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  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Keith A. Joiner is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research spans several areas within economics, health professions, and health systems, focusing particularly on healthcare policy and management, healthcare cost and quality, and the integration of electronic health records systems.

Their scholarly output includes several papers published in various peer-reviewed journals. Notable publications include:

  • Upcoding in medicare: where does it matter most? (2024, Health Economics Review)
  • Physician Incentive Compensation Plans in Academic Medical Centers: The Imperative to Prioritize Value (2021, The American Journal of Medicine)
  • Distinguishing moral hazard from access for high-cost healthcare under insurance (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Indemnifying precaution: economic insights for regulation of a highly infectious disease (2020, Journal of Law and the Biosciences)
  • Shall we blame health IT for Medicare overpayments? New evidence from Medicare recovery audit program (2025, Contemporary Economic Policy)

Joiner's collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Christopher T. Robertson, Jianjing Lin, Andy Yuan, Wendan Zhang, and Juan Pantano.

Their work is distributed across a range of publication venues, including:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Health Economics Review
  • The American Journal of Medicine
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • Contemporary Economic Policy

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Health Information Management
  • Finance
  • Medical Laboratory Technology

Joiner's research topics center on:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Quality and Safety in Healthcare
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

In recognition of their contributions to science, they were elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Toxoplasma gondii: Fusion Competence of Parasitophorous Vacuoles in Fc Receptor-Transfected Fibroblasts

    KA Joiner;SA Fuhrman;HM Miettinen;LH Kasper

  • The parasitophorous vacuole membrane surrounding intracellular Toxoplasma gondii functions as a molecular sieve.

    J. C. Schwab;C. J.M. Beckers;K. A. Joiner

  • The type I macrophage scavenger receptor binds to gram-positive bacteria and recognizes lipoteichoic acid.

    Dana W. Dunne;David Resnick;Jordan Greenberg;Monty Krieger

  • Association of host cell endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria with the Toxoplasma gondii parasitophorous vacuole membrane: a high affinity interaction

    Anthony P. Sinai;Paul Webster;Keith A. Joiner

  • Complement Evasion by Bacteria and Parasites

    K A Joiner

  • Toxoplasma gondii Sequesters Lysosomes from Mammalian Hosts in the Vacuolar Space

    Isabelle Coppens;Joe Dan Dunn;Julia D. Romano;Marc Pypaert

  • Toxoplasma gondii Exploits Host Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis for Cholesterol Acquisition

    Isabelle Coppens;Anthony P. Sinai;Keith A. Joiner

  • CR1, the C3b receptor, mediates binding of infective Leishmania major metacyclic promastigotes to human macrophages.

    R P Da Silva;B F Hall;K A Joiner;D L Sacks

  • Safe haven: the cell biology of nonfusogenic pathogen vacuoles.

    Anthony P. Sinai;Keith A. Joiner

  • The Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry protein ROP 2 is inserted into the parasitophorous vacuole membrane, surrounding the intracellular parasite, and is exposed to the host cell cytoplasm.

    Con J.M. Beckers;Jean Francois Dubremetz;Odile Mercereau-Puijalon;Keith A. Joiner

  • Complement and Bacteria: Chemistry and Biology in Host Defense

    K A Joiner;E J Brown;M M Frank

  • The Toxoplasma gondii protein ROP2 mediates host organelle association with the parasitophorous vacuole membrane

    Anthony P. Sinai;Keith A. Joiner

  • Complement binding by two developmental stages of Leishmania major promastigotes varying in expression of a surface lipophosphoglycan.

    S M Puentes;D L Sacks;R P da Silva;K A Joiner

  • Studies on the mechanism of bacterial resistance to complement-mediated killing. I. Terminal complement components are deposited and released from salmonella minnesota S218 without causing bacterial death

    KA Joiner;CH Hammer;EJ Brown;RJ Cole

  • Kinetics and pattern of organelle exocytosis during Toxoplasma gondii/host-cell interaction.

    Jean François Dubremetz;Abderrahim Achbarou;David Bermudes;Keith A. Joiner

  • Purification, toxicity, and antiendotoxin activity of polymyxin B nonapeptide.

    R L Danner;K A Joiner;M Rubin;W H Patterson

  • Four distinct pathways of hemoglobin uptake in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    David A. Elliott;Michael T. McIntosh;H. Dean Hosgood;Shuo Chen

  • Activated terminal complement in cerebrospinal fluid in Guillain-Barré syndrome and multiple sclerosis.

    M E Sanders;C L Koski;D Robbins;M L Shin

  • Golgi biogenesis in Toxoplasma gondii

    Laurence Pelletier;Charlene A. Stern;Marc Pypaert;David Sheff

  • Serum resistance of metacyclic stage Leishmania major promastigotes is due to release of C5b-9.

    S M Puentes;R P Da Silva;D L Sacks;C H Hammer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael M. Frank
Michael M. Frank Duke University
Isabelle Coppens
Isabelle Coppens Johns Hopkins University
Alan Sher
Alan Sher National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
John G. Bartlett
John G. Bartlett Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Marc Pypaert
Marc Pypaert Yale University
Sherwood L. Gorbach
Sherwood L. Gorbach Tufts University
Paul Webster
Paul Webster House Clinic
Jeffrey A. Gelfand
Jeffrey A. Gelfand Harvard University
David S. Roos
David S. Roos University of Pennsylvania
Moon L. Shin
Moon L. Shin University of Maryland, Baltimore

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