Bio
Professor Zubkoff’s teaching and research focuses on health care economics and management.
Current Research Topics
- Identifying and understanding the differing perspectives within the health care value chain, including providers, suppliers, payers and consumers, and examining the market dynamics among these players
- Measuring variations in the process, outcomes, and costs of medical care for patients treated in different systems of care
- Examining the critical issues facing business leaders as they approach and finance health benefits for employees, manage cost, and choose the strategies for recruiting and retaining a productive workforce
- Understanding the nuances related to health care investing, including the impact of regulation, reimbursement and health reform
Professional Activities
Academic positions
- Tuck School of Business, 1975–present
- Director, MD-MBA Program at Dartmouth, 1995–present
- Professor and Chair of Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1975–2015
- Associate Professor of Health Economics, and Director of Health Services Research Training Program in Economics, Vanderbilt University, 1972–75
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Fisk University, 1967–70
- Vice-Chair, Department of Family and Community Health, Meharry Medical College, 1967–75
Nonacademic positions
- Board of Trustees, American University of Kosovo, 2010–present
- Correspondent, Committee on Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences, 1984–present
- Chair, Board of Directors, Health Assessment Laboratory/Medical Outcomes Trust, a not-for-profit charitable trust that holds title to the SF-36 and SF-12 patient reported functional status instruments
- Adviser and consultant to the White House staffs of presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate, and corporate executives
Awards
- Who's Who in America, 1975–present
- Member, National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, elected 1983
- Member, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Academy of Sciences, 2007–13
- Article of the Year Award, Prize for best paper of the year awarded by Association for Health Services Research, 1993
- Article of the Year Award, Prize for best paper of the year awarded by Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 1989
Selected Publications
- “Economic Impact of a Primary Care Career: A Harsh Reality for Medical Students and the Nation,” Academic Medicine, 85(11), November 2010
- With K. Shannon, W. Dysinger, E. Nelson, and P. Batalden, "Office of the Future," American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Home Study Program, December 2003 (re-issued 2008)
- "Cost-Effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment Versus Standard Case Management for Persons with Co-Occurring Severe Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders," Health Services Research, 33, 1998
- "A Longitudinal Study of Hospitalization Rates for Patients with Chronic Disease: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study," Health Services Research, 32, 1998
- "Measuring Resource Use in Economic Evaluations: Determining the Social Costs of Mental Health," The Journal of Mental Health Administration, 21(1), 1994
- "Health, Society and the Physician: Problem-Based Learning of the Social Sciences and Humanities," Annals of Internal Medicine, 116, 1992
- "Methods of Sampling," Measuring Functional Status and Well-Being: The Medical Outcomes Study Approach, Duke University Press, 1992
- "Differences in the Mix of Patients Among Medical Specialties and Systems of Care: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study," Journal of the American Medical Association, 267(12), 1992