Kendon J. Conrad, PhD, is Professor in Health Policy and Administration at the School of Public Health of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Associate Research Career Scientist of the Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research at Hines Hospital, Department of Veterans Affairs. He is the principal investigator on the representative payee project described in this volume and has published principally in the areas of substance abuse treatment, long term care, and evaluation research methodology. Michael D. Matters, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a co-investigator on the representative payee project. He received his doctorate in sociology from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago specializing in the study of organizations and in linguistics in December of 1994. He has worked on studies of programs for substance abuse and mental illness. Patricia Hanrahan, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, the Director of Clinical Program Evaluation for the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), and a co-principal investigator on the representative payee project. Her research interests include evaluation research in social work, adult day care, and more recently, hospice care for dementia patients, supportive housing for severely mentally ill individuals, and the provision of a novel anti-psychotic drug, risperidone, through a retrospective analysis using the IDHS pharmacy database. Daniel J. Luchins, MD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and Associate Director of Clinical Services at IDHS. He is a co-principal investigator on the representative payee project and has published principally in the areas of the significance of structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenics. He has also developed a strong interest in polydipsia and other repetitive behaviors in chronic schizophrenia. The more recent of his over 100 publications include examinations of rehospitalization rates, factors influencing rehospitalization rates, and the assessment of substance abuse or dependence among individuals with severe mental illness.
