HAP Affiliate Faculty, HAP
Contact Information
Biography
Dr. Danny R. Hughes serves as the Research Director and as a Senior Research Fellow of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute. An economist by training, his research focuses on the roles of technology, innovation, and incentives in the delivery and usage of health care services with a specific focus on the economics of diagnostic imaging. He has a passion for developing mathematical models with practical and relevant policy applications and is equally at home performing economic and econometric analyses as developing optimization and simulation models common to operations research. His research has been published in leading journals such as Health Affairs, Medical Care, and IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management.
Dr. Hughes' previous experience includes serving on the faculties of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's Department of Health Administration and Policy and the University of South Alabama's Department of Economics and Finance. He has also held non-academic positions as an Assistant Director of Research for the American College of Radiology, a Research Fellow at the Logistics Management Institute, and as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Operations Specialist in the United States Army.
Research
Research Interests
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Technology, innovation, and incentives in the delivery and usage of health care services
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Economics of diagnostic imaging
Selected Publications
Hughes, D.R., Jiang, M., & Duszak, R. (2015). A comparison of diagnostic imaging ordering patterns between advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians following office-based evaluation and management visits. JAMA Internal Medicine, 175(1), 101-107.
Jiang, M., Hughes, D.R., Appleton, C., McGinty, G., & Duszak, R. (2015). Recent trends in adherence to continuous screening for breast cancer among Medicare beneficiaries. Preventive Medicine, 73, 47-52.
Jiang, M., Hughes, D.R., & Duszak, R. (2015). Screening mammography rates in the Medicare population before and after the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force guideline change: An interrupted time series analysis. Women’s Health Issues, 25(3), 239-245.
Hughes, D.R., & Khaliq, A. (2014). The effect of macroeconomic conditions on the care decisions of the employed. Medical Care, 52(2), 121-127.
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, University of Georgia, Athens
- BS, Economics, George Institute of Technology, Atlanta