Co-Directors: John Kimberly, Ph.D., Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Constance Pechura, Ph.D., Treatment Research Institute
Selected Projects
Following a start-up period of exploratory conferences and several peer-reviewed articles, by 2008 COMAT began consulting directly with state substance abuse treatment systems, presenting at the Mutual Assistance Program for States (“MAPS,” a small group of selected State substance abuse directors working with TRI on quality improvement initiatives) and working with one state on a novel analytic approach to identify high performing addiction treatment providers. Highlights of COMAT accomplishments included:
Inaugural COMAT Conference (November 2005): Approximately 30 researchers and industry and management specialists gathered in Philadelphia for an appraisal of the addiction treatment industry, identifying the structural characteristics that can impede reform and achieving consensus on regulatory, financing, administrative and other next steps.
JSAT Special Edition (October 2006): COMAT’s inaugural conference yielded five published articles in a Special Edition of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.
COMAT II: “Delivering Consistent Services Across Time and Sites: Lessons From Outside Addiction” (December 2006): The second COMAT conference featured industry and addiction experts presenting on franchising, branding, specialization, automation, and other techniques from the retail, healthcare and other commercial sectors.
COMAT and MAPS (October 2008): Wharton’s John Kimberly, Ph.D. and Rafael Correidoira, Ph.D. presented phase II of their DEA performance analysis of Maryland addiction providers, along with discussion of consolidation in the addiction industry with case studies from Toyota and the Argentine wine industry.
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