He has published and presented recently on research ethics, informed consent in dementia research, palliative care in dementia, physician-assisted suicide, social determinants of health and illness. Two recent papers are: Hougham GW, Sachs GA, Danner D, Mintz J, Patterson M, Roberts LW, Siminoff LA, Sugarman J, PJ Whitehouse, D Wirshing. "Empirical Research on Informed Consent with the Cognitively Impaired." IRB: Ethics and Human Research 25(5):S26-S32, September-October 2003; and Sugisawa H, Shibata H, Hougham GW, Sugihara Y, Liang J. "The Impact of Social Ties on Depressive Symptoms in U.S. and Japanese Elderly." Journal of Social Issues 58(4):785-804, Winter 2002.

Education

• Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Department of Sociology. Chicago, IL.
  Dissertation: "Living Wills and Other Advance Directives: Reasons for Execution and Preferences for Their Use." (Dissertation Committee: Edward O. Laumann (Chair); Edward F. Lawlor; Richard A. Shweder)
  Special field examinations completed in: Research Methodology (Approved by James S. Coleman) and Medical Sociology (Approved by Edward O. Laumann and Edward F. Lawlor). 2004.
  
• Fellow, National Science Foundation Japan Summer Institute, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. Tokyo, Japan. 1995
  
• M.A., The University of Chicago, Department of Sociology. Chicago, IL. 1993.
  Thesis: "Physician Autonomy and State Intervention: The Case of STD Control."
  
• B.S., State University of New York, College at Brockport, Sociology/Biology. Brockport, NY. 1981. cum laude
  

Designs and directs socio-medical, gerontological, geriatrics, and ethics research; trains and supervises interviewers, medical students, postgraduate ethics and geriatrics fellows; creates and maintains databases; analyzes survey and interview data quantitatively and qualitatively; prepares talks, abstracts, grant proposals, and papers for publication; organizes lecture and seminar series; coordinates multi-center research. Typical projects include:

• Potential Impact of NBAC's (National Bioethics Advisory Commission) Recommendations on Dementia Research. Co-investigator on this Alzheimer's Association funded study involves a structured review of a sample of published studies involving human subjects with dementia, a survey of the primary authors of these studies, a compilation and review of U.S. state laws relevant to research on human subjects with dementia, a survey of state Attorneys General on issues relevant to research.
• Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy and Advance Consent (DRIPAC). Co-designed and directs this NIH/NIA funded, multi-center, prospective collaborative study of the informed consent process in persons with dementia. The project is designed to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to developing new methods of cognitive capacity assessment, to understand how persons with dementia and members of their families make research enrollment decisions, to test the utility of a prospective research enrollment decision-making process similar to an "advance directive" for research, and to assess the stability of research enrollment decisions through the course of subjects' illness trajectories.
• Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts (PEACE) Co-designed and directs the research components of the PEACE program, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded, multi-center prospective study to develop and evaluate a palliative model of care for persons with Alzheimer Disease and other dementias.
• Patient Self-Determination Act. Co-designed and conducted multi-part study of the creation, implementation and impact of hospital policies on patient decision-making. Chart review study conducted to assess institutional effects. Nine month trend analysis performed to document patients' advance directive discussions with hospital personnel. Analyzed longitudinal interview data and modeled correlates of advance directive execution in a panel of over 200 patients.
• Research in Illinois Nursing Homes. Conducted telephone interviews with nursing home administrators and directors of nursing to assess types, extent of, and perceived barriers to, research being performed in a representative sample of 285 Illinois nursing homes.

Adjunct Instructor, The University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL; Governors State University, University Park, IL; Barat College, Lake Forest, IL; Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, 1994 - present

Teaches Data Analysis for Management and Policy, Social Science Research Methods, Survey of Social Science, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health Organizations, Sociology of Health and Social Behavior.

Public Health Advisor, State of Wisconsin, Division of Health, Milwaukee, WI, 1985-1991

• Consulting.  Conducted extensive public and private sector training of lay and health professionals on modern communicable disease surveillance and intervention protocols.
• Epidemiology.  Using modern epidemiological investigation techniques, ensured rapid and confidential communicable disease transmission intervention in individuals. Interviewed and counseled over 3,000 persons with one or more communicable diseases. Part of Centers for Disease Control epidemiology intervention team to investigate local Legionnaires disease outbreak.

