Rebecca Feinstein Winitzer

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Course

• 32700 Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Job Experience

• Evaluator, Maximizing SCHIP Enrollment for Kids Initiative in Illinois of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Research Assistant, Measuring Pediatric Access To Specialty Health Care by Insurance Status Project at the University of Chicago Survey Lab
• Research Assistant, Social Environment, Stress, and Health Project at the University of Chicago Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
• Health Education Consultant, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Family and Community Health, Division for Perinatal, Early Childhood, and Special Health Needs
• Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Social Work Fellow, Children's Hospital, Division of Adolescent Medicine

Fields of Special Interest

• Health care service research
• Health & social work practice
• Social networks & social support
• Maternal & child health
• Comparative health care & welfare systems

Publications or Presentations

• Winitzer, R. F., Bisgaier, J., Grogan, C., Rhodes, K. V. (2012).  “He Only Takes Those Type of Patients on Certain Days”: Specialty Care Access for Children with Special Health Care Needs.  Disability and Health Journal 5: 26-33.
• Shelley, D., Wright, S., McNeely, J., Rotrosen, J., Winitzer, R. F., Pollack, H., Abel, S., & Metsch, L. (March 1, 2012). Reimbursing dentists for smoking cessation treatment: Views from dental insurers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research: Published online March 1, 2012 (doi: 10.1093/ntr/nts010).
• Winitzer, R. F. & Grogan, C. M. (January 2012). Evaluation of Illinois' Outreach Efforts to Maximize Enrollment In Their Medicaid/CHIP AllKids Program. Paper presentation to the Society for Social Work Research Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.