Jack Zwanziger, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Dr. Zwanziger has had a somewhat unusual career path. After completing his doctorate in theoretical physics, he worked for Bell Canada helping develop, maintain, and apply a complex corporate planning model. Having acquired a taste for policy while completing his MBA, he then joined the Ministry of Transportation and Communication in Ontario, Canada, eventually becoming manager of the Telecommunication Policy Office. He then went to RAND and completed a doctorate in policy analysis. He joined the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester in 1990 and left in 2002 with a rank of associate professor. Dr. Zwanziger is professor and director of the Health Policy Division in the UIC School of Public Health. He became director of the Center for Health Services Research in 2003.
Research Interests
The use of different system-wide and intervention-specific approaches to increasing the efficiency of the health care system. Specific interests include the effects of competition on hospital behavior, antitrust policy and health care markets, managed care contracting strategies, and the use of cost-effectiveness and outcomes analyses to evaluate new health care technologies.
Recent and Noteworthy Publications
Dranove D, Lindrooth R, White WD, Zwanziger J. Is the impact of managed care on hospital prices decreasing? J Health Econ. 2008 Mar;27(2):362-76.
Noyes K, Corona E, Zwanziger J, Hall WJ, Zhao H, Wang H, Moss AJ, Dick AW; Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II. Health-related quality of life consequences of implantable cardioverter defibrillators: results from MADIT II. Med Care. 2007 May;45(5):377-385.
Stone PW, Mooney-Kane C, Larson EL, Horan T, Glance LG, Zwanziger J, Dick AW. Nurse working conditions and patient safety outcomes. Med Care. 2007 Jun;45(6):571-578.
Stone PW, Mooney-Kane C, Larson EL, Pastor DK, Zwanziger J, Dick AW. Nurse working conditions, organizational climate, and intent to leave in ICUs: an instrumental variable approach. Health Serv Res. 2007 Jun;42(3 Pt 1):1085-1104.
Zwanziger J, Hall WJ, Dick AW, Zhao H, Mushlin AI, Hahn RM, Wang H, Andrews ML, Mooney C, Wang H, Moss AJ. The cost effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: results from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT)-II. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Jun 6;47(11):2310-2318.
Zwanziger J, Khan N. Safety-net activities and hospital contracting with managed care organizations. Med Care Res Rev. 2006 Dec;63(6 Suppl):90S-111S.
Honors and Awards
Fellow, Association for Health Services Research
Fellow, Employee Benefit Research Institute
Contact Info
Institute for Health Research and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 275)
486 Westside Research Office Bldg.
1747 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608
Other Title(s)
Director, Division of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health
Director, Center for Health Services Research
IHRP Affiliation(s)
Current IHRP Research Studies (PI)
Current IHRP Research Studies (Co-I)
Other Research (Non-IHRP)
Evaluating the Implementation of a Family-Focused Prevention Program: Effectiveness of SAFE Children Feeding and Transition to Home for Preterms at Social Risk;
Lowering Cholesterol in a Low Socioeconomic Status Community
Recently Completed Research
Planning Grant for Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award