CAROL KRAKER STOCKMAN, Ph.D Castleman Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / ckstockman@gmail.com

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1 CAROL KRAKER STOCKMAN, Ph.D Castleman Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / ckstockman@gmail.com CONSULTANT and APPLIED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ECONOMIST, providing sound and well-crafted analytical and quantitative solutions for clients in the health care, public and non-profit sectors Uniquely qualified to achieve client goals by the combination of a doctorate in economics; advanced work in health economics, including cost-effectiveness analysis and the psychometrics of survey design; a strong orientation in quantitative data analysis; a demonstrated ability to become conversant in diverse technical fields; and excellent communication QUALIFICATIONS and writing AND skills. EXPERTISE Survey Design Survey Data Analysis Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis Research Project Design Data Interpretation & Presentation Grant and Proposal Writing RECENT CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS Medical Claims Analysis Statistical Analysis Econometric Modeling Research Project Design Outcomes Evaluation Validation of Survey Instruments Large Health Insurer (Spring 2008) Completed complex analysis of Medicaid maternity program Identified potentially-modifiable maternal characteristics associated with unfavorable outcomes (e.g., low birth-weight babies, NICU utilization) Assessed emerging trends in healthcare utilization, associated costs, and the extent to which socioeconomic and other risk factors impacted maternal and neonatal health. Focused on the assessment of patient and market segment characteristics to determine where resources might be deployed cost-effectively to increase favorable maternity outcomes for mother and child. Complicated analysis required linking multiple data files in various formats, representing mothers with newborns over a 3-year period. Medical School-Affiliated Research Center (June 2008 present) Independently retained by three researchers to collaborate on health research grant proposals Wide-ranging fields of study including end-of-life care, physician decision making, and patient adherence Providing input on research designs utilizing a variety of methodologies, including: primary and secondary data collection, qualitative and quantitative data, and identification of appropriate analytical methods for resulting data Structuring, writing and editing grant proposals Identifying relevant academic literature and integrating prior scholarship into approach and study design To date, this collaborative relationship has resulted in six grant submissions, two to the NIH and two to national foundations; three have been funded OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1

2 California University of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing, California, PA Adjunct Assistant Professor (2010-present) Developing and teaching online course entitled Financial Management in Non-Profit Health Care Organizations (NUR 715) in the Master of Science in Nursing Program University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA Research Assistant Professor ( ) and Visiting Research Assistant Professor ( ) Primary appointment in Department of Health Policy & Management; Secondary appointment in Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences; Core Faculty, Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh; Affiliate Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh Successfully obtained NIH-funded Career Development Award Research concentrations included experimental design and implementation; medical decision making; cost-effectiveness analysis; racial treatment disparities Lectured in health economics, cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis Claims-Based Surveillance to Identify Injury Precursors (NIOSH-funded study) Project Director ( ) Analyzed City of Philadelphia municipal workers compensation claims to develop procedures and protocols to transform medical claims data into a surveillance system for work-related injuries and illnesses, to prevent injury clusters by predicting precursor events. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, PA Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant ( ) Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas Research Assistant (Summer 1993) Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Intern to R. E. Browning, Chief Economist (1991) EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, University of Pittsburgh (1999) B.S. Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (1992) Post-Doctoral Training includes Expert Workshop, Advanced Methods for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, University of York, England COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES include: President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the ARCS Foundation, a 150-member 501(c3) corporation committed to advancing science and technology through financial support of promising graduate students; over a seven-year history, the Chapter has committed an aggregate of $760,000 to students at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS include: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Economic Science Association, Society for Medical Decision Making, Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2

