For the past 15 years, Jonathan Betz Brown, Ph.D. has studied how to make the care and treatment of long-term diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, more cost-effective and comprehensive. His focus is on chronic illness within a system that is organized around brief face-to-face doctor visits. His research is trying to find a workable paradigm in an aging population with long-lasting complex illnesses that have psychological, family, and social consequences.

Dr. Brown has garnered international acclaim along with CHR colleagues Drs. Greg Nichols and Harry Glauber, for the design of the first-ever population-based diabetes registry. Their work was honored in 1993 with Kaiser Permanente's highest award for quality improvement efforts—the James A. Vohs Award for Quality—for outstanding accomplishment in population-based diabetes management. Dr. Brown has developed a global computer simulation model of Type 2 Diabetes. The Global Diabetes Model predicts the effects of different treatments in individuals and population, so that patients, doctors, and health care systems can develop cost effective treatment and prevention programs. Dr. Brown is also helping to lead Kaiser Permanente's response to the national obesity epidemic.

Dr. Brown received his MPP in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he started to apply his health care delivery experience to system’s change. He received his Ph.D. in public policy studies from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1983 and then was a professor of Public Policy and Health Planning at Harvard's School of Public Health before coming to CHR in 1987.

Current Studies:

	Cost Effectiveness of ACTOS
	Eye Diseases in Type 2 Diabetes—Lilly EYE2
	Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes—AMGEN ITD
	Prevelance, Treatment Patterns & Resource Use in Patients With Mixed Dyslipidemia Using Lipid Lowering Agents

Recently Completed Studies:

	Characteristics and costs of impaired fasting glucose—IFG
	Clinical Prioritization Using Simulation Modeling
	Clinical Prioritization
	Pilot Trial of Vedic Medicine for Type 2 Diabetes

E-mail: Jonathan.Brown@kpchr.org