Field Supervisor, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Milwaukee, WI, 1985

Hired, trained, and managed crew of enumerators for Milwaukee Special Census. Responsible for collecting and verifying highly confidential demographic data.

President, Board of Directors, Ragamuffin Day Care Centers, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1985-1987

Maintained oversight for all personnel, policy, and fiscal matters. Researched feasibility and opened second service delivery site.

Research Assistant, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, 1982-1984

Organized implementation and coded, cleaned, and analyzed data for several state and national practice and career path surveys of lawyers.

Emergency Medical Technician, Capitol Ambulance Service, Chicago, IL, 1981-1982

Provided emergency medical care in an underserved, inner-city population. Collected ethnographic data to examine social interaction in emergencies.

Research/Teaching Assistant, State University of New York, College at Brockport, 1980-1981

Interviewed 8th graders as part of a national study of math and science performance. Conducted data analysis for local economic impact report. Performed data analysis of kinship structures and belief systems of Micronesian islanders.

Selected Publications

Under review

Sachs GA, Stern R, Hougham GW, Stocking CB. "The Conduct of Research in Nursing Homes: A Survey of Illinois Nursing Home Administrators and Directors of Nursing." Under review at Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.

Sachs GA, Hougham GW, Legner J, McLean A, Stocking CB. "Questions About the Legal Status of Research Involving Subjects Lacking Decision-Making Capacity." Under review at Annals of Internal Medicine.

In Press

Shega JW, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Cox Hayley D, Sachs GA. "Pain In Community Dwelling Persons with Dementia: Frequency, Intensity, and Congruence Between Patient and Caregiver Report." In press at the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

Sugihara Y, Sugisawa H, Nakatani Y, Hougham GW. "Longitudinal Changes in the Well-Being of Japanese Caregivers: Variations across Kin Relationships." In press at the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences (pub scheduled July 2004).

Shega JW, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Advanced Dementia and Feeding Tubes: Do Physician Factors Contribute to State Variation." In press at the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (pub date tba).

Published

Hanrahan P, Luchins DJ, Murphy K, Patrick G, Sachs G, Hougham G. "Providing Appropriate Care in Advanced Dementia." Chapter 12(Pp. 190-209) in Using Evidence in Social Work Practice: Behavioral Perspectives, Harold E. Briggs and Tina L. Rzepnicki, eds., Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books. 2004.

Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Baron AR, Sachs GA. "Ethics Reporting in Publications about Research with Alzheimer's Disease Patients." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society February 2004 52(2):305-310. (pdf version here.)

Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Baron AR, Sachs GA. "Are the Rules for Research with Subjects with Dementia Changing? Views from the Field." Neurology 61(12):1649-1651. December 23, 2003. (pdf version here.) [Also see accompanying editorial: Kim SYH, Karlawish JHT. "Ethics and Politics of Research Involving Subjects with Impaired Decision-Making Abilities." Neurology 61(12):1645-1646. December 23, 2003.]

Shega JW, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Cox-Hayley D, Sachs GA. "Barriers to Limiting the Practice of Feeding Tube Placement in Advanced Dementia." Journal of Palliative Medicine 6(6):885-893. December 2003.

Hougham GW, Sachs GA, Danner D, Mintz J, Patterson M, Roberts LW, Siminoff LA, Sugarman J, PJ Whitehouse, D Wirshing. "Empirical Research on Informed Consent with the Cognitively Impaired." IRB: Ethics and Human Research 25(5):S26-S32, September-October 2003. (pdf galley version here.) Note: Until recently, MEDLINE had this article miscataloged under the spelling "Houghman GW." This should have been corrected by now, but it may also be found using a title, keyword, or Unique Identifier (Accession Number 14870736) search.

Sachs GA, Hougham GW, Sugarman J, Agre P, Broome ME, Geller G,Kass N, Kodish E, Mintz J, Roberts LW, Sankar P, Siminoff LA, Sorenson J, Weiss AH. "Conducting Empirical Research on Informed Consent: Challenges and Questions." IRB: Ethics and Human Research 25(5):S4-S10, September-October 2003. (pdf galley version here.)

