Professor Emeritus
Phone: (503) 494-2555
Fax: (503) 494-4981
E-mail: mitchg@ohsu.edu
PhD (1967) University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School (Medical
Care Organization)
MS (1961 ) Wayne State University, College of Pharmacy, Detroit,
Michigan
BS (1957) Wayne State University, College of Pharmacy, Detroit,
Michigan
Merwyn R. Greenlick, PhD, is currently Professor Emeritus of the
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He previously
served as professor and chair of the Department of Public Health
and Preventive Medicine from 1990 through March 2000. Until July
1995 he was director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health
Research (CHR) and Vice President for Research, Kaiser Foundation
Hospitals. Dr. Greenlick received his PhD degree in medical care
organization from the University of Michigan with specializations
in sociology and social psychology. He has served as research advisor
to many projects throughout the country and as an adviser to several
foreign government research and medical care projects. He was elected
to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
in 1971. Dr. Greenlick was named a senior fellow of the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
in July 1995.
Dr. Greenlick educational interests include the development of the
population-based clinical practice curriculum material for medical
students, including the sections on the organization and delivery
of health care services. He teaches research design in the MPH program
and serves as a research advisor for the MPH students.
Dr. Greenlick's research activities have been in the areas of large-scale
demonstration projects relating to the organization and financing
of medical care and behavioral interventions to prevent disease/promote
health. He was a co-principal investigator for the Medicare Prospective
Payment Demonstration Project ("Medicare Plus"), which
provided care to more than 7,600 Medicare beneficiaries on a capitation
basis. He is currently the principal investigator of the Kaiser
Permanente site of the Social HMO project ("Medicare Plus II"),
which is investigating the financial feasibility of providing a
comprehensive range of long-term care services for the "frail" elderly. He serves as the chair of the research committee of the
national Social HMO Research Consortium.
In addition to his work with large-scale demonstrations, Dr. Greenlick
has had extensive experience in clinical trials, both at the local
and national levels, and has provided considerable leadership at
the national level. He was principal investigator for the Portland
Clinical Center of the Dietary Intervention Study in Children and
is chair of the national design and analysis committee. He was a
co-investigator on the clinical trial relating the treatment of
systolic hypertension among the elderly and was Portland project
director for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial and co-principal
investigator for the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial, each sponsored
by the NHLBI.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at
Portland State University, in the School of Public Administration
of the University of Southern California, and in the School of Public
Health of the University of Hawaii.
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for a full list of publications)
Hersh W, Helfand M, Wallace J, Kraemer D, Patterson P, Shapiro S,
Greenlick M. A Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Telemedicine
for Making Diagnostic and Management Decisions. J Telemedicine and
Telecare. 2002; 8:197-209.
Hibbard J, Greenlick M, Kunkel L, Capizzi, J, Mode
of Payment, Practice Characteristics, and Physician Support for
Patient Self Care. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 20 (2)
2001, 118-123
Hibbard J, Greenlick M, Jimison H, Capizzi J, Kunkel
L, The Impact of a Community-wide Self-care Information Project
on Self-care and Medical Care Utilization, Evaluation & the
Health Professions, 24(4), 2001, 404-423
Wagner TH, Hibbard J, Greenlick MR, Kunkel L. Does
Providing Consumer Health formation Affect Self-Reported Medical
Utilization? Medical Care 39(8): 836-847, 2001
Hersh WR, Helfand M, Wallace J, Kraemer D, Patterson
P, Shapiro S, Greenlick MR. Clinical outcomes resulting from telemedicine
interventions: a systematic review. BMC Medical Informatics and
Decision Making 2001, 1: 5.
Greenlick
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