Dr. Carol Mangione was elected to the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Carol Mangione was named chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante served as guest editor of the “Borders, Immigrants & Health” edition of the journal Health Affairs.
Dr. Emily Hotez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and developmental psychology researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles' Fielding School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of a portfolio of studies focused on promoting the health and well-being of autistic individuals across the life course.
Center Affiliations
Education
- Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- B.A., Psychology, George Washington University
Susan Ettner is Distinguished Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research in the UCLA Department of Medicine and in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Ettner is also Dean Emerita of the Division of Graduate Education at UCLA, where she provided oversight for over 12,000 academic and professional graduate students in 133+ degree programs.
Education
- PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- B.A., Mathematics/Economics, University of California Santa Barbara
- B.A., German, University of California Santa Barbara
Dr. José J. Escarce, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Professor of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Senior Natural Scientist at RAND. Dr. Escarce has published extensively on a variety of topics including physician behavior, medical technology adoption, racial and socioeconomic differences in health care, and the effects of market forces on access, costs, and quality of care.
Dr. Laura Erskine is a Professor of Health Policy and Management, Director of the MHA Program, and Director of the UCLA Center for Healthcare Management. Her teaching interests are in the area of organizational behavior, leadership, and decision making. She uses real world examples and situations, experiential activities, field-based cases, and simulations to help students develop their decision-making and problem solving skills, hone their communication and interpersonal skills, apply theories and the concepts, and further their critical thinking skills.
Education
- PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Isomi Miake-Lye is the Program Director for the Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) program in Health Policy and Management and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the EMPH program for over six years, she teaches “Practices of Evaluation in Health Services: Theory and Methodology.” She recently conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the EMPH program, focusing on its future direction, before stepping into the EMPH Program Director role.
Education
- PhD, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Elizabeth (Becky) Yano, PhD, MSPH is Adjunct Professor of Health Policy & Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, and Director of the VA HSR&D Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Trained in health care epidemiology, biostatistics and health policy at UCLA and RAND, Dr. Yano has over 30 years’ experience in health services research and program evaluation.
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MsPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Jennifer Wortham has served as a healthcare executive and consultant for over 25 years working with health plans, physician groups and world-class health care delivery systems. Dr. Wortham specializes in health system transformation, and she has lectured at several state and regional Hospital Association Meetings and internationally on the application of Lean, and methods for health system transformation and strategy execution.
Education
- DrPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA