About Us
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Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH, principal investigator. Mark is a board-certified academic urologist, former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, fellowship-trained in health services research methods, who holds the first joint faculty appointment in urology and health services research in the country. He has conducted a wide variety of epidemiologic, economic, and health services research studies with large and small datasets that span the scope of urology. These have addressed resource utilization, costs, medical outcomes, practice patterns, quality of life and quality of care in prostate and kidney cancer, BPH, urinary tract infections, chronic prostatitis, as well as a catalog of the most common procedures performed by urologists in the United States.
Christopher S. Saigal, MD, MPH, co-principal investigator and principal investigator for the RAND sub-contract. Chris is a board-certified academic urologist and former American Foundation for Urologic Diseases (AFUD) Scholar. His research interests include quality of care, quality of life outcomes, medical decision-making, and the use of information technology to improve the health care system. His interest in the use of administrative data to inform public policy has led to the publication of several manuscripts in highly regarded journals. His research productivity was recognized by UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) with a Kane Scholar Award for Research. His strong performance as Principal Investigator the UDA sub-contract at RAND was recognized with an award of distinction from RAND. The AUA recognized Dr. Saigal by naming him the Lattimer lecturer at the 2005 AUA annual meeting. Lydia K. Moody, BA, project manager.Lydia joined the UDA team after several years at the University of California, San Francisco where she worked as a research anaylst for the Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor (CaPSURE(tm)) and as clinical research coordinator for the Molecular Effects of Nutrition Supplements (MENS) Prostate Study as part of the Genitourinary Cancer Epidemiology and Population Science (G-CEPS) program. She holds a bachelor's degree from Mills College in Oakland, California. Jan Hanley, MS is the director of the RAND Research Programming Group and a Senior Programmer. Beginning with her work on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Ms. Hanley has twenty-seven years experience with large-scale data management for health research projects. Most recently Ms. Hanley was one of the lead programmers for the Urologic Diseases in America (UDA) project, on which she worked extensively with SEER/Medicare data and CMS claims file and was a key contributor to the analysis plans involved both data sets. Nancee Inouye, BA is an administrative assistant at the RAND Corporation. She currently works across RAND's health division in reviewing and revising documentation for logic, structure, and writing effectiveness that targets the internal and external audiences. She coordinates the RAND Team's work on the UDA project. Geoffrey Joyce, PhD, is a senior economist at RAND, Co-Director of the UCLA-RAND Health Services Research Training Program and Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health. He has particular interest and experience in the costs of delivering health care. Dr. Joyce has taught economics at UCLA, USC, Cornell, and the RAND Graduate School. Rodger Madison, MA, is a senior programmer with over 20 years experience working with administrative databases including CMS claims files, California welfare claims record, as well as claims files from a number of HMOs. He has supported projects ranging from high-level descriptive surveys (Urologic Diseases in America) to quality of care assessment focused at an individual level. Mr. Madison is also a member of the RAND Institutional Review Board (IRB) on which he has primary responsibility for data security and privacy issues such as secure storage and transmission of data and encryption technology. Claude Messan Setodji, PhD is a statistician at RAND with interest in applications of statistics to public policy, causal inferences, data reduction and visualization. Dr. Setodji was part of the RAND research team that developed the model framework and statistical tools to capture persistent teacher effects in light of changing classroom contexts that result when students move on to other teachers. He also has interest in Health policy research and was part of a RAND-CDC team that evaluates the influence of immunization rates on the likelihood of influenza-like illness clusters in nursing facilities. Dr. Setodji also has extensive experience in quality of health care assessment and he co-authored the article "Who is at greatest risk for receiving poor-quality health care?", for the New England Journal of Medicine, that has important policy implications on how health care is delivered in the US. Julie C. Lai, MPH is a research programmer/analyst at RAND Corporation. She holds a master of public health with emphasis in biostatistics and epidemiology as well as a bachelor's degree in biology. At RAND, she works primarily in areas of health. Ms. Lai is a programmer skilled in data cleaning, data management, data regression and analysis, and variable construction. She works extensively in software packages such as SAS, ArcGIS, STATA, SPSS, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Office. Elizabeth M. Yano, PhD, MSPH, has trained in health care epidemiology, biostatistics and health policy at UCLA and RAND Health. Dr. Yano has 25 years' experience in health services research and program evaluation. She is Deputy Director and Senior Scientist at the VA Greater Los Angeles HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. |
For questions regarding UDA Online or the UDA project, please email Lydia Moody or phone at (310) 794-1570.