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R. Paul Duncan, PhD, MS, BA 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. |
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Mona Al-Amin, PhD, MPH, BS 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
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Louis C. Gapenski, PhD, MBA, MS, BS (e-mail:
gapenski@phhp.ufl.edu) 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) 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 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 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) 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 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) 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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