Staff

The interdisciplinary staff at CHSRA have a variety of research, teaching, and professional experience in analytical and clinical areas. Staff members have formal training, teaching, and research experience in analytical and clinical areas such as decision theory, epidemiology, economics, engineering, ergonomics, family resources, information systems, health administration, mass communication, journalism, oncology, policy analysis, program evaluation, psychology, social welfare and statistics. Staff members also possess professional experience in providing and regulating health care. Clinical backgrounds include mental health counseling, nursing, and pharmacy as well as access to physicians of all specialties.

• Director
• Founder
• Principal Investigators and Project Directors
• Researchers and Staff
• Consultants
• Graduate Students

Director

James M. Robinson, Ph.D., FSA, MAAA
Senior Scientist

Founder

David H. Gustafson, Ph.D.

Principal Investigators and Project Directors

Trudy Karlson
Emeritus

Sarita L. Karon, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

Robert Newsom, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

Barbara Rudolph, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

David R. Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Researchers and Staff

Gerard Averill
Researcher

Patricia Beutel
Associate Researcher

Laura Campbell
Researcher

Kris Engbring
Senior Administrative Program Specialist

Laurie Holman
Associate Researcher

Dora Kilburn
Senior Programmer Analyst

Susan Oliveira
Researcher

Karen Reilly
Associate Scientist

Nate Richgels
Assistant Researcher

Jennifer Robinson
Senior Programmer Analyst

Richard Ross
Researcher

Brenda Ryther
Researcher

Mary Schlaak
Research Specialist

Mary Ann Sveum
Program Assistant

Janne Swearengen
Researcher

Patti Zoromski
Researcher

Consultants

Wayne Bigelow
Consulting Scientist

Ted Collins
Consulting Pharmacist

Rick Shannon
Consulting Pharmacist

Graduate Students

Ajay Jayakumar

Wairimu Magua

Gabe Norgaard

Heidi Severtson

Rachel Weber