3 CAROL KRAKER STOCKMAN, Ph.D. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES GRANT FUNDING: Principal Investigator (75% effort), Risk and Preferences: Racial Disparities in Cardiac Care (Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award). National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (5 K25 HL ), 04/02 03/07 ($512,801 total). Co-Investigator (10% effort, donated), Reasons for Disparities in Joint Replacement Utilization (CK Kwoh, PI). VA RS&D (ECV ), 10/03 09/06 ($957,290 total). PUBLICATIONS: Cooper, DJ and CK Stockman. History Dependence and the Formation of Social Preferences: An Experimental Study. Economic Inquiry. Forthcoming. Cooper, DJ and CK Stockman. Fairness and Learning: An Experimental Examination. Games and Economic Behavior. 2002; 41(1), Cooper, DJ and CK Stockman. Learning to Punish: Experimental Evidence from a Sequential Step-Level Public Goods Game. Experimental Economics. 2002; 5(1), Peele, PB and CK Stockman. Treatment Costs in Sleep Apnea: Estimates and Considerations, American Thoracic Society Report, Peele, PB, Stockman, CK, Kagel, J and E Frank. Chronic Disease Management and Bilateral Bargaining: The Case of Bipolar Disorder. IAREP/SABE Conference Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, INVITED LECTURES RELATED TO RESEARCH: Nuances in the Measurement of Patients Risk Preferences. Monthly Modeling Meeting, Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, University of Pittsburgh, September The Stability of Belief in Personal Luck. Behavioral Decision Research Seminar, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, March Measuring Risk Preferences and Risk Perceptions in a Patient Population. Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May Risk Preferences, Risk Perception and Racial Treatment Disparities. Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August Race, Risk Preferences & Luck. Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, March

4 SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS: Stockman CK, King, Jr. JT, Roberts MS, and GE Switzer. The Stability of Belief in Personal Luck Over Time and Across Changes in Health Status. Annual Research Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada, November Stockman CK, and MS Roberts. The Influence of Belief in Luck on Choices Involving Uncertainty. 27 th Annual Research Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Francisco, CA, October Stockman CK, and MS Roberts. The Effect of the Hypothetical Nature of the Decision Task on Measurements of Health Risk Preferences. 27 th Annual Research Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Francisco, CA, October Stockman CK and MS Roberts. Risk Preferences over Health and Monetary Domains in a Patient Population. International Conference of the Economic Science Association, Montreal, Canada, June 2005 (Oral abstract). Stockman CK, King JT Jr and MS Roberts. Is Belief in Luck Stable? 25 th Annual Research Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Chicago, IL, October Stockman CK, Cook RL, King JT Jr and MS Roberts. The Relationship Between Self-Reported Feelings of Luck and Life Experiences. 25 th Annual Research Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Chicago, IL, October Stockman CK, King JT Jr, Cook RL and MS Roberts. Racial Treatment Disparities and Belief in Luck as a Measure of Risk Perceptions. 20 th Annual Research Meeting of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Washington, D.C., June Stockman CK. A Pilot to Measure Risk Preferences in a Patient Population. [Oral Presentation]. 71 st Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, Tampa, FL, November Stockman, CK, Switzer GE, King JT Jr, and MS Roberts. Measuring Patient Risk Perceptions by Way of Belief in Luck. 23 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Diego, CA, October 2001 (Oral abstract). Stockman CK and MS Roberts. Risk Preferences and Race. [Oral Presentation] 23 rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, San Diego, CA, October Peele PB, Stockman CK, and DJ Tollerud. Injury surveillance using existing workers compensation claims data. National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, Center for Disease Control and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, PA, October Peele, PB, Stockman, C, and DJ Tollerud. Using Existing Workers Compensation Medical Claims Data to Improve Workplace Safety. Research to Action: Shaping the Health System in the new Millennium, Association for Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA, June Tollerud, DJ, Peele, PB, and CK Stockman. A Low Cost Approach to Evaluating Workplace Safety Programs. American College of Preventive Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, March Stockman, CK and DJ Cooper. An Experimental Study of Fairness and Learning in a Public Goods Game. [Oral Presentation] International Conference of the Economic Science Association, Mannheim, Germany, June Stockman, CK and DJ Cooper. Fairness and Learning in a Sequential MCS Game. [Oral Presentation] Southern Economic Association, Washington, D.C., November

5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Graduate Courses: Financial Management in Non-Profit Health Care Organizations (On-line course, taught and developed) Introduction to Health Policy & Management (On-line course, Co-taught and developed) Health Economics (Co-taught) Undergraduate Courses: Money and Banking Principles of Microeconomics 5