Third Annual Katz Policy Lecture
at the Benjamin Rose Institute

The 2009 KPI Lecture was held on Friday, September 25, at Kethley House. Speaker Vincent Mor, PhD, of Brown University spoke on The Legacy of Sidney Katz: Setting the Stage for Systematic Research in Long Term Care.

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Dr. Vincent Mor is the Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Community Health at Brown University and formerly served as the Director of the Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Community Health since 1981, becoming tenured in 1987. Dr. Mor was one of the founders of the Department's graduate program in 1986 and directed it until becoming chair in 1996.

Dr. Mor has been Principal Investigator of more than 20 NIH-funded grants focusing on the organizational and health care delivery system factors associated with variation in use of health services and the outcomes frail and chronically ill persons experience. He has had multiple grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Pew Memorial Trust and the Retirement Research Foundation as well as contracts from the Health Care Financing Administration and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to evaluate the impact of programs and policies in aging and long-term care.

Dr. Mor was one of the authors of the Congressionally mandated Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Nursing Home Resident Assessment and evaluated its implementation, focusing particularly on the manner it was implemented. He has developed several summary measures based upon MDS data to characterize residents' physical, cognitive and psychosocial functioning, all of which have been used in resident and facility-level analyses of the quality of nursing home care in US and international populations. Recently, Dr. Mor directed the Brown University component of a contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop and validate risk-adjusted quality indicators for nursing homes that are currently being tested for public reporting throughout the country.

The Katz Policy Institute

The Katz Policy Institute (KPI) was established in 2007 to expand the Benjamin Rose Institute's involvement in educational outreach and public policy development. The Institute is named in honor of BRI's Distinguished Scholar Sidney Katz, MD. Ultimately, the KPI will promote collaborative work among BRI's programs and with partner organizations; inform the development of BRI's public policy positions; and contribute to public discourse and education on policy issues related to quality of life for older adults.

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