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Center for Workforce Studies
Goals
- Develop the capacity to effectively document and study physician
workforce issues related to physician supply, demand, utilization,
and distribution across specialty and geographic region.
- Support informed decision-making by the medical education community
(medical schools, teaching hospitals, faculty, medical students,
and residents) and policy makers.
- Support AAMC policy goals that related to physician workforce,
such as increasing under-represented minorities in medicine.
Objectives
- Promote more systematic collection and analysis of physician
workforce data and dissemination of findings.
- Promote a physician supply and distribution by specialty and
by geographical area consistent with demands and needs of the
US population.
- Develop systems, tools and methods to more accurately assess
current and future physician workforce supply, demand and distribution.
- Provide leadership among physician organizations and the research
community related to expanding and improving physician workforce
studies and data collection.
Activities
- Conduct and collaborate on workforce needs assessments:
- For the nation as a whole;
- For selected specialties; and,
- For selected states and regions
- Increase the availability of quality data on the physician workforce:
- Collaborate with organizations that collect data on the
physician workforce; and
- Directly collect data to help quantify and measure supply,
demand, distribution, shortages and surpluses of physicians;
- Collaborate on and conduct studies to assess and monitor factors
likely to impact future supply, demand, distribution and use of
physicians
- Produce and disseminate reports and data on the physician workforce
to the medical education community and the public
- Bring together organizations and groups interested in physician
workforce issues:
- Convene annual meeting of physician workforce researchers;
- Develop and promote common data definitions and data elements
across specialties and states; and,
- Identify and promote an adequately funded national research
agenda
Staff
Edward S. Salsberg
Mr. Salsberg is the director of the AAMC's Center for Workforce
Studies. Prior to joining the AAMC, Mr. Salsberg was the executive
director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the School
of Public Health at the University at Albany of the State University
of New York. In 1996, Mr. Salsberg established the Center, which
is a national leader in the field of health workforce studies.
Mr. Salsberg, a frequent speaker across the country on issues related
to the health workforce, has authored and co-authored numerous reports
and papers on the health workforce. Mr. Salsberg has been a member
of the U.S. delegation to the International Medical Workforce Collaborative
since 1999 and is the chair of the 2004 delegation. He is the chair
of the Health Workforce Research Interest Group of AcademyHealth.
Mr. Salsberg was on the steering committee of the National Academy
for State Health Policy from 1995 to 2004. He was a member of the
American Hospital Association's Commission on Workforce for Hospitals
and Health Systems. Mr. Salsberg was a member of the faculty at
the School of Public Health in Albany. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Salsberg
was a bureau director at the New York State Department of Health.
Mr. Salsberg earned his master's degree in public administration
from the Wagner School at New York University.
E-mail: esalsberg@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0415
Clese Erikson
Ms. Erikson is the director of workforce research in the Center for
Workforce Studies. Prior to joining the Center, she was the director
of research projects for the American Medical Group Association. Ms.
Erikson earned her master's degree in public affairs from the Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Her
areas of expertise include survey design, project management, patient
safety, and the role of non-physician clinicians in primary care and
disease management.
E-mail: cerikson@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0587
Scott Shipman
Dr. Shipman is a pediatrician and health services researcher who
joined the Center as the Senior Researcher in 2009. He is working
part time in the Center along with ongoing work at Dartmouth Medical
School. Dr. Shipman completed his undergraduate medical training
at the University of Nebraska, and his residency and chief residency
in pediatrics at Dartmouth. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical
Scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a NRSA fellow in
Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health.
A faculty member at Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health
& Science University from 2002-2006, Dr. Shipman then joined the
faculty at Dartmouth, where he has been active in research, teaching,
and clinical care. Among other responsibilities at the Center, Dr.
Shipman will be studying factors influencing physician productivity
and efficiency, to better understand how variable workforce capacity
can best meet the healthcare needs of the population.
E-mail: sshipman@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0979
Kerri L. Rivers
Ms. Rivers is a senior data analyst at the Center for Workforce Studies.
Prior to joining the Center, she was a research associate in domestic
programs at the Population Reference Bureau, where she analyzed data
relating to workforce development and child well-being, and conducted
training workshops to increase the use of data from the federal statistical
system for improving policies and programs. Ms. Rivers earned her
master's in experimental psychology from the University of Texas at
Arlington.
E-mail: krivers@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0477
Michael Dill
Mr. Dill is a senior data analyst at the Center for Workforce Studies.
Immediately prior to joining the Center, he developed an online data
analysis system for estimating local area need for housing and services
for the older population. Mr. Dill has prior health workforce research
experience, having worked at the Center for Health Workforce Studies
at the University at Albany—with Ed Salsberg—for several
years. He received his Master of Public Affairs and Policy from Rockefeller
College.
E-mail: mdill@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0673
Stacey Schulman
Ms. Schulman is a research analyst at the Center for Workforce Studies.
Prior to joining the Center, she was a research coordinator at Odyssey
House, Inc., in New York City, where she implemented clinical and
social research projects relating to decision making skills and analyzed
data pertaining to such projects. Ms. Schulman earned her master's
degree in psychology from Boston University.
E-mail: sschulman@aamc.org
Phone: 202-862-6053
Sana Danish
Ms. Danish is a data analyst at the Center for Workforce Studies.
She holds a master of public policy degree from the University of
Chicago's Harris School. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a
corps member and project leader at the nonprofit City Year Detroit.
E-mail: sdanish@aamc.org
Phone: 202-862-4768
Zoe Berman
Ms. Berman is the program specialist for the Center for Workforce
Studies. She earned her bachelor's degree in integrated international
studies and Spanish from Knox College in Illinois. She is currently
pursuing a master of public policy degree at George Mason University.
E-mail: zberman@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0048
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