Ellen Kurtzman, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., FAAN
Fellowship Year(s): 2018-2019
Profession: Nurse
Specialty: Health Services Research, Nurse/Nurse Practitioner
Fellowship Details:
Associate Professor
The George Washington University School of Nursing
HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Speaker of the House of Representatives Pelosi (D-CA)
Maryland
At time of Fellowship
Ellen Kurtzman is a health services researcher and an associate professor at The George Washington University School of Nursing, with secondary appointments in the university’s Milken Institute School of Public Health and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration. She teaches health policy, research, and statistics. Her investigator-initiated research explores the impact of federal, state, and institutional policies on health care quality and the role of the health care workforce in achieving higher value care. Her most recent work explores the quality of care and the services delivered by nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and the impact of occupational restrictions on these clinicians’ practice. She has led studies examining the effect of Medicaid expansion on community health centers, the role of team-based care in the quality of office-based physician practices, and the influence of performance-based payment programs on practitioner behavior.
Kurtzman has served in senior capacities for organizations such as the American Red Cross, National Quality Forum (NQF), American Health Care Association, National PACE Association, and the Partnership for Behavioral Healthcare. While at NQF, she worked to establish hospital and home health care quality and performance standards, and she formulated national voluntary consensus standards for measuring nursing’s contribution to quality.
Kurtzman received her PhD in public policy and administration from the Trachtenberg School, her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014, Kurtzman was named the National Center for Health Statistics/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellow. She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2009.
Current Info:
Professor and Executive Director, Health Administration
Rutgers University
Health Care Access;Health Care Quality;Health Care/Health Policy Advocacy;Health Reform;Health Services Research;Medicare;Private Heath Insurance
Since Fellowship:
Ellen Kurtzman is a professor and the Executive Director of Health Administration in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Prior to her arrival at Bloustein, Dr. Kurtzman spent 15 years at The George Washington University with
appointments in the Schools of Nursing, Public Health, and Public Policy.
Dr. Kurtzman teaches health policy, research, and
statistics. Her investigator-initiated research explores the impact of federal, state, and institutional policies on health care delivery and the role of the health care workforce in achieving higher value care.
From 2018-2019, Dr. Kurtzman served as one of eight Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows and worked in the Office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Office of the Surgeon General.
From 2014-2016, Dr. Kurtzman served as the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellow, which placed her “in
residence” at NCHS to collaborate with federal researchers. From 2011 to 2012, was an affiliate scholar at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center and from 2007-2011, she collaborated with scholars at the University of Pennsylvania to build policy
support for a model of care for chronically ill elderly, referred to as the Transitional Care Model.
Before joining academia, Dr. Kurtzman served in senior capacities for large health services organizations including the American Red Cross, National Quality Forum (NQF), American Health Care Association, and the National PACE Association.
She received her PhD in public policy and administration from GW’s Trachtenberg School, her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania.
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