Dan Friesner, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice
Website: http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/dfriesne/Default.htm
Sudro Hall 118M

Daniel.Friesner@ndsu.edu

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Economics, 2000
Washington State University

Bachelor of Arts, Economics, 1996
Gustavus Adolphus College

Responsibilities

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Social and Administrative Sciences Faculty

Committees

College Assessment
College Faculty Awards
University Program Review (alternate)

Areas of Expertise

Health Economics and Management Science
Applied Econometrics
Business Strategy
Outcomes Assessment in Health Care and Education

Professional Memberships

American Economic Association
Academy of Business Economics
Business and Health Administration Association
Association for Institutional Thought

Courses

Pharmacy 475: Pharmacy Management
Pharmacy 685: Economic Outcomes Assessment

Selected Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (45+ Journal Articles)

"Exploring the Formation of Patient Satisfaction in Rural, Community Pharmacies," Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 2009, forthcoming (with David Scott).

"What is the Economic Impact of Pharmacy Practice Graduates on a Regional Economy? Some Estimates from Eastern Washington," American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2009, forthcoming (with C. Scott Bozman and Robert Rosenman).

"The Use of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Public Health: A Note on Parallel Analysis as a Factor Retention Criterion," American Journal of Health Promotion, 2009, forthcoming (with Matthew McPherson and Vivek Patil).

"Determining Factors in the Treatment Choice of Patients with Hypertension with Complications and Secondary Complication," International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2009, forthcoming (with Sean Murphy and Robert Rosenman).

"Do Hospitals Practice Cream Skimming?" Health Services Management Research, 2009, Vol. 22, pp. 39-49 (with Robert Rosenman).

"Does Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Reduce a Firm's Competitive Advantage?" Journal of Leadership, Management and Organizational Studies, 2008, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-18 (with Bud Barnes, Mohammed Khayum and Matthew McPherson).

"Are Hospitals Seasonally Inefficient? Evidence from Washington State," Applied Economics, 2008, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 699-724 (with Robert Rosenman and Matthew McPherson).

"Determinants of the Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from California Outpatient Clinics" Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 2007, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 52-75 (with Peter Cashel-Cordo and Matthew McPherson).

"Do Public Health Policies Reduce the Spread of Infectious Diseases or Merely Induce Substitution?" International Economics and Finance Journal, 2006, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 125-155. (with Robert Rosenman and Peter Cashel-Cordo).

"Do Health Care Providers Quality Discriminate? Empirical Evidence from Primary Care Outpatient Clinics," Eastern Economic Journal, 2005, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 649-670. (with Robert Rosenman and Chris Stevens).

"Inpatient - Outpatient Cost Shifting in Washington Hospitals," Health Care Management Science, 2004, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 17-26 (with Robert Rosenman).

"Scope and Scale Inefficiencies in Physician Practices," Health Economics, 2004, Vol. 13, pp. 1091-1116 (with Robert Rosenman).

Selected Conference Proceedings, Technical Reports, Presentations and Other Publications (25+)

"What Factors Induce Pharmacists to Report Working Longer Hours?" 2009 American Pharmacists Association Annual Conference Proceedings/Abstracts (with David Scott and Robert Rosenman).

"Comparison of Dispensing Error Rates Between Telepharmacy Sites vs. Comparison Group" Submitted to the 2009 American Pharmacists Association Annual Conference Proceedings/Abstracts (with David Scott, Charles Peterson, Ann Rathke and Howard Anderson).

"On Contracts and Governance: How Entrepreneurs use Strategy to Attract Funds from Venture Capitalists" 2008 Academy of Business Economics Conference and Proceedings, forthcoming (with Sudesh Mujumdar and Katherine Sauer).

"Estimating the Costs of a Quite Disease in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension," Presentation and Report, Washington State University Economic Outlook Conference, Richland, WA, December 2007 (with Robert Rosenman, Sean Murphy and Emmanuel Tanne).

"Do Tuition Hikes Lower Student Performance?" 2006 Academy of Business Economics Conference and Proceedings (with Sudesh Mujumdar, Tim Schibik, Mohammed Khayum and Charles Harrington).

"Assessing Dynamic Progress or Regress among Multiple OT Performance Measures," 2006 Western Decision Science Institute Conference and Proceedings (with Scott Bozman, Donna Neufelder and Janet Raisor).

"Do Hospitals Use Service Intensity to Finance Inefficiency?" 2005 Midwest Business Economics Association Conference and Proceedings (with Chris Stevens and Robert Rosenman).

"Money Well Spent? An Examination of Government Expenditures for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment in South Africa," 2005 Midwest Business Economics Association Conference and Proceedings (with Peter Cashel-Cordo and Sudesh Mujumdar).

"Identifying Latent Outcome Measures in Inpatient Physical Therapy," 2004 Midwest Business Economics Association Conference Proceedings (with Donna Neufelder, Janet Raisor and Mohammed Khayum).