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Meet the Staff of HSC

urrent HSC staff members, along with their titles and e-mail addresses, are listed below. Brief biographical sketches are provided for staff members.

Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., President, pginsburg@hschange.org

Elizabeth Docteur, M.S., Vice President, edocteur@hschange.org

Teri Armstrong, Manager of Administration, tarmstrong@hschange.org

Jill Bernstein, Ph.D., Senior Health Policy Analyst, jbernstein@hschange.org

Amy Bond, Health Research Assistant, abond@hschange.org

Ellyn R. Boukus, M.A., Health Research Analyst/Data Manager, eboukus@hschange.org

Emily Carrier, M.D., Senior Health Researcher, ecarrier@hschange.org

Alwyn Cassil, Director of Public Affairs, acassil@hschange.org

Dori A. Cross, Health Research Assistant, dcross@hschange.org

Peter J. Cunningham, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, pcunningham@hschange.org

Marisa K. Dowling, Research Assistant, mdowling@hschange.org

Laurie E. Felland, M.S., Assistant Director of Site Visits and Senior Health Researcher, lfelland@hschange.org

Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D., Senior Health Researcher, jgrossman@hschange.org

Tad Lee, Public Affairs Manager, tlee@hschange.org

Ann S. O'Malley, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Health Researcher, aomalley@hschange.org

James D. Reschovsky, Ph.D., Senior Health Researcher, jreschovsky@hschange.org

Divya Samuel, Research Assistant, dsamuel@hschange.org

Lucy Stark, Research Assistant, ashmerling@hschange.org

Anna S. Sommers, Ph.D., Health Researcher, asommers@hschange.org

Ha T. Tu, M.P.A., Senior Health Researcher, htu@hschange.org

Tracy Yee, Ph.D., Health Researcher, tyee@hschange.org

Staff Biographies

Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., president, is a nationally known economist and health policy expert. A noted speaker and commentator on changes taking place in the health care system, Ginsburg's recent research topics have included cost trends and drivers, Medicare physician and hospital payment policy, Medicare governance, consumer-directed health care, the future of employer-based health insurance, and competition in health care. Ginsburg has been named six times by Modern Healthcare as one of "The 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare." He received the first annual Health Services Research Impact Award from AcademyHealth, the professional association for health policy researchers and analysts. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a public trustee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and served two elected terms on the board of AcademyHealth. Before founding HSC, Ginsburg was the executive director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), created by Congress to provide nonpartisan advice about Medicare and Medicaid payment issues. Ginsburg previously worked for the RAND Corp. and the Congressional Budget Office. He earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

Jill Bernstein, Ph.D., senior health policy analyst, works on a broad range of health services research and health policy issues, including health insurance coverage and benefit design, access to care, payment policy, and health care evaluation. Previously, she served in senior positions in the public and private sectors, including as research director for The Citizens' Health Care Working Group, director of health policy studies at the National Academy of Social Insurance, where she was also co-principal investigator for the Academy’s Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term project and other Medicare project grants, and deputy director, Office of Program Development at the Agency for Health Care Policy. She received her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.

Ellyn Boukus, M.A., health research analyst/data manager, assists with quantitative and qualitative analyses and manages HSC's household and physician survey data. Her recent projects examine the characteristics of U.S. office-based physicians and their efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities among their patients. She received her M.A. in economics from Yale University.

Emily Carrier, M.D., M.S.C.I., senior health researcher, specializes in access to care and issues related to emergency medicine and surge capacity. She received her medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), completed her residency and chief residency in the Bellevue/New York University emergency medicine training program, and received her master's of science in clinical investigation from New York University.

Alwyn Cassil, director of public affairs, oversees HSC's publications, media activities and public policy outreach. Before joining HSC in 2001, Cassil was a press officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General and the Health Care Financing Administration, now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Before joining the federal government, Cassil was Washington editor of AHA News, the weekly newspaper published by the American Hospital Association. An award-winning reporter, Cassil also was a staff writer for several daily newspapers and served as a public information officer for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. Cassil received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida.