Shega JW, Levin A, Hougham GW, Cox Haley D, Luchins D, Hanrahan P, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts (PEACE): A Program Description." Journal of Palliative Medicine 6(2):315-320, April 2003.

Sugisawa H, Shibata H, Hougham GW, Sugihara Y, Liang J. "The Impact of Social Ties on Depressive Symptoms in U.S. and Japanese Elderly." Journal of Social Issues 58(4):785-804, Winter 2002. (pdf version here.)

Cox Hayley D, Muir JC, Stocking C, Hougham G, Sachs GA. "Not Ready for Hospice: Characteristics of Patients in a Pre-Hospice Program." American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care 18(6):1-6, November/December 2001.

Hougham G. "Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection." Book Review at Science Advisory Board [online], http://www.scienceboard.net/, August 13, 2001.

Hougham GW. "Beyond Health: Postmodernism and Embodiment." Book Review at Mental Health Net/Metapsychology [online], http://mentalhelp.net/books/, July 1, 2000.

Hougham GW, Hougham GG. "IBM Materials Science Research Community: Network Structure and Composition." Technical report at Yorktown Heights, NY: International Business Machines, March 21, 2000.

Hougham G. "Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection." Book Review at Mental Health Net/Metapsychology [online], http://mentalhelp.net/books/, January 5, 2000.

Daskal FC, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Interviews With Patients With Dementia and Their Families," The Annals of Long-Term Care 7(8):293-298. August, 1999.

Karlawish JHT, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "What is the Quality of the Reporting of Research Ethics in Publications of Nursing Home Research," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 47(1):76-81, January 1999.

Sachs GA, Stocking CB, Stern R, Cox DM, Hougham G, Sachs RS. "Ethical Aspects of Dementia Research: Informed Consent and Proxy Consent," Clinical Research 42(10):403-412. October, 1994.

Hougham GW. "Tokyo Shows You Get the Subways You Pay For," letter, New York Times October 10, 1995.

Selected Presentations and Talks

2004

Shega JW, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Does Hospice Make a Difference in End-of-Life Care for Persons with Dementia?" Paper presented at the American Geriatrics Society 2004 Annual Scientific Meeting. Baltimore, MD, May 17-21, 2004. [Awarded the Presidential Best Ethics Paper] Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2004, 52(4):pS4.

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Whitehouse PJ, Patterson MB, Danner DD, Friesen WV, Sachs GA. "Stability of Proxy Choice Over Time in Dementia Research Decision Making." Paper presented at the American Geriatrics Society 2004 Annual Scientific Meeting. Las Vegas, NV, May 17-24, 2004. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2004, 52(4):pS5.

2003

Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Patterson MB, Whitehouse PJ, Danner DD, Friesen WV, Sachs GA. "'It's my spine - it's my blood.' Subject Discomfort With the Prospect of Proxies Making Research Enrollment Decisions." Paper presentation at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, CA, November 21-25, 2003. The Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue I):p21. October, 2003.

Diwan S, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Comparing Strains of Spouses and Adult Children Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer Disease Receiving Palliative Care." Poster presentation at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, CA, November 21-25, 2003. The Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue I):p103. October, 2003.

Jaffe E, Hougham GW, Levin A, Sachs GA. "Racial Differences in the Etiology and Presenting Symptoms of Dementia." Poster presentation at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, CA, November 21-25, 2003. The Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue I):p302. October, 2003.

Shega JW, Hougham GW, Cox-Hayley D, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Pain Complaints in Persons With Dementia Who Reside in the Community: Frequency, Intensity, and Correlation With Caregiver Report." Poster presentation at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, CA, November 21-25, 2003. The Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue I):p 305 . October, 2003.

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Whitehouse PJ, Patterson MB, Danner DD, Friesen WV, Sachs GA. "Time Effects in Dementia Research Enrollment Decision Making." Poster presentation at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, CA, November 21-25, 2003. The Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue I):p 305. October, 2003.

Sugisawa H, Sugihara Y, Harada K, Shibata H, Hougham GW. "Effects of Mandatory Retirement on the Mental Health and Social Well-Being of Japanese Men." Poster presentation at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, CA, November 21-25, 2003. The Gerontologist, 43(Special Issue I):p 344. October, 2003.

