Health Care Research
Health care policy and economic research with respect to radiology is an area of active research by several members of our faculty. Recent publications by Drs. Howard Forman, Jeffery Weinreb, Carol Lee, and Johathan Sunshine address the means of measuring the current market for Radiologists, the incentives that medical students respond to in choosing a specialty, and ensuring quality in imaging services.
Recent Articles
Kennedy S. Bhargavan M. Sunshine JH. Forman HP. The effect of teleradiology on time to interpretation for CT pulmonary angiographic studies. Journal of the American College of Radiology 6(3) 180 – 189; 2009 (March).
Schuur JD, Shah A, Wu Z, Forman HP, Gross CP. The impact of Medicaid coverage and reimbursement on access to diagnostic mammography. Cancer (CA): 2009 - 115( 23); Pages 5566 – 5578.
Bhargavan M, Kaye AH, Forman HP, and Sunshine JH. Workload of radiologists in United States in 2006-2007 and trends since 1991-1992. Radiology 2009; 252: 458-467.
Soni K. Bhargavan M. Forman HP. Sunshine JH. Who's underworked and who's overworked now? An update on radiologist shortage and surplus. AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology. 194(3):697-703, 2010 Mar.
Kennedy S. Knibutat DB. DelBasso SL. Bokhari SA. Forman HP The educational and career impact of using medical students for triaging off-hour diagnostic imaging requests at a major academic medical center. AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology. 194(4):1027-33, 2010 Apr.
Taneja C, Edelsberg J, Weycker D, Guo A, Oster G, Weinreb J. Cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening with contrast-enhanced magnetic MRI in high-risk women. J Am Coll Radiol 2009;6:171-179
Weinreb JC, Blume JD, Coakley FV, Wheeler TM, Cormack, Sotto CK, Cho H, Kawashima A, Tempany-Afdhal CM, Macura KJ, Rosen M, Gerts SR, J Kurhanewicz J. Prostate cancer: sextant localization at MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging before prostatectomy-results of ACRIN prospective mulit-institutional clinicopatholgical study. Radiology 2009;251:122-133
Weinreb JC, Kuo PH.Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2009;17:159-167
Moon M, Cornfeld D, Weinreb JC. Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of the Breast. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2009;17:351-362
Cornfeld D, Israel G, Martel N, Weinreb J, Schwartz P, McCarthey S. MRI appearance of mesenchymal tumors of the uterus. European Journal of Radiology 2010:74(1);241-249
Weinreb JC, Abu-Alf AK. Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents and Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis: Why Did It Happen and What Have We Learned? J Magn Reson Imaging 2009;30:1236-1239
Gunderman RB, Patti JA, Lexa F, Weinreb JC, Hillman BJ, Thrall JH, Neiman H. The 2009 ACR Forum: Health Care Payment Models. J Am Coll Radiol 2010;7:103-108
Professor Forman is a practicing emergency room/trauma radiologist. He teaches undergraduate, graduate, and graduate medical courses in healthcare policy, finance, and economics at Yale University. He is an associate editor of the AJR.
Dr. Weinreb is Section Chief of Body Imaging, Chief of MRI, and Director of Medical Imaging in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale Medical School and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is served for six years as Chairman of the Commission on Quality and Safety for the American College of Radiology. He is a former Vice President of the ACR and President of the Society for Computed Body Tomography/Magnetic Resonance (SCBT/MR). He is currently the Chair of the National Data Registry (NRDR) and Co-Chair of the ACR Forum.
