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.
| Editor-in Chief | Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (HSORM) |
2014 - Present |
| The Best Student Abstract in the Health Information Technology section of the Interest Group Poster Session (C. Thirukumaran) | 2013 AcademyHealth research meeting |
2013 |
| Winner of the Scholar Abstract Award | Amer Federation for Medical Research & the Assoc Clin & Trans Sc | Washington, DC |
2013 |
| Award winner, James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award | APHA |
2009 |
| 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 |
| Top Student, The National Scholarship for Outstanding Performance | Shanghai Medical University |
1991 - 1995 |
2014 Oct
Campbell LJ, Li Q, Li Y. "Healthcare worker influenza vaccination in Oregon nursing homes: correlates of facility characteristics." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2014 Oct; 15(10):768-72. Epub 2014 Jul 20. |
2014 Jul
Li Y, Ye Z, Glance LG, Temkin-Greener H. "Trends in family ratings of experience with care and racial disparities among Maryland nursing homes." Medical care. 2014 Jul; 52(7):641-8. |
2014 May
Cram P, Bozic KJ, Callaghan JJ, Lu X, Li Y. "Use of present-on-admission indicators for complications after total knee arthroplasty: an analysis of Medicare administrative data." The Journal of arthroplasty. 2014 May; 29(5):923-928.e2. Epub 2013 Nov 08. |
2014 May
Glance LG, Kellermann AL, Osler TM, Li Y, Mukamel DB, Lustik SJ, Eaton MP, Dick AW. "Hospital readmission after noncardiac surgery: the role of major complications." JAMA surgery. 2014 May; 149(5):439-45. |
2014 May
McGarry BE, Strawderman RL, Li Y. "The Care Span: Lower Hispanic participation in Medicare Part D may reflect program barriers." Health affairs. 2014 May; 33(5):856-62. |
