Roger A. Cochran, Ph.D., Partner Christopher E. Press, FACHE, Partner Susan McLaren, MPH, CHE, Senior Associate Catherine P. Slade, Senior Associate
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About Us: Roger Cochran, Ph.D. Dr. Cochran has been an acknowledged healthcare expert for over 20 years. His experience includes service with health planning agencies, providers, and consulting practices. His work for clients includes researching market position, image studies, physician studies, payer surveys, competitor assessments, opinion studies, focus groups, in depth interviews, participant observation, strategic planning, and service line planning. His research includes qualitative methods, sample design, multivariate regression, logistic regression, simulation studies and other problem-appropriate research techniques. He has prepared certificates of need in a variety of states and categories, provided litigation support for certificate of need cases and been an expert witness. He has performed market sizing studies, including the demand and need for various healthcare services. The breadth of his work extends to joint ventures, HMO applications, market-entry screening tools and market repositioning. He has experience in using data and methods to examine operational problems and intercede with operational remedies suitable to the circumstances and supported by staff, management and physicians. Dr. Cochran is a conference speaker for market research and complementary medicine topics. He is active in civic and religious organizations where he has served as committee chair and officer. Dr. Cochran holds a doctorate in Sociology with specialization in Medical Sociology and in Gerontology from Georgia State University, he also holds a Master of Science in Health Systems (Industrial and Systems Engineering) for the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held adjunct faculty positions at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta and at the Gerontology Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta. He directs the Florida office of MHC in Jacksonville, Florida where he lives with his wife in a condo too small to allow his children to return home after they graduate from college.
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