Journal of Nursing & Care

Stephanie Stock

Biography

 Stephanie Stock, M.D., Ph.D., a 2007–08 Commonwealth Fund Harkness/Bosch Foundation Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is an assistant professor and research fellow in the Medical School of the University of Cologne, where her focus is on disease management, improvement of access to and quality of care for chronically ill, patient guidelines, health care financing, functioning and role of the risk compensation system in the statutory health insurance, cost-of-illness studies, and health care systems research. She has co-authored six books and written over 20 book chapters and over 30 peer-reviewed articles, published in journals such as Health Affairs, Health Policy, Diabetic Management, andDisease Management and Health Outcomes, 2006, and was the lead author in drafting the guidelines for the German Disease Management program introduced in 2003. Stock holds a degree in health economics from the European Business School at Oestrich-Winkel and a medical degree from Albert Einstein University at Ulm. Stock also spent a year studying at Tufts Medical School in Boston and time conducting research at the National Center for Quality Assurance in Washington D.C

Research Interest

 healthcare, health policies, medical ethics, clinical epidemiology, public health, health ecnomics