Gerontology and Geriatrics
Deborah Ossip
Behavioral medicine, health impact of lifestyle change with particular focus on cigarette smoking, obesity, aging, child/adolescent outcomes measurement, and community intervention.
Sarah Trafton
My interest in aging issues include 1) legal and regulatory issues affecting health care access and service delivery, and 2) design and regulation of long-term care services and financing, especially for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
William Barker
Epidemiology and preventive aspects of influenza, stroke, hip fracture, congestive heart failure in older populations; Health services organization and professional development in geriatric medicine; preventive medicine curriculum development.
Bruce Friedman
Since 1974, all of Dr. Friedman's work-related positions have exclusively focused on or had a major focus on the aged, especially the chronically ill, functionally impaired elderly. He has worked for the New York State Department of Health as a surveyor of nursing homes, as a strategic planner on a variety of activities related to the chronically ill and aged at the healthcare system, hospital, and nursing home level, in a variety of roles on several Medicare demonstration projects (ACCESS:Medicare, the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration, and, currently, the Medicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration), and as a researcher examining case management, geriatric practice in Medicare health maintenance organizations, variations in Medicare spending across the states, and differences in Medicare services utilization between a Social Health Maintenance Organization (Social HMO) and a Medicare risk HMO. Currently, through his involvement in the Medicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration, Dr. Friedman has been investigating the impact on the health, functional status, and health services use and expenditures of functionally impaired elderly persons of the following: (1) a health promotion nurse intervention, (2) vouchers paying for additional services not normally covered by Medicare, and (3) a combination of the two interventions. Recently, he received a 5-year Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the relationship between depression and function and their impacts on healthcare service use and costs for older persons.
Scott McIntosh
Self-help interventions for smoking cessation and behavioral change with various populations.
Helena Temkin-Greener
Health services research focusing on organization, financing, and delivery of care for the elderly; development of risk-adjusted payment models, and outcomes research.
James Zimmer
Health services research on aging and long-term care.
