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Professor of Diagnostic Radiology

Professor Forman is a health services researcher focusing on diagnostic radiology, health policy, and healthcare leadership. Professor Forman directs the healthcare management program in the Yale School of Public Health and teaches 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 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 U.S. Senate, as a health policy fellow, on Medicare legislation.

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
"National Trends in CT Use in the Emergency Department: 1995-2007" (with D.B. Larson, L.W. Johnson, B.M. Schnell, and S.R. Salisbury), Radiology, Vol. 258, No. 1, 164-73, January, 2011

"A Survey of Policies and Procedures on the Communication and Documentation of Radiologic Interpretations" (with E.P. Monico, T.R. Goodman and G.L. Larkin), Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, Vol. 30, No. 3, 23-7, 2011

"Renal Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Acute Kidney Injury: Developing a Risk Stratification Framework" (with A. Licurse, J. Dziura, R.N. Formica, D.V. Makarov, C.R. Parikh and C.P. Gross), Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 170, No. 21, 1900-1907, November 22, 2010

"An "a la carte" Academic Radiology Compensation Plan: Something for Everyone"  (with T.R. Goodman, S. Stein S, R. Bronen, and J.A. Brink), Journal of American College of Radiology, Vol. 7, No. 11, 885-90, November, 2010

"The Educational and Career Impact of Using medical Students for Triaging Off-hour Dagnostic Imaging Requests at a Major Academic Medical Center" (with S. Kennedy, D.B. Knibutat, S.L. DelBasso and S.A. Bokhari), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 194, No. 4, 1027-33, April, 2010

"Who's Underworked and Who's Overworked Now? An Update on Radiologist Shortage and Surplus" (with K. Soni, M. Bhargavan and J.H. Sunshine), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 194, No. 3, 697-703, March, 2010

"Workload of Radiologists in United States in 2006-2007 and Trends Since 1991-1992" (with M. Bhargavan M, A.H. Kaye and J.H. Sunshine), Radiology, Vol. 252, 458-467, 2009

"The Impact of Medicaid Coverage and Reimbursement on Access to Diagnostic Mammography" (with J.D. Schuur, A. Shah, Z. Wu and C.P. Gross), Cancer (CA), Vol. 115, No. 23, 5566-5578, 2009

"The Effect of Teleradiology on Time to Interpretation for CT Pulmonary Angiographic Studies" (with S. Kennedy, M. Bhargavan and J.H. Sunshine), Journal of the American College of Radiology, Vol. 6, No. 3, 180-189, March, 2009

"Panel Discussions in Radiology: Changes in Radiology Training and New Examination Format" (with E.S. Amis Jr.,  S.R. Baker, G.L. Becker, P.M. Colletti, N.R. Dunnick, L.P. Davis, S.A. Koss, C.S. Resnik and T.H. Berquist), American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 191, No. 6, 217-30, December, 2008

"The Reasons that Many Radiology Practices Don't Use Off-hours Services" (with S. Kennedy, A.H. Kaye, M. Bhargavan and J.H. Sunshine), Journal of the American College of Radiology, Vol. 5, No. 8, 887-92, August, 2008

"A Survey of Radiology Practices' Use of After-hours Radiology Services" (with A.H. Kaye, R. Kapoor and J.H. Sunshine), Journal of the American College of Radiology, Vol. 5, No. 6, 748-58, June, 2008

"Prevalence of Productivity-Enhancing Technologies in Radiology" (with N.R. Nayak, C. Meghea, and M. Bhargavan),  American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 190, No. 6. 1445-1452, June, 2008

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