Associate Professor of Health Services
Director of the Program in
Health Policy and Management

UCLA School of Public Health
Department of Health Services
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Tel: (310) 206-6322
Fax: (310) 825-3317
E-mail: Hilberma@ucla.edu

Diana Hilberman is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Services. She teaches management practice and the capstone, integrating field practice with classroom theory and advises students preparing their consulting papers. She directs the Field Studies Program in the Department. Dr. Hilberman received her MSPH and DrPH from the UCLA School of Public Health, Program in Health Policy and Management, her Masters in Social Planning from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and her BA from UCLA’s Department of Sociology. Her particular areas of research interest lie in the health services management areas of interorganizational relations, strategy development, and organizational behavior. She is currently completing a project looking at evolving health administration program curriculum and evaluating the relationship between educational processes and outcomes. Dr.  Hilberman is the Departmental liaison to professional groups and associations in the professional practitioner community, including the Departmental alumni association.

Selected Publications

Burns, Lawton R., Stephen Walston, Jeffrey Alexander, Howard Zuckerman, Andersen, Ronald, Paul Torrens, and Diana Hilberman, Forthcoming, 1999. "Just How Integrated Are Integrated Delivery Systems? Results From a National Survey", in MEDICINE MEETS BUSINESS: LESSONS FROM THE FIELD (Gaithersberg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc.).

Hilberman, Diana W. 1998. "The Effect of Planning and Implementation Processes on the Development of Structural and Behavioral Linkages in Physician-Integration Arrangements." Doctoral Dissertation, (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, Inc.).

Zuckerman, Howard S., Hilberman, Diana W., Andersen, Ronald M., Burns, Lawton R., Alexander, Jeffrey A., and Torrens, Paul R. "Physicians and Organizations: Strange Bedfellows or a Marriage Made in Heaven?" 1998. In Frontiers of Health Services Management.

Zuckerman, Howard S., Torrens, Paul R., Hilberman, Diana W., and Andersen, Ronald M., "Evaluating Emerging Physician-Organization Integration Arrangements". 1998. In INTEGRATED DELIVERY SYSTEMS: CREATION, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE (Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press), pp. 151-164.

Alexander, Jeffrey A., Burns, Lawton R., Zuckerman, Howard S., Vaughn, Thomas, Andersen, Ronald M., Torrens, Paul R., Hilberman, Diana W. 1996. "An Exploratory Analysis of Market Based Physician-Organization Arrangements". HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, 41(3):311-329.

Alexander, Jeffrey A., Thomas Vaughan, Lawton R. Burns, Howard Zuckerman, Ronald M. Andersen, Paul R. Torrens, and Diana W. Hilberman. 1996. "Organizational Approaches to Integrated Health Care Delivery: A Taxonomic Analysis of Physician-Organization Arrangments." MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW, 53(1):71-93.

Zuckerman, H.S., Torrens, P.R., Hilberman, D.W., Andersen, R.M., "Evaluating Emerging Physician-Organization Integration Arrangements" in Austin Ross and Mary Richardson (Eds.), AMBULATORY HEALTH CARE CASE STUDIES FOR THE HEALTH CARE EXECUTIVE (Denver: Health Administration Press, 1996), pp. 97-109.

Hilberman, Diana, Ronald Andersen and Paul Torrens, "Evaluating Emerging Physician Organization Integration Arrangements" Final Report, Center for Health Management Research, October 13, 1995.

Hilberman, Diana and Ronald Andersen "Substantive and Methodological Issues in Cross Site Case Studies: Developing Physician Organization Integration Arrangements" Invited Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association of Health Services Research, Chicago, Il. June 4, 1995.