NHIS-D Studies

Project Staff

K. Charlie Lakin, Ph.D., is the director of the Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC). Over the past 21 years, Dr. Lakin has had extensive experience in gathering, analyzing, and using statistics from primary and secondary data sources. He has shared the results of research and experience regarding people with developmental disabilities, the services they receive, and the policies affecting them as a consultant and advisor to many federal policy and research agencies, in testimony before U.S. congressional committees, and as consultant to many state agencies and policy research centers.
Phone: (612) 624-5005
Fax: (612) 625-6619
E-mail: lakin001@umn.edu

Sheryl Larson, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the Research and Training Center on Residential and Community Services and has been working at the center since 1989. Dr.. Larson directs research on personnel issues and secondary analysis projects including analysis of persons with developmental disabilities in the 1994/1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability. She specializes in data analysis, survey research, and research synthesis on topics such as residential services, personnel issues, and community integration for persons with developmental disabilities.
Phone: (612) 624-6024
Fax: (612) 625-6619
E-mail: larso072@umn.edu

Robert Doljanac, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the RTC. He is a psychologist by training and has lengthy experience working with individuals presenting a variety of cognitive, developmental and physical disabilities. He currently conducts research on direct support workforce issues and the NHIS-D.
Phone: (612) 625-1842
Fax: (612) 625-6619
E-mail: dolja001@umn.edu

Gerry Hendershot, Ph.D., is a consultant to the RTC on the National Health Interview Survey. He conducts and consults on analyses of the NHIS-D and on disability analysis within the 1999 and 2000 NHIS. Dr. Hendershot has specialized on survey design and analysis throughout his career in academia and government. From 1985 through 2000 he was a senior staff member of the Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. He had a lead role in the design and analysis of the National Health Interview Survey on Disability, and was responsible for promoting analysis and dissemination of data from that survey, by leading workshops, consulting with researchers, and authoring statistical reports. Dr. Hendershot participated in planning and implementing a major redesign of the annual National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) that was first fielded in 1997. After leaving the National Center on Health Statistics early in 2001, he became an independent consultant on disability and health statistics.
Phone: (301) 927-1120
E-mail: ghendershot@earthlink.net

Soo-yong Byun, M.A. is a research assistant at the Research and Training Center on Residential and Community Services and has been working at the center since 2004. Soo-yong has been involved in secondary analysis projects using the 1994/1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, specializing in Comparative and International Development Education. His research interests include quantitative methods and statistics, sociology of education, and international comparative education.
E-mail: byun0016@umn.edu

All of the above can be reached at this mailing address:

Institute on Community Integration
Research and Training Center on Community Living
150 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Fax: (612) 625-6619
Phone: (612) 624-6328

This research is funded by The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), U.S. Department of Education, through a Cooperative Agreement (No. H133A60051) with The Center on Emergent Disability, University of Illinois at Chicago; through a NIDRR Field-Initiated Grant (No. H133G80082) to The Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota; and through support of the RISP project provided by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities (Grant No. 90DN0028/01). Funding for this publication is provided through a NIDRR Cooperative Agreement (No. H133B980047) with the Research and Training Center on Community Living, University of Minnesota.