Roderick S. Hooker
Health Policy Consultant
Northern Arizona University Biomedical Campus, Phoenix, Arizona
USA
Biography
Roderick S. Hooker is a health policy consultant with an interest in organizational efficiency. He spent two decades with Kaiser Permanente as a health services researcher, as a PA, and then moved to the University of Texas and the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas, Texas. Following the VA he became a Senior Director with The Lewin Group in Washington, DC, a health policy-consulting firm. He is a cofounder of the International Health Workforce Collaborative that meets biennially to discuss medical organizational economics. Over the past decade Dr. Hooker served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health in Ontario and New Brunswick. A similar consultancy was in Queensland and Scotland developing their PA corps. He is now retired and lives in Southwest Washington State.
Research Interest
As a health workforce researcher with a career focus on organizational efficiency I am interested in access to care, and task transfer. My research goal is to develop a maximum substitution model for all aspects of healthcare. This work employs economics, policy analysis, medical anthropology, sociology, history and industrial engineering. Such work is collaborative and could not be done without the invaluable input of many colleagues and students over the years.