ReThink Health Research
Who’s Involved
RUTH WAGEMAN I ELLIOTT S. FISHER I BOBBY MILSTEIN I GARY HIRSCH I MICHAEL MCGINNIS I HAHRIE HAN
KIMBERLYN LEARY I ERIN MCFEE I JOY CUSHMAN
Project Director:
Ruth Wageman, PhD, is Director of ReThink Health Research, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Wageman directs ReThink Health’s suite of projects in the areas of evidence and research design and leads its research and evaluation efforts. With Kate Hilton, she directs Organizing for Health, also a ReThink Health project, which takes a community organizing approach to the transformation of health and health care. Dr. Wageman is Associate Faculty in Psychology at Harvard University, where she specializes in the field of Organizational Behavior, researching the conditions under which people are able to accomplish great things, especially in collaboration with one another. She has published prolifically on a range of subjects in organizational behavior, including Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great,2008, co-authored with Debra A. Nunes, James Burruss, and Richard Hackman. Dr. Wageman earned a PhD from Harvard’s University’s Joint Doctoral Program in Organizational Behavior in 1994 and a BA in Psychology from Columbia University in 1987, where she later returned to teach at the Graduate School of Business as the first female alum to join Columbia’s faculty. She served on the faculty of Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business and as a Visiting Scholar in Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government.
Core Faculty:
Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, a Founding Member and key advisor of ReThink Health, a core initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, joined the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Board of Trustees in the fall of 2011. Dr. Fisher is a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and Director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington where he also was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and received a master’s in Public Health. At Dartmouth, he was a founding director and is now Senior Associate of the VA Outcomes Group, teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs, and is the Principal Investigator on the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. Dr. Fisher’s research focuses on exploring the causes of the twofold differences in spending observed across U.S. regions and health care systems and the impact of the variations on the quality, outcomes and costs of care. He is also actively involved in national efforts to improve measures of health system performance and to reform payment systems. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH, is Director of ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health, and Director of Systems Strategy and Programs for the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. Dr. Milstein leads the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game project that is working with regions and leaders across the country to develop interactive simulations that explore the likely impact of policy interventions on health outcomes and costs. He created the Hygeia Dynamics Policy Studio to provide a forum for diverse actors to acquire the foresight and motivation needed to craft powerful responses to pressing priorities and is also a visiting scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From 1991 to 2011, Dr. Milstein worked at the CDC where he founded the Syndemics Prevention Network, chaired the agency’s Behavioral and Social Science Working Group, and was coordinator for a wide range of new initiatives. He was the principal architect of the CDC’s framework for program evaluation and published a monograph entitled, Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World, recommended as “required reading for all health professionals.” Dr. Milstein is a co-founder of the annual NIH-CDC Institute on Systems Science and Health, and a co-developer of the HealthBound Policy Simulation Game as well as the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model.
Gary Hirsch, SB, SM, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Mr. Hirsch specializes in applying System Dynamics and Systems Thinking. In health care, he has focused on population health and treatment of chronic illness, improving the performance of health care delivery systems, creating the capacity to respond to health emergencies, and improving oral health and delivering dental care. Mr. Hirsch is the co-developer of several simulation-based learning environments including HealthBound, created for the CDC to enable users to try their hand at health reform. Mr. Hirsch is the author of three books and numerous journal articles and conference presentations. He is President of the Metrowest Free Medical Program, an organization that provides care to people without health insurance. Mr. Hirsch holds SB and SM degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with concentrations in System Dynamics and Public Sector Management.
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