Dr. Meenan is a health economist with a primary research interest in the methods of economic evaluation of health care interventions, such as decision modeling and return on investment analysis. He works in various clinical areas, such as tobacco cessation, weight loss management, the cost and quality of HIV/AIDS therapies, the epidemiology and cost of urological disorders, and predictive modeling of high-risk patients using administrative data for purposes of care management.

Within these areas, he has contributed to studies on categorizing race and ethnicity in the HMO Cancer Research Network, the cost-effectiveness of a hospital-based smoking-cessation intervention, various assessments of high-cost users of medical care, and the implications of pooled administrative data.

Dr. Meenan received a Ph.D. in economics from Arizona State University in 1995 and an M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics in 1999 from Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Meenan obtained an MBA from Indiana University in 1982. In September 1997, he completed a two-year health services fellowship underwritten by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service at OHSU’s Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine and the CHR. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration at Portland State University.

E-mail: Richard.Meenan@kpchr.org