August 12, 2009
UW experts on health care policy
As the national debate on health care policies continues, University of Washington experts are available to discuss the issues.
Frederick Chen
Lecturer, Family Medicine
fchen@u.washington.edu
206-543-7813
http://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/staff/100001628/
Chen’s research interests include health insurance, health policy, medically underserved populations, rural medicine and the physician workforce.
Douglas A. Conrad
Professor, Department of Health Services
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Finance and Business Economics
dconrad@u.washington.edu
206-616-2923
http://sph.washington.edu/faculty/fac_bio.asp?url_ID=Conrad_Douglas
Conrad specializes in industrial organization economics, risk and insurance, health insurance reform, pay for performance, integrated delivery systems and corporate finance.
James E. Davis
Professor and Chair, Family Medicine
jedavis3@u.washington.edu
206-543-3101
http://depts.washington.edu/fammed/contacts/details.php?person=00091
Davis’s research includes cost-effective care, particularly relationships between quality improvement and cost containment.
William Dowling
Professor of Health Services
H-664B Health Sciences
dowling@u.washington.edu
206-616-2929
http://depts.washington.edu/hserv/faculty/Dowling_William
Dowling is interested in strategic planning at health care organizations and organizational performance.
Aaron Katz
Principal Lecturer, Health Services and Global Health
Director, Global Health Leadership Program
garlyk@u.washington.edu
206-616-5227
http://depts.washington.edu/hserv/faculty/Katz_Aaron
Katz works in health care policy and planning, including managed care, public health insurance options and how foreign countries do health care. He’s also blogging about health care: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thehealthretort/
Larry Kessler
Professor and Chair, Health Services
1959 NE Pacific Street
kesslerl@u.washington.edu
206-543-2703, 206-616-2930
medical device safety and effectiveness, federal regulations, public health, cancer, health policy
Patricia C. Kuszler
Professor of Law
Director of the Center for Law, Science and Global Health
Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health
Email: kuszler@u.washington.edu
206-685-0511
http://www.law.washington.edu/Directory/Profile.aspx?ID=10
As both a lawyer and a physician, Kuszler studies health care organizations and finance, bioethics, genetics and the law, global health, public health law, medical malpractice, health and human rights.
Roger A Rosenblatt
Professor and Vice Chair and RUOP Director, Dept of Family Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Global Health
Email: rosenb@u.washington.edu
206-543-9425, 206-685-1361
Rosenblatt specializes in family medicine, rural and underserved populations and primary care.
Carolyn (Cindy) Watts
Professor
Department of Health Services
watts@u.washington.edu
206-616-2986 (o)
206-372-8472 (cell)
http://depts.washington.edu/phgen/facultyandstaff/faculty_bios/watts.shtml
As a professor of health economics, Watts studies such matters as structure of the insurance industry and workings of the health care market.
Richard Zerbe
Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs
Adjunct Professor, Law, Editor, Research in Law & Economics
206 616-5470
zerbe@u.washington.edu
Zerbe performs cost/benefit analyses on health care proposals; he also does cost/effective analysis.
