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R. Paul Duncan, PhD, MS, BA
(e-mail: pduncan@phhp.ufl.edu)
UF Research Foundation Professor and HSRMP Department Chair
(352) 273-6065
HPNP, Room 4155

Paul Duncan has been a faculty member at the University of Florida since 1979. He currently serves as the Director of the Florida Center for Medicaid and the Uninsured, and is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy in the College of Public Health and Health Professions. His teaching assignments are targeted to the training of health services administration professionals focused on the challenges of administrative leadership in health care organizations, as well as doctoral level trainees focused on studying and understanding how the health care system works.

Dr. Duncan is a nationally prominent health services researcher, best known for his studies of access to various forms of medical and dental care. In recent years, much of his work has focused on health insurance and the uninsured. Between 1999 and 2003, he served as Principal Investigator for three major surveys examining health insurance circumstances in Florida, Indiana, and Kansas. In 2004, Florida completed a replication of the Florida Health Insurance Study under Dr. Duncan’s leadership. His current research includes a five-year contract with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct an independent evaluation of the implementation of, and outcomes related to, Florida’s Medicaid reform initiative.
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Mona Al-Amin, PhD, MPH, BS
(e-mail: malamin@phhp.ufl.edu)
Assistant Professor
(352) 273-6066
HPNP, Room 4144

Dr. Al-Amin joined the faculty at the Department of Health Services Research, Management, and Policy in 2009. She has received her Ph.D. in Risk, Insurance, and Health Care Management from Temple University, July, 2009. Her dissertation uses panel data to examine the proliferation of specialty hospitals in the United States and investigates specialty hospitals founding rates from an organizational ecology perspective. Dr. Al-Amin’s main research interests include diversity of organizational forms in the hospitals industry, the birth and death rates of hospitals, and geographical variations in the distribution of different structural forms of health care delivery organizations. Moreover, Dr. Al-Amin is interested in the experiences and satisfaction of parents of children with rare disabilities with health care encounters.
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Louis C. Gapenski, PhD, MBA, MS, BS (e-mail: gapenski@phhp.ufl.edu)
Professor
(352) 273-6064
HPNP, Room 4152

Dr. Gapenski joined the Department in 1988 after receiving his Ph.D. degree in finance and economics from the University of Florida. He has published numerous best-selling textbooks on both corporate and healthcare finance, is a regular contributor to the peer-reviewed literature, and is the author of a popular self-study program in healthcare finance published by the American College of Healthcare Executives. His books are used across the nation and internationally, having been translated into nine languages. On nineteen separate occasions, Dr. Gapenski has received “Teacher of the Year” awards at department, college, and university levels. In addition to his work at the University of Florida, he has taught courses in regular and executive programs at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), the American College of Greece (Athens), the University of Wisconsin, and the Medical University of South Carolina. In addition, Dr. Gapenski has conducted many healthcare finance seminars at provider organizations, including the Mayo Clinic (Rochester).
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Allyson G. Hall, PhD, MBA, MHS, BBA (e-mail: ahall@phhp.ufl.edu)
Associate Professor
(352) 273-5129
HPNP, Room 4137

Dr. Hall joined the University of Florida in 2003 and serves as the Research Director for the University of Florida Center for Medicaid and the Uninsured. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management, and Policy. Currently she serves as one of the investigators on a project to evaluate Medicaid reforms in Florida. Prior to joining the University of Florida, Dr. Hall worked for the United Hospital Fund, the Commonwealth Fund, and served as an adjunct assistant professor at New York University. At the United Hospital Fund she served as the principal investigator on a qualitative research project that examined the quality of primary care in New York City. She has also worked as a health care consultant in Guyana and in Jamaica. Dr. Hall is interested in issues related to access to care for vulnerable populations including Medicaid, the health care safety net, and primary care delivery systems. Dr. Hall holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
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Christopher A. Harle, PhD, MS, BS
(e-mail: charle@phhp.ufl.edu)
Assistant Professor
(352) 273-6081
HPNP, Room 4141

