Kevin Frick(1985)

College/Degrees

PSU, BS, Health Policy and Administration 1991
Univeristy of Michigan, MA Economics 1994
Univeristy of Michigan, PhD Economics and Health Services
Research 1996

Employer/Job Title

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins BLoomberg School of Public
Health

Accomplishments

Look up Frick KD on PubMed, over 100 peer reviewed publicaitons:
Substitutive Hospital at Home for older persons: effects on costs. Frick KD, Burton LC, Clark R, Mader SI, Naughton WB, Burl JB,
Greenough WB, Steinwachs DM, Leff B. Am J Manag Care. 2009 Jan;15(1):49-56.
Financial and quality-of-life burden of dysfunctional uterine bleeding among women agreeing to obtain surgical treatment. Frick KD,
Clark MA, Steinwachs DM, Langenberg P, Stovall D, Munro MG, Dickersin K; STOP-DUB Research Group. Womens Health Issues.
2009 Jan-Feb;19(1):70-8.
Epidemiological economics. Frick KD. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2008 Mar-Apr;15(2):73-5.
Economic welfare implications of differently structured vision care markets. Frick KD, Walker DG. Br J Ophthalmol. 2008
Mar;92(3):301-2.
Gender bias in economic evaluation methods: quality of life and family role effects. Frick KD, Jones AS. Womens Health Issues. 2008
Jan-Feb;18(1):4-6.
Editorial: the paradox of economic tools promoting equitable access to self-sustainable services for the poorest–increased inequality.
Frick KD, Baruwa EM. Trop Med Int Health. 2007 Jul;12(7):799-801.
Direct costs of blindness experienced by patients enrolled in managed care. Frick KD, Walt JG, Chiang TH, Doyle JJ, Stern LS, Katz
LM, Dolgitser M, Hendlish SK.Ophthalmology. 2008 Jan;115(1):11-7. Epub 2007 May 1.
Economic impact of visual impairment and blindness in the United States. Frick KD, Gower EW, Kempen JH, Wolff JL. Arch
Ophthalmol. 2007 Apr;125(4):544-50.

Testimonial

While I did not end up in one of the sciences featured in the PGSS 1985 curriculum, the experience did two things for me. First, it made me aware that there were a lot of other people out there who were just as scientifically curious as I was. That was not obvious from myhigh school experience. Second, it opened up insight into geneal principles of scientific inquiry and logic that I have continued to use in my career since then. Plus, it taught me that people interested in science can be fun, understandable, down to earth people and I try to reflect that in my own course development and teaching now.