Center for Studying Health System Change

Staff, Advisory Committees and Collaborating Partners

HSC Staff

Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., President

Peter Kemper, Ph.D., Vice President

Ann C. Greiner, M.C.P., Director of Public Affairs

Peter J. Cunningham, Ph.D., Senior Health Researcher

James D. Reschovsky, Ph.D., Senior Health Researcher

Sally Trude, Ph.D., Senior Health Researcher

Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D., Health Researcher

Cara Lesser, M.P.P., Health Researcher

Ha T. Tu, M.P.A., Health Researcher

Andrew Epstein, M.P.P., Health Research Analyst

Leslie Jackson, M.H.S., Health Research Analyst

Michael Park, J.D., M.P.H., Health Research Analyst

Marie C. Reed, M.H.S., Health Research Analyst

Elizabeth A. Schaefer, M.A., Health Research Analyst

Gina K. Rule, Public Affairs Specialist

Bradley Strunk, Research Assistant

Linda M. Maturo, Associate Director of Administration

Roland Edwards, Administrative Assistant

Ruth Murphy, Administrative Assistant

Vernette Roberts, Executive Assistant

Danita R. Washington, LAN Support

Selected Staff Bios

Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., president, is nationally recognized for his work in health economics and health policy, especially on health care market changes and cost trends. He previously served as executive director of the Physician Payment Review Commission and as deputy assistant director of the Congressional Budget Office.

Peter Kemper, Ph.D., vice president, has been principal investigator of the Community Tracking Study since HSC’s inception. A commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, he is a nationally recognized expert on care of the elderly and the effects of managed care. He was formerly director of the long-term care division of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and director of the Madison, Wisc., office of MPR.

Ann C. Greiner, M.C.P., director of public affairs, oversees HSC’s publications, conferences and outreach activities. Previously, she headed up the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s communications and marketing department and served as a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, where her research focused on work restructuring in health care.

Peter J. Cunningham, Ph.D., is a senior health researcher specializing in access, the uninsured and safety net issues. He was a researcher at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, where he worked on the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey.

James D. Reschovsky, Ph.D., senior health researcher, focuses on health care, insurance and managed care issues. Previously, he held academic positions at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and was a research fellow at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Sally Trude, Ph.D., senior health researcher, specializes in managed care and physician issues. She was a senior policy analyst for the Physician Payment Review Commission and a health policy analyst at RAND.

Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D., health researcher, specializes in provider and health plan competition and managed care. She was a health policy analyst at the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and an investment banker.

Cara Lesser, M.P.P., health researcher, directs HSC’s site visit work and specializes in market change. She was a senior research associate at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.

Ha T. Tu, M.P.A., health researcher, focuses on service delivery issues. She was an economic consultant to the Center for Health Policy Studies in Columbia, Md., and the Health Care Financing Administration.

Advisory Committees

Researchers Group

Stephen Asch, M.D., RAND

David Blumenthall, M.D., M.P.P., Massachusetts General Hospital

Lawrence D. Brown, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Public Health

Randall Brown, Ph.D., Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Jon B. Christianson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Department of Health Care Management

Mary L. Durham, Ph.D., Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

Stephen H. Long, Ph.D., RAND

Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H., University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Pamela Short, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Steven M. Shortell, Ph.D., Northwestern University Graduate School of Management

Users Group

Linda Bilheimer, Ph.D., Congressional Budget Office

Robert A. Berenson, M.D., Center for Health Plans and Providers, Health Care Financing Administration

Mary Jane England, M.D., Washington Business Group on Health

Bill Gradison, Patton Boggs LLP

Paul Griner, M.D., Center for the Assessment and Management of Change in Academic Medicine (AAMC)

David Helms, Ph.D., Alpha Center, Association for Health Services Research

Julia A. James, Health Policy Alternatives

Judith Miller Jones, National Health Policy Forum

Margaret E. O’Kane, National Committee for Quality Assurance

Ronald F. Pollack, Families USA Foundation

Roger S. Taylor, M.D., M.P.A., RAND

Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D., Mount Sinai NYU Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

William Winkenwerder, M.D., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Mathematica, Inc.*

Staff Affiliated with HSC

Charles Metcalf, Ph.D., President, Mathematica, Inc.

Don F. Lara, Senior Vice President and Director of Administration, Mathematica, Inc. and Vice President, HSC

Jay B. Style, M.B.A., Vice President, Controller and Treasurer, Mathematica, Inc., and Vice President, HSC

Patrick Mooney, Vice President and Director of Human Resources, Mathematica, Inc. and Vice President, HSC

*Mathematica Inc. is the employee-owned parent company of MPR and HSC.

HSC Board

Anita A. Summers, Ph.D., Chairperson

Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D.

Harold Beebout, Ph.D.

Randall Brown, Ph.D.

George J.Carcagno, M.B.A.

Peter Kemper, Ph.D.

Charles Metcalf, Ph.D.

Margo Rosenbach, Ph.D.

Donald Steinwachs, Ph.D.

Collaborating Partners

The Gallup Organization

The Lewin Group

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

RAND

Consultants

Linda Brewster, M.B.A., Research Consultant

Lawrence D. Brown, Ph.D., Research Consultant

Jon Christianson, Ph.D., Research Consultant

Garrett Yu Hussein, LLC, Public Affairs Consultants

Jane J. Stein, The Stein Group, Publications Consultant

Roger Taylor, M.D., M.P.A., Senior Advisor

Writers: Ann C. Greiner, HSC, and Craig Havighurst

Editor: The Stein Group