Harkness Project: Physician Receptivity and Readiness to Participate in ACOs

Placement: University of California, Berkeley

Mentor: Stephen Shortell, University of California, Berkeley

Co-mentor: Francis J. Crosson, Permanente Foundation 

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Rachael Addicott, Ph.D., a 2011-12 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, has been a senior policy research fellow at The King's Fund, where her portfolio includes research on models of accountability in U.K. health care, including work on Foundation Trusts, employee ownership, integrated care, and the new White Paper reforms. In 2009, she organized a summit on end of life care that produced a publication and recommendations, which have fed in to the government's new End of Life Care Strategy. Previously, she was a lecturer at the University of London, and before moving to the U.K., she worked in the Department of Human Services in Melbourne. Addicott has 10 peer-reviewed publications, in journals including International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Journal of Health Organization and Management, Public Money and Management. Addicott holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Imperial College, London, and a bachelors in sociology from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.

Current Position: Senior Policy Research fellow at The King's Fund.

Email: rachael.Addicott@gmail.com