Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban, MD, DrPH
Dr. Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s School of Public Health. She is the founder and co-director of the Center for Health Care Data, which holds approximately 75% of the claims of covered persons in Texas. Her research interests include big data/data science, health services/outcomes research, maternal and child health, social determinants of health, women’s health, cardiovascular and chronic diseases, and management and health policy.
Dr. Ganduglia is the Co-PI on the Goodman Lab's current NIH R01, which examines neonatal outcomes through the first year of life in a population-based cohort of 1.13 million Medicaid-insured Texas newborns. Her team is investigating the associations between inpatient and post-discharge outcomes with hospital level maternal race and ethnicity composition.
Elenir Avritscher, MD, PhD, MBA/MHA
Dr. Elenir Avritscher is a health economist and associate professor for the Department of Pediatrics at UTHealth Houston's McGovern Medical School. In collaboration with Dr. Matthew Rysavy, Dr. Avritscher is conducting the following subproject for the Goodman Lab's NIH R01:
Late preterm infants (born 34-36 weeks’ gestation) account for 86% of Medicaid-insured preterm infants born in Texas and there is known to be significant variation in their clinical management. The aim of this subproject is to describe: 1) variation in the use of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and its correlatesin late preterm infants; and 2) the relationship of NICU admission with patient outcomes, healthcare utilization during the first postnatal year, and Medicaid costs.
George Little, MD
Dr. George Little is a retired neonatologist and Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine.
JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH
Dr. JoAnna Leyenaar is a pediatric hospitalist and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pediatrics at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. In addition to her clinical role, she is an associate professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. A frequent collaborator of the Goodman Lab, she is the principal investigator of a National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities funded study on the urban-rural disparities in healthcare quality for children with complex or disabling health conditions.
Jon Tyson, MD, MPH
Dr. Jon Tyson is a neonatologist and professor of Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, and Management, Policy, and Community Health at UTHealth Houston's McGovern Medical School. He is the Michelle Bain Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Public Health, the Vice Dean of Clinical Research and Healthcare Quality, and Co-Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine.
Matthew Rysavy, MD, PhD
Dr. Matthew Rysavy is a neonatologist and the Director of Neonatal Research and Learning Healthcare at UTHealth Houston's McGovern Medical School. He is also an assistant professor in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and at the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine at McGovern. In collaboration with Dr. Elenir Avritscher, Dr. Rysavy is conducting the following subproject for the Goodman Lab's NIH R01:
Late preterm infants (born 34-36 weeks’ gestation) account for 86% of Medicaid-insured preterm infants born in Texas and there is known to be significant variation in their clinical management. The aim of this subproject is to describe: 1) variation in the use of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and its correlatesin late preterm infants; and 2) the relationship of NICU admission with patient outcomes, healthcare utilization during the first postnatal year, and Medicaid costs.
Thérèse Stukel, PhD
Dr. Thérèse Stukel is a statistician and senior core scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Toronto. Dr. Stukel also holds positions as a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice as well the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. She is an adjunct researcher at the Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES) and a senior scientist in evaluative clinical sciences at the Sunnybrook Institute.
Youngran Kim, PhD, MPH
Dr. Youngran Kim is an Assistant Professor of Management, Policy & Community Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health and an affiliated member of the Center for Health Care Data. Dr. Kim’s research interests focus on improving efficiency in health care delivery and reducing disparities in health and health care. She studies topics related to optimization of stroke care, management of neurological disorders, and improving the access to and quality of care among newborns, pregnant women, and the elderly population. Her expertise is in quantitative analyses leveraging big data generated from public databases, electronic health records, Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance claims to answer questions that lie at the intersection of health care policy, management, and clinical care delivery.
Dr. Kim conducts analyses for the Goodman Lab's current NIH R01, which examines neonatal outcomes through the first year of life in a population-based cohort of 1.13 million Medicaid-insured Texas newborns. She is investigating the associations between inpatient and post-discharge outcomes with hospital level maternal race and ethnicity composition.