RAND Staff

Dana Goldman, Principal Investigator
Dana Goldman (Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University) is a Senior Economist at RAND and Director of the UCLA/RAND Health Services Research Postdoctoral Training Program. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University and holds appointments at UCLA in the School of Medicine and School of Public Health. His research focuses on the cost and financing of health care, with particular emphasis on chronic illness, and has been published in top medical, economic, statistics, and health policy journals. Dr. Goldman has conducted research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Health Care Financing Administration, National Institute on Aging, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

 

Jose Escarce, Senior Advisor
Jose Escarce (M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Health Care Systems, University of Pennsylvania-Wharton) is a Senior Natural Scientist at RAND.  He is co-director of the RAND Health Center for Research on Health Care Organization, Economics, and Finance, and Director of the RAND/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research. 

 

Mayde Rosen
Mayde Rosen (R.N., B.S.N., Boston University) is an Associate Natural Scientist in the health care division of RAND. In addition to her extensive work in data information dissemination, a main focus of her work is the achievement of medical and fiscal accuracy through effective data gathering/cleaning and system editing. She has chaired and formed interdisciplinary work teams to improve clinical quality, decrease length of stay and ancillary testing, and improve cost effectiveness and utilization management. She has been the liaison with outside vendors for cost accounting and national benchmarking for data comparisons. She is the Project Director for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded study entitled "Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation" and also participated in a combined US Armed Services and Veteranšs Administration project to streamline the care of patients by implementing guidelines.

 

Meredith Kilgore
Meredith Kilgore (A.S., Nursing and B.A., Political Science, University of Hawaii-Manoa; M.S., Public Health, University of Alabama-Birmingham) is a Doctoral Fellow with the RAND Graduate School.  He has over 15 years experience in intensive care nursing practice, and has been involved in health services and outcomes research since 1992.  Mr. Kilgore is experienced in clinical information systems and database management, statistical modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis.  He is also experienced in conducting technology assessment research and cash flow analysis in healthcare systems.

 

Michael Schoenbaum
Michael Schoenbaum (Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan) is an Associate Economist at RAND.  He has worked extensively with primary and secondary data on a range of health issues, including analyses of the costs of insurance coverage for substance abuse treatment; whether Medicare reimbursement covers the costs of impatient care; the effects of health on labor force behavior; time trends in self-reported health status; perceptions of the health risks of smoking; and socioeconomic and gender differentials in health.

 

Beverly Weidmer
Beverly Weidmer (B.A., Political Science, M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Texas-Austin) is a Survey Research Specialist with over 10 years experience in both quantitative and qualitative survey research methods.  She is experienced in instrument design and translation, study design and management, multi-mode data collection efforts, focus groups and cognitive interviewing.  She has extensive experience in conducting cross-cultural research both in the U.S. and abroad and has worked on projects focusing on immigrant and minority populations in the U.S., Latino health, and barriers to access in health care services.

 

Matthias Schonlau
Matthias Schonlau (Ph.D., Statistics, University of Waterloo) is an Associate Statistician in the RAND statistics group. His interests include the analysis of large data sets, statistical computing and visualization of data, and the application of statistics to health sciences.  His publications span diverse areas including computer experiments,  optimization, and intrusion detection.

 

Chau Pham
Chau Pham (M.S., Epidemiology, University of Texas-Houston, Health Science Center) is an Assistant Survey Analyst in the RAND Survey Research Group. She is experienced in public health research at the local, state, and national levels, including the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Center for Health Statistics. She has been involved in health data development and utilization projects, including monitoring and analyzing health trends of Healthy People 2000/2010 objectives. She has also worked with the American Cancer Society in a project identifying risk and refining screening tools for prostate cancer. Her research interests include instrument and study design, clinical trials research methods, chronic disease epidemiology, and understanding and prevention of risky health behaviors, including physical inactivity and risky eating behaviors.

 

Robin Seitzman
Robin Seitzman (B.S., Mass Communications and Public Relations, M.P.H. Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston University; Ph.D. Candidate, Epidemiology, UCLA) is an epidemiologist with extensive experience in clinical study design and management, statistical analysis, the development of survey and outcome instruments, and data management. She previously was the Director of Advocacy programs for the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, where she identified objectives, and designed and implemented initiatives to effect public policy that would impact children with cancer, childhood cancer survivors, and their families.

 

Joy Lewis
Joy H. Lewis, (D.O., Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine; B.A. Tufts University) is a General Internal Medicine physician and a RAND Consultant. A former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, she now holds an appointment in the Department of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Lewis is experienced in large data set analysis, cost effectiveness analysis and evidenced based clinical practice. Her research has examined access to health care, health care use and costs, managed care organizations and pharmaceutical benefits.

 

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Last updated: 8/1/2000