Steven J. Bernstein, MD, MPH
Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Scientist, Health Management & Policy
Investigator, Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence
Director, Outcomes Management Program
- Appropriateness of use of medical technology
- Quality of care: Process and outcomes
- Patient and physician decision making
- Pharmaceutical Management
John E. Billi, MD
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Medical Education
- Physician practice profiling
- Methods for changing clinical practice styles
- Medical system management
- Managed care in academic centers
- Physician incentive systems
Angela Fagerlin, PhD
Assistant Professor , Program for Improving Health Care Decisions
- Risk communication
- Numeracy
- Patient medical decision making
- Decision aids
- End of life decision making
A. Mark Fendrick, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Health Management & Policy
- Clinical and economic effects of emerging medical technology
- Diffusion of technology across health care delivery systems
- Physician decision making
Susan D. Goold, MD, MHSA, MA
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Mangement and Policy
Director, Bioethics Program
- Health spending priorities
- Deliberative procedures in bioethics
- Public participation in health policy decisions
- Trust relationship in health care
Rodney A. Hayward, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Health Management & Policy
Director, Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research & Development
Associate Director, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program
Director, Outcomes Evaluation Core, Michigan Diabetes Research & Training Center
- Quality and resource use measurement and management
- Physician practice patterns
- Patient outcomes
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine
Investigator, Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence
- Factors influencing patients' management of chronic illness
- Approaches to improving patients' management of chronic illness (self-management)
- Disparities in chronic illness care and outcomes
- Patient-physician communication and decision making in chronic illness care
Timothy P. Hofer, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Investigator, Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence
- Physician practice profiling
- Measurement of quality and efficiency of care
- Clinical risk index development
- Population predictors of health care utilization
Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of History
Professor of Health Management & Policy
Director, Program in Society and Medicine
Co-Director, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program
- International comparisons of medical technology use
- Technology assessment
- History of medical technology
- History of health care
- Ethics of health care
Steven J. Katz, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor of Health Management & Policy
- Cross national comparisons of clinical practice
- Controls of expenditures
- Inter-physician negotiation in capitated environments
- Evaluation of potential interventions to lower physician service use
Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Director, Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence
Co-Director, Research on Quality Improvement for Complex Chronic Conditions (QUICCC)
- Diabetes Quality Assessment and Improvement
- Care for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions
- Improving the science and application of quality measurement
Catherine Kim, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine
- Association between disorders of pregnancy and future cardiovascular risk factors
- Management of cardiovascular risk factors in women
- Health system organizational effects on the quality of care for women
Kenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Co-Director, Patient Safety Enhancement Program
- Costs of chronic disease
- Family caregiving
- Measuring quality of life in the elderly
Laurence F. McMahon, Jr., MD, MPH
Chief, Division of General Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Health Management & Policy
Co-Director, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program
- Evaluation of clinical practice variation
- Evaluation of outcomes of care
- Population-based clinical practice profiling
- Care for gastrointestinal conditions
- Evaluation and management of inpatient clinical practice
Joseph W. Norman, MD, PhD
Lecturer in Internal Medicine
- Decision analysis and medical decision making
- Sensitivity analysis
- High performance computing
John Piette, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Investigator, Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence
- Chronic disease management
- Randomized trials of health services interventions
- Access to health care
Mary A.M. Rogers, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Research Director, Patient Safety Enhancement Program
- Preventive medicine
- Epidemiologic methods
- Translational research
Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH
Associate Professor in Internal Medicine
Director, Patient Safety Enhancement Program
- Clinical epidemiology and health services research
- Health services research
- Hospital clinical management and outcomes
- Prevention of nosocomial complications
Maria J. Silveira, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine
Investigator, Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence
- Improving access to end of life care
- Reducing disparities in utilization of hospice
- Advance care planning at the end of life
- Physician assisted suicide & euthanasia
Dylan Smith, PhD
Research Investigator, Program for Improving Health Care Decisions
- Social cognition
- Motivation and emotion
- Patient and provider decision making
- Psychological adaptation to illness and disability
