Dr. Greenlick’s research activities have been in the areas of large-scale demonstration projects relating to the organization and financing of medical care and behavioral interventions to prevent disease and promote health. He was a co-principal investigator for the Medicare Prospective Payment Demonstration Project, which provided care to over 7,600 Medicare beneficiaries on a capitation basis. He is currently the principal investigator of the Kaiser Permanente site of the Social/HMO project, which is investigating the financial feasibility of providing a comprehensive range of long-term care services for the frail elderly. He serves as the chair of the research committee of the national Social HMO Research Consortium.

In addition to his work with large-scale demonstrations, Dr. Greenlick has had extensive experience in clinical trials, both at the local and national levels, and has provided leadership at the national level. He was principal investigator for the Dietary Intervention Study in Children and is chair of the National Design and Analysis Committee. He was a co-investigator on the clinical trial relating the treatment of systolic hypertension among the elderly (SHEP) and was Portland project director for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) and co-principal investigator for the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial, both sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Dr. Greenlick received his Ph.D. in medical care organization from the University of Michigan with specializations in sociology and social psychology. He has served as research advisor to many projects throughout the country and as an advisor to several foreign government research and medical care projects. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences when it was formed in 1971. Dr. Greenlick was named a senior fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in July 1995. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at Portland State University, the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California, and the School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii.