Curriculum Vitae
Fredric D. Wolinsky
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Fredric D. Wolinsky, Ph.D.
The John W. Colloton Chair
Department of Health Management and Policy
College of Public Health
The University of Iowa
105 North River Street
CPHB-N211
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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February 2017
Education
Friends University B.A. in Sociology, 1972
Drake University M.A. in Sociology, 1974
Southern Illinois University Ph.D. in Sociology, 1977
Honors and Awards
1984-89 Research Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH).
1985-88 Member, Geriatrics and Gerontology Review Committee (Study Section), NIH.
1988-90 Member, National Reviewer Reserve Panel, NIH.
1990-94 Member, Human Development and Aging Committee (Study Section), NIH.
1990-2001 MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award, NIH.
1993 Fellow, Gerontological Society of America.
1994-95 Member, Health Services Research Committee (Study Section), Agency for Health Care Policy Research.
1997 Fellow, Association for Health Services Research (now AcademyHealth).
1999-2004 Member, Health Services Organization and Delivery Committee (Study Section), NIH.
2000 Distinguished Faculty Inductee, Phi Beta Kappa, Saint Louis University Chapter.
2002-2016 Listed by Thomson Reuters as one of the most Highly Cited general social scientists in the world for 2001-2012; with 8,125 citations in 6,293 journal articles to Dr. Wolinsky’s publications (h index = 49), and 15,254 citations according to Google Scholar.
2002 St. Martin de Porres Teacher of the Year Award, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University.
2003 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Aging and the Life Course.
2004-08 Member, Quality Measurement and Effectiveness SMRB (Study Section), Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service.
2005 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa.
2009 Woodrow W. Morris Distinguished Friend to Nursing Award, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa.
2009 Member, Distinguished Editorial Panel for the NIH Research Challenge Grant Initiative RC1, Behavioral, Social, and Population Sciences (ZRG1 HDM P 58), National Institutes of Health.
2009-11 Member, Health Services Research SMRB (Study Section), Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service.
2009-11 Research Challenge Grant Award, NIH Director’s Office.
2010 Faculty Research Award, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa.
2010 Chair, Scientific Review Panel (Study Section) for the NIH Research Challenge Grant Initiative RC4, Methodology Development in Comparative Effectiveness Research (ZRG1 HDM C 56).
2010 Chair, Distinguished Editorial Panel for the NIH Research Challenge Grant Initiative RC4, Comparative Effectiveness Research on GERD, MRSA, and Dementia (ZRG1 HDM C 57).
2015 Faculty Inductee, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, University of Iowa Chapter.
2016 Chair, Scientific Review Panel (Study Section) for the Member Conflict: Health Care Delivery and Methodologies (ZRG HDM-S 04).
Current Positions
The John W. Colloton Chair Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health,
2003-present University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
Professor Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
2004-present Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
Professor College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
2011-present Iowa 52242.
Previous Positions
Center Co-PI Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice
2004-2009 (CRIISP; a VA-HSR&D Center of Excellence), Iowa City VA Medical Center,
Iowa City, Iowa 52246.
Professor Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health;
1996-2003 Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Saint Louis
University 63104.
Professor Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Indiana
1990-96; and, University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202; and,
Senior Regenstrief Research Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202.
Scientist, 1993-96
Resident Scientist National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, Inter-university Consortium for
1996-1998 Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.
Professor Departments of Sociology, and Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University,
1987-90; and, College Station, Texas, 77843.
Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
1985-87
Associate Professor Doctoral Program in Health Services Research, Center for Health Services
and Director, 1981-85; Education and Research, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri
and, 63104.
Coordinator for Research Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri
HSR&D, 1983-85 63125.
Senior Research Department of Statistical Analysis, Center for Health Services Research and
Associate, 1981; and, Development, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois 60610.
Research Associate, 1979-80
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27834.
1977-79
Teaching Experiences
University of Iowa Graduate Courses taught: Design Issues in Health Services Research; Guided Research.
Saint Louis University Graduate courses taught: Health Care Organization; Seminar in Health Care Organization; Seminar in Analytical and Methodological Integration; Critical Appraisal Methods and Analytical Overview Seminar.
Indiana University Courses taught: Health Care Organization (Graduate); Survey Design and Analysis (post-doctoral fellows); Measurement and Modeling in Survey Research (post-doctoral fellows).
Texas A&M University Courses taught: Social Gerontology (Graduate); Sociology of Health (Graduate and Undergraduate); Advanced Research Methods (Undergraduate).
East Carolina Courses taught: Sociology of Health (Graduate and Undergraduate); Social Statistics
University (Graduate and Undergraduate); Social Research Methods (Undergraduate); and, Introductory Sociology.
Editorial Experiences
Editor, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 1998-2001.
Deputy Editor, Medical Care, 1988-97.
