James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH

Senior Scientist Stahl, James
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
 
Mailing Address: Institute for Technology Assessment
Massachusetts General Hospital
101 Merrimac St., 10th FL
Boston, MA 02114

fax: 617-726-9414
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Description:

James Stahl is a board certified internist and practicing clinician.  His work focuses on operations research, decision analysis, outcomes research, and industrial design and he has particular expertise in simulation modeling as applied to healthcare.

Dr. Stahl attended medical school at McGill University and completed a joint internal medicine residency between NSUH - Cornell Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then completed a National Library of Medicine fellowship in Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine at New England Medical Center - Tufts University School of Medicine. While there, in addition to his training he worked on the clinical decision analysis consult service, developed and helped implement several internal hospital guidelines and decision support tools and helped develop and grow the international telemedicine program. He then went to University of Pittsburgh, where he worked in the area of liver allocation policy and completed his MPH at the Graduate School of Public Health and received the award for best health policy thesis.

His research interests include discrete-event simulation, operations research, decision analysis, meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, utility assessment, game theory, market design, ethics in the context of limited medical resources and applying industrial design to problem solving in health care.

His current primary areas of research are health care system redesign and organ allocation policy and the role of new organ replacement technologies.

Publications

  • Hassett, M., Rao, S. R., Brozovic, S., Stahl, J., Schwartz, J. H., Maloney, B. & Jacobson, J. O. (2011). Chemotherapy-related hospitalization among community cancer center patients. Oncologist, 16, 378-87. [Online version]
  • Stahl, J., Holt, J. & Gagliano, N. J. (2011). Understanding performance and behavior of tightly coupled outpatient systems using RFID: initial experience. J Med Syst, 35, 291-7. [Online version]
  • Stahl, J., Drew, M., Leone, D. & Crowley, R. S. (2011). Measuring process change in primary care using real-time location systems: feasibility and the results of a natural experiment. Technol Health Care, 19, 415-21. [Online version]
  • Hayes, J., Ollendorf, D. A., Pearson, S., Barry, M. J., Kantoff, P. W., Stewart, S. T., Bhatnagar, V., Sweeney, C. J., Stahl, J. & McMahon, P. M. (2010). Active surveillance compared with initial treatment for men with low-risk prostate cancer: a decision analysis. JAMA, 304(21), 2373-80. [Online version]
  • Swan, J. S., Ying, J., Stahl, J., Kong, C. Y., Moy, B., Roy, J. & Halpern, E. F. (2010). Initial development of the Temporary Utilities Index: a multiattribute system for classifying the functional health impact of diagnostic testing. Qual Life Res, 19(3), 401-12. [Online version]
 
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