Dr. Harle joined the faculty in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems and Management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University in June, 2009. He also holds an M.S. in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida. Dr. Harle’s research focus is at the intersection of health information technology and behavioral decision making. He is interested in evaluating how nonexperts use expert information and technology to make health-related decisions. His dissertation investigated the effectiveness of Internet-based applications for communicating personalized disease risk information to health consumers. Dr. Harle is also interested in applications of machine learning, information visualization, and behavioral economics for improving health services delivery and health policy. He has presented his research at several conferences including the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual symposium, the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) annual meeting, and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting.
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Jeffrey S. Harman, PhD, MS, BA
(e-mail: jharman@phhp.ufl.edu)
Associate Professor and PhD Program Director
(352) 273-6060
HPNP, Room 4135

Dr. Harman joined the faculty in 2002. He received his Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration from the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are in mental health economics and access to mental health services. Dr. Harman recently received a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to examine the relative role of social and economic factors on the utilization of mental health services by depressed elderly persons. Dr. Harman is also principal investigator on a study designed to assess the effect of providing financial incentives on adherence to scheduled therapy sessions by patients with major depression at a low-income community mental health center. His research has appeared in such journals as Medical Care, Psychiatric Services, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Harman is a member of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, the Gerontological Society of America, and the International Health Economics Association.
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Christopher McCarty, PhD (email:chrism@bebr.ufl.edu)
Associate Professor
(352) 392-2908 x101
Matherly Hall Room 221

Christopher McCarty is a Survey Director of the University of Florida Survey Research Center (UFSRC), a 75 station CATI lab that specializes in large-scale health-related surveys. The UFSRC is among the largest university-based surveys in the country and conducts surveys for the state of Florida and for other states. McCarty has also served as a consultant on survey topics in the Republic of Ghana, the Republic of Mali, and Mexico. Over the past 25 years McCarty has had an active research agenda in the area of social networks, specializing in personal network research. These include the Reverse Small World, the Network Scale-up Method and extensive research into personal network elicitation techniques. McCarty’s most recent interests have focused on structure in personal networks and how that relates to attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. He has developed a software program called Egonet for the collection and analysis of personal networks. He is currently using Egonet to develop a personal network measure of acculturation for migrants to Spain and the US.
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Niccie L. McKay, PhD, BS
(e-mail: nmckay@phhp.ufl.edu)
Associate Professor and MHA Program Director
Bice Term Professor
(352) 273-6076
HPNP, Room 4140

Dr. McKay is a health economist who joined the faculty in 1997 and currently serves as the Program Director of the Graduate Program in Health Administration. She served as Chair of the department from 1997-2003. Her research has been published in a variety of journals, including Health Economics, Inquiry, and Health Care Management Review. Research interests include: linkages between costs and outcomes; magnitude and nature of administrative costs; and factors influencing hospital uncompensated care.
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Mary Peoples Sheps, BSN, MS, DrPH (email: mpeoplessheps@phhp.ufl.edu)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Associate Professor, HSRMP
(352) 273-6084
HPNP Dean's Suite, Room 4110

Mary Peoples-Sheps is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management, and Policy.

Dr. Peoples-Sheps received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Saint John College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969, a Master of Science in Nursing, with a major in Maternal and Child Health, from Boston University in 1973, and the Doctor of Public Health degree in Health Administration from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in 1981. She practiced public health nursing throughout the 1970s. From 1981 until 1998, Dr. Peoples-Sheps was on the faculty of the UNC School of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health, Public Health Nursing, and Public Health Practice and Leadership, She also served the School as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and as the first Associate Dean for Public Health Practice. In 2004, she joined the faculty of UF’s College of Public Health and Health Professions to develop infrastructure and to integrate public health programs, values, and concepts into the college. In 2006, she was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

For the past 25 years, Dr. Peoples-Sheps’ teaching, service, and research has focused on surveillance of health problems and program planning, evaluation and performance measurement, particularly in behalf of mothers, children, and other vulnerable population groups.
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