Professional Bio
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Li is an experienced policy and outcomes researcher with major focuses on the elderly and adults with mental illness. See his personal homepage https://webfiles.uci.edu/yli11/homepage/index.htm for updated details.
His current research includes: 1) outcomes assessment and quality report cards; 2) nursing home policies and impacts on quality; and 3) the quality of healthcare for persons with mental illness.
Dr. Li is currently funded by the NIA (National Institute on Aging) through two R01 grants, on both of which he serves as the Principal Investigator. The first project was designed to identify the key structural and process components of state technical assistance programs that effectively improve nursing home quality measured by risk-adjusted health outcomes and case mix adjusted deficiency citations. The second project aims to test the between- and within-physician variations in referring patients for cardiac procedures and to understand how differential referral patterns contribute to the observed disparities in receiving high quality CABG (coronary artery bypass graft) surgery among mentally-ill patients.
| Award winner, James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award | APHA |
2009 |
| Exceptional Reviewer | Medical Care |
2009 - 2010 |
| Most outstanding abstract in the Academy for HSR and Health Policy. 1 of 40 awardees fromm 1000+ submissions | Academy for HSR and Health Policy | Orlando, Fl |
2007 |
| Award winner, The Aetna Susan B. Anthony Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women and Public Health | APHA |
2007 |
| Award winner, Medical Care Section Student Paper Award | APHA |
2004 |
| Finalist, Medical Care Section Student Paper Award | APHA |
2003 |
| Pre-doctoral Fellowship, | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
2001 - 2003 |
2011 Jul 13
Li Y, Yin J, Cai X, Temkin-Greener J, Mukamel DB. "Association of race and sites of care with pressure ulcers in high-risk nursing home residents." JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2011 Jul 13; 306(2):179-86. |
2011 Jul
Li Y, Cai X, Du H, Glance LG, Lyness JM, Cram P, Mukamel DB. "Mentally ill Medicare patients less likely than others to receive certain types of surgery." Health affairs (Project Hope). 2011 Jul 0; 30(7):1307-15. |
2011 Jun
Mukamel DB, Li Y, Harrington C, Spector WD, Weimer DL, Bailey L. "Does state regulation of quality impose costs on nursing homes?" Medical care. 2011 Jun 0; 49(6):529-34. |
2011 May
Li Y, Glance L, Yin J, Mukamel D. "Racial disparities in rehospitalization among Medicare patients in skilled nursing facilities." American journal of public health. 2011 May 0; 101(5):875-82. Epub 2011 Mar 18. |
2011 Apr 20
Cram P, Lu X, Kaboli PJ, Vaughan-Sarrazin MS, Cai X, Wolf BR, Li Y. "Clinical characteristics and outcomes of Medicare patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, 1991-2008." JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2011 Apr 20; 305(15):1560-7. |