Shega JW, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Dementia and Feeding Tubes: Does Geographic Variation and Physician Knowledge Impact Placement Rates?" Paper presentation at the American Geriatrics Society 2003 Annual Scientific Meeting. Baltimore, MD, May 14-18, 2003. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2003, 51(4):p S40.

Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Brauner D, Patterson MB, Danner DD. "Planning Ahead Together: Testing the Feasability of a Model of Prospective Consent." Poster presented at the American Geriatrics Society 2003 Annual Scientific Meeting. Baltimore, MD, May 14-18, 2003. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2003, 51(4):p S110.

Garrett SL, Cox Hayley D, Sachs GA, Hougham GW. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Delivering Palliative Care to Those With Advanced Dementia." Poster presented at the American Geriatrics Society 2003 Annual Scientific Meeting. Baltimore, MD, May 14-18, 2003. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2003, 51(4):p S170.

Shega JW, Cox-Hayley D, Hougham GW. "Palliative Care and Advanced Dementia: the PEACE Approach." Workshop presentation at the 15th Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Orlando, FL, February 6-9, 2003.

Patterson M, Sami S, Danner D, Hougham GW, Ripich D, Whitehouse P, Sachs G. "Cognitive Correlates of Capacity for Informed Consent in Dementia Research." Poster presentation at the 31st Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society. Honolulu, HI, February 5-8, 2003.

2002

Sugisawa H, Fukaya T, Sugihara Y, Nakatani Y, Ishikawa H, Tanaka C, Hougham GW. "Under-Utilization of In-Home Services Under Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan." Poster presentation at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Boston MA, November 23, 2002. The Gerontologist, 42(Special Issue I):p 23. October, 2002.

Sugihara Y, Sugisawa H, Kobayashi E, Fukaya T, Hougham GW, Liang J. "Gender Differences in Productive Activities and Well-Being Among the Old-Old in Japan." Poster presentation at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Boston MA, November 23, 2002. The Gerontologist, 42(Special Issue I):p 97. October, 2002.

Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Baron AR, Davis EF, Sachs GA. "Research With Subjects With Dementia - Are the Rules Changing?" Poster presentation at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Boston MA, November 24, 2002. The Gerontologist, 42(Special Issue I):p 148. October, 2002.

Hougham GW, McLean A, Legner J, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Views of State Attorneys General on U.S. State Laws Governing Research With Cognitively Impaired Subjects." Poster presentation at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Boston MA, November 24, 2002. The Gerontologist, 42(Special Issue I):p 150. October, 2002.

Stocking CB, Baron AR, Davis EF, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Ethics Issues in Reports of Research With Alzheimer's Patients" Poster presentation at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Boston MA, November 24, 2002. The Gerontologist, 42(Special Issue I):pp. October, 2002.[Listing inadvertently ommitted.]

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Burdens on Family Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: Preliminary Results from the PEACE Initiative (Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts)." Poster presentation at the 2nd Annual Best Practices Poster Day--Innovations in Dementia Care, at Northwestern University's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, co-sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association - Greater Illinois Chapter, and the Council for Jewish Elderly. Evanston, IL, October 4, 2002.

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Cox-Hayley D, Hanrahan P, Luchins D, Sachs GA. "Achieving Excellence in End-of-Life Care of Dementia Patients." Poster presentation at the 2nd Annual Best Practices Poster Day--Innovations in Dementia Care, at Northwestern University's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, co-sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association - Greater Illinois Chapter, and the Council for Jewish Elderly. Evanston, IL, October 4, 2002.

Hougham GW, Gorawara-Bhat R. "New Methods in Empirical Medical Ethics: What Can We Learn from Sequences, Networks, Citations, Simulations, Automata, and other Creatures." Abstract submitted for presentation at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 5th Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, October, 2002.

Brauner DJ, Merel SE, Hougham GW. "Using Linguistics-Based Quantitative Analyses to Understand How Experts Determine Decision-Making Capacity in Research Subjects with Dementia." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting. Washington, DC, May 11, 2002. [Selected for Presidential Poster Session.] Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002, 50(4):pp P476 .

