About CHSRA: Staff

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The interdisciplinary staff at CHSRA have a variety of research, teaching, and professional experience in analytical and clinical areas. Staff members have formal training, teaching, and research experience in analytical and clinical areas such as decision theory, epidemiology, economics, engineering, ergonomics, family resources, information systems, health administration, mass communication, journalism, oncology, policy analysis, program evaluation, psychology, social welfare and statistics. Staff members also possess professional experience in providing and regulating health care. Clinical backgrounds include mental health counseling, nursing, and pharmacy as well as access to physicians of all specialties.

Director
Deputy Director
Founder
Principal Investigators and Project Directors
Researchers and Staff
Consultants
Graduate Students

Director

David R. Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Professor

Deputy Director

James M. Robinson, Ph.D., FSA, MAAA
Senior Scientist

Founder

David H. Gustafson, Ph.D.

Principal Investigators and Project Directors

Trudy Karlson
Emeritus

Sarita L. Karon, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist

Robert Newsom, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

Barbara Rudolph, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist

Allan D. Stegemann, M.A.
Associate Scientist

Researchers and Staff

John Matt Austin
Researcher

Gerard Averill
Researcher

Patricia Beutel
Associate Researcher

Laura Campbell
Researcher

Kris Engbring
Senior Administrative Program Specialist

Laurie Holman
Assistant Researcher

Kay Hutchison
Researcher

Dora Kilburn
Senior Programmer Analyst

Donna Kopp
Researcher

Robert Meyer
Research Specialist

Susan Oliveira
Associate Researcher

Jennie Psota
Program Assistant

Karen Reilly
Associate Scientist

Nate Richgels
Assistant Researcher

Lorraine Roberts
Associate Researcher

Jennifer Robinson
Programmer Analyst

Richard Ross
Researcher

Brenda Ryther
Researcher

Mary Ann Sveum
Program Assistant

Janne Swearengen
Researcher

Patti Zoromski
Researcher

Consultants

Wayne Bigelow
Consulting Scientist

Ted Collins
Consulting Pharmacist

Rick Shannon
Consulting Pharmacist

Graduate Students

Ajay Jayakumar

Wairimu Magua

Gabe Norgaard

Heidi Severtson

Rachel Weber