DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Outcomes Research

Research Abstract

James is a board certified internist and practicing clinician. His work focuses on operations research, decision analysis, outcomes research, and industrial design and he has particular expertise in simulation modeling as applied to healthcare.

Dr. Stahl attended medical school at McGill University and completed a joint internal medicine residency between NSUH – Cornell Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then completed a National Library of Medicine fellowship in Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine at New England Medical Center – Tufts University School of Medicine. While there, in addition to his training he worked on the clinical decision analysis consult service, developed and helped implement several internal hospital guidelines and decision support tools and helped develop and grow the international telemedicine program. He then went to University of Pittsburgh, where he worked in the area of liver allocation policy and completed his MPH at the Graduate School of Public Health and received the award for best health policy thesis.

His research interests include discrete-event simulation, operations research, decision analysis, meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, utility assessment, game theory, market design, ethics in the context of limited medical resources and applying industrial design to problem solving in health care.

His current primary areas of research are health care system redesign, organ allocation policy and the role of new organ replacement technologies, and allocation of and access to cancer therapies.

Publications

• Stahl JE, Vacanti JP, Gazelle S.Assessing emerging technologies--the case of organ replacement technologies: volume, durability, cost.Int J Technol Assess Health Care 2007 Summer;23(3):331-6.
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• Stahl JE, Goldman JM, Rattner DW, Gazelle GS.Adapting to a new system of surgical technologies and perioperative processes among clinicians.J Surg Res 2007 May 1;139(1):61-7.
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• Stahl JE, Sandberg WS, Daily B, Wiklund R, Egan MT, Goldman JM, Isaacson KB, Gazelle S, Rattner DW.Reorganizing patient care and workflow in the operating room: a cost-effectiveness study.Surgery 2006 Jun;139(6):717-28.
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• Shechter SM, Bryce CL, Alagoz O, Kreke JE, Stahl JE, Schaefer AJ, Angus DC, Roberts MS.A clinically based discrete-event simulation of end-stage liver disease and the organ allocation process.Med Decis Making 2005 Mar-Apr;25(2):199-209.
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• Stahl JE, Kong N, Shechter SM, Schaefer AJ, Roberts MS.A methodological framework for optimally reorganizing liver transplant regions.Med Decis Making 2005 Jan-Feb;25(1):35-46.
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• Vidal-Trecan GM, Stahl JE, Eckman MH.Radioiodine or surgery for toxic thyroid adenoma: dissecting an important decision. A cost-effectiveness analysis.Thyroid 2004 Nov;14(11):933-45.
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• Stahl JE, Furie KL, Gleason S, Gazelle GS.Stroke: Effect of implementing an evaluation and treatment protocol compliant with NINDS recommendations.Radiology 2003 Sep;228(3):659-68.
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• Stahl JE, Roberts MS, Gazelle S.Optimizing management and financial performance of the teaching ambulatory care clinic.J Gen Intern Med 2003 Apr;18(4):266-74.
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