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DOROTHY P. RICE, DSC

Professor Emeritus, Institute for Health and Aging, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

CONTACT

dorothy.rice@ucsf.edu
(415) 476-2771 (voice)
(415) 502-5208 (fax)

Box 0646, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0646

EDUCATION

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; BA 1941, Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1941-42

Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Washington, DC, Asst. Statistical Clerk

1942-44

Statistics Division, War Production Board, Washington, DC, Economist

1944-45

Wage Stabilization Division, National War Labor Board, Washington, DC, Economist

1945-47

Case Analysis Division, National Wage Stabilization Board, Washington, DC, Economist

1947-49

Division of Hospital Facilities, Public Health Service, Washington, DC, Health Economist

1960-62

Division of Hospital & Medical Facilities, Public Health Service, Washington, DC, Public Health Analyst

1962-64

Division of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, Social Science Analyst

1964-65

Division of Community Health Services, Public Health Service, Washington, DC, Public Health Analyst

1965-72

Health Insurance Research Branch, Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, Chief

1972-76

Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, Deputy Asst.Commissioner

1976-82

National Center for Health Statistics, Public Health Service, Hyattsville, MD, Director

1982-83

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, CA, Regent's Lecturer

1983-94

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, Professor in Residence

1989-

Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Division of Research, Oakland, CA, Adjunct Investigator

1994-

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, Institute for Health, University of California San Francisco, CA, Professor Emeritus

HONORS & AWARDS

1972-present

Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

1990-present

Member, National Academy of Social Insurance

1985-1991

Member, Commonwealth Fund Commission on Elderly People Living Alone

1987-1991

Member, National Advisory Council on Aging, NIH

1987-present

Member, National Opinion Research Center Board of Trustees

1988-1994

Member, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council

1995-present

Member, Institute of Medicine Committee to Identify Strategies to Raise the Profile of Substance Abuse and Alcoholism Research

1995-present

Chair, Institute of Medicine Committee to Review the Social Security Administration1s Disability Decision Process Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(selected from approximately 200)

D. P. Rice, T. A. Hodgkin, A. N. Kopstein. The Economic Costs of Illness: A Replication and Update. Health Care Financing Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 61-80. 1985.

D. P. Rice, T. A. Hodgson, P. Sinsheimer, W. Browner, A.N. Kopstein. The Economic Costs of the Health Effects of Smoking, 1984. Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 64, No.4, pp. 489-547. 1985.

A. A. Scitovsky and D. P. Rice. Estimates of the Direct and Indirect Costs of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in the United States, 1985, 1987, and 1991. Public Health Reports, Vol. 102, No. 1, pp. 5-17. 1987.

D. P. Rice and S. Kelman. Measuring Comorbidity and Overlap in the Hospitalization Cost for Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Illness. Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 1989, pp. 249-260. 1989.

J. M. Shultz, D. P. Rice, D. L. Parker. Alcohol-Related Mortality and Years of Potential Life Loss-United States, 1987. MMWR, Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 173-178. 1990.

W. Max, D.P. Rice, E.J. MacKenzie. The Lifetime Cost of Injury. Inquiry, Winter 1990, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 332-343. 1990.

D.P. Rice, S. Kelman, L.S. Miller. Estimates of the Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Illness, 1985 and 1988. Public Health Reports, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 281-292. 1991.

D.P. Rice, S. Kelman, L. Miller. The Economic Costs of Alcoholism. Alcohol Health & Research World, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 307-316. 1991.

D.P. Rice, W. Max. The Cost of Smoking in California, 1989. Sacramento, CA: California State Department of Health Services. 1992.

D.P. Rice, S. Kelman, L. Miller. The Economic Costs of Mental Illness. Hospital and Community Psychiatry. Vol. 43, No. 12, pp.1227-1232. 1992

D. P. Rice, P. J. Fox, W. Max, P. A. Webber, D. A. Lindeman, W. W. Hauck, E. Segura. The Economic Burden of Alzheimer's Disease Care. Health Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 21 (Summer), pp. 164-176. 1993.

D.P. Rice. The Economic Cost of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Dependence: 1990 Alcohol Health & Research World, Vol.17, No.1, pp.11-12. 1993.

D.P. Rice. Cost-of-illness Studies: Fact or Fiction? Commentary, The Lancet, Vol. 344, December 3, 1994.

D.P. Rice and L.S. Miller. The Economic Burden of Affective Disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 166 (supp. 27), pp.34-42. 1995.

D.P. Rice. Health and Longevity. Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology, Edited by L. A. Vitt and J.K. Siegenthaler. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Westport, CT:237-243. 1996.

C. Hoffman and D.P. Rice. Persons with Chronic Conditions: Their Prevalence and Costs. JAMA, 276(18):1473-1479. 1996.

5/15/05

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