Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH

Bruce Siegel is a Research Professor in the Department of Health Policy. He is also on the faculty of the Department of Health Services Management and Leadership.

• Phone: (202) 994-8616
• Fax: (202) 296-0025
• Email: siegelmd@gwu.edu

As project director of two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national programs, both housed at the Department of Health Policy's Center for Health Services Research and Policy, Professor Siegel is helping to guide innovation and to create replicable new initiatives. Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care was developed to improve the quality of health care for minority Americans while Urgent Matters helps hospitals eliminate crowding in emergency departments.

Prior to joining the School's faculty in 2002, Dr. Siegel was chief executive officer of Tampa General Healthcare, West Florida's only regional referral center and a teaching affiliate of the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He has served as president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees the city's vast municipal hospital system, and as the New Jersey Commissioner of Health. Dr. Siegel was a director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and served as an advisor to the World Bank, where he helped Sierra Leone establish its first health plan. Born to a Haitian mother, he is fluent in Creole.

Education

A.B., Princeton University, 1978
Doctor of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, 1982
Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1989

Teaching

PubH 282.20-Applications of Health Policy Analysis: Medically Underserved Populations, Department of Health Policy

Research

In addition to his leadership on the Robert Wood Johnson initiatives, Dr. Siegel has been involved in research focused on the quality of health care, especially for underserved populations; health care disparities; the health care safety net; and issues related to hospital financing and patient flow.

Community Service

Professor Siegel writes and speaks extensively about health care administration, health care policy and public health, and has been a consultant to hospitals and hospital associations, and to several national philanthropies. He is a member of the Board of Stewardship Trustees of Catholic Health Initiatives.

Departments

• Health Policy
• Health Services Management and Leadership

Institutes & Centers

• Center for Health Services Research and Policy
• Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
• Urgent Matters

Research Activities

• Urgent Matters

Community Activities

• Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
• Urgent Matters

Publications

• EMTALA and hospital 'community engagement': the search for a rational policy.
  Rosenbaum S, Siegel B, Regenstein M. EMTALA and hospital 'community engagement': the search for a rational policy. Buffalo Law Review. In press 2005.
• Perfecting patient flow: America's safety net hospitals and emergency department crowding.
  Wilson MJ, Siegel B, Williams M. Perfecting patient flow: America's safety net hospitals and emergency department crowding. Washington: National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems; 2005.
• Health reform and the safety net: big opportunities; major risks.
  Siegel B, Regenstein M, Shin P. Health reform and the safety net: big opportunities; major risks. J Law Med Ethics 2004;32(3):426-32
• Walking a tightrope: the state of the safety net in ten U.S. communities.
  Regenstein M, Nolan L, Wilson M, Mead H, Siegel B. Walking a tightrope: the state of the safety net in ten U.S. communities. Princeton (NJ): Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urgent Matters project; 2004 May.
• The emergency department: rethinking the safety net for the safety net.
  Siegel B. The emergency department: rethinking the safety net for the safety net. Health Aff (Millwood) Web-exclusive 2004 Mar 24.
• Triage for overcrowding.
  Siegel B. Triage for overcrowding. Modern Heathcare 2003 Jul 7.