Bruce Friedman, M.PH., Ph.D.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Friedman's research focuses on the health and health care of older persons, especially those with disabilities or depression. He is particularly interested in the effects of primary care affiliated nurse home visiting interventions on patient satisfaction and empowerment, health and disability status, and healthcare services use and expenditures. A second area of special interest is consumer-directed care for Medicare beneficiaries.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Dr. Friedman's current research is focused in three areas: (1) major depression and its effects on healthcare services use by older persons, (2) emergency department use in later life, and (3) oral health in old age.

Dr. Friedman is the Principal Investigator of the Department's T32 Institutional Health Services Research Training Program funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He has extensive experience in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of three Medicare demonstration programs, and has been the Research Director of the Medicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration for the past ten years.

Current Appointments

• Associate Professor - Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)
• Associate Professor - Department of Psychiatry (SMD)

Education
PhD Health Services Research and Policy	University of Minnesota	1998
MPH Health Planning	University of Michigan	1981
BA Environmental Health Science	State University of New York at Binghamton	1974

Fellowship Awards
Predoctoral Traineeship, National Institute on Aging, University of Minnesota, PhD Program in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration.	1994
John E. and Marjorie Kralewski Family Fellow, Senator Dave Durenberger (MN), United States Senate, Washington, DC.	1993
Predoctoral, Traineeship, National Institute on Aging, University of Minnesota, PhD Program in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration.	1991 - 1993
US Public Health Service Traineeship, University of Michigan, MPH Program in Health Planning and Administration.	1979 - 1980

Recent Journal Articles
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Liebel DV; Friedman B; Watson NM; Powers BA. "Review of nurse home visiting interventions for community-dwelling older persons with existing disability." Medical care research and review : MCRR. 2009; 66(2):119-46. Epub 2008 Dec 29.
Crilly JF; Caine ED; Lamberti JS; Brown T; Friedman B. "Mental health services use and symptom prevalence in a cohort of adults on probation." Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2009; 60(4):542-4.
Friedman B; Delavan RL; Sheeran TH; Bruce ML. "The effect of major and minor depression on Medicare home healthcare services use." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2009; 57(4):669-75.
Chapman BP; Shah M; Friedman B; Drayer R; Duberstein PR; Lyness JM. "Personality traits predict emergency department utilization over 3 years in older patients." The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2009; 17(6):526-35.
Weiss A; Sutin AR; Duberstein PR; Friedman B; Bagby RM; Costa PT. "The personality domains and styles of the five-factor model are related to incident depression in Medicare recipients aged 65 to 100." The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 2009; 17(7):591-601.