Tetyana Shippee, PhD – Principal Investigator

Dr. Tetyana P. Shippee is a tenured Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and serves as Associate Director for Research at the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation. She spent two years living in a long-term care facility to better understand the factors that shape quality of life for older adults in residential care. She leads research focused on improving person-centered quality for older adults and people with disabilities, including those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias who use long-term services and supports (LTSS). 

See Dr. Shippee’s Faculty Website.

Romil Parikh, PhD 

Romil is a postdoctoral fellow working on a range of projects on person-centered quality across LTSS settings. He is a clinical epidemiologist (MBBS, PhD) and health services researcher with special interest in research advancing person-centered, equitable, evidence-based care for the older adult population. His current work focuses on dementia, rural health, chronic conditions, care coordination, and technology.

Tricia Skarphol, MA

Tricia is a project manager who oversees multiple projects for the LTSS Quality Lab. She has over 18 years of experience managing a variety of research studies in the School of Public Health and over 24 years of experience working in research at the University of Minnesota.

Mark Woodhouse, BA

Mark is a database analyst, who has worked at the U of MN since 2003. He has extensive experience with the Minimum Data Set (MDS), Medicaid, Medicare, and other claims data as well as data integration and data management.

Rebecca Vick, MGIS

Becky Vick is a data analyst for the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota  and has over 20 years of experience working with various types of data including nearly ten years with large-scale demographic data at the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Population Center as well as work in the private sector as a Healthcare Economics Consultant for UnitedHealthcare in their Medicare Advantage line of business.

Molin Ji, MS

Molin has collaborated over the past two years with multiple research teams at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health and has conducted regression modeling and statistical analyses for the Minnesota Resident Quality of Life and Family Satisfaction Survey among assisted living facilities.  His research interests include healthcare data analysis, real-world evidence and CMS data, applied statistical modeling, and data visualization using statistical programming tools.

Rajean Moone, PhD

Through leadership of the University of Minnesota’s Long-Term Care Administration Program and the Center for Healthy Aging & Innovation, Rajean Moone advances a more just and age-inclusive society. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Hartford Foundation, a McNair Scholar, and a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and serves on the Governor’s Council on an Age-Friendly Minnesota and the boards of FamilyMeans, the Minnesota Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians, and the Stevens Square Foundation. Grounded in academic training in psychology, gerontology, and social work, his work bridges disciplines and institutions, with appointments supported by the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, the Center for Healthy Aging & Innovation, the School of Public Health, and the Medical School. In recognition of this work, he was named a National Influencer in Aging by PBS in 2022 and received the Outstanding Gerontologist Award from the Minnesota Gerontological Society in 2025.

Erik Jutkowitz, PhD

Erik Jutkowitz’s research examines the value and quality of the informal and formal long-term care system, with an emphasis on people living with dementia. He has evaluated dementia’s effects on Medicare expenditures, conducted systematic reviews of interventions to prevent cognitive decline, and developed a novel microsimulation that predicts dementia progression and associated costs. Recently, his work has focused on using digital health to translate and scale evidence-based dementia care into practice. Dr. Jutkowitz has broad methodological expertise in cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis, simulation modeling, systematic reviews, pragmatic trials, and digital-health implementation.

Timothy Beebe, PhD

Timothy Beebe is James A. Hamilton Professor of Healthcare Management in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH). His primary expertise is in the field of survey methodology, where he has a 35-year track record of testing new data collection methods in both the general population and physician samples. His other research interests focus on patient-reported outcomes measurement, developing and testing health measures, health care policy, health care access for vulnerable populations, and learning health systems research, a form of health services research that is defined by its embeddedness in health systems. Before joining the SPH, he held leadership positions at Mayo Clinic and the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Dr. Beebe is a co-investigator on the Assisted Living report card project with Dr. Shippee and has authored different publications from this work.