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Project Director
Penny Hollander Feldman, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center
for Home Care Policy and Research at the Visiting Nurse Service of
New York. She has been the Project Director of the Home Care Research
Initiative since it was established by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
in 1995. Her role is to provide oversight and guidance in the planning,
organizing and directing of all the activities of the project.
A political scientist by training, Dr. Feldman has held several appointments
at Harvard and continues as Visiting Lecturer there, focusing on health
care politics and the design and implementation of health care programs
and policies. At the Center for Home Care Policy and Research, she
is directing research designed to advance knowledge of the management,
costs and outcomes of home and community-based services. She is particularly
known for her work on the home care workforce.
At the Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Dr. Feldman is
directing a variety of projects:
- to assess outcomes for home health patients with selected chronic conditions including congestive heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoporosis;
- to identify and rectify medication complications of frail elders;
- to improve medication compliance with telemonitoring;
- to develop consumer reports of quality of home care; and
- to examine state allocation processes affecting home and community-based care.
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Administrative Coordinator
Alexis Stern is responsible for supporting the Senior
Advisor and Project Director and for the smooth and efficient administration
of the project.
In addition to serving as Program Assistant for the Home Care Research
Initiative, Ms. Stern is the Project Assistant for the AdvantAge Initiative,
which aims to develop a set of benchmarks or indicators to measure
communities' capacity to sustain older residents' independence and
allow them to "age in place."
Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Stern worked for various non-profit
organizations, including Food & Hunger Hotline and, most recently,
the International Longevity Center, an affiliate of The Mount Sinai
Medical Center. She also worked for several years as an elementary
school science teacher.
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Project Advisor
Christopher Murtaugh, Ph.D., is the Associate Director
of the Center for Home Care Policy and Research. He provides expertise
and input in all areas of the project, and is particularly valuable
because of his substantial knowledge of long-term care research.
At the Center, Dr. Murtaugh is responsible for directing policy relevant
studies concerning access to and the cost, quality and outcome of
long term home-and-community-based care. Prior to joining the Center,
Dr. Murtaugh was the Director of Long Term and Subacute Care Research
at the Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute (MTPPI)
in Washington, D.C. Before that, Dr. Murtaugh worked for over seven
years for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was the principal
or co-principal investigator for numerous studies of elderly persons
with disabilities and the use, cost and financing of long-term care
while at AHCPR.
Dr. Murtaugh received his doctorate from the Department of Epidemiology
and Public Health at Yale University. He also has a Master of Public
Administration from New York University with a specialty in health
policy, planning and administration.
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Project Advisor
Mia Oberlink, M.A., is a Research Associate at the Center
for Home Care Policy and Research. Formerly the Deputy Director of
the Home Care Research Initiative, Ms. Oberlink continues to provide
expertise on the project, and has particular responsibility for dissemination
activities.
Ms. Oberlink also manages the AdvantAge Initiative, which aims to
develop a set of benchmarks or indicators to measure communities'
capacity to sustain older residents' independence and allow them to
"age in place." Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Oberlink
spent 13 years writing about biomedical and social issues in aging,
first at the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at The
Mount Sinai Medical Center and, more recently, at the International
Longevity Center, where she was Director of Communications.
Ms. Oberlink received both an undergraduate and graduate degree in
French Literature from New York University. She also obtained a Master
of Arts degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from New York
University.
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Project Support
Michal Gursen, M.P.H., M.S., is a Research Analyst at
the Center for Home Care Policy and Research. She provides organizational
and research support to the project.
Ms. Gursen also works on the AdvantAge Initiative, which aims to develop
a set of benchmarks or indicators to measure communities' capacity
to sustain older residents' independence and allow them to "age
in place." Before coming to the Center, Ms. Gursen worked at
the New York State Psychiatric Institute in the Center for Family
Education and Research where she studied psychoeducational interventions
for people with mental illness. Prior to that, Ms. Gursen worked at
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the Department of Community Medicine,
where she researched psychosocial pathways leading to drug use.
Ms. Gursen earned her M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management with
a concentration in Effectiveness and Outcomes Research, and M.S. in
Social Work, both from Columbia University. She holds a B.A. in Psychology
from Barnard College.
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