Thomas R.
Konrad
Research
Professor
B.A.,
1966, University of Santa Clara; M.A., 1970, and Ph.D., 1975 (sociology),
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; joint appointments: Research
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration 
Academic Interests
A
major focus of my work has been study of health professionals with a special
interest in those who choose to serve vulnerable population groups, a somewhat
specific branch of what has come to be called "physician workforce planning."
I have examined how medical staff organization affects career structure,
leadership, job satisfaction, and clinical autonomy of physicians working
in corporately organized practice settings, and I am currently involved
in an assessment of the National Health Service Corps and other programs
designed to recruit, educate, support, and retain physicians in medically
underserved communities.
Another of my research interests is the assessment of health status and care requirements of vulnerable populations. As a co-investigator on the Self-Care Assessment of Community-Based Elderly project, I have observed how patterns of self-management of symptoms by older persons seems to affect their medical care use. I am also profiling long term relationships between African American elders and their physicians in rural North Carolina. I serve as Director of the Division of Policy and Ethics at the Duke-UNC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and am a member of the core faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program in the UNC School of Medicine.
You may contact Dr. Konrad by email: bob_konrad@.unc.edu; by phone at: (919) 966-2501; or by post at: CB #7590, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590
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