IHA Faculty

FACULTY/ACADEMIC WEB PAGE LINK	AREA OF RESEARCH AND EXPERTISE
Joel Adelson, MD, PhD, MPH	Health policy, quality issues in clinical practice, hospital and academic administration and leadership, clinical medicine and pediatrics, and the basic medical sciences.
Gaylene Becker, PhD (In Memoriam)	Aging and the life course, chronic illness and disability, reproductive health and illness, and the health of ethnic minorities.
Yewoubdar Beyene, PhD	Aging and the life course, chronic illness, women's reproductive health and aging, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, and health of ethnic minorities.
Misha Cohen, OMD, L.Ac	Chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and Asian Medicine and Treatment Protocols for People with HIV/AIDS.
Suzanne Dibble, RN, DNS	Chronic illness, women's health issues, lesbian health care, breast cancer, research methods, and clinical trials.
Carroll Estes, PhD	Medical sociology, political sociology, complex organizations, sociology of aging issues relating to older women, health policy, and evaluation research.
Norman Fineman, PhD	Medical anthropology, American medical practice, the doctor/patient relationship, social construction of difficult patients, experience of illness, social studies of aging, gay and lesbian families, and qualitative methods.
Patrick Fox, PhD	Medical sociology, health policy, sociology of aging, long-term care, evaluation of social and health interventions, health policy, disease-based social movements, economic costs of illness, and health promotion.
Sheryl Goldberg, PhD	Aging health policy; community-based health and social services; managed care; mental health and the elderly; welfare reform and elderly services; and long-term care ombudsman programs.
Marty Jessup, PhD	Alcohol and other drug dependencies in women including the medical, legal, and ethical issues related to pregnancy/parenting.
Taewoon Kang, PhD	Data analysis, management and consulting, disability and the status of people with disabilities in American Society.
Sharon R. Kaufman, PhD	Aging; culture of medicine; anthropology of 'life itself', intersections of biotechnologies, subjectification and the body.
Stephen Kaye, PhD	Demography and epidemiology of disability; cost of disability, employment, health services, AIDS-related disability, assistive technology, rehabilitation services, and long term care services.
Mitchell La Plante, PhD	Conceptual and definitional issues in health and disability, the demography and epidemiology of health and disability, and health and disability policy.
Wendy Max, PhD	Injury, Alzheimer's disease, economics of tobacco use, disability, and domestic violence.
Robert H. Miller, PhD	Health economics; economics of electronic medical records and e-prescribing in physician practices; organizational innovation in physician practices; the effects of managed care.
Robert Nachtigall, MD	Social and emotional aspects of infertility with particular emphasis on the medical, ethical, and psychological issues involved in the practice of gamete donation.
Robert Newcomer, PhD	Social gerontology and community long term care service systems planning and evaluation.
Jeff Newman, MD, MPH	Epidemiology, prevention and treatment of diabetes and other chronic disease; health policy and managed care; and clinical information systems and their alignment with medical and nursing workflow.
Regina Otero-Sabogal, PhD	Breast and cervical cancer control interventions in vulnerable populations, minority health-related issues, women's issues, affirmative action, tailoring educational messages and materials, and communications.
Dorothy P. Rice, ScD (Hon)	Health statistics, aging and long term care, disability, domestic violence, cost of illness methodology and estimation, chronic illness, and economics of tobacco use.
Leslie Ross, PhD	Cognitive and emotional functioning in various brain-injured populations, drugs and cognitive functioning and Alzheimer's studies.
Janet Shim, PhD	Sociology of health and illness; social inequalities in health; aging and biomedical life extension; social studies of epidemiology, medical risk, and genetics; the use of race, gender, and class in health research.
David Smith, MD, PhD	Clinical toxicology and addiction medicine.
Anita Stewart, PhD	Measuring health related quality of life in various populations, physical activity promotion in seniors, and quality of interpersonal processes of care in minority and disadvantaged populations.
William Strawbridge, PhD	Health planning and health research, Gerontology with particular focus on older persons' adaptations to the challenges of aging.
Hai-Yen Sung, PhD	Economics of tobacco control, cervical cancer screening and outcomes, evaluation of HMO quality of care, medical utilization and cost, econometric modeling, statistical programming, and time-series forecasting.
Joanna Weinberg, JD, LLM	Public benefit policies across the life course, ethical policy and legal issues in the provision of health care, policy and clinical practice issues for older adults with HIV/AIDS, and conflict resolution in health care settings.

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