In May 2006, AcademyHealth's board of directors appointed a panel of esteemed researchers to serve on the first AcademyHealth Methods Council. Comprised of experts in the variety of fields that represent health services research and health policy, its purpose is to assist AcademyHealth in developing strategies for professional development in Health Services Research methods that take into account member needs, as well as the Council's view of future needs in the areas of training in best practices and the development of new methods.

View the new Methods Council product Suggested Guidelines for HSR Methods Reviews. Released in April 2010, this guide provides recommendations for reviewers when addressing apparent methodological flaws in articles or other products, including examples of both substandard and constructive reviews.

The Methods Council is appointed for a term of three years. All content included in this Web site has been reviewed by a subset of Methods Council members.

Below is a list of the current Methods Council members and their bios.

Methods Council Members  

Bryan Dowd, Ph.D., Chair
Professor
Division of Health Services Research and Policy
University of Minnesota

Linda Bilheimer, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources
Congressional Budget Office

Randall Brown, Ph.D.
Vice President and  Director
Health Care Research
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

James F. Burgess, Jr, Ph.D.
Professor
Boston University

Steven Cohen, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Kelly Devers, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Health Policy Center
Urban Institute

José Escarce, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Senior Natural Scientist
UCLA, RAND

Mark Helfand, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.
EPC Director
Oregon Health Policy Institute, Portland VAMC
Oregon Health and Science University

Lisa Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital

Judith Kasper, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University

Emmett Keeler, Ph.D.
Senior Mathematician
The Health Program
RAND

Richard Kronick, Ph.D.
Professor
Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California San Diego

Bryan Luce, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Science Policy
United BioSource Corporation

Diane Martin, Ph.D.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Timothy McBride, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean for Public Health
Washington University in St. Louis

Barbara McNeil, M.D., Ph.D.
Ridley Watts Professor and Head
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Brian Mittman, Ph.D.
Director
HSR&D Center of Excellence
VA Center for Implementation Practice and Research

John O’Donnell, Ph.D., M.A.
Vice President
Global Health Outcomes & Database Research
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

A. James O'Malley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Statistics
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Steven Pearson, M.D.
President
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review

Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Hirsh Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University

Lucy Savitz, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Director, Research and Education
Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Research
Intermountain Healthcare

Jean Slutsky, P.A., M.S.P.H.
Director
Center for Outcomes and Evidence
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr. P.H.
Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy
School of Public Affairs
Baruch College

Edward Sondik, Ph.D.
Director
National Center for Health Statistics

Michael Stoto, Ph.D.
Professor
Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies

Joseph Terza, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro




Last Update: March 21, 2013