a medical office, and associate regional medical director.
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He chaired the organizing committee that founded the American Pediatric Surgical Association, and organized the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center at New England Medical Center. Recent work has focused on unnecessary surgery, the assessment of quality of health care, development of practice guidelines, and the prevention of injury.
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Luce is responsible for numerous research projects for both government and industrial clients and is principal investigator for a large multi-year economic research support contract with the Centers for Disease Control and a research center for the Health Care Financing Administration, as well as a number of other health policy and cost-effectiveness studies. He is also responsible for the MEDTAP Europe office located in London.
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He received a bachelor of science in biology from Stanford University in 1978, and subsequently attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in Health Care Research and Health Policy at Stanford University.
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Following a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar, during which he completed the M.B.A. program in health care administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and obtained additional formal training in biostatistics, epidemiology, legal aspects of health care, and public policy of health care at the Schools of Law and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Steinberg is also director of the Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment, a member of National Blue Cross/Blue Shield's Medical Advisory Panel, and a member of the federal Physician Payment Review Commission.
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In addition to consulting widely for governments, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and private firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Professor Weisbrod has also served on numerous national and international study and conference committees, and has been on the editorial boards of six journals. His biography is listed in such publications as Who's Who in Science, Who's Who in U.S.
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