Peter J. Cunningham, Ph.D., senior fellow and co-director of quantitative research, specializes in access to care, the uninsured, public coverage programs, out-of-pocket medical care expenditures, and the effects of the health care safety net on disparities in health care. He also manages the design and data collection of HSC's Health Tracking Household Survey. He was a researcher at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, where he worked on the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University.

Elizabeth Docteur, M.S., vice president and director of policy analysis, has grounded her career in work to strengthen public policies in the United States and internationally. Her work has addressed health care financing and insurance arrangements, pharmaceutical policies and pricing practices, measurement and improvement of health care quality and access to services, and mechanisms to contain expenditure growth in Medicare and in other countries' social insurance programs. She's the former deputy director of the health division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, director of health policy at the National Academy of Social Insurance and research director at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. She also served on the staff of the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in Health Care, whose work led to the founding of the National Quality Forum. She holds a master's degree in public policy analysis and a bachelor's degree in political science and history from the University of Rochester.

Laurie E. Felland, M.S., assistant director of qualitative research and senior health researcher, primarily works on HSC's qualitative research. She focuses on low-income people's access to medical care, including safety net providers and public insurance programs. Previously, she was a policy analyst at the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy and a redesign analyst at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. Felland holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Carleton College and a master's degree in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D., senior health researcher, specializes in qualitative and quantitative research on the adoption and use of health information technology, including electronic prescribing, electronic medical records, personal health records and health information exchange. Previously, she was a health policy analyst at the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and an investment banker. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkley.

Tad Lee, public affairs manager, handles publication production and manages HSC's Web site. Previously, he was a marketing director for an Internet startup, communications coordinator for the American Rehabilitation Association, staff writer for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. He received his B.A. in political science from Colgate University.

Ann S. O'Malley, M.D., M.P.H., senior health researcher, conducts quantitative and qualitative research on a wide range of topics related to quality and access. She is particularly interested in primary care delivery, its intersection with specialty care, and the coordination of care from both the patient and provider perspectives. A graduate of Hamilton College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine, O'Malley completed her pediatrics internship at Georgetown University Medical Center and a residency in preventive medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She received her master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins and then completed a National Research Service Award fellowship in primary care research. She is board certified in preventive medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

James D. Reschovsky, Ph.D., senior health researcher, focuses on health care delivery system issues, in particular provider payment policies and the impact of provider financial and other incentives on treatment patterns and costs. He also conducts research on insurance coverage, access to care, and racial and ethnic disparities. Previously, Reschovsky held academic positions at Michigan State University and Cornell University and was a research fellow at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He received his Ph.D. in public policy studies from the University of Michigan.

Anna S. Sommers, M.A., M.S., Ph.D., health researcher, conducts quantitative research on a wide range of topics related to access and health services use. She specializes in evaluations of public coverage programs, access to care, the uninsured and affordability of medical care. Previously, Sommers was a senior research analyst at The Hilltop Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she was the principal investigator of an evaluation of small employer participation in New Mexico's State Coverage Insurance program, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Access Reform Evaluation Initiative, and a research associate at the Urban Institute. She earned her doctorate in health services research, policy and administration from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and a master's degree from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Ha T. Tu., M.P.A., senior health researcher, has conducted research on a variety of consumer-related topics in health care, including consumers' shopping behavior in self-pay markets; their propensity to seek and use health care information; their willingness to trade provider choice for cost savings; their use of complementary and alternative medicine; and their satisfaction with health plans and providers. Other recent areas of research and policy analysis include price and quality transparency; innovations in insurance benefit design; retail-based and workplace health clinics; and insurance coverage, access to care, and medical debt for people with chronic conditions. Previously, Tu was a consultant to both public and private sector health care clients. She received her master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University.

Tracy Yee, Ph.D., health researcher, has worked on evaluations and studies on process and quality improvement collaboratives, organizational structures in primary care and women's health, and nursing practice and outcomes. Her research interests include nursing practice, quality improvement, quality of care, evidence-based practice, and organizational theory. She completed her M.P.H. in Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and earned her Ph.D. in health services at the UCLA School of Public Health.