The COERE has assembled
an Advisory Committee of faculty that have an extensive track record
at UAB in developing resources and obtaining research support, and
who are also leaders and national experts in their respective fields.
Richard M. Allman, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine in the School of Medicine. He is Director of the Center for Aging and the Geriatric Education Center at UAB, and Co-Director of the Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, a joint program of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Emory University funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation. Dr. Allman is also Chief of the Geriatrics Section, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, and PI for the NIA-funded study, "Mobility Among Older African Americans and Whites" and "Life-Space Assessment of the Impact of Chronic Disease," funded by the AARP Andrus Foundation. As Principal Clinical Coordinator of the Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation, he has led many projects to improve the quality of care for older adults. Dr. Allman is currently Chair of the American Geriatrics Society Research Committee serves as a National Council Member of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs, and is a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. In 1991, 1994, and 1998, Dr. Allman was listed in The Best Doctors in America, and in 1995 in The Best Doctors in America: Southeast Region (Aiken: Woodward/White, Inc.). He is a former recipient of a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellowship in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Division of Internal Medicine. Dr. Allman is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine with a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of West Virginia University, Dr. Allman received his medical degree and internal medicine residency training at West Virginia University. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society.
Karlene Ball, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is currently Director of the UAB Center for Research in Applied Gerontology, one of the Edward R. Roybal Centers funded by the National Institute of Aging, and recently chaired the Human factors and Ergonomics Society Technical Group on Aging. Dr. Ball is a member of the transportation research Board/National research council and serves frequently on expert panels regarding setting vision standards for commercial and older drivers. She has authored numerous publications on visual, attentional, and cognitive changes with age, as well as on the identification of problem older drivers. She recently received a M.E.R.I.T. award from the National Institutes on Health for her basic research program on the everyday activity problems of older adults and the development of new interventions to prevent or retard age-related declines. Dr. Ball received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Northwestern University in 1979.
W. Jack Duncan, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and University Scholar in the UAB School of Business, Graduate School of Management, Professor of Health Care Organization and Policy in the School of Public Health, and Professor of Health Services Administration in the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He previously served as Interim Dean of the School of Business/Graduate School of Management. Dr. Duncan is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, and a Founding Fellow of the Southern Management Association. In November, 2001 he will begin a term as Dean of the Fellows of the Southern Management Association. Dr. Duncan's special areas of expertise are administrative organization, strategic management, and health care strategic management. He has authored or co-authored fifteen books including: Management: Ideas and Actions (1999), Great Ideas in Management (1989, translated into six languages), Strategic Mangement of Health Care Organizations, 3rd ed. (1998), The physician Strategist (1996), and Strategic Issues in Health Care Management (1992) all with Ginter and Swayne. In addition, Dr. Duncan is the author or co-author of more than 150 articles and published papers in management journals. His articles have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Management Science, Journal of ManagementStudies, Public Administration Review, Organizational Dynamics, Human Relations, Health Care Management Review. Journal of General Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Business Horizons, Long Range Planning, Public Productivity and Management Review, Public Health, Public Health Reports, and others. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Leadership Studies, and several other management jounals. In 1999, Jack was the recipient of the prestigious Sustained Excellence in Reviewing Award presented annually by the Academy of Management Executive. Dr. Duncan received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.
Gregg H. Gilbert, DDS, MBA, FAAHD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Diagnostic Sciences at the School of Dentistry. Dr. Gilbert’s research interests are in the fields of clinical epidemiology, behavioral sciences and dental health services research. He currently serves as principal investigator for several grants funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health. Dr. Gilbert has served on numerous grant application review committees for the National Institutes of Health and Department of Veterans Affairs, and currently serves on the Special Grants Review Committee for the NIDCR. In March 2002, Dr. Gilbert received the Distinguished Scientist Award for Geriatric Oral Research from the International Association for Dental Research.
Jay Goldman, D.Sc., is Professor in the School of Engineering and Distinguished Research Engineer in the Center for Telecommunications Education and Research. Dr. Goldman served on the School of Engineering faculty since 1984, and was Dean of Engineering until 1996. He was previously Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is Senior Scientist in the Injury Control Research Center and serves as a member of its management committee. He is also Chair of the Center for Telecommunications Education and Research Management Committee. Dr. Goldman has authored or co-authored over 60 technical publications and contributed to over 15 monographs and textbooks. He has held membership on 25 federal, state, and university national advisory panels and study sections. He has been selected as Engineering Educator of the Year and Engineer of the State of Alabama. Dr. Goldman's research interests are focused on the administrative organization and system design in manufacturing and service industries with a special interest in health care delivery. Dr. Goldman received his D.Sc. in engineering from Washington University.
Lynda Harrison, Ph.D., is Professor and Co-Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on International Nursing in the School of Nursing. Dr. Harrison has over 20 years experience in nursing education, having taught nursing in four different programs in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Alabama. Her research has focused on promotion of positive parent-infant relationships among parents and preterm infants, and on evaluating the effects of touch on preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. In 1998 she completed a 4-year study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research evaluating the effects of a gentle human touch intervention on physiological and behavioral responses of preterm infants. Dr. Harrison speaks Spanish and has an interest in international health, and has offered several travel courses to study health, culture, language, and social welfare in Guatemala. From 1997-1998 she was one of 40 participants in a Fellowship in International Development program sponsored by the Partners of the Americas Organization and funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. From 1997-1999 Dr. Harrison has also served as Editor for the Americas for the Journal of Advanced Nursing, an international scholarly nursing journal that is circulated to over 60 countries. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1997. Dr. Harrison has a M.S.N. in Maternal-Child Nursing from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in Child and Family Studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Jay M. McDonald, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine. He is Director and Senior Scientist of the UAB Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, and Senior Scientist at the Cancer Center, Center for AIDS Research, Injury Control Research Center, Center for Aging, and Cell Adhesion Matrix Research Center at the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. His academic career has spanned 22 years and includes Directorship of the Division of Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, prior to his recruitment to UAB. Dr. McDonald has received several honors and awards, has served as President of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, has served on the External Review Committee of Departments of Pathology at several major institutions, and is currently on the editorial boards of three scientific journals. Dr. McDonaldÕs research activities include basic mechanisms of bone resorption, cellular pathogenesis of AIDS, and application of modern telecommunication technology to the practice of pathology (telepathology). He has authored or co-authored over 150 articles or book chapters and over 120 published abstracts. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. Dr. McDonald received his B.S. from Tufts University and his medical degree from Wayne State University, where he also completed his pathology residency and was Chief Resident from 1973 to 1974. He did postdoctoral research at Washington University.
Michael A. Morrisey, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy in the School of Public Health and Director of the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy. He is the author of three books and over 100 articles on issues of health economics, health insurance and managed care. His current research focuses on employer-sponsored health insurance and the regulation of health care markets. For ten years Dr. Morrisey served as the economics deputy editor for Medical Care, a major health Services research journal. He is currently on the editorial boards of Health Affairs, Journal of Gerontology: Social Science, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, and Health Administration Press. He has served on study sections for AHCPR (now AHRQ), NIH, HCFA (now CMS), the VA, and NIAAA. He was the first recipient of the John Thompson Young Investigator Prize in health Services research awarded by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. Dr. Morrisey holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, Seattle.