Includes research and reference materials pertaining to Frank A. Sloan's research at Duke University. Types of materials include reprints, manuals, survey instruments, raw data, manuscript materials, notes, questionnaires, course materials, reports, court files, surveys, research, manuals, and computer disks. Also includes curriculum materials from Sloan's course in the Department of Economics. Major subjects include alcohol abuse, alcoholic intoxication, insurance liability, malpractice, Medicaid, long-term care, and retirement communities. Major subjects include alcohol abuse, alcoholic intoxication, insurance liability, malpractice, Medicaid, long-term care, and retirement communities. Materials range in date from 1933 to 2017.
Frank A. Sloan received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1969. In July 1993, Sloan came to Duke as a professor of economics where he is the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and, in 1998, became the director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke.Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Sloan was a research economist at the Rand Corporation and on the faculties of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt, he was the chair of the Department of Economics from 1986 to 1989.Research interests are health policy and the economics of aging, hospitals, health, pharmaceuticals, substance abuse, medical malpractice, physician behavior, and hospital behavior.Sloan has served on several national advisory public and private groups. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission. Sloan has received funding from numerous research grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center for Disease Control, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the National Institute on Aging, and he received the Investigator Award for his work on the project "Reoccurring Crises in Medical Malpractice."
Organized into the following series based on accession: Accession A2004.053, 1981-2002; Accession A2004.055, 1988-2000; Accession A2004.058, 1989-2003; Accession A2004.060, 1996-2002; Accession A2004.061, 1968-2003; Accession A2004.062, 1987-1990; Accession A2005.030, 1977-2004; Accession A2005.034, 1976-2002; Accession A2005.035, circa 1976-2002; Accession A2005.054, 1973-2002; Accession A2007.038, 1965-1989; Accession A2007.095, 1996-2007; Accession A2008.030, 1978-2007; Accession A2008.054: Birth Outcomes Study Materials, circa 1989-1998; Accession A2008.058: Alcohol: Drinkers, Drivers and Bartenders, undated; Accession A2008.061: Multiple Sclerosis, undated; Accession A2008.085, undated; Accession A2009.005, undated; Accession A2009.031, undated; Accession A2009.043, undated; Accession A2010.025, 1955-1998; Accession A2011.057, 1981-2004; Accession A2017.003, 1974-2011, Accession A2017.008, 2010-2016; Accession A2017.013, 1933-2013; Accession A2017.016, 1978-2017; Accession A2017.023, 2011-2017; Computer Files, undatedMaterial within this collection has been organized by accession reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. Researchers should note that material within each accession overlaps with/or relates to material found in other accessions. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers will need to consult each accession described in the Series Scope and Contents section.Researchers should also note that similar material can be arranged differently in each accession, depending on how the material was organized when it was received by the DUMCA.
