Naoru Koizumi, Ph.D.

3401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201

E-mail: nkoizumi@gmu.edu

 

Research Concentrations

 

  • Spatial statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Stochastic modeling and simulation of a health care system
  • Applied statistics in health services research

 

Academic Work Experience

 

George Mason University                                                                       Arlington, VA

Assistant Professor                                                                                    2005 - Present

School of Public Policy                                                                       

 

George Mason University                                                                       Arlington, VA

Visiting Assistant Professor                                                                       2004 - 2005

School of Public Policy                                                                       

 

University of Pennsylvania                                                                      Philadelphia, PA

Post-doctoral Researcher                                                                         2003 - 2005

Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

School of Engineering                                                                         

 

Economic Analyst                                                                                     2002-2003

Leonard Davis Institutes (LDI) / General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine       

 

Education

 

Hyogo College of Medicine                                                                     Hyogo, Japan

Ph.D. in Environmental and Preventive Medicine                                           March 2005

University of Pennsylvania                                                                      Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D. in Regional Science                                                                         December 2002

University of Pennsylvania                                                                      Philadelphia, PA

M.A. in Regional Science                                                                          May 1994

 

Aoyama-Gakuin University                                                                    Tokyo, Japan

B.A. in Business Administration (Minor: Economics)                                March 1992

 

Awards / contracts

 

Research Awards

-          R01, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)                               2006-2010

Total: $1,504,201; Amount Subcontracted to GMU: $301,171

Role: Co-P.I.                    

 

-          R21, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)                               2003-2005

Total: $300,000; Amount Funded Post-doc Salaries: $66,013

Role: Main Analyst (as a member of Key Personnel)                   

 

-          University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania                             1994-1996

 

Teaching Awards

-          School of Public Policy (SPP) Teaching Award                                  2008

 

-          One of the 15 finalists among 68 nominees of University-wide

      GMU Teaching Excellence Awards                                                    2008

 

Contracts

-          Mentor – Protégé Programs  (MPP) / Mason Enterprise Center (MEC)       2008 - Present

GIS-related advisory and training work for several Mentor and

Protégé companies under the National Geospatial Agency (NGA)-

funded programs

 

-          International Benchmarking Survey on Study Habit of 5th Graders     2006 - 2007

The US investigator for a 5 country survey project involving 1000

students in each country. The contractor was the largest Japanese

education think-tank, Benesse Corp. Japan

 

-          NIH – RO1 Grant Project: Risk Factors for Drug Resistant                 2004 - 2006

Pneumococcal Infections as the GIS analyst

 

Publications / Working Papers

 

Koizumi, N., Kuno, E., Rothbard, A. “Distance Matters in Choice of Mental Health Program: Policy Implications for Reducing Racial Disparities in Public Mental Health Care” (Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, In Press, DOI:10.1007/s10488-009-0233-z, 2009 )

 

Koizumi, N. and Ikeda M., “Relationship between cadmium concentration in brown rice and SMR or renal failure mortality of the resident in all prefectures in Japan” (Accepted – International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2009)

 

Koizumi, N, Murata K, Hayashi C, Nishio H, and Goji J. “High Cadmium Accumulation among Humans and Primates: Comparison across Various Mammalian Species - A Study from Japan” (Biological Trace Element Research, Vol. 121, No. 3 / March, 2008)

 

Koizumi, N., Sockett H., Mayer J. and Wilde J.  A Chapter in “Report on International Basic Survey on Study of Fifth Grade Students” Benesse Corp. January 2008

 

Ebert M., Maltby J., Adkins M., Koizumi, N. et al. “State Energy Response Plans: An Evaluation Based Upon Guidelines Developed by the National Association of State Energy Officials”, Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University School of Law, September 2007

 

Koizumi, N. and McCann, P. “Living on a Plot of Land as a Tenure Choice: The Case of Panama” (Journal of Housing Economics, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 349-371)

 

Koizumi, N., Kuno, E., and Smith, T.E. “Modeling Patient Flows Using a Queueing Network with Blocking” (Health Care Management Science, Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 49-60, February 2005,)

 

Koizumi, N., Iguchi, H and Smith, T.E. “Comparison and Verification of BSE Surveillance in USA and Japan” (Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, Vol.10, No. 3, May 2005)

 

Kuno, E., Koizumi, N., Rothbard, A., and Greenwald J. “A Service System Planning Model for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness” (Mental Health Services Research, Vol.7, No. 3, September 2005, pp. 135-144)

 

Koizumi, N. and Kuno, E. “A Queuing Network Model with Blocking: Analysis of Congested Patient Flows in Mental Health Systems” Proceedings of  Western Multi-conference, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, San Antonio, TX, USA 2002, pp40-48 (Published in Proceedings)

 

Koizumi N., Kloc M., Patel A. and Nicogossian A. “Space - Time Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) in Virginia” The 17th International Conference of Geoinformatics, Fairfax VA 2009 (Published in Proceedings)

 

Rothbard A., Koizumi, N., Brown G., Sosjan D. and  Beck A.T. “Cost Effectiveness of a Suicide Prevention Program” at American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Public Health Exposition in Boston, MA, USA (Published in Proceedings Nov. 2006; Under review for publication)

 

Koizumi, N., Rothbard, A., Patel, A., Noll L. and Smith, T.E. “Assessing Geographical Clustering of Outpatient Psychiatric Service Utilization in Philadelphia” (Under review for publication)

 

Koizumi, N., Kuno, E. and Smith, T.E. “A Role of Racial Concordance as a Factor Affecting the Selection of Community Mental Health Program” (Under review for publication)

 

