Senior Fellows
Joseph D. Restuccia, Dr.P.H.
Dr. Restuccia is Professor of Health Care and Operations Management at the BU School of Management, and Professor of Health Services at the BU School of Public Health. His research spans 30 years and has focused on issues related to health care quality and productivity, including studies involving development and application of hospital and health system performance measures, development and application of patient satisfaction measurement, evaluation of quality management programs, and evaluation of interventions intended to improve effectiveness of health care delivery. Professor Restuccia is co-developer of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP), a decision-making method to assess the necessity of hospital admissions and days of care, that is widely used throughout the world. He recently served as an advisor to the Ministry of Health in Lombardy, Italy on a project to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery and on the development of a new school of health care management. He is principal investigator for an AHRQ-sponsored project related to small area variations in hospitalization rates; is a co-investigator in the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pursuing Perfection program; is co-principal investigator for the Commonwealth Fund-supported survey of the current state and impact of hospital quality improvement activities; and is a co-investigator on the HRET-led evaluation of language access services in California public hospitals, supported by the California Endowment.
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