11/03/2017

ALISON EVANS CUELLAR, PH.D.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Department of Health Administration and Policy

George Mason University

4400 University Drive, MS 1J3

Fairfax, VA 22030

aevanscu@gmu.edu

EDUCATION

2001 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Health Services and Policy Analysis,

Economics Concentration

1989 M.B.A., University of Texas at Austin

1987 B.A., University of Texas at Austin with Highest Honors

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Full Professor, George Mason University, Department of Health Administration and Policy,

Fairfax, VA, hired as Associate with tenure, promoted to Full Professor in 2016, 2009 -

present

Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management,

Joseph P. Mailman School of Public Health, 2001-2009

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Appointments

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010-

National Quality Forum, Measure Applications Partnership Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Workgroup, 2016-

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary

for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), HCBS Composite Measures Technical Expert Panel,

2015

Member, Advisory Board, Transition Clinic Network 2014-

National Academy of Medicine, Committee Member, “Culture of Health: Committee on

Community Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States,” 2016-2017

Visiting Economist, on public service leave to the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division,

Economic Analysis Group, September 2005 - May 2006

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research

The Urban Institute, Health Policy Center, Research Associate, Washington, DC, 1996-1997

National Academy on Aging, Research Associate, Washington, DC, 1995-1996

National Academy of Social Insurance, Research Analyst, Washington, DC, 1993-1994

Association of American Medical Colleges, Staff Associate, Washington, DC, 1990-1993

Health Management Strategies International, Financial Analyst, Alexandria, VA, 1989-1990

Consultancy

New York City Law Department

Federal Trade Commission

National Academy of Social Insurance, Study Panel on Pricing Power in Health Care Markets

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

1. Alison Cuellar, Anthony T. LoSasso, Mona Shah, Alicia Atwood. and Tanya R. Lewis-

Walls “Wellness Programs with Financial Incentives Through a Disparities Lens” American

Journal of Health Promotion, accepted

2. Alison Cuellar, Amelia M. Haviland, Seth Richards-Shubik, Anthony T. LoSasso, Alicia

Atwood, Hilary Wolfendale, Mona Shah, and Kevin G. Volpp “Boosting Workplace

Wellness Programs with Financial incentives,” The American Journal of Managed Care

2017;23(10):604-610

3. Pamela Nadash and Alison Cuellar, “The emerging market for supplemental long

term care insurance in Germany in the context of the 2013 Pflege-Bahr reform”

Health Policy, 2017 Jun;121(6):588-593

4. Alison Cuellar and Dhaval M. Dave, 2016. "Causal Effects of Mental Health

Treatment on Education Outcomes for Youth in the Justice System," Economics of

Education Review 54:321–339.

5. Alison Cuellar, Lorens A. Helmchen, Gilbert Gimm, Jay Want, Sriteja Burla,

Bradley J. Kells, Iwona Kicinger, Len M. Nichols, “The CareFirst Patient-Centered Medical

Home Program: Cost and Utilization Effects in Its First Three Years” Journal of General

Internal Medicine November 2016, (31) 11:1382–1388

6. Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz, “School Suspension and the School-to-Prison

Pipeline” International Review of Law and Economics, 2015, 43: 98-106

7. Alison Evans Cuellar, “Preventing and Treating Child Mental Health Problems” Future of

Children issue on Policies to Promote Child Health, Spring 2015

8. Sara Markowitz, Alison Evans Cuellar, Michael Grossman, and Ryan Conrad “Alcohol

Control and Foster Care,” Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12(4):589-612

9. Pete Welch, Andy Bindman, Alison Evans Cuellar, and Sally Stearns.”Use of Hospitalists

by Medicare Beneficiaries: A National Picture,” Medicare and Medicaid Research Review,

2014: (4)2

10. Alison Cuellar and Jehanzeb Cheema “Health Care Reform, Behavioral Health Care, and the

Criminal Justice Population” The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 2014;

41(4).

11. Katherine E. Watkins, Alison E. Cuellar, Kimberly A. Hepner, Susan B. Hunter, Susan M.

Paddock, Brett A. Ewing, Erin de la Cruz, “The cost-effectiveness of depression treatment for

co-occurring disorders: a clinical trial” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, October 2013

12. Pete Welch, Alison Evans Cuellar, Andy Bindman, and Sally Stearns “The Growth of

Physician Groups in the United States,” Health Affairs, 2013 Sep;32(9):1659-66

13. Alison Cuellar, Jehanzeb Cheema, "As Roughly 700,000 Prisoners Are Released Annually,

About Half Will Gain Health Coverage And Care Under Federal Laws" Health Affairs, 2012,

May

14. Jill Boylston Herndon, Soeren Mattke, Alison Cuellar, Seo Yeon Hong, Elizabeth

Shenkman. "Anti-Inflammatory Medication Adherence and Health Care Utilization and

Expenditures among Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Enrollees with

Asthma" PharmacoEconomics, 2012, 30(3)

15. Soeren Mattke, Francisco Martorell, Seo Yeon Hong, Priya Sharma, Alison Cuellar, Nicole

Lurie “Anti-inflammatory Medication Adherence and Cost and Utilization of Asthma Care

in a Commercially Insured Population,” Journal of Asthma, Apr 2010, 47(3):323-329

16. Alison Evans Cuellar and Deborah Haas-Wilson, “Competition and Mental Health Services”

American Journal of Psychiatry,” March 2009: 278-283

17. Alison Evans Cuellar, Kelly J. Kelleher, Sheryl Kataoka, Steven Adelsheim, and Joseph J.

Cocozza “Incarceration and psychotropic drug use for youth” Archives of Pediatrics &

Adolescent Medicine, March 2008,162(3):219-24

18. Lonnie R. Snowden, Mary C. Masland, Neal T. Wallace, Kya Fawler, and Alison Evans

Cuellar, “Increasing California Children’s Public-Sector Mental Health Treatment Access By

Vigorously Enforcing Provisions of Medicaid’s Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and

Treatment (EPSDT) Program,” Medical Care , June 2008, 46(6): 558-564

19. Joseph P. Morrissey, Gary Cuddeback, Alison Cuellar, Henry J. Steadman, “The Role of

Medicaid Enrollment and Outpatient Service use in Jail Recidivism among Persons with

Severe Mental Illness.” Psychiatric Services 2007; 58(6):794-801.

20. Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz, “Antidepressants and Youth: Healing or

Harmful?” Social Science and Medicine, May 2007 64 (10): 2138-2151

21. Lonnie R. Snowden, Mary C. Masland, Neal T. Wallace, and Alison Evans Cuellar, “Effects

on Outpatient and Emergency Mental Health Care of Strict Medicaid Early Periodic

Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Enforcement,” American Journal of Public Health,

November 2007 97(11):1951-6

22. Alison Evans Cuellar, Lonnie M. Snowden, and Toby Ewing, “Criminal Records of Persons

Served in the Public Mental Health System” Psychiatric Services, January 2007; 58: 114 -

120

23. Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz, “Medicaid Policy Changes in Mental Health

Care and Their Effect on Youth Mental Health Outcomes,” Health Economics, Policy, and

Law, vol. 2(1), January 2007

24. Joseph P. Morrissey, Henry J. Steadman, Kathleen Dalton, Alison Cuellar, Paul Stiles, Gary

Cuddeback, “Medicaid Enrollment and Mental Health Service Use Following Jail Release by

Persons with Severe Mental Illness” Psychiatric Services, 57 (6) June 2006: 809-815

25. Joseph P. Morrissey, Henry J. Steadman, Kathleen Dalton, Gary Cuddeback, Diane Haynes,

Alison Cuellar, “Assessing Gaps Between Policy and Practice in Medicaid Enrollment of

Jail Detainees with Severe Mental Illness” Psychiatric Services, 57 (6) June 2006: 803-808

26. Sherry Glied and Alison Cuellar, “Better Behavioral Health Care Coverage for Everyone”

New England Journal of Medicine, March 30, 2006 354:1415-1417

27. Alison Evans Cuellar and Paul Gertler, “Strategic Integration of Hospitals and Physicians,”

Journal of Health Economics, vol. 25, January 2006

28. Alison Evans Cuellar, Larkin S. McReynolds, Gail A.Wasserman, “A Cure for Crime: Can

Mental Health Treatment Diversion Reduce Crime Among Youth?” Journal of Policy

Analysis and Management, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2006: 197-214

29. Alison Evans Cuellar and Paul Gertler, “How the Expansion of Hospital Systems Has

Affected Consumers” Health Affairs, Jan/Feb 2005

30. Alison Evans Cuellar, Kelly Kelleher, Jennifer Rolls, Kathleen Pajer, “Medicaid Policies

and Juvenile Justice,” American Journal of Public Health, October 2005, 95(10):1707-11

31. Ravindra A. Gupta, Kelly J. Kelleher, Jack Stevens, Kathryn Panjer, Alison Evans Cuellar,

“Delinquent Youth: Medicaid and Re-entry into the Community” Pediatrics, April 2005 115:

1077-1083

32. Alison Evans Cuellar, “Letter: Hospital Consolidation” Health Affairs, May/June 2004;

23(3):