Editorial Boards: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1981-83, 1991-93, 1998-2000; Journal of Gerontology, 1985-86, 1990-93, 2006-08; Journal of Aging and Health, 1988-95, 2010-2012; The Gerontologist, 1994-97; Medical Care Research and Review, 1988-91; The Sociological Quarterly, 1978-84.
Reviewer: Health Services Research, Medical Care, Social Forces, Journal of the American Medical Association, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Journals of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, American Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Quality of Life Research, American Journal of Epidemiology, Age and Ageing, Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Memberships in Professional Societies
American Sociological Association, American Public Health Association, Gerontological Society of America, AcademyHealth.
Elected Offices in the American Sociological Association
Secretary-Treasurer-elect (1988-89) and Secretary-Treasurer (1989-91) of the Medical Sociology Section.
Chair-elect (1993-94), Chair (1994-95), and Past-Chair (1995-1996) of the Medical Sociology Section.
Council Member (2003-2006) of the Section on Aging and the Life Course.
Publications
Books
1. Wolinsky, F.D. The Sociology of Health: Principles, Professions, and Issues. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980; 449 pp.
2. Wolinsky, F.D., and W.D. Marder. The Organization of Medical Practice and the Practice of Medicine. Ann Arbor: Health Administration Press, 1985; 170 pp.
3. Wolinsky, F.D. The Sociology of Health: Principles, Practitioners, and Issues, second edition. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988; 384 pp. [Chinese translation by S. Muhung and F. Wei published in Beijing by Liao Ning Publishing House, 1992.]
4. Wolinsky, F.D. Health and Health Behavior Among Elderly Americans: An Age-Stratification Perspective. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1990; 249 pp.
Refereed Journal Articles
1. Wolinsky, F.D., S.A. Cernkovich, and L.J. Crisler. Wizardry and deception: A research note on ordinal and interval path regressions. Cornell Journal of Social Relations, vol. 11:2, 1976, pp. 139-51.
2. Wolinsky, F.D. Health services utilization and attitudes toward health maintenance organizations: A theoretical and methodological discussion. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 17:3, 1976, pp. 221-36.
3. Wolinsky, F.D. The "generalized other" and the "me": An empirical assessment of the Meadian hypothesis. Sociological Symposium, vol. 11:4, 1978, pp. 40-62.
4. Wolinsky, F.D. Assessing the effects of predisposing, enabling, and illness-morbidity characteristics on health services utilization. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 19:4, 1978, pp. 384-96.
5. Wolinsky, F.D. The performance of health maintenance organizations: An analytic review. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, vol. 58:4, 1980, pp. 537-87. Reprinted in J.B. McKinlay, ed., Health Maintenance Organizations. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1982, pp. 248-97.
6. Wolinsky, F.D., and M.E. Zusman. Toward comprehensive health status measures. The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 21:4, 1980, pp. 607-21.
7. Wolinsky, F.D., and S.R. Wolinsky. Background, attitudinal, and behavioural patterns of individuals occupying eight discrete health states. Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 3:1, 1981, pp. 31-48.
8. Wolinsky, F.D. The problems for academic and entrepreneurial research in the use of health services: The case of unstable structural relationships. The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 22:2, 1981, pp. 207-23.
9. Wolinsky, F.D., and S.R. Wolinsky. Expecting sick-role legitimation and getting it. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 23:3, 1981, pp. 229-42.
10. Wolinsky, F.D., and S.R. Steiber. Salient issues in choosing a new doctor. Social Science and Medicine, vol. 16:7, 1982, pp. 759-67.
11. Wolinsky, F.D. Assessing the effects of the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of health on the use of health services. The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 23:2, 1982, pp. 191-206.
12. Wolinsky, F.D., and W.D. Marder. Spending time with patients: The impact of organizational structure on medical practice. Medical Care, vol. 20:10, 1982, pp. 1051-9.
13. Wolinsky, F.D. Why physicians choose different types of practice settings. Health Services Research, vol. 17:4, 1982, pp. 399-419.
14. Wolinsky, F.D., and W.D. Marder. HMOs: The concept, new evidence and implications. Medical Group Management, vol. 29:4, 1982, pp. 50-2, 58.
15. Wolinsky, F.D. Racial differences in illness behavior. Journal of Community Health, vol. 8:2, 1982, pp. 87-101.
16. Wolinsky, F.D., and W.D. Marder. Waiting to see the doctor: The impact of organizational structure on medical practice. Medical Care, vol. 21:5, 1983, pp. 531-42.
17. Goodman, L.J., and F.D. Wolinsky. Conditional logit analysis of physicians' practice mode choices. Inquiry, vol. 19:2, 1982, pp. 262-70.
18. Wolinsky, F.D., and R.S. Kurz. How the public chooses and views hospitals. Hospital and Health Services Administration, vol. 29:6, 1984, pp. 59-67.
19. Wolinsky, F.D., and W.D. Marder. The organization of medical practice and primary care physician income. American Journal of Public Health, vol. 73:4, 1983, pp. 379-82.
