Rebecca Klemm, Ph.D.

Evaluation Subcommittee

Rebecca Klemm, President of Klemm Analysis Group, Inc., serves as executive director of many of her company's projects and ensures the timely completion of every project within the budget allocated and adherent to strict quality control standards.  Dr. Klemm has directed many projects in the area of health services research for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services, and commercial clients.  One VA project, the Quadrennial Report to the President on the adequacy of special pay for physicians and dentists, involved comparing salary, conditions of work, and research and clinical practice, of private and government physicians and dentists.  At the conclusion of the study, Dr. Klemm provided expert testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs. Dr. Klemm has specialized in analyses regarding public policy and regulation within a legal environment for the past 20 years.  The range of projects for which she has served as an expert includes policy and regulation, employment (including Title VII, ADEA, and pay equity), Section 482 tax, quality control, product liability, and statistical auditing.  She has combined her statistical expertise with her training in operations research and stochastic programming to a variety of subject matters, including the performance of econometric modeling for the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Klemm serves as Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Center for a large multi-center translational study of diabetes in managed care organizations for CDC.  She has served as Technical Director of a contract to provide statistical, epidemiologic and data management services to CDC for seven years. Dr. Klemm is one of seven scientists serving on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists sponsored jointly by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Science and Technology Section of the American Bar Association.  In that capacity, she directed a session on Health Care Coverage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies for the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science during January 1999. Dr. Klemm graduated magna cum laude from Miami University in 1971with a BS in mathematics.  She received her MS in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1976 in statistics, both from Iowa State University.