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Cox-Hayley D, Hanrahan P, Luchins D, Sachs GA. "Achieving Excellence in End-of-Life Care of Dementia Patients." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting. Washington, DC, May 11, 2002. [Selected for Presidential Poster Session.] Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002, 50(4):pp P467.

Hougham GW, Legner J, McLean A, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Census of U.S. State Laws Governing Research on Cognitively Impaired Subjects." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting. Washington, DC, May 10, 2002. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002, 50(4):pp P120.

Hanrahan P, Murphy K, Luchins DJ, Patrick G, Johnson S, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Palliative Care for Dementia: Clinical Choice Points." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting. Washington, DC, May 11, 2002. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002, 50(4):pp P84.

Shega JW, Hougham G, Stocking C, Cox-Hayley D, Sachs GA. "Enteral Nutrition and Advanced Dementia: What do Physicians Know, Believe, and Practice." Paper presentation at the American Geriatrics Society 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting. Washington, DC, May 10, 2002. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002, 50(4):pp A32.

2001

Layman DE, Danner DD, Remer R, Hougham GW. "Should Alzheimer's Affected Individuals Be Told of Their Condition: A Spousal Caregiver Perspective." Paper presentation at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Chicago, IL, November 15-18, 2001. The Gerontologist, 41(Special Issue I):p 353. October, 2001.

Brauner DJ, Merel SE, Hougham GW, Whitehouse PJ, Sachs GA. "A Linguistic-Based Instrument for Assessing Decision-Making Capacity in Persons with Dementia: Correlation with Expert Opinions. Poster presentation at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Chicago, IL, November 15-18, 2001. The Gerontologist, 41(Special Issue I):p 366. October, 2001.

Sugisawa H, Kim H, Kobayashi E, Sugihara Y, Fukaya T, Hougham GW, Liang J. "Representativeness of Highly Censored Panel Sample Data of Japanese Elderly." Poster presentation at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Chicago, IL, November 15-18, 2001. The Gerontologist, 41(Special Issue I):p 385. October, 2001.

Kim H, Sugisawa H, Kobayashi E, Sugihara Y, Fukaya T, Hougham GW, J Liang. "Effects of Support Exchange with Children on the Subjective Well Being of Japanese Elderly. Poster presentation at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Chicago, IL, November 15-18, 2001. The Gerontologist, 41(Special Issue I):p 42. October, 2001.

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Burdens on Family Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: Preliminary Results from the PEACE Initiative (Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts)." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting. Chicago, IL May 10, 2001. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2001, 49(4):p P90.

Merel S, Hougham GW, Sachs GA, Brauner D. "Linguistics-Based Determination of Decision-Making Capacity in Persons with Dementia." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting. Chicago, IL May 11, 2001. [Selected for Presidential Poster Session, and awarded the President's Award for Best Ethics Poster Presentation.] Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2001, 49(4):p P404.

Hanyok L, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Personhood and Dementia: Family Members' Perceptions of Dementia Patients' Self-Identity." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting. Chicago, IL May 11, 2001. [Selected for Presidential Poster Session.] Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2001, 49(4):p P407.

Bial A, Cox-Hayley D, Zimmerman T, Hougham GW. "Use of the Geriatric Depression Scale (Short Form) Among Older Prostate Cancer Patients." Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting. Chicago, IL May 11, 2001. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2001, 49(4):p P320.

Shega J, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Cox-Hayley D, Sachs GA. "Enteral Nutrition - Who Should We PEG Next?" Poster presentation at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting. Chicago, IL May 12, 2001.

Shikakura H, Hougham GW. "School Girls: An Ethnographic Study of Two Japanese High Schools." Paper presentation at the 2001 Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, March 14-17, 2001.

2000

Hougham GW, Danner DD, Layman DE, Whitehouse PJ, Patterson MB, Sachs GA, for the DRIPAC Collaboration (Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent). "Dementia Research Enrollment Decisions: Does Race Matter?" Poster presentation at the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, DC, November 17-21, 2000. The Gerontologist, 40(Special Issue 1), 9. October, 2000.

