![]() George Miller, Ph.D. Altarum Consortium Co-Director |
George Miller has served on the technical staff of Altarum and one of Altarum’s predecessor organizations, Vector Research, Inc., since 1972. He is currently affiliated with Altarum’s Center for Value in Health Care, where he participates in the center’s efforts to track national health spending, understand the drivers of spending growth, and quantify a sustainable spending growth rate. In other efforts, he has supported Altarum in applications of operations research to modeling and analysis of health care issues that have included topics in the value of prevention, disease management, medical responses to demand surges, cost-effectiveness of clinical interventions, beneficiary population forecasting, telemedicine, graduate medical education, medical logistics, medical staffing, medical facilities planning, and collections forecasting. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine; the Journal of the American College of Cardiology; Health Affairs; Medical Decision Making; Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research; Health Care Management Science; Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology; the International Journal of Disaster Medicine; the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety; Interfaces; Management Science; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; and IIE Transactions. He frequently serves as a reviewer for several of these journals. Dr. Miller is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He has chaired numerous sessions at national INFORMS meetings , served on INFORMS’s Long-Range Planning Committee, and served for 7 years (3 years as Chair) of its committee to select the recipient of the Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services. Dr. Miller received his BSE, MSE, and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan, where he subsequently served as an adjunct assistant professor. |
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![]() A. Mark Fendrick, M.D. VBID Health Consortium Co-Director |
Mark Fendrick, a founding Partner of VBID Health, is Director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (www.vbidcenter.org), which he co-founded. Dr. Fendrick remains clinically active in the practice of general internal medicine, seeing patients weekly. He is also a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Health Management and Policy at The University of Michigan. |
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![]() Beth Beaudin-Seiler, Ph.D. Altarum Consortium Manager |
Beth Beaudin-Seiler, is a Health Care Research Analyst, with the Systems Research and Initiatives Group at Altarum. Since coming to Altarum, Dr. Beaudin-Seiler has worked on multiple projects concerning the defining and measurement of low value care, while providing support to multiple Centers within Altarum. Prior to her position at Altarum, Dr. Beaudin-Seiler was a research associate for the College of Aviation at Western Michigan University, where she focused on human factors research and crossover work between high risk industries such as health care and aviation. Dr. Beaudin-Seiler holds a Ph.D. in public affairs and administration from Western Michigan University. |
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![]() Michael Chernew, Ph.D. VBID Health |
Michael Chernew, Ph.D., a founding Partner of VBID Health, is a Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He was one of the original creators of the VBID Concept and he co-directed the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (www.vbidcenter.org) with Dr. Fendrick before joining Harvard. |
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![]() Chris Duke, Ph.D. Altarum |
Chris Duke is co-director of Altarum's Consumer Engagement Programs, which seeks to understand and promote how consumers’ individual preferences for care can inform their health care decisions. Dr. Duke is also a Senior Analyst with Altarum’s Survey and Patient Engagement Research Group. With a background in social psychology, statistics, and research methodology, Dr. Duke’s research specialty is in understanding how consumers seek and use health care information, patient engagement, and patient satisfaction. In collaboration with Wendy Lynch, Brad Smith, and Safeway Health, he helped develop the Altarum Consumer Engagement (ACE) Measure. The ACE Measure assesses how engaged patients are with their own health care and successfully predicts many health care-related outcomes, including current health status, health-related lifestyle behaviors, medication adherence, use of preventative care, and willingness to pay for care. Dr. Duke is a researcher for several health care survey research programs, including for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and others. Research topics include how consumers seek and use health care information, patient engagement, patient satisfaction, HIV treatment practices, diagnostic laboratory medicine practices, and several other health care topics. Dr. Duke earned his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Exeter and his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Berry College. Before coming to Altarum, he taught psychology and statistics at the University of Exeter as a graduate fellow. |
The Research Consortium for Health Care Value Assessment is a partnership between Altarum and VBID Health, with funding from the PhRMA Foundation as part of its Value Assessment Initiative, established to promote the pursuit of value in health care delivery in the U.S. Follow us at @ValueConsortium.
Beth Beaudin-Seiler, Ph.D.
Consortium Manager
info.rc-hcva@altarum.org
3520 Green Court, Suite 300
Ann Arbor, MI 48105