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Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

Professor Forman is a health services researcher focusing on diagnostic radiology, health policy, and healthcare leadership. His most recent publications address Teleradiology, international outsourcing, the incentives that medical students respond to in choosing a specialty, and ensuring quality in imaging services. Professor Forman teaches healthcare policy in the Yale School of Public Health and Healthcare Economics in the Yale College Economics Department. He is the faculty founder and director of the MD/MBA program between Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Management as well as the co-director of the School of Management's MBA for Executives Program. As a practicing cross-sectional and emergency/trauma radiologist, he is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, healthcare compliance, and contracting. He has worked in the US Senate, as a legislative fellow, working on Medicare legislation. His most recent consulting engagements have involved Medicare finance and reimbursement, Teleradiology, as well as Radiology Benefit Management.

He is a member of the Medical Policy and Technology Advisory Committee for the WellPoint Corporation and the Treasurer of the American Roentgen Ray Society.

Achievements and Awards
Fellow, American College of Radiology
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, 2001-2002
Fellow, Society for Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance
Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society
Palmer Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business

Selected Articles
"Educating Parents about CT Radiation Exposure in Children: It’s Okay to Tell Them" (with D.B. Larson, S.B. Rader, and L.Z. Fenton),  American Journal of Roentgenology, forthcoming

"Referring Physicians' Attitudes Toward International Interpretation of Teleradiology Images" (with N. Lester, T. Durazzo, A. Kaye and M. Ahl), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 188, No. 1, 1-8, 2007

"What Characterizes Academic Radiology Departments that Secure Large Amounts of External Funding for Research?" (with A.L. Jonish, S. Kligerman, E. Nagy, M. Bhargavan, and J. Sunshine), Academic Radiology, Vol. 13, No. 12, 1513-1516, 2006

"Is the Tobacco Settlement Constitutional?" (with R. Rajkumar and C.P. Gross) The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Vol. 34, No. 4, 748-752, 2006

"Diagnostic CT Scans: Institutional Informed Consent Guidelines and Practices of Academic Medical Centers" (with C.I. Lee, H.V. Flaster, A.H. Haims, E.P. Monico), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 187, 282-287, 2006

"Update on the Diagnostic Radiologist Employment Market: Findings through 2005" (with D.D. Saket, C.C. Nwanze, C.D. Maynard, and J.H. Sunshine), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 187, 249-254, 2006

"Original Research. Radiation Dose associated with Nonenhanced CT for Suspected Renal Colic: Impact of Repetitive Studies" (with S. Katz, S. Saluja, and J. Brink), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 186, 1120-1124, 2006

"A Comprehensive Portrait of Teleradiology in Radiology Practices: Results from the American College of Radiology's 1999 Survey" (with D.B Larson, Y.S. Cypel, J.H. Sunshine), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 185, 24-35, 2005

Education
MBA  The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
MD SUNY - Stony Brook, 1989
BS The City College of New York, CUNY, 1987