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Beth A. Virnig,
PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist who is an Assistant Professor in
the Division of Health Services Research and Policy at the University
of Minnesota School of Public Health. She has over 12 years experience
working with Medicare data. Dr. Virnig is a co-investigator on
Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) project and leads the
ResDAC training workshop activities. For the past three years,
she has presented a graduate level course on the use of administrative
data. She has been the lead author or has co-authored many papers
in examining use of the Medicare Hospice benefit. Her other areas
of interest include Medicare Managed Care and Cancer Care.
Sara Kind,
MS, is a statistician who is a research fellow in the Division
of Health Services Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
School of Public Health. She has worked on studies of cancer care
and end-of-life care for five years. She was the lead analyst
on a series of papers examining patterns of hospice use prior
to death and worked on efforts to develop an algorithm to identify
incident cancer cases from Medicare data. She has presented several
posters on the results of these projects and is co-author on several
papers. She also is a Technical Advisor for ResDAC.
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