Paul G. Barnett, Ph.D.

Director, Health Economics Resource Center
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Phone: (650) 493-5000 ext. 2-2475
Fax: (650) 617-2639
E-mail: paul.barnett@va.gov

Dr. Barnett is the health economist for the Treament Research Center.  His research focuses on cost-effectiveness across the spectrum of health care, including opiate agonist treatment, smoking cessation in  special populations, other types of substance abuse treatment, anti-psychotic drugs, heart disease management, and lung cancer diagnosis.  Additional research interest are the improvement of health economic methods for health services research and clinical trials, and the application of cost-effectiveness by health care decision makers.  He is author of more than 60 peer reviewed articles.

Dr. Barnett directs the Health Economic Resourc Center (HERC), the national center on health economics funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  He is also a Consulting Associate Professor in the department of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University Medical School.

Selected Publications
PG Barnett, JA Trafton, K Humphreys (2010).  The cost of concordance with opiate substiution treatment guidelines. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 39(2), 141-149.

W Wong, PG Barnette (2010).  Characteristics of Asian and Pacific Islanders admitted to U.S. drug treatment programs in 2005.  Public Health Reports, 125(2), 250-57.

PG Barnett (2009). An improved set of standards for finding cost for cost-effectiveness anlaysis.  Medical Care, 47(7 Suppl.1), S82-S88.

PG Barnett (2009).  Comparison of costs and utilization among buprenorphine and methadone patients. Addiction, 104, 982-992.

PG Barnett, JL Sorenson, W Wong, NA Haug, SM Hall (2009). Effect of incentives for medication adherence on health care use and costs in methadone paients with HIV.  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 100(1-2), 115-121.