Friday, June 12th, 2009

HPM Assistant Professor Zhang Garners Honors

Yuting Zhang, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management, was awarded an Excellence in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research Award by the International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics. The award was for her article, “Cost-Saving Effects of Olanzapine as Long-Term Treatment for Bipolar Disorder,” which appeared in the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 2008; 11(3): 135-146. The award was presented during the Ninth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry: Quality and Outcomes in Mental Health Policy and Economics, held in March 27-29, 2009, in Venice, Italy.

In addition, Zhang had four papers accepted for presentation at the AcademyHealth annual meeting in Chicago in June 2009, and two papers accepted for presentation at the 7th World Congress of International Health Economics Association (IHEA) biannual meeting in Beijing, China, in July 2009.