• Faculty
• Fellows
• Academics
• Research Staff
• Administrative Staff
• IHPS Core Contact List
• IHPS Organization Chart

Faculty

Wade M. Aubry, MD,
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine
Technology assessment, evidence-based medicine, health insurance coverage, health care quality

Lisa A. Bero, PhD
Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Tobacco, peer review, authorship, dissemination of research, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical issues, ethics

Jeffrey Belkora, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of Surgery and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Leadership, teamwork, and decision making

Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA
Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Technology assessment and cost-effectiveness of surgical technologies, shared decision making and consumer incentives in health care, direct to consumer advertising, impact of variability in physician practice patterns on quality and cost

Claire Brindis, DrPH
Interim Director, PRL-IHPS (as of August 2007)
Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Associate Director for Strategic Development, PRL-IHPS
Reproductive health issues, child health, health care financing, women's health, prevention and health promotion

Michael D. Cabana, MD, MPH
Professor
Department of Pediatrics and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine
Variation in physician practice as it relates to quality of care, particularly in asthma; quality improvement, physician use of clinical practice guidelines, primary prevention of asthma

Janet M. Coffman, MA, MPP, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Evidence-based medicine, health insurance coverage, management of asthma

Daniel Dohan, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Associate Director for Training, PRL-IHPS
Director, UCSF Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society
Cancer care and cancer clinical trials, healthcare inequalities and quality, organizational culture, emergency care, ethnography, transdisciplinary research in health services and policy

R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for
Health Policy Studies
Associate Director for Research, PRLIHPS
Outcomes and quality of care, quality-based purchasing, managed care, risk adjustment for chronic conditions


Stanton Glantz, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Policy and scientific issues related to control of second-hand smoke, large scale tobacco control programs, international issues, and manipulation of science by the tobacco industry

Joseph R. Guydish, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Medicine and Philip R. Lee Institute for
Health Policy Studies
Substance abuse policy, treatment, and prevention

Dana Hughes, DrPH
Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Access to care, child health, health care delivery systems, health disparities, and socioeconomic status

Judith Justice, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine,
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and
Institute for Health and Aging
International and national health policy, foreign assistance to the health sector, health and development, cultural context of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS, TB, leprosy), new vaccines and immunization, reproductive and child health, and the role of NGO

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
AIDS Research Institute, and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
HIV/AIDS, costs of illness and cost-effectiveness, health care financing, evidence-based medicine, international health issues

Patricia P. Katz, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Functional and psychosocial outcomes of arthritis, relationship between disability and depression, outcomes and quality of care, costs of illness and cost-effectiveness, functional status measurement

Philip R. Lee, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Program in Human Biology, Stanford University
Pharmaceutical issues, diversity in medical education, National Health Insurance, (VAT, individual mandate and vouchers), prevention and health promotion, Health disparities, public health

Helene L. Lipton, PhD
Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Pharmaceutical issues, managed care, aging, including long-term care, outcomes and quality of care, health care delivery systems

Harold S. Luft, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Medical care utilization, health maintenance organizations, hospital market competition, quality and outcomes of hospital care, risk assessment and risk adjustment, and health care reform

Ruth E. Malone, PhD, MS, RN
Professor
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Social construction of health policy problems and trends, health policy theory, tobacco control policy, corporate influences on health and health care

Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
UC Medical Center and
Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the US Health Care Thought Leader at Mercer Health & Benefits
Private and public sector health care purchasing strategy, clinical performance measurement, and the psychology of clinical performance improvement

Paul W. Newacheck, DrPH
Professor
Department of Pediatrics and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Epidemiology and health care financing for children with special health care needs, access to care for children

Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD
Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Health care financing, access to care, managed care, pharmaceutical issues, women's health, quantitative policy analysis, utilization and cost-effectiveness of preventive services and pharmaceuticals, cancer screening, implications of genetics and pharmacogenomics

Drummond Rennie, MD
Professor
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Deputy Editor, Journal of American Medical Association
Ethics, peer review, authorship, dissemination of research, access to care, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical issues

Jack Resneck, Jr., MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Dermatology and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Future of the dermatology workforce, access to outpatient specialty care, future of academic medicine, impact of physician extenders, medical liability system

Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor In Residence
Family and Community Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Primary care, delivery system design, physician organizations, quality of care, Medicaid, underserved populations, primary care workforce

Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Health policy, organization of care, institutional theory, medical sociology, history of medicine, politics and policy, access to care, insurance coverage, health disparities, poverty and health, women’s health, substance abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, mixed methods, longitudinal research

Jonathan A. Showstack, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Co-Chief Information Officer, Academic Systems
Office of Academic and Administrative Information Systems
Costs of illness and cost-effectiveness, organizational change, health professions education, evidence-based medicine, health care delivery systems

Edward H. Yelin, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine and
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Chronic disease and disability; impact of changes in the health care system on persons with chronic conditions, with a special focus on arthritis; impact of managed care and subspecialty services for persons with arthritis and on the causes and consequences of work loss

Recently Retired Faculty

Carol C. Korenbrot, PhD
Research Director, California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB)
Email: carol.korenbrot@CRIHB.net
Formerly Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Peter Kunstader, PhD
Email: peter.kunstadter@gmail.com
Formerly Professor
UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, Department of Family Medicine and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Academics

Richard L. Barnes, PhD
Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education
University of California, San Francisco
Tobacco control policy

Sarah B. Carnochan, PhD
Annemarie Charlesworth
Annette Gardner, PhD
Stuart Henderson, PhD

Yogi H. Hendlin, M.Sc., London School of Economics
Assistant Specialist
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
University of California, San Francisco

Galen Joseph, PhD
Chi Kao, PhD

Kristen L. Lum, BS
Tobacco control policymaking in the United States; Environmental hazards of cigarette filter litter


Gregory J. Tung

Sarah Sullivan, BA: International and Global Studies, Journalism
State, local and international policy making processes, particularly as they relate to public health.

Current Fellows' Page

Naomi Bardach, MD
Laura Eaton, MD, MPH
Vicki Fung, PhD
Coline McConnel, MA
Peter McNair, MPH
Donna Odierna, DrPH
Megumi (Megi) Okumura, MD
Nancy Oliva, MS, MPA, MHA
Elizabeth (Betsy) Pohlman, MA
Rosemary Polanco, PhD
Darci Powell, PhD
Mary Reed, DrPH
Kim Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH

Research Staff

Administrative and Technical Staff