33. Alison Evans Cuellar, Sara Markowitz, Anne M. Libby, “Mental Health and Substance

Abuse Treatment and Juvenile Crime” NBER working paper #9952, September 2003,

Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 2004 June; 7 (2): 59-68

34. Alison Evans Cuellar and Paul J. Gertler, “Trends in Hospital Consolidation: The Formation

of Local Systems” Health Affairs, 2003 Nov-Dec; 22(6): 77-87

35. Sherry Glied and Alison Evans Cuellar, “Trends and Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental

Health,” Health Affairs, 2003 Sep-Oct; 22(5):39-50

36. Alison Evans Cuellar, Todd H. Wagner, Teh-wei Hu, et al, “New Opportunities for

Integrated Child Health Systems,” American Journal of Public Health, 2003

Nov;93(11):1889-1890

37. Lonnie Snowden, Alison Evans Cuellar, Anne M. Libby, “Minority Youth in Foster Care:

Managed Care and Access to Mental Health Treatment. Medical Care, February 2003,

41(2):264-74

38. Anne M. Libby, Alison Evans Cuellar, Lonnie Snowden, Heather Orton, “Substitution in a

Medicaid Mental Health Carve-Out: Services and Costs,” Journal of Health Care Finance,

Summer 2002: 28 (4): 11-23

39. Alison Evans Cuellar, Anne M. Libby, Lonnie Snowden, “How Capitated Mental Health

Care Affects Utilization by Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems” Mental

Health Services Research, June 2001, 3(2): 61-72

40. Ray Catalano, Anne Libby, Lonnie Snowden, and Alison Evans Cuellar, “The Effect of

Capitated Financing on Mental Heath Services for Children and Youth: the Colorado

Experience,” American Journal of Public Health December 2000, vol. 90, no. 12: 1861-1865

41. Alison Evans Cuellar and Joshua M. Wiener, “Can Social Insurance for Long-Term Care

Work? The Experience of Germany,” Health Affairs, May/June 2000, vol. 19: 8-25

42. Joshua M. Wiener and Alison Evans Cuellar, “Public and Private Responsibilities: Home

and Community-Based Services in the United States and Germany,” Journal on Aging and

Health, August 1999, vol. 11:417-444

43. John Holahan, Stephen Zuckerman, Alison Evans, and Suresh Rangarajan, “Medicaid

Managed Care in Thirteen States,” Health Affairs, May/June 1998, vol. 17: 43-64

44. Linda Blumberg and Alison Evans, “Reforming the Medicare AAPCC: Learning from

Previous Proposals”, Inquiry, Spring 1998 vol. 35: 62-77

45. James R. Boex, Stanley M. Kirson, Michelle Keyes-Welch, and Alison Evans, "Hospitals'

Use of Financial Incentives in Recruiting Students for Primary Care Residencies and Medical

Student Perceptions of Their Effectiveness," Academic Medicine, November 1994.

Book Chapters

1. Alison Evans Cuellar and Jehanzeb Cheema, “Health Care Reform in the United States” in

Gerben Bruinsma & David Weisburd (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal

Justice, 2014

2. Robert B. Friedland, Alison Evans, “People with Disabilities: Access to Health Care and

Related Benefits” Jerry Mashaw, Virginia Reno, Richard Burkhauser, and Monroe

Berkowitz (Eds.) Disability, Work and Cash Benefits, 1996

Working Papers & Reports

1. Alison Cuellar, Carole Gresenz, Gilbert Gimm, A Survey of EDCD Waiver Participants who

were enrolled in the Commonwealth Coordinated Care (CCC) Program, Findings from

Telephone and Mail Surveys September 2016. A Report for the Virginia Division of Medical

Assistance Services.

2. Alison Cuellar and Andre L’Huillier. Enrollment and Disenrollment Patterns in the

CommonwealthCoordinated Care (CCC) Program for Dual-Eligibles. September 2016. A

Report for the Virginia Division of Medical Assistance Services.

3. Alison Cuellar, Carole Gresenz, Gilbert Gimm, A Survey of Beneficiaries who receive

EDCD Waiver services and who Declined Participation in the Commonwealth Coordinated

Care (CCC) Program, Findings from Telephone and Mail Surveys, August 2016. A Report

for the Virginia Division of Medical Assistance Services.