Layman DE, Danner DD, Friesen WV, Hougham GW, Sachs GA, for the DRIPAC Collaboration (Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent). "Dementia Patient Enrollment in a Research Protocol: What Do We Know About Who Decides?" Poster presentation at the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, DC, November 17-21, 2000. [Selected for special juried second presentation at the Workgroup on Research and Evaluation of Special Care Units (WRESCU) Formal GSA Interest Group Meeting.] The Gerontologist, 40(Special Issue 1), 67. October, 2000.

Bial A, Cox-Haley D, Zimmerman T, Hougham GW. "The Evaluation of Depression in Elderly Men With Prostate Cancer." Poster presentation at the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, DC, November 17-21, 2000. The Gerontologist, 40(Special Issue 1), 256. October, 2000.

Murphy K, Hanrahan P, Hougham GW, Luchins DJ, Johnson S, Sachs GA, for the PEACE Collaboration (Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts). "The Use Of Clinical 'Choice Points' in Shaping End-of-Life Care for Patients With Advanced Dementia." Poster presentation at the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, DC, November 17-21, 2000. The Gerontologist, 40(Special Issue 1), 179. October, 2000.

Hougham GW, Danner DD, Patterson M, Sachs GA. "Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent: The DRIPAC Multidisciplinary Collaboration." Paper presentation at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Salt Lake City, UT, October 26-29, 2000.

Brauner D, Merel S, Hougham GW, Sachs G. "A Linguistic Method for Evaluating Decision-Making Capacity in Patients with Dementia." Paper presentation at the Innovation and Application: Looking Ahead in the Medical Humanities conference, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL. October 6, 2000.

Merel S, Hougham GW, Brauner D. "A Linguistic Tool for Determining Decision Making Capacity in Dementia Research." Presented at the 6th Annual Summer Research Forum, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago. August 30, 2000.

Hanyok L, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Personhood and Dementia: Family Members' Perceptions of Dementia and Patients' Self-Identity." Presented at the 6th Annual Summer Research Forum, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago. August 30, 2000.

Shikakura H, Hougham GW. "High School Education for Girls in Japan: Do Traditional Gender-Role Values Still Matter?" Paper presentation at the American Sociological Association 95th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, August 12-16, 2000.

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Patterson MB, Danner DD, Lusins JO, Sachs GA. "Assessing Question Order Effects in Dementia Research Enrollment Decisions." Poster session presented at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2000 Annual Scientific Meeting. Nashville, TN May 17-21, 2000. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2000, 48(8):pp P68.

Rosenbaum K, Hougham GW, Brauner D. "Assessing the Ability of Patients With Dementia to Make Decisions Using a Linguistic Model." Poster session presented at the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research 2000 Annual Scientific Meeting. Nashville, TN May 17-21, 2000. [Selected for Presidential Poster Session.] Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2000, 48(8):pp P453.

Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent -- The DRIPAC Collaboration." Paper presented at the NIH Annual Meeting of Grantees: Informed Consent Research Involving Human Subjects. Washington DC, March 16-17, 2000.

Hougham GW, Danner DD, Friesen W, Ripich D, Sachs GA. "Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent -- The DRIPAC Collaboration." Paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Miami, FL, March 12-15, 2000.

Cox-Hayley D, Luchins D, Murphy K, Hanrahan P, Stocking C, Hougham G, Sachs GA. "Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts (PEACE): An Innovative Model of Care for People Dying from Dementia," panel symposium presentation at the First Joint Clinical Conference of the National Hospice Association, Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association, and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. February 19-22, 2000

1999

Hougham GW. "A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Advance Directive Process for Dementia Research," panel symposium presentation at the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Francisco, CA, November 19-23, 1999. The Gerontologist, 39(Special Issue 1), 151-153.

Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Patterson MB, Danner DD, Sachs GA. "Informed Consent for Dementia Research: Preliminary Results," poster presentation at the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Francisco, CA, November 19-23, 1999. [Selected for special juried second presentation at the Workgroup on Research and Evaluation of Special Care Units (WRESCU) Formal GSA Interest Group Meeting.] The Gerontologist, 39(Special Issue 1), 54-55.

Sachs GA, Hougham GW, Brauner D, Gute J, Layman DE, Victory K, Danner DD. " Capacity to Consent for Dementia Research: The DRIPAC Collaboration," poster presentation at the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Francisco, CA, November 19-23, 1999. The Gerontologist, 39(Special Issue 1), 55.

Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy and Advance Consent," paper presentation at The Dorothy J. MacLean Memorial Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago. October 15-17, 1999.

Hougham GW. "Introduction to Discriminant Analysis," presented at the Research Staff Colloquium series, University of Chicago Medical Center. February 3, 1999.

1998

Hougham G, Masuda Y, Iguchi A, Sugisawa H. "Comparing US and Japanese Views on Advance Directives: Precipitants, Preferences and Latent Functions of Legal Documents to Preserve Social Roles and Personal Identity," abstract accepted for the 4th World Congress of Bioethics of the International Association of Bioethics. Tokyo, Japan, November 4-7, 1998.

Hougham GW. "A Person's Experience with Illness in the Hospital," invited discussant at the 4th Annual Summer Research Forum, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. September 16, 1998.

Daskal F, Hougham GW, Sachs GA. "Attitudes of Patients with Early Stage Alzheimer Disease/Dementia and Their Families Toward Physician Assisted Suicide," paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research. Seattle, WA, May 6-10, 1998. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1998, 46(9):pp A12.

1997

Karlawish J, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Nursing Home Research: the Positive Effect of Instructions for Authors on the Quality of Reported Research Ethics," poster presented at the Third International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publications. Prague, Czech Republic, September 17-21, 1997.

Karlawish J, Hougham GW, Stocking CB, Sachs GA. "Quality of Reported Research Ethics in Publications of Nursing Home Research," poster session at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research. Atlanta, GA, May 9, 1997. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997, 45(9):pp P130.

1996

Sachs GA, Hougham GW. "Communication with Physicians About Advance Directives," presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society/American Federation for Aging Research. Chicago, IL, May 3, 1996. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1996, 44(9):pp A9.

1995

Sachs GA, Hougham GW. "Communication and Advance Directives: Selected Results From a Longitudinal Study at the University of Chicago," presented at The Seventh Annual Mrs. John MacLean Conference on Clinical Medical Ethics and Patient Care, University of Chicago. October 21, 1995.

Hougham GW. "Cross-Cultural Socio-Medical Research Strategies," presented to Ethics Fellows at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. University of Chicago. October 1995.

Hougham GW. "Advance Directives and End-of-Life Decision-Making," paper presented at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Japan. July 24, 1995.

1994

Sachs GA, Stern R, Hougham GW, Stocking CB. "Research in Nursing Homes and Other Uses of Residents: An Empirical Study," poster session at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.

Sachs GA, Hougham GW, Stocking CB. "Advance Directives: Why People Have Them and What They Intend," poster session at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society.

1980-1992

Hougham GW. "Qualitative Research Methodologies for Socio-Medical Research," presented to Fellows at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago. Spring 1992.

Hougham GW. "Sociology of the Public Health Mission: Surveillance as a Communicable Disease Control Strategy," presented at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. 1989.

VanFossen B, Hougham GW, et al. "Barriers to Scientific Training by Gender, Race, and Class: Student Interviews," Brockport, NY: SUNY, Institute for Social Science Research. Project Report No. 2, 1980.

Taylor D, Hougham GW, et al. "School Violence and Vandalism: Social and Psychological Impacts on Education," Paper delivered at Midwest Sociological Association 1980 Annual Meeting.

Other Works in Progress (in no particular order)

Hougham GW, Sachs GA, et al., for the DRIPAC Collaboration (Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent). “Informed Consent for Dementia Research: Preliminary Findings of the DRIPAC Collaboration.” Paper in preparation for submission to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Danner DD, Friesen W, Hougham GW, Sachs GA, et al., for the DRIPAC Collaboration (Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent). "Nonverbal Communication in Dementia Research Decision Making." Paper in preparation for submission to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Brauner DJ, Merel S, Hougham GW, Sachs GA, et al., "Linguistics-Based Determination of Decision Making Capacity in Persons with Dementia: Development of a New Tool, LA-DMC." Paper in preparation.

Patterson M, Sami S, Danner D, Hougham GW,Ripich D, Whitehouse P, Sachs GA, et al., for the DRIPAC Collaboration (Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent). "Cognitive Correlates of Capacity for Informed Consent in Dementia Research." Paper in preparation.

