Insights & Research
Research, public reports, and evidence behind the consulting work.
My background includes peer-reviewed research, public workforce reports, conference presentations, legislative briefings, and applied analytic products. This is a selected archive rather than a full academic CV.
Peer-reviewed publications
Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037
Patrick Zarek, Clark Ruttinger, David Armstrong, Ritashree Chakrabarti, Douglas R. Hess, Tara Jo Manal, Timothy M. Dall. Physical Therapy, 2025.
Focus: Workforce supply-and-demand projection modeling.
Using machine learning to identify factors associated with practice location of the healthcare workforce
Bounsanga et al. Rural and Remote Health, 2022.
Role: Co-author
Focus: Applied machine learning and workforce practice-location analysis.
The 2020 National Nursing Workforce Survey
Smiley et al. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 2020.
Related product: I designed and built a public dashboard using respondent state-of-employment summaries after the report was released.
Selected public reports and decision-support work
Earlier Utah research
Selected earlier work includes Utah mental-health workforce, physician workforce, registered-nurse and licensed-practical-nurse supply, nursing demand, and advanced-practice registered-nurse workforce studies. These projects combined survey design, administrative data, workforce modeling, geographic analysis, public reporting, and policy communication.
Public speaking and briefings
Over my state-government career I regularly presented research findings to policy leaders, professional audiences, workforce organizations, and legislative committees. One example is the primary-care workforce modeling presentation to the Utah Legislature associated with the IBM Health Corps project.
For consulting-oriented examples, see Selected Work.