Education
Ph.D., Health Services Research, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2001
Graduate Studies, Economics, Washington University, 1996
B.S. with High Honors, Economics, Saint Vincent College, 1995
About Dr. Zema:
Dr. Zema joined the Economics Department of the McKenna
School in 2008. Her primary areas of research are health care policy,
health care quality, evidence-based medicine, health care economics and
outcomes research. She received her doctorate in Health Services
Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She
is also an SVC alumnae.
Prior to joining SVC, Dr. Zema conducted health care quality and
outcomes research for a variety of organizations. She most recently
was Associate Director in Health Economics and Outcomes Research at
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She has also served as the
Director of Cardiac and Critical Care Medicine at the Pittsburgh
Regional Healthcare Initiative and as a Kerr White Visiting Scholar
with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality.