1. Alison Evans Cuellar, “New Directions for Behavioral Health Funding and Implications for

Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System” Technical Assistance Partnership for Child

and Family Mental Health, January 2012

3. Alison Evans Cuellar, Elizabeth Stranges, Carol Stocks, “Hospital Visits in the U.S. for

Firearm-Related Injuries, 2009, HCUP Statistical Brief #136 (Washington, DC: Agency for

Healthcare Research and Quality, June 2012) http://www.hcup-

us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb136.pdf

4. Erin J. Maher, Kristin J. Ward, Laura Peveto, Ruth McRoy, Alison Cuellar, and Elissa

Madden, “Permanency Outcomes for Youth with Complex Mental Health Needs Served by

the Child Protective Services Reintegration Project: Phase II Report,” Casey Family

Programs, July 2011

5. Anita Chandra, Carole Gresenz, Janice Blanchard, Alison Evans Cuellar, Teague Ruder,

Alex Chen, Emily Gillen, Health and Health Care Among District of Columbia Youth.

(Washington, DC: RAND, 2009) http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR751.html

6. Alison Evans Cuellar and Richard Lindrooth, “Volume Incentives for Inpatient Quality and

Patient Safety,” unpublished manuscript, 2009

7. AARP, Proceedings of the United States-Germany Dialogue on Long-term Care, October 29-

31, 2007, (Washington, DC: AARP, 2007)

8. Joshua M. Wiener, Jane Tilly, Anna Howe, Colleen Doyle, Alison Evans Cuellar, John

Campbell, Naoki Ikegami, “Quality Assurance for Long-Term Care: The Experiences of

England, Australia, Germany and Japan” (Washington, DC: AARP, 2007)

http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/il/2007_05_ltc.pdf

9. Alison Evans Cuellar and Pinka Chatterji, “How Do Mental Disoders Affect Youth in the

Juvenile Justice System?” NBER working paper #12437, August 2006

10. Alison Evans Cuellar and Anne M. Libby, “Youth Mental Health and Criminal Outcomes:

An Evidence-Based Message to Policymakers” unpublished manuscript 2002

11. Joshua M. Wiener, Jane Tilly, and Alison Evans Cuellar, “Consumer-Directed Home Care

in The Netherlands, England, and Germany,” unpublished manuscript, 2003, American

Association of Retired Persons, downloadable at

http://research.aarp.org/health/2003_12_eu_cd.html

12. Alison Evans Cuellar, Jane Tilly, and Joshua M. Wiener, Consumer-Directed Home and

Community Services Programs in Five Countries: Policy Issues for Older People and

Government, Urban Institute (Washington, DC: 2000)

http://webarchive.urban.org/publications/410330.html

13. Randall R. Bovbjerg, Alison Evans Cuellar, John Holahan, Market Competition and

Uncompensated Care Pools, Urban Institute (Washington, DC: March 2000)

http://www.wkkf.org/resource-directory/resource/2004/05/market-competition-and-

uncompensated-care-pools-op-35

14. Marilyn Moon, Barbara Gage, Alison Evans, Laurie Pounder and Tim Waidman, A

Preliminary Examination of Key Differences in the Medicare Savings Bills, Urban Institute

(Washington, DC: July 1997)

15. Alison Evans, The Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Managed Competition, and

Considerations for Medicare, National Academy on Aging (Washington, DC, September

1995)

16. Robert B. Friedland and Alison Evans, The Changing Health Care System and Perinatal

Care Delivery. Part I: Research on Managed Care: What Can We Say About Perinatal

Services? Part II: Background Paper National Academy of Social Insurance (Washington,

DC, April 1995)

17. Robert B. Friedland, Alison Evans, and Sara Okrend, California Health Security Act

National Academy of Social Insurance (Washington, DC, September 1994)

18. Alison Evans, "Children and Health Care Reform: How Different Families Fare Under

Alternative Proposals," in Child Health Source Book (Washington, DC: Children's Defense

Fund, May 1994)

AWARDS AND GRANT SUPPORT – FUNDED

Principal investigator

AHRQ. 1R01HS025163. The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer, Video Telemedicine,

4/1/2017-3/31-2020

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Differential Effects of Prevention Efforts, Behavioral

Interventions, and Alternative Sanctions on Juvenile Justice Youth Outcomes.

10/1/14-9/30/16

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Impact of a Customized Price Transparency Tool

on Consumer Behavior. (Co-PI Pinar Karaca Mandic) 12/1/13-11/30/15

Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services. Evaluation of the Medicare Medicaid

Financial Alignment Demonstration. 11/1/2013-9/2016

NICHD 1R01HD075118-01. The Impact of Wellness Programs and Incentives on

Preventive Services. 09/20/2012 – 06/30/2016.

Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning

and Evaluation. 3/7/2011-12/2013

Co-Principal Investigator. Correctional Health Information Sharing Policies and Practices

Project. US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (with F. Taxman,

GMU) 10/1/2009-9/30/2010

Financing and Systems Change in Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 8/1/2009-9/30/2011

Interactions Among Schools, Juvenile Justice and DMC. John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation. 10/1/2008-9/30/2009

Principal Investigator. Child Mental Health Systems and Juvenile Justice Outcomes. NIMH

K01 MH067086-01. (4/1/2003-12/31/08)

"Physician and Hospital Determinants of Inpatient Quality and Patient Safety" Columbia

Alliance for Healthcare Management (June 2004)

“How Do Youth with Emotional Disorders Fare in the Juvenile Justice System?” Calderone

Researcher Prize for Junior Faculty, Columbia University (October 2004)

“Child Mental Health Systems and Juvenile Justice Outcomes.” Columbia Institute for Child

and Family Policy Small Grants Program. (4/2002-2/2003)

Co-Investigator

Co-Investigator, Restoring Primary Care in Virginia: PCOR Learning as a Pathway to

Value, AHRQ, (Kuzel, PI) 6/2015 – 6/2018

Co-Investigator, Evaluation of the CareFirst Patient-Centered Medical Home Program.

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield). (Nichols, PI). 1/2013 – 12/2017

Subcontract Principal Investigator, Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI). SAMHSA

RFTOP 280-13-0407. Garret Moran, Westat (PI) 12/1/13 – 11/30-15

Co-Investigator. Evaluation of the Multi-site Demonstration Field Experiment: What Works

in Reentry Research. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs,

National Institute of Justice Dan Bloom (PI) 1/11-12/14

Co-Principal Investigator. Information Sharing Policies and Practices for Correctional

Health. US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance. Faye S Taxman (PI)

10/09-9/10

Co-Investigator. Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice. John D. and

Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 8/07-12/07

Co-Investigator. Hospital and Physician Strategic Integration (with Paul Gertler, Co-

Investigator). National Institute of Health Care Management.

Project Director. Criminal Records of a Sample of Persons Served by the Public Mental

Health System. California Policy Research Center. 4/02-5/03

Co-Investigator. Juvenile Crime and the Availability of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Treatment, Cornwall Center Faculty Award for Scholarly Research (Sara Markowitz,

PI) 4/02-12/02

Co-Investigator. Variation by Gender and Ethnicity in the Effect of Alternative Work

Arrangements on the Mental Health of California Workers (Lonnie Snowden,

Principal Investigator). Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California,

San Francisco 7/01-12/01

OTHER SUPPORT

Consultant, National Academy of Social Insurance, Study Panel on “Addressing Pricing

Power in Health Care Markets.” 1/2014 – 5/2015

Consultant. NIMH. Evaluating the Impact of Clinical Alerts Generated from Medicaid

Claims Data (PIs: Carlos Jackson & Sheila Donahue, 1R01MH086236). 04/20/2009 - 02/28/2012

Consultant. Casey Family Programs. Provide consultation for cost analyses of the Phase II

Austin Child Protective Services Reintegration Project Evaluation and the Alameda

Waiver evaluation. (3/1/2010-12/31/2011)

Consultant. Group CBT for Depression in Clients with AOD Disorders NIAAA HE965-

1000 (PI Watkins) (8/23/2005-8/22/2010)

Network Member. John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (H. Goldman, PI)

Network on Mental Health Policy Research 1/1/2004-12/31/2008

Consultant. John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (H. Goldman, PI) Network on

Mental Health Policy: Jail Medicaid Study. 1/02- 12/03 when converted to network

member

Co-Investigator. National Institute of Health Care Management. Hospital and Physician

Strategic Integration. (P. Gertler, PI) 5/02-5/03

Consultant. Medicaid Support for Community-Based Health Services. Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human

Services 10/0-10/03

Consultant. Public Mental Health Services for Youth: the Impact of Early Periodic,

Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment in California (L. Snowden, Principal

Investigator). California Health Care Foundation 7/01-3/03

Consultant. Caring for California Initiative (B. Zima, Principal Investigator). California

Department of Mental Health. 7/00-6/01

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

* indicates peer-reviewed presentations, ^ indicates invited appearance

^”Health Equity Report and Recommendations,” Engaging Allies in the Culture of Health

Movement, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC, January 25, 2017

“The Virginia Landscape of Multi-Payer Reform,” Virginia Healthcare Payment Reform

Summit, Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation, December 1, 2016^

“Specialist Services under a Patient‐Centered Medical Home Program” American Society of

Health Economists, Philadelphia, June 14, 2016*

“Treatment-based Approaches to Juvenile Crime: Effects on Re-arrest” American Society of

