Our Team
Orna Intrator, PhD, Director
Dr. Intrator is a long-term care researcher at the Finger Lakes Healthcare Center in upstate New York and a professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester. Trained in statistics and applied mathematics, Dr. Intrator’s research applies novel statistical methods and complex data combinations to address questions pertaining to service utilization, cost, quality, risk adjustment related to frail populations living in nursing homes and in the community. In particular, Dr. Intrator’s interest is in the impact of organizations and delivery systems, and response to regulations and contexts of care delivery. She continues to actively develop the VA Residential History File and to develop processes to share the data infrastructure built and curated by the Geriatrics & Extended Care Data Analysis Center, which she directs.
Orna Intrator's Publications
Bruce Kinosian, MD, Associate Director
Dr. Kinosian is a general internist and geriatrician practicing at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia where he works in the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) and the Hospital In Home (HIH) programs. Dr. Kinosian also practices medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at The University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He's part of the Independence at Home Learning Collaborative leadership, which has worked collaboratively with CMS to develop the IAH model for extending HBPC into Medicare. His research interests include program evaluation, risk adjustment, metric development, and prognostic models.
Bruce Kinosian’s Publications
Ciaran S. Phibbs, PhD, Associate Director
Dr. Phibbs is a research economist whose primary research interests include the interaction of hospital competition with costs, demand and outcomes; and perinatal and neonatal care. These interests have led him to study how hospitals and patient characteristics affect the demand for hospital services, and define hospital markets, hospital scale economies and capacity utilization; how Neonatal Intensive Care Units care effects neonatal mortality, the effects of nurse staffing on patient outcomes; the effectiveness of clinical interventions; and the demand for VA services and Veterans’ choice between VA and non-VA services. Dr. Phibbs is also a professor in the Department of Pediatrics – Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford University.
Ciaran Phibbs’ Publications
Program Support
Derek D’Arcy, Program Manager (Canandaigua VAMC)
Derek is responsible for providing scientific administrative support to GECDAC research team. This includes IRB coordination as well as managing documentation, data sharing and use agreements, and ongoing tracking of tasks and projects being conducted by the GECDEC team, among other tasks as needed. If you would like more information about GECDAC, please contact Derek at GECDAC@va.gov.
Saylor Lewtschenko, Health Science Specialist (Canandaigua VAMC)
Saylor is a Health Science Specialist at Canandaigua VAMC. Prior to joining the VA, she worked through the University of Rochester as a researcher. Saylor also received her B.A. in Health Policy at University of Rochester. Saylor’s interests include qualitative and quantitative research, quality improvement, and policy work. Prior to joining the VA Saylor held a student researcher role assisting GECDAC while studying for her bachelor’s in Health Policy.
