- Wendy Max
Infobox Person
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name = Wendy B. Max
caption = Wendy
birth_date = February 15th
birth_place = Summit, New Jersey, United States
education = Ph.D. in Economics, B.A. in History and Econommics
occupation = Professor of Health and Aging
spouse = Robert Siegel
parents = Shirley Max and Robert Max
children = Three BoysWendy B. Max is a
professor of Health Economics and the co-director of theInstitute for Health & Aging in the School ofNursing at the University of California at San Francisco. Her focus is on the cost of illness and she has done important work on the cost of smoking-related illness.A native of Summit, New Jersey, Wendy was an undergraduate at
Stanford University . She went on to earn her Ph.D. in economics at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder . She currently lives inPalo Alto , California with her husband and three sons.Prominent publications include:
2004 Froelicher ES, Sohn M, Max W, Bacchetti P. Women's initiative for nonsmoking VII: Evaluation of health service utilization and costs among women smokers with cardiovascular disease. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation 2004; 24: 218-228.
2004 Max W, Rice DP, Finkelstein E, Bardwell RA, Leadbetter MS. The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the United States, 1995. Violence and Victims 19(3): 259-72.
2004 Max W, Rice DP, Sung H-Y, Zhang X, Miller L. The economic burden of smoking in California. Tobacco Control 2004; 13: 264-67.
External links
* [http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/iha/ The Institute for Health and Aging Official Web Site] .
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