HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
Center for Health Policy & Health Services Research

One Ford Place
Suite 3A
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 874-5454 (phone)
(313) 874-7137 (fax)

David Nerenz, Ph.D.
Director
Investigator

Contact Information:
Email: dnerenz1@hfhs.org
Phone: (313) 874-5454
Fax: (313) 874-7137
 

Recent  Publications:

Nerenz DR, Pietrantoni L, Schultz L, Garden B, Obeid L, Swatrz A, Shatz R, Rubinfeld I. Initial experience with the Promis Measurement System in clinical populations.  Value in Health 2010;13(3):A19

Nerenz DR, Pietrantoni L, Schultz L, Garden B, Shatz R.  Agreement between patient with mild dementia and caregivers on the Promis Cat Measure of Perceived Cognitive Function.  Value in Health 2010;13(3):A122

Nerenz DR, Pietrantoni L, Schultz L, Obeid L, Swartz A, Rubinfeld I, Velanovich V.  Agreement between Promis Global Health Scale and SF-36 scores among surgical patients.  Value in Health 2010;13(3):A19 

Nerenz D, Ayanian J, Simoff M, Fouad M, Harrington D, Kahn K, Rogers S, Van Ryn M, Wallace R, Weeks J, West D, Zaslavsky A.  Surgery for early-stage lung cancer by race and socioeconomic status in the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (Can CORS) Consortium.  J Clin Onc 2010

Interests:
Most of Dr. Nerenz's current work is focused on the issue of racial and ethnic disparities in quality of care, and on the ways in which health care organizations can reduce or eliminate disparities. He is Project Director for an effort to address disparities in HEDIS quality of care measures among auto company employees, and has led several multi-site demonstration projects on health plans' ability to obtain data on race/ethnicity of members and use this information to identify and then reduce or eliminate disparities in quality of care. He is also Director of Outcomes Research for the Neuroscience Institute at Henry Ford. In this role, he is responsible for fostering clinical research in several specific clinical areas (e.g., spine surgery), and supporting translational research of novel approaches to treatment developed by HFHS bench researchers. He is also the site Principal Investigator for a national NCI-funded study of patterns and outcomes of care for patients with lung or colorectal cancer.

Biography:

Dr. Nerenz received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1979. He served as Director of the VA's Great Lakes Regional HSR&D Field Program in Ann Arbor from 1984-1986 and was Director of Henry Ford Health System's Center for Health System Studies from 1987-1999. From 1999 to 2003, he was at Michigan State University, as Professor in the College of Human Medicine and as Director of the Institute for Health Care Studies from 2001 to 2003.