20. Wolinsky, F.D., R.M. Coe, D.K. Miller, and J.M. Prendergast. Measurement of the global and functional dimensions of health status in the elderly. Journal of Gerontology, vol. 39:1, 1984, pp. 88-92.
21. Wolinsky, F.D., R.M. Coe, D.K. Miller, J.M. Prendergast, M.J. Creel, and M.N. Chavez. Health service utilization among the noninstitutionalized elderly. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 25:4, 1983, pp. 325-37.
22. Wolinsky, F.D., and R.M. Coe. Physician and hospital utilization among noninstitutionalized elderly adults: An analysis of the Health Interview Survey. Journal of Gerontology, vol. 39:3, 1984, pp. 334-41.
23. Coe, R.M., F.D. Wolinsky, D.K. Miller, and J.M. Prendergast. Social network relationships and use of physician services: A re-examination. Research on Aging, vol. 6:2, 1984, pp. 243-56.
24. Kurz, R.S., and F.D. Wolinsky. Who engages in health protective behaviors: A replication. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, vol. 4:3, 1983-84, pp. 251-63.
25. Kurz, R.S., and F.D. Wolinsky. Who picks the hospital: Practitioner or patient? Hospital and Health Services Administration, vol. 30:2, 1985, pp. 95-106.
26. Wolinsky, F.D., J.M. Prendergast, D.K. Miller, R.M. Coe, and M.N. Chavez. A preliminary validation of a nutritional risk measure for the elderly. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 1:2, 1985, pp. 53-9.
27. Coe, R.M., F.D. Wolinsky, D.K. Miller, and J.M. Prendergast. Complementary and compensatory functions in social network relationships among the elderly. The Gerontologist, vol. 24:3, 1984, pp. 396-400.
28. Gillespie, K., A. Elixhauser, D. Reker, J. Fletcher, and F.D. Wolinsky. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging: A discussion and some examples. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 1:3, 1985, pp. 537-50.
29. Wolinsky, F.D., R.M. Coe, M.N. Chavez, J.M. Prendergast, and D.K. Miller. Further assessment of the reliability and validity of a nutritional risk index: Analysis of a three-wave panel study of elderly adults. Health Services Research, vol. 20:6, 1986, pp. 977-90.
30. Wolinsky, F.D., R.M. Coe, D.K. Miller, and J.M. Prendergast. Correlates of change in subjective well-being among the elderly. Journal of Community Health, vol. 10:2, 1985, pp. 93-107.
31. Coe, R.M., F.D. Wolinsky, D.K. Miller, and J.M. Prendergast. Elderly persons without family support networks and the use of health services: A follow-up report on social network relationships. Research on Aging, vol. 7:4, 1985, pp. 617-22.
32. Wolinsky, F.D., R.M. Coe, R.R. Mosely II, and S.M. Homan. Veterans' and nonveterans' use of health services: A comparative analysis. Medical Care, vol. 24:12, 1985, pp. 1358-71.
33. Mosely II, R.R., and F.D. Wolinsky. The use of proxies in health surveys: Substantive and policy implications. Medical Care, vol. 24:6, 1986, pp. 496-510.
34. Wolinsky, F.D., R.R. Mosely II, and R.M. Coe. A cohort analysis of the use of health services by elderly Americans. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 27:3, 1986, pp. 209-19.
35. Homan, S.M., C.C. Haddock, C.A. Winner, R.M. Coe, and F.D. Wolinsky. Widowhood, sex, labor force participation, and the use of physician services by elderly adults. Journal of Gerontology, vol. 41:6, 1986, pp.793-6.
36. Wolinsky, F.D., R.M. Coe, and R.R. Mosely II. Length of stay in the VA: Long-term care in short-term hospitals. Medical Care, vol. 25:3, 1987, pp. 250-3.
37. Wolinsky, F.D., and C.L. Arnold. A different perspective on health and health services utilization. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol. 8, 1988, pp. 71-101.
38. Wolinsky, F.D., C.L. Arnold, and I.V. Nallapati. Explaining the declining rate of physician utilization among the oldest-old. Medical Care, vol. 26:5, 1988, pp. 544-553.
39. Wolinsky, F.D. The professional dominance perspective, revisited. Milbank Quarterly, vol. 66, 1988, pp. S33-S47.
40. Wolinsky, F.D., and C.L. Arnold. A birth cohort analysis of dental contact among elderly Americans. American Journal of Public Health, vol. 79, 1989, pp. 47-51.
41. Prendergast, J.P., R.M. Coe, M.N. Chavez, J.C. Romeis, D.K. Miller, and F.D. Wolinsky. Clinical validation of a nutritional risk index. Journal of Community Health, vol. 14:3, 1989, pp. 125-135.
42. Aguirre, B.E., F.D. Wolinsky, J.N. Niederhauer, L.J. Fann, and V.M. Keith. Occupational prestige in the health care delivery system. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 30, 1989, pp. 315-329.