Ira Moscovice, Ph.D.

Dr. Moscovice is the Mayo Professor and Head of the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. He has been the director of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center since its inception in 1992.

Dr. Moscovice has more than 30 years experience conducting rural health research and has served as the principal investigator for numerous rural health projects funded by federal and state agencies and private foundations, including the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Northwest Area Foundation. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award from the National Rural Health Association in 1992, and received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research in 2002.

His current research interests include the development of rural quality and patient safety measures, implementation of quality and patient safety initiatives in rural environments, the operation and financing of small rural hospitals and evaluation of alternative rural health care delivery systems. Dr. Moscovice was a Co-Principal Investigator for the Multi-Center National Evaluation of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program from 1999-2003 and currently serves as the Principal Investigator for the 2003-2008 Flex Program Monitoring Team.

Dr. Moscovice has served on numerous rural health and health services research and policy advisory committees for federal agencies and private foundations, including the Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care and the Access to Health Care Services Monitoring Committee of the Institute of Medicine; the Health Services Research Study Section of Agency for Health Care Research and Quality; and the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Coming Home Program.

Dr. Moscovice received his Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences from Yale University in 1976.