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Abraham, Jean Marie
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Begun, James
(PhD)
Blewett, Lynn
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Call, Kathleen Thiede
(PhD)
Christianson, Jon
(PhD)
Davern, Michael
(PhD)
Dowd, Bryan
(PhD)
Feldman, Roger
(PhD)
Foote, Susan
Bartlett
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Garrard, Judith
(PhD)
Grant, Leslie
(PhD)
Gürses,
Ayse
(PhD)
Kane, Robert
(MD)
Kane, Rosalie
(PhD)
Karaca-Mandic, Pinar
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Kuntz, Karen
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McAlpine, Donna
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McBean, A. Marshall
(MD MSc)
McCullough, Jeffrey
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Moscovice, Ira
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Mosser, Gordon
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Nyman, John
(PhD)
Potthoff, Sandra
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Riley, William
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Rockwood, Todd
(PhD)
Sainfort, François
(PhD)
Town,
Robert
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Virnig, Beth
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Weckwerth, Vernon
(PhD)
Wholey, Douglas
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Zismer, Daniel
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Beth A. Virnig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Program in Healthcare Administration
and Policy
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 1993
MPH, Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 1989
BA, Psychology, Carleton College, 1987
virni001@umn.edu
Office Phone: 612-624-4426 |
Beth Virnig,
Ph.D., M.P.H. is an epidemiologist who
specializes in studies of health care
utilization. She is the principal
investigator of a grant from the American
Cancer Society to examine geographic
variation in access to hospice care. She is
an investigator and Director of Training for
ResDAC. Her areas of interest include:
access and quality of end-of-life care,
cancer care and differences in care between
the Medicare Fee-for-service and managed
care systems. She is co-leader of the
Patterns of Care working group for the
University of Minnesota Cancer Center. She
is coordinator for the analytic
concentration in the PHAP major, and a
member of the Graduate Faculty in Health
Policy and Management and Epidemiology
majors and the Bioethics minor.
Teaches
PubH 5700: Foundations of Public
Health
Selected Publications
Virnig BA, Ma H, Hartman LK,
Moscovice I, Carlin BP. Access to
home-based hospice care for rural
populations: identification of areas
lacking service. Journal of
Palliative Medicine; 2006.
Wei I, Morgan RO, Virnig BA. Using a
Spanish Surname Match to Improve
Identification of Hispanic Women in
Medicare Administrative Data. HSR,
2006.
Baxter NN, Habermann EB, Tepper JE,
Durham SB, Virnig BA. Risk of Pelvic
Fractures in Older Women Following
Pelvic Irradiation. JAMA,
294:2587-2593; 2005.
Virnig BA, Huang Z, Lurie N, Musgrave
D, McBean AM, Dowd B. Does Medicare
Managed Care Provide Equal treatment for
Mental Illness Across Races? Archives
of General Psychiatry; 61: 201-205,
2004.
Virnig BA, Moscovice I, Kind S, Casey
M. Do Rural Beneficiaries Have Limited
Access to the Medicare Hospice Benefit?
JAGS; 52:731 735, 2004.
Virnig BA, Lurie N, Huang Z, Musgrave
D, McBean AM, Dowd B. Racial Variation
in Quality of Health Care provided by
Medicare+Choice Health Plans. Health
Affairs, 21: 224-230; 2002.
Virnig BA, Warren J, Cooper G,
Klabunde C, Schussler N, Freeman J.
Studying Radiation Therapy Using
SEER/Medicare Linked Data. Medical
Care, 40(supplement):IV49-IV54,
2002.
Virnig BA, McBean AM, Kind S,
Dholakia R. Hospice Use Prior to Death:
Variability across Cancer Diagnoses.
Medical Care, 40:73-78, 2002.
Virnig BA, McBean AM. Using
Administrative Data for Public Health
Surveillance and Planning. Annual
Review of Public Health, 22:213-230,
2001.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor , Division of
Health Policy and Management, School of
Public Health, University of Minnesota,
2004 to present
Assistant Professor, Division of
Health Policy and Management, School of
Public Health, University of Minnesota,
1998 - 2004
Research Health Scientist, Center for
Health Services Research and
Development, Miami Veterans
Administration, 1995-1998
Assistant Professor (Research),
Family Medicine and Community Health,
University of Miami, 1994 - 1998
Research Associate and Instructor,
Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences,
Dartmouth Medical School, 1993 - 1994
Honors
Delta Omega, Member, Public Health
Honor Society, 2000 - present
Jean Schmidt Award , Carleton
College, 1987
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