Recent Faculty Research and Presentations

Management Information and Innovation Supply Chain Market Structure Quality Improvement
	Health Policy Health Insurance Mental Health Workers’ Compensation Pharmaceutical Prices
Epidemiology Diabetes Cumulative Trauma Cardiovascular Disease Mental Health

Management

Furukawa, M.F. “Managed Care and Diffusion of Hospital Information Systems.” Presented at International Health Economics Association, Fifth World Congress.  Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Ketcham, J. “Managed Care and Physician Use of Information Technology for Patient Care.”  Presented at Annual Research Meeting – Academy Health. Boston, MA, 2005.

Kirkman-Liff, B.L. Furukawa, M.F. “Managed Care and Diffusion of Hospital Information Systems.” Presented at International Health Economics Association, Fifth World Congress.  Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Ketcham, J. “Managed Care and Physician Use of Information Technology for Patient Care.”  Presented at Annual Research Meeting – Academy Health. Boston, MA, 2005.

Kirkman-Liff, B.L., T. Burdick, J. Hensing, et al. “Managing Knowledge to Improve Healthcare Quality in Banner Health.” Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations. Ed. N. Wickramasinghe, J. N. D. Gupta, S. K. Sharma. Idea Group, Hershey, PA, 2005 .

Kirkman-Liff, B.L., G.A. Runger, E. Smith, et al.  “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Organizations:  A Decision-Tree Approach.” Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations. Ed. N. Wickramasinghe, J. N. D. Gupta, S. K. Sharma. Idea Group, Hershey, PA, 2005.

Kirkman-Liff, B.L. “Overview of the US Health System”, “Knowledge Management in a Dispersed Health System” and “Biomedical Research Management Strategies.” Manchester Business School. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2005.

Kirkman-Liff, B.L. “Teaching Health Care Knowledge Management Using A Case.”  Presented at Association of University Programs in Health Administration. San Diego, CA, 2004.

Furukawa, M.F. and P. Danzon. “Health Care: Competition and Productivity.” The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution. Ed. Robert E. Litan. Brookings Institution Press, May 2001.

Furukawa, M.F. “Models for Evolving Community Health Information Networks.” Topics in Health Information Management, 17:4 (1997): 11-19.

Supply Chain

Schneller, E. ”Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain.” Presented at    

Jossey-Bass Monograph (with the late Larry Smeltzer): 2006.

Schneller, E.“Maximizing Supply Chain Excellence.” Presented at ACHE Congress, American College of Health Care Executives. Chicago, IL, 2005.

Schneller, E.“Health Sector Supply Chain Management: An Executive Perspective.” Presented at HPPI Meeting. Denver, CO, 2005.

Schneller, E.“Managing in a World of Changing Clockspeed: Lessons for the Delivery of Services in an Enterprise Zone.” Presented at University of Zayed, 2005.

Quality Improvement

Ketcham, J., A. Epstein, K. Volpp, et al. “The Effect of Hospital Competition and Uncompensated Care Subsidies on Mortality of Hospital Inpatients.” Health Services Research. 40:4 (2005): 1056-1077.

Ketcham, J. “Patient Adherence, Physician Learning, and Treatment Variations.” Presented at American Economics Association. San Diego, CA, 2004.

Kirkman-Liff, B.L. “The Structure, Processes, and Outcomes of Banner Health’s Corporate-wide Strategy to Improve Health Care Quality.” Quality Management in Health Care, 13:4 (2004): 263-276.

Market Structure

Schneller, E. and M. Wallace. “Unsystematic Responses to a Chaotic Service Environment: Shaping the Division of Labor in Patient Care.” Managing Change in the Public Services.  Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Schneller, E., K. McCleary, and P. Rivers.  “A Diagnostic Approach to Understanding Entrepreneurship in Healthcare.”  Journal of Health and Human Services Administration. 28:4 (2006): 550-577.

Ketcham, J. “Patient Sorting and Physician Specialization in Obstetrics.” Presented atThe Sixteenth Annual Health Economics Conference. State College, PA, 2005.

Ketcham, J. “Physician Practice Size and Variations in AMI Treatments and Outcomes.” Presented at RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Conference.  Aspen, CO, 2004.

Furukawa, M.F. A. Hillman, M. Pauly, et al. “HMO Behavior and Stock Market Valuation: What Does Wall Street Reward and Punish?” Journal of Health Care Finance. 28:1 (2001): 7-15.

Policy

Health Insurance

Johnson, W.G. and M.E. Rimsza. ”The Effects of Cost-shifting in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.” American Journal of Public Health. 96:4 (2006) 709-715.

Johnson, W.G. and M.E. Rimsza. “The Effects of Access to Pediatric Care and Insurance Coverage on Emergency Department Utilization.”  Pediatrics. 113:3 (2004) 483-487.

Johnson, W. G. “Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits.” Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavorial and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.  Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004.

Ketcham, J. “Physician-Hospital Gainsharing: Evidence from Early Adopters' Experience in Cardiology.”  Presented at Academy Health.  Seattle, WA, 2006.

Ketcham, J. “Physician Responses to Gainsharing: Evidence from Early Adopters’ Experience in Cardiology.”  Presented at American Society for Health Economics.  Madison, WI, 2006.

Mental Health

Baldwin, M.L. and S. Marcus. “Labor Market Outcomes of Persons with Mental Disorders.”  Forthcoming in Industrial Relations. 

Baldwin, M. L., with Steven C “Perceived and Measured Stigma Among Workers with Serious Mental Disorders.” Psychiatric Services.  57 (2006): 388-392.

