Michael Halpern
Senior Fellow, Health Services Research
Michael T. Halpern, MD, PhD, has more than 15 years of professional experience evaluating patterns of medical care, quality of care, clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness, access, and disparities. His research includes evaluations of medical treatment patterns, resource utilization, and outcomes using large health care databases; modeling studies of medical care costs and cost-effectiveness; assessments of patient symptoms, satisfaction, and quality of life; projections of shortages among physicians and other health care professionals; and examinations of factors influencing decision making by physicians and patients. Before joining RTI, Dr. Halpern was strategic director of health service research at the American Cancer Society. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, iserves on the Health Disparities Advisory Group of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and is the section editor of clinical trials for the journal Cancer.
Education
MD, University of Michigan Medical School; PhD, Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan; MPH, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan; BA, Physics and Psychology, Cornell University.
Publications
Partridge, A.H., Norris, V.W., Blinder, V.S., Cutter, B.A., Halpern, M.T., Malin, J., et al. (Jan 2013)
Halpern, M.T., & Holden, D.J. (Dec 2012)
Leung, M.Y., Halpern, M.T., & West, N.D. (Apr 2012)
Sherrill, B., Halpern, M., Khan, S., Zhang, J., & Panjabi, S. (Dec 2011)
Halpern, M.T., Renaud, J.M., & Vickrey, B.G. (Nov 2011)
Expertise
- Health Care Quality
- Medical Care Treatment Patterns and Outcomes
- Access to Care and Health Disparities
- Health Care Workforce, Training, and Shortages