Health Economists, Philadelphia, June 13, 2016*

“The Impact of a Customized Price Transparency Tool on Consumer Behavior”

AcademyHealth, June 16, 2015 * International Health Economics Association July

14, 2015*, American Society of Health Economists, June 14, 2016*

“Early Survey Findings from Dual-eligible Beneficiaries who receive EDCD waiver

services

and Who Participated in the Commonwealth Coordinated Care (CCC) Program”

2016 Virginia Governor’s Conference on Aging, May 2, 2016

“Wellness and Incentives,” National Institutes of Health, Economics of Prevention

Workshop August 27, 2015^ *, American Society of Health Economists, June 2014

“Evaluation of a Primary Care Medical Home with Value Based Purchasing”

AcademyHealth, June 16, 2015 *

“Children’s Mental Health Services,” Princeton University, April 11, 2014^

“Meeting Children’s Mental Health Needs Across Systems,” Hastings Law School, March

29, 2014^

“Juvenile Incarceration versus Treatment-based Sanctions: Effects on Recidivism,”

Southern Economic Association, Tampa, November 25, 2013* Eastern Economic

Association, May 9, 2013*

“Estimating Private Non Group Coverage,” AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June

26, 2012*

Presenter “Juvenile Incarceration vs Treatment-based Sanction: Effects on Youth Services“

American Society of Health Economists, Minneapolis, June 12, 2012 (Session

Organizer and Chair: “Policies for Children with Mental Health Needs: Effects on

Health and Human Capital”)*

“Supply Side Implications of Insurance Coverage Expansions: Research Insights for

Policy,” AcademyHealth Invitational Meeting, December 13, 2011^

“Medicaid, Health Care Reform, and Correctional Health” Expert Correctional Health

Stakeholder Meeting, George Mason University, July 21-2, 2010 ^

Presenter: “Does school expulsion policy contribute to greater youth delinquency?”

American Society of Health Economists, Ithaca, June 22, 2010; (Session Organizer:

“Risky Behavior”)*

“Competition and the Mental Health System” Fundamental Policy: Spotlight on Mental

Health, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, Washington, DC, April 7-8, 2008 ^

“Competition and Hospital Technology Adoption,” The 6th Annual International Industrial

Organization Conference, Arlington, VA, May 2008; Annual Health Economics

Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March, 2007, International Health Economics Association,

Copenhagen, July 8, 2007 *

“Volume Incentives for Inpatient Quality and Patient Safety,” International Industrial

Organization Conference, Boston April 8, 2006, Annual Health Economics

Conference, Charleston, March 25, 2006, International Health Economics

Association, Barcelona, July 11, 2005 *

“Medicaid Policy Changes in Behavioral Health Care and Their Effect on Mental Health

Outcomes,” International Health Economics Association, Barcelona, July 11, 2005;

American Economic Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2005 *

“How Do Youth with Mental Health Disorders Fare in the Juvenile Justice System?”

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, November 4, 2006;

American Society of Health Economists, Madison, WI, June 6, 2006; National

Institute of Mental Health, Washington, DC, July 19, 2005; Child Health Services

Research Conference, Boston, MA, June 25, 2005*^

“Curing Crime: Can Mental Health Treatment Diversion Reduce Crime Among Youth?”

Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies, Medical University of South

Carolina, Charleston, SC December 2004; Baruch College, New York, NY October

2004; Third Annual Urban Health Conference Northeastern University, Boston, MA,

October 2004^

“The Effect of Hospital Consolidation on Consumers” Health Policy Grand Rounds, Mt.

Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY March 2004^

“Hospital Consolidation: The Formation of Local Systems” National Health Policy

Conference, Washington, DC January 2004^

“Hospital and Physician Strategic Integration,” The Organizational Economics of

Healthcare, October 24-25, 2003, Simon Graduate School of Business

Administration, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Health Care Economics

Conference, Duke University , June 2001; American Economic Association, New

Orleans, January 7, 2001 *^

“Juvenile Crime and Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment” International Health

Economics Association, San Francisco, June 2003; Southern Economic Association,

Tampa, November 2001 *

“A New Long-Term Care Program in Germany” Senior Health Conference, Seattle,

November 17, 2000; American Public Health Service Association & State Medicaid

Directors Meeting, Washington, DC, October 17, 2000 ^

“Hospital-Physician Vertical Alignment: Efficiency and Market Power” Western Economic

Association, Vancouver, July 2000 *

“A Look at Methodology: How a Managed Care Carve-out Affects Utilization Patterns”,

Child Health Services Research/Academy for Health Services Research and Health

Policy, Los Angeles, June 2000 *

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

“Health Reform and Delivery System Transformation/Innovation” June 7, 2017

Presentation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/AcademyHealth meeting on