“Concordance of Expert Rater, Lay Interviewer, and Proxy Ratings of Decisional Capacity for Dementia Research.”

“Willingness of Dementia Patients and Their Proxies to Enroll in Stem Cell Research.”

“Quantitative Linguistics Correlates of Decision-Making Capacity.”

“Differential Construction of Decisional Capacity by Expert Raters.”

“Racial Differences in Dementia Research Enrollment Decision Making.”

“Threshold Measures of Decisional Capacity May De-Voice the Wishes of Persons with Cognitive Impairments.”

“Impact of Conversational Skill and Training of Research Interviewers in Dementia Research Recruitment.”

“Concordance of Patient and Proxy Wishes in Planning for Future Dementia Research Participation: Who Decides?”

“Degree of Voluntariness Exhibited by Potential Dementia Research Subjects in Planning for Future Research Participation: Free and Uncoerced?”

“Impact of Prospective Dementia Research Participation Planning on Subsequent Research Participation.”

“Stability of Patient and Proxy Dementia Research Enrollment Wishes Over Time.”

Hougham GW. "New Methods in Empirical Ethics: What Can We Learn from Sequences, Networks, Citations, Simulations, Automata, and other Creatures."

Hougham GW, Jeffrey, Ian. "Artistic 'School' Definitions by Different Latent Clustering of Elite Photographers."

Hougham GW, Hougham GG. "Informal Scientific Patent Consultation in a Large Industrial Research Laboratory."

Hougham GW. "Songenshi and the 'Living Will' in Japan."

Hougham GW, Sachs GA, Stocking CB. "Where the Action Is: Organizations and Implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act."

Hougham GW, Sachs GA, Stocking CB. "What Do Patients Want From Their Advance Directive?"

Sachs GA, Hougham GW, Stocking CB. "End-of-Life Communication: Who Do Patients Talk To and What Do They Talk About?"

Sachs GA, Hougham GW, Stocking CB. "Family Experiences Surrounding Deaths of Patients With Advance Directives."

Grant Support

1991-1993 "Ethical Aspects of Dementia Research: Informed Consent and Proxy Consent." Illinois Department of Public Health Alzheimer's Disease Research Grant. Research Assistant (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator)

1992-2002 University Endowment Tuition Scholarship. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.

1992-1993 "The Practice of Health Promotion Among Older Patients with Dementia." Alzheimer's Association Pilot Research Grant. Research Assistant (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator)

1993-1994 "A Statewide Survey of Nursing Home Research in Illinois." Retirement Research Foundation. Research Assistant (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator)

1995 "Advance Directive Use Among Japanese Elderly." National Science Foundation/Science and Technology Agency of Japan. Summer Institute Fellow (Hiroshi Shibata, Hidehiro Sugisawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Sponsors)

1998-2002 "Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts: The PEACE Program." The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Research Director (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator) ($449,304)

2000-2002 "Potential Impact of NBAC's Recommendations on Dementia Research." Alzheimer's Association. Research Director/Co-Investigator (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator) ($136,820)

2000-2003 "Geriatrics Center of Excellence." The John A. Hartford Foundation. Research Director (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator) ($524,590)

2001-2002 "Bringing PEACE to People with Dementia." (Communications grant supplement to the PEACE Program.) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Research Director (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator) ($15,000)

1997-2003 "Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy, and Advance Consent." National Institute on Aging (R01). Research Director/Co-Investigator (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator) ($600,000)

Active grant support:

2004-2006 "Geriatrics Center of Excellence." The John A. Hartford Foundation. Research Director (Greg A. Sachs, Principal Investigator) ($300,000 renewal)

Pending grant support:

2004-2008 "Pain In Community Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia." National Institutes on Aging (K23). Research Director (Joseph Shega, MD, Principal Investigator; Greg A. Sachs, Faculty Sponsor)

2004-2005 "Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors Influencing Attitudes and Use of Community Services Among African Americans." Retirement Research Foundation. Co-Investigator (Sadhna Diwan, PhD, Principal Investigator; Greg A. Sachs, Co-Investigator)

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