Roderick S. Hooker
Northern Arizona University, 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.
Abstract
Abstract : The Contributions of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Primary Health Care