Personnel
Margaret Byrne, Ph.D.
Research Associate ProfessorTel: (305) 284-4427
Fax: (305) 284-5716
Email: mbyrne2@med.miami.edu
Office Address
5665 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
Sociology Research Center
Flipse Building 1st floor, Room 122
Mailing Address
Margaret Byrne
Health Economics Research Group
Sociology Research Center
PO Box 248251
Coral Gables, FL 33124-0719
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Background Information
Dr. Byrne is a health economist in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. She received her Ph.D. in economics from University of Florida in December of 1996. Her health services research studies include utility and preference elicitation in prostate cancer and osteoarthritis treatment, cost analyses, racial disparities in health care, organization and outcomes in health care delivery system, and disease-burden-based resource allocation methodologies. She has a number of papers that use economic modeling to explore end-of-life treatment decisions, organ donation decisions, screening and prevention effort, and the use of financial incentives in health care. She has conducted philosophical research on the ethics of the use of financial incentives in affecting health care consumer behavior (i.e. issues of coercion, exploitation, and commodification).
Her currently funded career development grant from the National Cancer Institute explores the psychological and economic consequences of screening for lung cancer. Her current areas of research interest also include decisions to be an organ donor and decisions to participate in human subjects research, including the effects of financial incentives. Her first-authored work has been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, Medical Care, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Healthcare Management, and Journal of Rheumatology.
