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Health Care Policy
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is a leader in medical research, making countless advances each year in a variety of specialty areas. But few advancements come without obstacles. Both the research and clinical practice sectors of the health care continuum face many substantial issues daily. Among the most common of today's health care issues are: medical ethics, malpractice, disparities in care, rising costs, workplace safety, and workforce shortages.
These issues affect not only scientists and physicians, but also the hundreds of millions of Americans who seek medical treatment each year. Practically everyone is a patient at some point in his or her life, so issues of health care policy are universal. Whether as a patient or as a friend or relative of one, Americans' lives are touched by health care policy and its associated issues on a regular basis.
Lists of WUSTL health care policy experts and subtopics can be found below and throughout the links from this page. For more information or to arrange an interview with an expert, contact Joni Westerhouse at (314) 286-0120 or Debra Caruso at (212) 907-0051.
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William Peck
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine
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Peck, former dean of the School of Medicine, directs the University's Center for Health Policy. Revolutionary scientific advances promise great improvements in the prevention and diagnosis of disease and the treatment of patients. But major obstacles must be overcome before this enormous potential ...
Expertise: Health care policy, health care costs, disparities in access to care, workforce issues
Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu
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Bradley Evanoff
Chief of the Division of General Medical Sciences
Evanoff also heads the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and holds the Richard A. and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Chair in Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Evanoff's scholarly activities involve three main areas in occupational health: the epidemiology and prevention ...
Expertise: work-related musculoskeletal disorders, work-related health problems in health-care workers, evaluation of occupational medicine education
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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Luis Zayas
Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work
Luis Zayas' primary interests are in clinical practice with adolescents and families and in training clinical practitioners. His clinical experience spans 25 years of working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in community mental health, psychiatric clinics, pediatric rehabilitation, ...
Expertise: adolescent mental health, maternal mental health in pregnancy, parent-child relations, cross-cultural factors in child-rearing behavior, family functioning, psychiatric diagnosis, alcohol use by Latinos
Direct contact: (314) 935-9448
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lzayas@gwbmail.wustl.edu
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Stephanie Boddie
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Stephanie C. Boddie's research and writing focuses on national and international social policy and planning, faith-based community economic development, nonprofit management, and social service and health care access. She is the co-principal investigator of a citywide study of congregations and their ...
Expertise: faith communities, religion, welfare, health care, community development, national and international social policy and planning, faith-based community economic development, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-9449
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sboddie@gwbmail.wustl.edu
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Stuart Boxerman
Associate Professor and Director of the Health Administration Program
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Boxerman's research focuses on the areas of process improvement, safety and reduction/elimination of medical errors in health-care delivery systems.
Expertise: Health care policy, workplace safety, process improvement, health care delivery
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Igniting a recall
Quick thinking by WUSM physician leads to international investigation
May 1,
2008 -- In early January, two patients undergoing kidney dialysis at St. Louis Children's Hospital had sudden life-threatening allergic reactions that caused their eyes, lips and tongues to swell, raised their heart rates and dropped their blood pressures dangerously low. After the dialysis staff treated the children with medication that relieved the symptoms, they called infectious diseases specialist Alexis Elward, who sprung into action to help determine the cause. Little did she know it would spark an international investigation into a common blood thinner and a recall of the drug from the market.
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Innovation in business education
New healthcare management major offered at Olin Business School
March 17,
2008 -- The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis now offers a major in healthcare management. Professors from both the medical and business schools will teach courses to both business and non-business majors. The degree will help develop a strong grounding in all aspects of the healthcare industry as well as in the science behind medicine.
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Lessons from 1918?
St. Louis response to deadly bird flu pandemic is focus of public forum, Nov. 9
Oct. 19,
2007 --
"An Impending Influenza Pandemic? What has been learned from 1918" is the focus of a St. Louis community forum from 7:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Nov. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Washington University in St. Louis.
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Campus Health's Hidden Costs
U.S. News & World Report online
Feb. 1,
2008 -- Debra Harp, WUSTL's associate director of Student Health Services, comments on mandatory health insurance mandates by universities, including WUSTL.
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Washington U. studies creation of public health school
St. Louis Business Journal
and 3 others
Dec. 28,
2007 -- WUSTL is exploring the possibility of increasing its involvement in the health of the region by establishing its own school of public health.
As part of a strategic planning process currently under way at the university, WUSTL medical school dean Larry Shapiro and social work dean Edward Lawlor are investigating how the university can expand its focus on public health, according to Rob Wild, assistant to the chancellor.
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The Cataracts Are Gone -- and So Is the Need for Glasses
U.S. News & World Report
Dec. 17,
2007 -- For the millions of baby boomers who will eventually need cataract surgery, here's some cheering news: New types of implantable lenses promise to restore your youthful vision. Unlike the standard single-power lenses doctors have been implanting for 30 years, the newer multifocal intraocular lenses and accommodating lenses allow patients to see near, far, and in between--and even to shed their glasses.
WUSTL ophthalmology professor Jay Pepose talks about one of the options.
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Don't ignore your body's warning signs
MSNBC.com
Aug. 1,
2007 -- Article looks at why people tend to dismiss symptoms that can indicate a serious illness.
Research has shown that your personality can affect how you react to medical symptoms too.
A 2005 WUSTL study found that men with low overall anxiety levels were more likely to ignore symptoms of rectal cancer and delay treatment. Those with at least moderate anxiety levels, on the other hand, tended to quickly recognize symptoms such as rectal bleeding as a sign of a serious illness.
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What's Lacking in 'Sicko'
The New York Times
and 3 others
July 9,
2007 -- WHEN it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade-offs. Gain one thing and you lose something else. This is particularly true in health care, a market in which a scarce good is ridiculously expensive, but needed by everybody.
WUSTL economist Charles Courtemanche looks at the economic points in Michael Moore's movie 'Sicko.'
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