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Selected Staff Biographies
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., president, is nationally recognized for his
work in health economics and health policy, especially health care market changes
and cost trends. He previously served as executive director of the Physician
Payment Review Commission and as deputy assistant director of the Congressional
Budget Office. Ginsburg earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard University.
Peter Kemper, Ph.D., vice president, has been principal investigator of
the Community Tracking Study since HSC’s inception. He is a nationally recognized
expert on care of the elderly and the effects of managed care. He was formerly
director of the long-term care division of the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research, now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and director
of the Madison, Wis., office of MPR. Kemper received his doctorate in economics
from Yale University.
Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D., associate director, oversees HSC’s data collection
and research activities. Her research specialties are health plan and provider
competition and managed care. She previously was a health policy analyst at the
Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and an investment banker. Grossman received
her doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ann C. Greiner, M.C.P., director of public affairs, oversees HSC’s publications,
conferences and outreach activities. Previously, she was an assistant vice president
at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, directing communications and
marketing efforts, and served as a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.
Greiner holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Peter J. Cunningham, Ph.D., senior health researcher, specializes in access,
the uninsured and safety net issues. Previously, he was a researcher at AHRQ,
where he worked on the National Medical Expenditure Survey. Cunningham received
his doctorate in sociology from Purdue University.
Jack Hadley, Ph.D., visiting scholar, is a principal research associate
at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center. He is a past president of the Association
for Health Services Research and a former editor of Inquiry. His work with HSC
focuses on studies of the health insurance market and physician behavior. Hadley
received his doctorate in economics from Yale University.
James D. Reschovsky, Ph.D., senior health researcher, leads HSC’s research
efforts in health care delivery and quality. His research focuses on health care,
insurance and managed care issues. Previously, he held academic positions at Michigan
State University and Cornell University and was a research fellow at AHRQ. Reschovsky
received his doctorate in public policy studies from the University of Michigan.
Jeffrey J. Stoddard, M.D., senior physician researcher, specializes in
service delivery, physician and children’s issues. A practicing pediatrician,
he previously held a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Stoddard received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical
School and completed his pediatric residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He
also completed a postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the Pew Health Policy Program
at the University of California at San Francisco.
Sally Trude, Ph.D., senior health researcher, specializes in managed care
and physician issues. Previously, she was a senior analyst at the Medicare Payment
Advisory Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission and a health policy
analyst at RAND. Trude received her doctorate in public policy analysis from RAND.
Alwyn Cassil, public affairs manager, handles HSC’s media relations and
publications. Previously, she was a press officer at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General and Health Care Financing Administration
and Washington editor of AHA News, the weekly newspaper published by the American
Hospital Association. She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the
University of Florida.
Kelly J. Devers, Ph.D., health researcher, specializes in managed care,
provider organizations and competition. She also has expertise in qualitative
and mixed-methods research. Previously, she was a senior research fellow at AHRQ.
Devers received her doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University and completed
a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley and San
Francisco.
J. Lee Hargraves, Ph.D., health researcher, specializes in patient and
consumer assessments of health care and quality of medical care. He was a senior
survey scientist at the Picker Institute, where he was an investigator on AHRQ’s
Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) project. Hargraves received his doctorate
in sociology from Boston College.
Cara S. Lesser, M.P.P., health researcher, directs HSC’s site visit work
and specializes in market change issues. Previously, she was a senior research
associate at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California
at San Francisco. Lesser received her master’s degree in public policy from the
University of California at Berkeley.
Ha T. Tu, M.P.A., Health researcher, focuses on service delivery issues.
She was an economic consultant to the Center for Health Policy Studies in Columbia,
Md., and the Health Care Financing Administration. Tu holds a master’s degree
in applied economics from Princeton University.
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