John F. McAna, PhD, MA
Associate Professor
Contact
901 Walnut Street
10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-955-5744
215-923-7583 fax
John F. McAna, PhD, MA
Associate Professor
Research & Practice Interests
Evaluation of Disease and Care Management Programs
Evaluation of Quality Management Programs
Provider Profiling
Assessment and Improvement
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MA, City College of New York
BS, Manhattan College
Publications
- Using Health Plan Authorization Data to Predict Hospitalizations and Readmissions in a Combined Commercial and Medicaid Population
- Differences in Persistently Elevated Hemoglobin A1c for African American and White Patients and the Role of Provider-Level Variation
- Clinical Transformation in Care for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease at an Urban Academic Medical Center
- Utilizing Patient-Specific Factors to Predict Costs in Home-Based Medicare Part B Outpatient Physical Therapy
- Use of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision Codes for Obesity: Trends in the United States from an Electronic Health Record-Derived Database
University Appointment
Associate Professor, Jefferson College of Population Health
Teaching
Public Health Capstone Seminar & Project
Epidemiology & Evidence for Outcomes Research
Biography
Dr. John McAna is Assistant Professor and Capstone Coordinator at the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH). His teaching responsibilities currently include the Public Health Capstone Seminar and Epidemiology & Evidence for Outcomes Research. He is also responsible for providing epidemiological, statistical and programming support for active projects and assists in protocol development for proposed projects. Dr. McAna has a BS in Biology from Manhattan College in New York and an MA in Biology from City College of New York. He earned his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in cancer and environmental epidemiology. Dr. McAna has fourteen years of experience doing healthcare/health services analysis and research in the managed care industry (Independence Blue Cross and Greater Atlantic Health Service), six years in the biomedical information industry (Information Ventures, Inc.), six years in public health (both the New York and New Jersey State Departments of Public Health) and eight years working for JCPH.