Research

Clinical Research, Division of Clinical Radiology

Health Care Research

Health care policy and economic research with respect to radiology is an area of active research by several members of our faculty. Recent publications by Drs. Howard Forman, Jeffery Weinreb, Carol Lee, and Johathan Sunshine address the means of measuring the current market for Radiologists, the incentives that medical students respond to in choosing a specialty, and ensuring quality in imaging services.

Recent Articles

“State Expenditures for Tobacco Control Programs and the Tobacco Settlement” (C.P. Gross, B Sofer, P.B. Bach, R. Rajkumar, and H.P. Forman) NEJM 2002 347: 1080-1086.

“MD/MBA Programs in the United States: Evidence of a change in Healthcare Leadership” (D.S. Larson, M. Chandler and H.P. Forman), Academic Medicine, 2003 78: 335-341.

“Update on the Diagnostic Radiology Shortage” (J.H. Sunshine, C.D. Maynard, J. Paros and H.P. Forman), AJR, 2004 182:301-305.

“Emergency Department Radiology Coverage Patterns in Private, Community Hospitals” (D.S. Saketkhoo, M. Bhargavan, J.S. Sunshine and H.P. Forman) Survey and Implications Radiology, 2004 231:190-197.

“Assessment of Informed Consent Practices and Patient, Physician, and Radiologist Awareness of Radiation Dose Associated with Diagnostic CT Scans” (C. Lee, A.H. Haims, E. Monico, J.A. Brink and H.P. Forman) Radiology, In Press.

“Why don't women medical students choose radiology?” (V. Potterton, Y. Cypel, J.H. Sunshine, K. Applegate, and H. P. Forman) A review of the literature. JACR, In Press.

“The use of magnetic resonance imaging in breast cancer screening.” (Lee CH, Weinreb JC) J Am Coll Radiol 2004;1:176-182.

“Building a team for change in an academic radiology department.” (Weinreb JC) Radiology 2004;232:327-330.

“How do training, education, and experience affect quality in radiology?” (Weinreb JC, Wilcox PA) J Am Coll Radiol 2004;510:510-515.

“The future of imaging screening-proceedings of the fourth annual ACR forum.” (Hillman BJ, Amis SE, Weinreb JC, MD, Neiman HL) J Am Coll Radiol 2005;2:43-50.

“The ACR MRI accreditation program: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” (Weinreb J, Wilcox P, Hayes, J) J Am Coll Radiol 2005 (In Press).

Dr. Forman is a practicing cross-sectional and Emergency/Trauma Radiologis t and Vice Chair for Finance and Administration of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale Medical School.
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Dr. Weinreb is section chief of Body MR in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale Medical School and is Chairman of the Commission on Quality and Safety for the American College of Radiology. He also sits on the Executive Board and is Vice-President Elect for the Society for Computed Body Tomography/Magnetic Resonance (SCBT/MR).