Koizumi, N., Kuno, E., He D. and Chen C.H. “Minimizing Welfare Loss Due to Congestion in a Mental Health System: Queueing and Simulation Analyses (Under review for publication)

 

Thatchenkery S. and Koizumi N. “Lab Coats versus Business Suite, A Study of Career Preferences Among Indian High School Students” (Under review for publication)

 

Metlay, J., Smith T.E., and Koizumi N. “Small Area Clustering of Cases of Pneumococcal Bacteremia” (Under review for publication)

 

Checherita C. and Koizumi, N. “Multi-method Investigation of Economic Convergence at the State and the County Levels” (Under review for publication)

 

Mayer, J., Koizumi N. and Laporte T., “Partisan Patterns in the Aftermath of Terror: Civil Liberties, Spending and the Centrality of Fear” (Working Paper)

 

Recent Refereed Conference Presentations

 

Koizumi, N. (June 2009) “Use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Health Care” at Center for Global Development (CGD) as an invited seminar speaker

 

Koizumi, N. (May 2009) “GIS and the Application Overview and Beyond” at Data Management Group (DMG) as part of NGA funded Mentor – Protégé Program.

 

Koizumi, N. and Checherita, C. (March 2008) “Multi-Method Investigation of Economic Convergence at Different Levels of Spatial Units” at 4th Southern Regional Science Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, USA

 

Koizumi, N. (November 2007) “Optimal Policy Solutions for States with Limited Tobacco Control: Space - Time Analysis” at North American Conference of Regional Science Association, Savannah, GA, USA

Koizumi, N. (April 2007) “Minimizing Welfare Loss Due to Congestion in a Mental Health System: Queueing and Simulation Analyses” at the Health Care Management Science section of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Application (IMA), London, United Kingdom

 

Koizumi, N. (November 2006) “Factors Affecting the Choice of Mental Health Care Providers” at North American Conference of Regional Science Association, Toronto, Canada

 

Koizumi, N. (November 2005) “Cost Minimization Using Simulation: An Application of a Metamodel to Analyze an Optimal Housing Array for Mentally Ill” at the North American Conference of Regional Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, USA

 

Koizumi, N. (November 2004) “Decision Factors in Mental Health Service Provider Selection and Client Utility Changes Caused by Changes in the Mix of Service Providers” at the North American Conference of Regional Science Association, Seattle, WA, USA

 

Koizumi, N. (October 2003) “A Queueing Network Model with Blocking: Analysis of Congested Patient Flows in Mental Health Systems” at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Koizumi, N. and McCann, P. (August 2003) “Housing Decisions in Panama: A Log-Linear Analysis” at the European Conference of Regional Science Association, Jyväskylä, Finland

 

Teaching Qualifications

 

Regular SPP/GMU Teaching

-          Statistical Methods for Policy Analysis (Required introductory statistics for Master students)

-          Advanced Statistical Methods for Policy Analysis (Elective time series lectures for Master students)

-          Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Public Policy (Required statistics course for PhD students)

-          Spatial Data Analysis with GIS using ArcView (Elective quantitative method course for Master and PhD students)

-          Managerial Economics and Policy Analysis (Required economics course for Master students)

 

Periodical SPP/GMU Workshops

-          Math Camp

-          STATA Workshop

 

Other Recent Invited Speech / Trainings

-          GIS/Spatial Modeling Trainings under National Geospatial Agency (NGA) funded Mentor-Protégé Programs (2008, 2009)

-          Spatial Statistics and GIS Workshop (January 2008)

Master and PhD programs at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, The Netherlands

-          GIS Application in Health Care, Center for Global Development, Washington DC (June, 2009)

-          GIS Day: Summary of GIS course at SPP/GMU  (November 2006)

 

Advisory service to graduate students

 

Internship Advisory: Internship Advisory involves (i) mentoring students while they work as an intern outside school and (ii) instructing them while writing an academic report related to their internship programs.

Spring 2005 Master student (1)

Summer 2005 Master student (1)

Fall 2005 Master student (1)

Spring 2006 Master students (2)

Summer 2006 Master student (2)

Fall 2006 Master student (1)

 

Independent Study: Advisory to Independent Study involves instruction to a student while he/she writes an academic paper.

Spring 2007 MPP students (1)

Fall 2008 MPP students (1)

 

Directed Readings and Research: Advisory for Directed Readings and Research involves instruction and assistance to Ph.D. students while they prepare a field statement (which is the first step towards writing dissertation).

Summer 2009 PhD. Student (1)

Fall 2008 Ph.D. student (1)

Spring 2006 Ph.D. student (1)

Summer 2006 Ph.D. student (1)

Spring 2007 Ph.D. students (3)

Summer 2007 Ph.D. student (1)

Fall 2007 Ph.D. student (1)

 

Service as a thesis/PhD. committee member: I am currently the Chair of 1 committee while I serve as “the methodology advisor” in the other committees.

            For Master Thesis

1 student in Environmental Science and Public Policy - Completed

For Ph.D. Dissertation

1 student in School of Public Policy - Completed

10 students in School of Public Policy (2 as the Chair) – In progress

2 students in Environmental Science and Public Policy – In progress

 

Other Appointments

 

-          Associate Director of Center for International Medical Policies and Practices

-          A committee member for Scientific Advisory Council for Center for International Medical Policies and Practices

-          A Book Editor for the Journal, World Medical and Health Policy

-          International Medical Policies and Practises

 

Journal Reviews

 

-          Papers in Regional Science

-          IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics

-          Health Care Management Science

-          Annals of Regional Science

 

Professional Memberships

 

-          Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

-          Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

-          Institute of Mathematics and Its Application (IMA)

-          The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

-          Academy Health