Understanding the Use and Impact of Price Transparency in Health Care: Where

Are We and Where Do We Go from Here? May 12, 2016

“The Impact of a Customized Price Transparency Tool on Consumer Behavior” University

of Colorado Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy, March 10, 2016

“Early Survey Findings from Dual-eligible Beneficiaries who receive EDCD waiver services

and Who Participated in the Commonwealth Coordinated Care (CCC) Program”

Commonwealth Coordinated Care Stakeholder Meeting, Richmond, VA November

18, 2015

“How the Expansion of Hospital Systems has Affected Consumers“ St. Vincent Hospital

Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, October 18, 2007

“Competition and Hospital Technology Adoption,” Mt Sinai School of Medicine Grand

Rounds, October 23, 2007

“Medicaid Policy Changes in Behavioral Health Care and Their Effect on Mental Health

Outcomes,” Cecil Sheps Center, Chapel Hill, NC, September 13, 2005

“The Effect of Hospital Consolidation on Consumers: Has the Pain been Worth the Gain?”

Press Briefing, Health Care Breakfast at the National Press Club, January 12, 2005

“The Effect of Hospital Consolidation on Consumers” Advisory Board to the Mailman

School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY December 2004;

Columbia Alliance for Healthcare Management, New York, NY December 2004

Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, March 29, 2002

OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Discussant, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Health Economists, Los Angeles,

CA, June, 22-25, 2014

Discussant, Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behavior (AMERB), Stone

Mountain, GA, March 19-21, 2010

Discussant, 7th Annual Southeastern Health Economics Study Group Conference, Emory

University, October 23-24, 2009

Discussant, Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behavior (AMERB), Washington,

DC March 20, 2009 - March 22, 2009

Discussant, American Society of Health Economists, Duke University, June 6, 2008

Discussant “Advancing Mental Health Care Financing: The 11th Biennial Research

Conference on the Economics of Mental Health,” sponsored by NIMH, Bethesda,

MD, September 23, 2004

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Specialized Professional Activities in the Discipline

Committee Member, Institute of Medicine (now health and Medicine Division of the

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) Culture of Health:

Committee on Community Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United

States

National Quality Forum, Measure Applications Partnership Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Workgroup, 2016-

Member, Advisory Board, Transition Clinic Network 2014-

Advisory Group member to the “Models for Change Information-Sharing Project” of the

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2007-2008

Scientific Committee member, American Society of Health Economists, 2008, 2012

Scientific Committee member, International Health Economics Association, 2015

Research Conference Planning Committee, Greater New York Hospital Association, 2003,

2004, 2007

Arlington Public Schools, Superintendent's Science Advisory Committee. This committee is

appointed by and reports to the Superintendent of the Arlington Public Schools.

2015-

Editorial Services

Associate Editor, Southern Economic Journal, June 2017-2020

Member, editorial board, Medical Care Research and Review, 2014-

Co-editor for the “Economic Grand Rounds” column of Psychiatric Services, August 2005 –

present

Co-editor for the “Managed Care” column of Psychiatric Services, June 2004 – August 2005

Recognition by Scholarly Associations

National Academy of Social Insurance (elected membership)

AcademyHealth, Health Economics Interest Group, Chair-Elect, 2012, Chair 2013

Internal Reviewer for Federal, State, and International Granting Agencies

Ad hoc Reviewer, NIH, Community-Level Health Promotion (CLHP) Study Section,

Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies (HDM) Integrated Review Group, October

2016

Standing Member, Healthcare Systems and Value Research Study Section at the Agency for

Healthcare Research and Quality. 2011-2015

Ad hoc Reviewer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, June 2001, June 2010,

October 2010, March 2011

Ad Hoc Reviewer, CMMI Health Care Innovations Challenge grant review. February 2012

Ad Hoc Reviewer, NIH Health Services Organization and Delivery (HSOD) Study Section,

April 2011, June and October 2012

Ad hoc Reviewer, NIDA study section on implementation science for programs in PEPFAR

countries that target drug users, November 2011

Reviewer, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Collaborative Research on Substance Abuse,

January 2011

Ad hoc Reviewer, National Institute for Minority Health and Disparities, July 2010

Contract Reviewer, NIMH, June 2010

Reviewer, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention, July 2010

Reviewer, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Final Performance Review, March 2010

Mental Health Services in Non-Specialty Settings (SRNS), National Institute of Mental

Health, October 2009

Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, National Institute of Mental Health, March 2007, March

2011

National Institute For Health Research Central Commissioning Facility For United Kingdom

