Dolores G. Clement, Dr.P.H.

Professor & Director, Professional MSHA Program - Online

Department of Health Administration
School of Allied Health Professions
Medical College of Virginia Campus
Virginia Commonwealth University
PO ox Box 980203
Richmond, VA 23298-0203

804.828.5216 (V)
804.828.1894 (F)
Email Address: dclement@vcu.edu

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Dr.P.H., health policy and administration

Rush University

M.S., health systems management

Ohio University

M.A., international affairs

Research/Teaching Areas

Dr. Clement is a tenured Professor in the Department of Health Administration. She is again the Director of the Professional MSHA Program - Online. She previously served as Director of Professional Graduate Programs, including both the Master of Health Administration and the Executive Program that lead to a Master of Science in Health Administration. She has taught in the areas of health care policy and administration, the management of information for complex health care organizations, health outcomes, and international health care. She has done research to examine patterns of diffusion, growth, and survival among alternative health care organizations, satisfaction and access to care in Medicare risk contract HMOs, and the use of alternative payment strategies by Medicare. Dr. Clement has a joint appointment in the School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and previously served as associate Director of the Williamson Institute.

Publications

Clement, Jan P., Hsueh-Fen Chen, Darrell Burke, Dolores G. Clement and James L. Zazzali, "Are Consumers Reshaping Hopitals? Complementary and Alternative Medicine in U.S. Hopitals, 1999-2003," Health Care Management Review, 31 (2), 1-10, 2006.

Clement, Dolores G., "Impact of the Clinical Doctorate from an Allied Health Perspective," AANA Journal, 73 (1), 2005.

Legg, Jeffrey S., Dolores G. Clement and Kenneth R. White, "Are Women With Self-Reported Cognitive Limitation at Risk for Underutilization of Mammography?" Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 15: 688-702, 2004.

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Published Abstracts

Monika S. Markowitz and Dolores G. Clement (2000), "What Do Ethics Committee Members Say About End-of-Life Care in Their Health Care Facility?" proceedings of the 128th Annual APHA meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 12-16, 2000.

Monika S. Markowitz, Donna Gilman, Obie Sue Thomas, Gloria Flowers, Ann Deaton, Ken Faulkner and Dolores G. Clement (2000), "Who Decides About Life-Sustaining Treatment? What the People Think," proceedings of the 128th Annual APHA meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 12-16, 2000.

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Books and/or chapters

White, Kenneth R., and Dolores G. Clement (2002), "Healthcare Professionals" in Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success edited by Bruce J. Fried and James Johnson, Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

Clement, Dolores G. and Thomas T.H. Wan (2001), "Evaluating Health Services, Programs and Systems: An Epidemiologic Perspective," under copyediting for revision of the text edited by Denise M. Oleske, Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services, New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Brown, Randall S., Dolores Gurnick Clement, Jerrold W. Hill, Sheldon M. Retchin, and Jeanette W. Bergeron (1998), "Do Health Maintenance Organizations Work for Medicare?" in Contemporary Managed Care Readings in Structure, Operations, and Public Policy edited by Marsha R. Gold, Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

Wan, T.T.H., Clement, D.G. and Spotswood, M.F. (1995): Assessing Effectiveness and Efficiency of Hospital Performance: A Multivariate Analytical Approach, Chapter 10 in Analysis and Evaluation of Health Care Systems. 1995.

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