2005 Conference and Meeting Presentations

American Public Health Association—Philadelphia, PA—December 10-14, 2005

Center for Health Care Strategies—Washington, DC—December 7-8, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Making Integration Work: Special Needs Plan Opportunities"

Columbia University Seminar on Disability Studies—New York, NY—December 5, 2005
Janice Ballou: "Best Practices on Surveying Persons with Disabilities"

Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America—Orlando, FL—November 18-22, 2005
Leslie Foster: "How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Three States"

9th journées annuelles de santé publique—Québec, Canada—November 14-17, 2005
John Love: "Intervention Programs for Children Aged 1 to 5 and Their Families: What's Important for Child Development?"

Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Round Table—Napa Valley, CA—November 3-6, 2005
Barbara Devaney: "Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Feeding Practice"

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management—Washington, DC—November 3-5, 2005

National Medicare Prescription Drug Congress—Washington, DC—November 2, 2005
James Verdier: "Medicaid and MMA Administrative Challenges: Special Needs Plans"

New Jersey Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research—Princeton, NJ—November 2, 2005
John Hall: "The Impact of Cell Phones on How We Conduct Telephone Surveys"

International Conference on Health Policy Research—Boston, MA—October 27-30, 2005
Amang Sukasih: "Comparison of Hot Deck and Multiple Imputation Methods Using HCSDB Data"
Don Jang, Chair: Metaanalysis Methods
Anne Ciemnecki: "Medicare Beneficiaries' Access to Physician Services in Local Markets in 2003"

Economic Research Service Small Grants Conference—Washington, DC—October 27-28, 2005
Ronette Briefel, Discussant: Validation Study of a Screening Tool for Measuring the Diet Adequacy of Participants in Older Americans Act Funded Nutrition Programs

Statistics and Operations Research of North Portugal and the Galicia Region at the University of Minho—Guimaraes, Portugal—October 26-28, 2005
Sonya Vartivarian: "Does Weighting for Nonresponse Increase the Variance of Survey Means?"

Johns Hopkins University—Baltimore, MD—October 26, 2005
Elizabeth Stuart: "Matching with Multiple Control Groups and Adjusting for Group Differences"

Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia—Charlottesville, VA—October 24, 2005
Robert Olsen: "School Choice in the United States"

ADA Foundation Nutrition Symposium—St. Louis, MO—October 22, 2005
Ronette Briefel: "New Findings from the 2002 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS)"

AARP Global Aging Program Conference—Washington, DC—October 20, 2005
Debra Lipson: "The Changing Delivery of Long-Term Care: Developing a Workforce for the Future"

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conference on Public Reporting of Hospital Quality Measures—Washington, DC—October 19, 2005
Sue Felt-Lisk: "The Impact of Public Reporting on Hospitals: Results of a National Survey of Hospitals" and "Consumer Comprehension & Perceptions of Potential New Hospital Measures"
Myles Maxfield: "Media Coverage of Hospital Compare: March-August, 2005"
Myles Maxfield and Mary Laschober: "Hospital Transformational Change and How CMS and QIOs Can Be Supportive"

Panel of State Executive Branch Officials and Legislators—Pittsburgh, PA—September 23, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Pennsylvania Medical Assistance Program Reform Options"

CMS QualNet Conference—Hunt Valley, MD—September 14, 2005
Myles Maxfield: "Transformational Quality Improvement Changes in Hospitals"
Mary Laschober: "Media Coverage of CMS's Hospital Quality Public Reporting Program"

Invitational SAMHSA/CMS Conference—Baltimore, MD—September 13, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Using Medicaid Claims Data on Mental Health Services for Program Improvement"

National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics—Madison, WI—August 28-31, 2005

Nordic Social Science Conference—Copenhagen, Denmark—August 16-17, 2005
David Myers: "Campbell Collaboration Research Design Policy Brief"

Joint Statistical Meetings—Minneapolis, MN—August 7-11, 2005

Senior Community Service Employment Program National Conference—Philadelphia, PA—July 13-15, 2005
William Borden: "Understanding SCSEP Edits and QPR Calculations"
Rose Pritchard: "What's New with SPARQ 2?"

National Health Policy Forum—Washington, DC—July 12, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Continuing Challenges for States"

Workforce Innovations—Philadelphia, PA—July 11-13, 2005
Irma Perez-Johnson: "First Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment" and "What Can We Expect Under Personal Reemployment Accounts? Predictions and Procedures"

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting and Adjunct Meetings —Boston, MA—June 25-28, 2005

National Conference of State Legislatures—Washington, DC—June 17, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Paying for Results in Medicaid"

National Fatherhood Forum—University of Maryland, College Park, MD—June 16-17, 2005
Cheri Vogel, Discussant: Impact of Father Involvement on Children's Developmental Trajectories: New Findings Panel
Jeanne Bellotti, Respondent: Program and Policy Panel
Jerry West: "Large-Scale Studies on Being a Father: Issues and Challenges"

Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Accountability and Educational Performance Measures—Washington, DC—June 15-16, 2005
Diane Paulsell: "National Reporting System Quality Assurance Study"
Louisa Tarullo: "Support for System Improvement"

National Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference—Arlington, VA—June 13-15, 2005

Annual Medicaid Managed Care Congress—Baltimore, MD—June 13-15, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans: Opportunities for Health Plans and States"

Annual Summer Evaluation Institute at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Atlanta, GA—June 6-8, 2005
Frank Potter: "Sample Size Determination and Response Rates in Sample Surveys"

Joint Meeting of Society of Labor Economists and European Association of Labour Economists—San Francisco, CA—June 2-5, 2005
Sheena McConnell: "Using Vouchers in Government Training Programs: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment"

Global Dispute Resolution Research Conference—New York, NY—May 24-25, 2005
Grace Roemer and Melissa Miller: "The Global Center Survey of Leading Practitioners: Patterns and Trends in International Commercial Arbitration and the Management of Proceedings"

World Congress Leadership Summit on Medicare to Transform Public and Private Alliances—Washington, DC—May 23-24, 2005
Marsha Gold: "Successful Plan Design for Vulnerable Beneficiaries in Medicare"

NISH National Training and Achievement Conference—New Orleans, LA—May 22-24, 2005
Karen CyBulski and Jason Markesich: "JWOD Employee Satisfaction Survey: The Results Are In"

Citizens' Health Care Working Group—Arlington, VA—May 11-13, 2005
Peter Cunningham: "The Uninsured in America"
Deborah Chollet: "Small-Group and Individual Coverage"
Jim Verdier, Panelist: "Public Sector Initiatives to Control Costs: Medicaid"

American Association for Public Opinion Research—Miami Beach, FL—May 12-15, 2005

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Commonwealth Fund State Solutions Conference—Washington, DC—May 12, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Working with Private Sector Partners to Maximize Medicare Savings Program and Part D Enrollment"

U.S. Department of Education and Learning Point Associates—Washington, DC—May 5, 2005
Mark Dynarski: "When to Hold Them and When to Fold Them: Appraising Structural Strategies for Raising Achievement"

National Health Policy Forum Congressional Briefing—Washington, DC—April 28, 2005
Marsha Gold: "Historical Trends in Medicare's Private Plans"

American Educational Research Association—Montréal, Canada—April 11-15, 2005
Steven Glazerman: "The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation"

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research—Washington, DC—April 8, 2005
John Czajka, Discussant: 9 Million Fewer Uninsured?

Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting—Atlanta, GA—April 7-10, 2005

Conference of the American Education Finance Association—Louisville, KY—March 17-19, 2005
Steven Glazerman: "The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation"

Joint Conference of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on the Aging—Philadelphia, PA—March 10-13, 2005
Leslie Foster: "The Effects of Cash and Counseling"

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund—Washington, DC—March 4, 2005
Steven Glazerman: "Evaluation of Teach For America: Lessons from a Randomized Field Trial in Education" Click here to view video presentation.

Federal Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection Conference—Washington, DC—March 1-3, 2005
John Mamer and James Bash: "Mathematica Policy Research Survey Manager"
Mark Pierzchala and Debra Wright: "Tight Integration of Web, CATI, and Paper Models in the 2003 National Survey of Recent College Graduates"

National Quality Forum Conference—Lansdowne, VA—March 1, 2005
Jim Verdier, Panelist: "The State of Pay for Performance: Findings of a National Survey"

Head Start Bureau Updates National Satellite Broadcast and Webcast—February 17, 2005—1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. (EST)
Diane Paulsell: "Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Fall 2004 Update." For information about accessing the webcast, click here.

Economic Research Service Food Assistance Research Conference: Recent Findings and Emerging Issues—Washington, DC—February 16-17, 2005

National Economic and Social Forum and the University College Dublin—Dublin, Ireland—February 10, 2005
Mark Dynarski: "Evidence-Based Policy: U.S. Perspectives"

National Health Policy Conference—Washington, DC—February 2-3, 2005
Len Nichols, Moderator and Paul Ginsburg, Panelist: "Ten Years of Tracking Health System Change: The Evolution of Competition"
Margo Rosenbach: "An Evidence-Based Framework for SCHIP Reauthorization"

National Academy of Social Insurance Annual Meeting—Washington, DC—January 27-28, 2005
Marsha Gold: "The Future of Medicare Advantage: Will Past be Prologue?"

National Health Policy Forum—Washington, DC—January 13, 2005
Jim Verdier: "Dual Eligible Education and Enrollment: Challenges for States"

Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting—Philadelphia, PA—January 7-9, 2005
Charles Metcalf, Roberto Agodini, and Mark Dynarski: "Economic Considerations in Choosing a Research Design"
Len Nichols: "Tax Credits and Public Expansions: The Potential for Reducing the Uninsured"

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