Department of Health, December 2006

Peer Review Activities

Referee, Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

Referee, American Journal of Health Economics

Referee, American Journal of Public Health

Referee, Economic Inquiry

Referee, Evaluation Review

Referee, Health Affairs

Referee, Health Economics

Referee, Health Services Research

Referee, Inquiry

Referee, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

Referee, Journal of Health Economics

Referee, Journal of Human Resources

Referee, Journal of Juvenile Justice

Referee, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics

Referee, Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law

Referee, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Referee, Journal of Aging and Social Policy

Referee, Journal of Community Psychology

Referee, Medical Care

Referee, Medical Decision Making

Referee, Milbank Quarterly

Referee, Pediatrics

Referee, Social Science and Medicine

HONORS, SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS

2005 Calderone Researcher Prize for Junior Faculty, Columbia University

Phi Beta Kappa

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor 2000

FELLOWSHIPS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Dissertation Grant 2000 (R03 HS10760-01)

American Association for University Women, Fellowship 2000

Hewlett Fellowship 1997-2000, University of California, Berkeley

Vice Chancellor for Research Fund Grant Award, UC Berkeley, 2000

Russell M. Grossman Endowment Grant Award, UC Berkeley, 2000

Mayhew and Helen Derryberry Grant Award, UC Berkeley, 2000

Sord Presidential Scholarship 1988-89, University of Texas, Austin

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses Taught

2016 Department of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University, Causal

Inference in Health Services Research, PhD level, 12 students

2016 Individualized Field, Health Economics, Matthew Baker

2012, 2013

2014, 2016 Department of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University, Health

Economics, 12-60 students

2014, 2016 Department of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University, Independent

Study, 1 undergraduate, 1 graduate student

2009, 2010 Department of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University, Strategic Health

Management and Planning, 12-30 students

2007 Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, Analytic Methods for

Health Services Management: Program Evaluation and Operations Management, Masters

Level, 35 students

2002-2005 Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, Research Techniques

and Applications for Administration, Masters Level, 30 students

2003-2007 Independent Study, 5 students

Guest Lectures given in Courses

2014, 2015 Guest Lectures, “Foundations of Clinical Research,” Inova Fairfax Hospital, 15 residents in

the Department of Medicine

2013 Guest Lecture, Social Work SW696 “Financing of Behavioral Health Care”, 20 students

2001 Haas School of Business. Long-Term Care in the US and Abroad. University of California,

Berkeley. MBA/MPH Level. 30 students

2000 Haas School of Business. Issues in Hospital and Physician Payment. University of

California, Berkeley. MBA/MPH Level. 30 students

Dissertation Committees

2005- Scott Altabet “Innovation Implementation in Community Mental Health Organizations”

2002-2004 Gerard Carrino, “Ownership, Community Influence, and Hospital Behavior: An Application

of Nonprofit Theory to the Effects of Ownership and the Consequences of Conversion”

2004- Stephanie Kim, “Examining the Relationship between Implementation of Interorganizational

Linkages, System Change, and Client Outcomes”

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT

Faculty Advisor, PhD program in Health Services Research, 2015-

Faculty Advisor, Masters Degree in Health and Medical Policy, 2014-

Departmental Faculty Recruiting Committee, Chair, 2009 -

Departmental Promotion, Tenure, and Reappointment Committee, Member, 2009 -

Faculty Advisor, Upsilon Phi Delta Honor Society, 2009-2014

Departmental Faculty Recruiting Committee, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2006/2007

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COLLEGE

Chair Evaluation Committee, 2016

College of Health and Human Services, Strategic Planning committee member, 2013

CHHS Dean Search Committee, Member, 2011

Mailman School of Public Health Diversity Committee, 2006/2007

Mailman School of Public Health Faculty Steering Committee, 2006/2007

Mailman School of Public Health Student Risk Management Committee, 2007

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY

George Mason University Academic Program Review (APR) Peer Review Committee,

2016-17

George Mason University, Reviewer for Provost's Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grants,

2016

President Cabrera’s Visioning Process, Regional Strategy Working Group, GMU, 2012

Host and Organizer: 10th Annual Southeastern Health Economics Study Group meeting at

George Mason University, October 2012

MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Health Economists

International Health Economics Association

AcademyHealth

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Cape Cod Times, October 14, 2015

Interview for NPR WAMU, Local News, May 25, 2015

Interview for Fox-5 DC TV, August 23, 2013

American Medical News, November 12, 2012

Washington Monthly, May 10, 2012, Harold Pollack

American Medical News, September 7, 2009

Interview for “Marketplace” radio program, January 12, 2005.