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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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Ross Brownson
 Professor

A leading expert in chronic disease prevention and an expert in the area of applied epidemiology, Ross Brownson is regarded as one of the great intellectual, educational, and practice leaders in the field of evidence-based public health.

Expertise: Chronic disease prevention, evidence-based public health, policy effects on physical activity and obesity

Direct contact: 314-362-9641
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rbrownson@wustl.edu

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Rebecca Dresser
 Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law

Dresser's book, "When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics", was published in 2001. Dresser is also co-author of "The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice" and "Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems". She is one of the "At Law" columnists for ...

Expertise: patient advocacy, research ethics, bioethics and law, biomedical research, dementia, embryo research, stemcell, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8769
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dresser@wulaw.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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Mahendra R. Gupta
 Dean of the John M. Olin School of Business

Professor Gupta is an expert source of the economics of health care. He is currently doing research on issues in strategic cost management, benchmarking, customer profitability, entrepreneurship, and performance measurement. His research interests include strategic implication of cost information in ...

Expertise: accounting, managerial accounting, health economics, information technology, decision analysis, marketing, technology management, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4344
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guptam@olin.wustl.edu

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Debra Haire-Joshu
 Professor

Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.

Expertise: Health policy, obesity and diabetes prevention in underserved populations, public health

Direct contact: 314-362-9554
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djoshu@wustl.edu

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Ira Kodner
 Director of the Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics

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Kodner directs one of the only comprehensive programs in ethics and human values at a university in the United States. While other centers study human values, most are located in a particular school and address particular topics. The Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics supports the study, ...

Expertise: Ethics, health care policy

Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu

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Panos Kouvelis
 Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management

Kouvelis is an expert on global supply chain security and on the efforts of homeland security officials to secure the 30 million containers that are shipped into the United States annually as part of the manufacturing and distribution supply chain. He's also an expert source on a variety of business-related ...

Expertise: marketing, e-commerce, operations management, manufacturing management, facility layout, inventory control, production planning, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4604
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kouvelis@wustl.edu

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Matthew Kreuter
 Professor

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.

Expertise: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, health disparities

Direct contact: 314-935-3701
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mkreuter@wustl.edu

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Edward Lawlor
 Dean and the William E. Gordon Professor

Edward Lawlor is a nationally-recognized expert in healthcare policy, particularly in the areas of medical indigence, health-care reform and administration, and policy for the aged and poor.
His groundbreaking work in Medicare policy is recognized for its originality and insightful analysis. Lawlor's ...

Expertise: health care policy, medical indigence, health care reform, health care administration, policy for the aged, policy for poor, Medicare

Direct contact: (314) 935-6693
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elawlor@wustl.edu

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Timothy McBride
 Associate Dean for Public Health

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Tim McBride has been active in testifying before Congress and consulting with important policy constituencies on Medicare, insurance and rural health policy issues. He is a member of the Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel that provides expert advice on rural health issues to the U.S. Congress ...

Expertise: Health insurance, universal health care, public health, Medicare policy, health economics, gerontology and Social Security, state health policy, …

Direct contact: 314-935-4356
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tmcbride@wustl.edu

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Nancy Morrow-Howell
 Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work

Nancy Morrow-Howell studies many issues of concern to the elderly and their families, including adequacy of care for the dependent elderly, community care plans for the elderly, and use of mental health services. She is studying the health and mental health services needed and used by older adults ...

Expertise: elder care, gerontology, productive aging, depression

Direct contact: (314) 935-6762
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morrow-howell@wustl.edu

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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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William A. Peck
 Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine

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Both Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin argue that the country needs to get more value for its healthcare dollars, but they differ on what changes would be most effective. Peck, an internist who has treated many patients, is a nationally recognized leader in health care. He served for 14 years as dean of ...

Expertise: Health care policy, health care costs, disparities in access to care, workforce issues

Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / arbanasc@wustl.edu

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Will Ross
 Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Diversity

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Ross has an interest in health policy and resolving health-care disparities. He has delivered lectures, sponsored symposiums and produced educational videos on eliminating medical disparities. Over the past three years, he has served as president of the Mound City Medical Forum, a leading minority ...

Expertise: Health care policy, disparities in health care, minority health care advocacy

Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu

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Steven Teitelbaum
 Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology

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As the past president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology — the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States — Teitelbaum is a strong supporter for therapeutic cloning. Somatic cell nuclear transfer, as it is also known, could hold the potential ...

Expertise: Experimental biology, therapeutic cloning, osteoporosis, bone degeneration, bone disease

Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@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@WUSTL.EDU

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