PJ Maddox
Professor
Chair, Dept. of Health Administration and Policy
Unit:
Dept. of Health Administration and Policy
Mail Stop: 1J3
Office Location: Northeast Module 106
Phone:
703-993-1982
Email: pmaddox@gmu.edu
Dr. Maddox received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in Health Systems Administration. She is a nurse with a distinguished career in nursing; health services research and hospital management. Dr. Maddox's academic and research interests range from examining the impact of financing arrangements and delivery systems to program outcomes and Health Policy analysis. She is a recognized expert in health management and strategic planning, health policy analysis and health outcomes research.
Dr. Maddox came to George Mason University in 1995 from the National Institutes of Health. At GMU she developed the graduate program in health administration and established the health services research program in the Center for Health Policy, Research & Ethics where she served as Director. At the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, she served as Deputy Director for Nursing and Service Chief for numerous institutes. She has held management and academic teaching appointments in a variety of Universities and Academic Medical Centers throughout the US (Saint Mary's Hospital, Reno, NV, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, and INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA,). She is recipient of numerous professional awards, and serves on philanthropic boards and service organizations concerned with Community Healthcare and International service. Currently she is a member of the Governing Council of the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association.
Dr. Maddox is nationally recognized as a teacher, lecturer, researcher and consultant in the fields of nursing and contemporary healthcare management. She is author of numerous textbook chapters, articles and papers on policy, technology and ethics in health management, in applied health services research and on managing health services amidst workforce shortages and limited financial resources. She is co-editing a Community resource textbook on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Planning that is expected to be published in late 2004 (Jones and Bartlett).
As a researcher Dr. Maddox's work has involved evaluation of state telehealth programs, testing a proposed federal program funding allocation methodology for the Division of Nursing, evaluating state Medicaid program outcomes and health workforce planning. She has just completed the first supply/demand analysis of nursing workforce in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Currently she is funded through a HRSA State Planning Grant to Virginia to study the problem of employed uninsured and develop an economically viable model to improve health insurance coverage.
Recent Publications:
Maddox, P. (November 2005). Using State Data in Decision Support Tools For Health Insurance Coverage Expansion. HRSA/AcademyHealth.