Dr. Rick Mayes
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
(804) 287-6404
bmayes@richmond.edu
Topics: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Health Care, Health Insurance, Managed Care, Psychostimulants (Ritalin), Mental Health Policy, Politics of Psychopharmacology, Medicare Policy
Mayes is author of the book Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance and co-author of the book Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care, with Robert Berenson, M.D., senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Mayes has written and presented extensively on ADHD, health insurance, health care policy, hospital cost shifting, pay-for-performance reimbursement and Medicare.
He has received numerous grants to investigate economic and policy issues related to stimulant drugs and ADHD. Prior to coming to the University of Richmond, he was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health (2000-02). During the 1998-99 academic year, he was Bankard Foundation Visiting Scholar at Australian National University and the University of Sydney. He received a B.A. from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
For more information on Mayes, please visit the Richmond Research Institute.