Dissertation Title: "Care Delivery in Nursing Homes: The Role of Quality, Insurance, and Specialty Clinicians"
This dissertation describes three papers evaluating factors which contribute to the care and wellbeing of nursing home residents. Taken together...
Katarina Swanson holds a BA in Economics from Carleton College and an MSc in Health Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE). Following her graduation from Carleton, she spent three years at The Lewin Group working on the evaluation of the...
Rebecca Bromley-Dulfano is an MD/PhD student pursuing her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine and her PhD at Harvard University. She graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a BS degree with honors and coterminal MS degree in Biology...
Towo graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2018 with a BS in Neuroscience and earned her MPH in Healthcare Management from UT Health Science Center in 2021. While earning her MPH, Towo volunteered as a breast cancer advocate for local...
Katie Camacho Orona received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors and her Masters of Public Health from Brown University. While attending Brown University, Katie was the recipient of the 2017 Royce Fellowship for Sport & Society, the 2018 Milken Institute...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding the Health Care Delivery System: Empirical Investigations of Insurer Site of Care Policies and Physician Competencies"
In the United States, the path from having a medical condition to receiving medical care for that...
Dissertation Title: “Optimal Matched Designs to Study Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Outcomes”
Medicare spends approximately $60 billion on post-acute care, with approximately half these expenditures being on Skilled Nursing Facility...
Dissertation Title: "Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Management: The Role of Provider Market and Public Policy"
This dissertation aims to identify effective policies to improve the process and service of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. It focuses...
Dissertation Title: "Topics in Machine Learning for Health Services Research"
This dissertation explores topics where machine learning can be used to improve or expand the scope of health services research.
Chapter 1: This study demonstrates the viability...
Dissertation Title: "Health Systems, Quality and Variation"
Integrated health systems are becoming more important due to increasing trends toward consolidation in the midst of rapidly expanding health care reform efforts enacted by the Affordable Care...