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Health Reform Decision - States' Heavy Stakes

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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act will have a dramatic impact on Maryland and all states, say University of Maryland experts.

"Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act, states will have to figure out how to build exchanges and deal with an expansion of Medicaid costs," says UMD Public Policy Dean Don Kettl."

The State of Maryland has been a leader in setting up insurance exchanges required by the reform law.

Here's a sampling of some UMD experts' comments. Bio and contact information follow in the alphabetical list:

Don Kettl, dean, School of Public Policy: "States have a lot riding on a long-term solution to rising health care costs. The bottom line of a rather terrifying recent GAO report: red ink for the states for decades until health care is solved."

Ken Apfel, professor, School of Public Policy: Currently serves on the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board; former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. "Maryland is one of the leading States in implementing health reform. We are moving full steam ahead to meet our goal of providing health coverage for hundreds of thousands of Maryland's uninsured."

Dushanka Kleinman, associate research dean, UMD School of Public Health; co-chair, Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board's Finance and Sustainability Advisory Committee: "Maryland has been proactively addressing health care reform for well over the past decade and is well-positioned to continue on that path, regardless of the Supreme Court ruling."

Stephen B. Thomas, director, Maryland Center for Health Equity; professor, School of Public Health: "Racial and ethnic minorities make up more than 40 percent of Maryland's population, and as the numbers grow, the health of the state will be determined by the health status of African Americans and Latinos. Our hope is that by advancing the policy options made possible through health care reform we can close the disparity gap and ensure the health and wellbeing of all Marylanders in the years ahead."

Complete alphabetical listing, contacts and bios follow. Additional Business experts here.


Number of experts found: 15

 
Ritu Agarwal

Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems Decision and Information Technology Deptartment

Decision & Information Technology

Expertise Key Words:
B2B; Careers; Employment; Workplace; Consumer Behavior; Human Resources; Information Technology Management; Personnel; Recruitment; Chemicals; Investment Banking; Banking Technology; Computer Hardware; Data Management; Consumer Electronics; E-Commerce; Health; Fitness; Retail; Software

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3121

ragarwal@rhsmith.umd.edu

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Kenneth S. Apfel

Prof Of Practice, Lecturer

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Public management, leadership and social policy with a particular focus on aging, health care, and retirement issues.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 2485

kapfel@umd.edu

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Joseph P. Bailey

Res Assoc Prof, Lecturer

Decision, Operations & Information Technologies

Expertise Key Words:
Internet economics, Internet policy, telecommunications, electronic commerce, Health Insurance Exchange

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2174

jpbailey@umd.edu

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Mark A. Graber

Professor, Associate Department Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Politics, Constitutional Law; Human Rights; Abortion, Culture Wars, Supreme Court

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301-405-4215

301-588-0119

mgraber@umd.edu
mgraber@law.umaryland.edu

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Paul S. Herrnson

Professor and Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Congressional and national politics; Campaign finance reform; Voting technology; Maryland politics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4123

herrnson@umd.edu

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David I. Kass

Lecturer

Tyser Teaching Fellow, Finance

Expertise Key Words:
Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Investments, Economics, Financial Crisis, Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett, Mergers and Acquisitions, Interest Rates, Valuation of Stocks, Finance, Stock Market.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9683

202 841-9324

dkass@umd.edu

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Donald F. Kettl

Dean

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6971

kettl@umd.edu

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Dushanka V. Kleinman

Professor & Associate Dean

School of Public Health

Expertise Key Words:
Understanding and eliminating health disparities,

Epidemiologic studies of dental, oral and craniofacial diseases, oral cancer and HIV-related conditions.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7201

dushanka@umd.edu

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Jack A. Meyer

Prof Of Practice

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Overcoming barriers to health care access; innovative designs for extending health insurance coverage to the uninsured.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6971
202-785-3669, extension 12

jmeyer1@umd.edu

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Karoline Mortensen

Assistant Professor

Health Services Administration

Expertise Key Words:
Health insurance, health care utilization of vulnerable populations including Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured, emergency department utilization.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6545

karoline@umd.edu

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Clifford V. Rossi

Tyser Teaching Fellow & Executive-in-Residence, Center for Financial Policy

Finance

Expertise Key Words:
Banking and government, finance, risk management.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2333

crossi@umd.edu

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Ben A. Shneiderman

Professor

Computer Science

Expertise Key Words:
Human-computer interaction; user interface design.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2680

bshneide@umd.edu

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Robert H. Sprinkle, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Health-policy reform; Bioethics & biopolitics; Environmental health; Biosecurity

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0184

301 864 2170

301 775 0320

sprinkle@umd.edu

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Stephen B. Thomas

Professor & Director

Health Services Administration

Expertise Key Words:
Racial and ethnic health disparities.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301-405-8357
301-405-8859

sbt@umd.edu
sbthomas115@gmail.com

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Ruth E. Zambrana

Professor , Women's Studies and Director of Research, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Women's Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Racial/ethnic health and educational disparities by gender, socioeconomic status and age with a focus on U.S. Latinos; public health; health services research, public health policy.

Expertise Credentials:
Ruth Enid Zambrana, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Women's Studies, the Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, the Former Interim Director of the U.S. Latino Studies Initiative (2007-2009) at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.

She is the editor of Understanding Latino Families: Scholarship, Policy and Practice (1996) and co-editor of Health Issues in the Latino Community (2001), Prof. Zambrana has been working in the area of low-income, racial and ethnic women, children and families for more than 25 years. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and monographs.

Dr. Zambrana is frequently invited to give keynote addresses and colloquia at universities, community based and non-profit organizations. She has been called upon as a health expert to serve on multiple boards, working groups and special panels for the federal government, Institutes of Medicine, other universities and foundations. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and monographs and has served on many social science and public health journal editorial boards. In 2006, she served as a member of Maryland Governor O'Malley Transition team in Higher Education. In 2007, she was honored by Hispanic Business Magazine as 2007 Women of the Year as one of 15 Elite Hispanic women in the U.S. for her commitment and dedication to improving the Hispanic community through her service and scholarship.

Web Site(s):
Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
Women's Studies Faculty Home Page

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0451

rzambran@umd.edu

Address:
2101D Woods Hall
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Sociology, Boston University

Publication(s):
See Women's Studies Faculty Home Page

Language(s):
Spanish





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