Baldwin, M. L. “Workplace Accommodations that Work for Workers with Mental Disorders.”  Presented at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition.  Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

Worker Health and Disability

Johnson, W.G. and R. Butler.“The Effects of Occupational Injures After Returns to Work: Work Absences and Losses of On-the-Job Productivity.” Forthcoming in Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2006.

Baldwin, M.L, Johnson, W.G., and T.J Johnson. “Does Network Care Prolong Work Absences?”  Forthcoming in Industrial Relations, 2006.

Baldwin, M. L., Johnson, W.G., and R.J. Butler. “The Effects of Occupational Injuries After Returns to Work: Work Absences and Losses of On-the-job Productivity.” Forthcoming in Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2006.

Ketcham, J. “A New Method of Valuing Investments in Workers’ Health.” Presented at International Health Economics Association Fifth World Congress. Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Pharmaceutical Prices

Furukawa, M.F. “Medicare Drug Coverage and Declining Disability: Is There A Link?” Presented at AcademyHealth, Annual Research Meeting. Boston, MA: 2005.

Furukawa, M.F. ”Drug Coverage and Declining Disability: Is There A Link?” Presented at International Health Economics Association, Fifth World Congress.  Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Furukawa, M.F. “Selection Bias and the Effects of Prescription Drug Coverage on Non-Drug Medical Spending: Evidence from the 1994-1999 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.”  Presented at AcademyHealth, Annual Research Meeting.  San Diego, CA, 2004.

Ketcham, J. and P. Danzon. “Reference Pricing of Pharmaceuticals for Medicare: Evidence from Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.” Ed. D.M. Cutler and A.M. Garber. MIT Press. NBER Frontiers in Health Policy Research. 7 (2004).  Previously NBER working paper #10007.

Furukawa, M.F. and P. Danzon. “Prices and Availability of Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Nine Countries.” Health Affairs, Web Exclusive. W3-521-536 (29 October 2003).

Epidemiology

Diabetes

Schwenke, D.C., Z., Szoke, E., Woerle, et al. “Multiple Defects in Counter-regulation of Hypoglycemia in Modestly Advanced Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.”  Metabolism 55 (2006): 593-598.

Schwenke, D.C.“Insulin Resistance, Low-fat Diets, and Low-carbohydrate Diets: Time to Test New Menus.” Current Opinion in Lipidology. 16 (2005): 55-60.

Ketcham, J. and K. Lutfey. “Patient and Provider Assessments of Adherence and the Source of Disparities: Evidence from Diabetes Care.” Health Services Research. 40:6 (2005): 1803-1817.

Schwenke, D.C., M. Hansen, J. Ferguson, et al. “Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Open Foot Wounds with Significant Soft Tissue Defects.” Ostomy Wound Management.  2A (2005): 9S-14S.

Schwenke, D.C. “Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Look AHEAD.” Presented at the Look AHEAD Steering Committee Meeting. Chicago, IL, 2005.

Jehn, M. and E. Guallar. “Elevated Serum Ferritin and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.” Presented at the American Diabetes Association. San Diego, CA, 2005.

Jehn, M. and E. Guallar. “Elevated Serum Ferritin and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.”  Presented at Society for Epidemiologic Research.  Toronto, CA, 2005.

Jehn, M. and C.J. Guallar.  “Elevated Serum Ferritin and Risk of the Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults.” Diabetes Care.  27:10 (2004): 2422-8.

Schwenke, D.C., M. Hansen, J. Ferguson, et al. “The Use of Negative Pressure Therapy in the Management of Foot Wounds with Significant Soft Tissue Defects.” Advances in Skin & Wound Care 17 (2004): 354-364.

Schwenke, D.C. “Use of Dietary Supplements Containing Antioxidant Nutrients by Persons with Type 2 Diabetes.” Presented at the American Dietetic Association Food & Nutrition Conference and Expo. Anaheim, CA, 2004.

Jehn, M. and E. Guallar. “Elevated Serum Ferritin and Risk of the Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults.” Presented at American Diabetes Association.  Miami, FL, 2004.

Jehn, M., J. Gitthelsohn, and B. Caballero. “Prevalence of Overweight and At-risk for Overweight in Baltimore City Schoolchildren.”  Presented at Experimental Biology.  Washington, D.C., 2004.

Cardiovascular Disease

Schwenke, D.C., R.R. Bootzin, and S.F. Quan. “Antioxidant Nutrient Intake and Supplements as Potential Moderators of Cognitive Decline and Cardiovascular Disease in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.” Sleep Medicine Reviews.  9 (2005): 459-476.

Jehn, M. and Miller E.R. “New High Blood Pressure Guidelines Create New At-Risk Classification: Changes in Blood Pressure Classification by JNC 7.” Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 11:6 (2004): 367-371.

Mental Health

Jehn, M., J. Genkinger, M. Sapun, et al.  ”Health Status Among Urban African American Women: Associations Among Well-Being, Perceived Stress, and Demographic Factors.” Journal of Behavioral Medicine 27:1 (2004):63-76.

Cumulative Trauma

Baldwin, M. “Upper Extremity Disorders in the Workplace: Costs and Outcomes Beyond the First Return to Work.”  Presented atUpper Extremity Disorders in the Workplace Conference, sponsored by the Office Ergonomics Research Committee. Annapolis, MD, 2005.

Baldwin, M., W.G. Johnson, and P. Cote.  “Early Patterns of Care for Occupational Back Pain.”  The Spine Journal. 6 (2005).

Johnson, W.G. “Cost-based Evaluations of the Treatment of Back Pain: A Primer for Health Care Professionals.” The Spine Journal. 5 (2005).

Baldwin, M. “The Course of Occupational Back Pain: Looking Beyond the First Return to Work.” Presented at Twelfth Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health Scientific Committee.  Modena, Italy, 2004.