Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Health Care and Population Health Research Track, (MPH program)
Harborview Medical Center
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
325 Ninth Avenue
Box:  359762
Seattle, WA 98104
(voice)  206-731-3356     (fax)  206-731-8584
jrc@u.washington.edu
End of Life Care, Critical Care, Pulmonary Diseases Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Buchwald           Dates:    05/2005 - 04/2010
The purpose of this effort is to improve cancer care for AIAN in Washington and Alaska.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Curtis           Dates:    09/1999 - 02/2008
The major goal of this project is to evaluate an organizational, nurse-focused intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the ICU.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Lafferty           Dates:    09/2003 - 08/2007
The long-term goal of this project is to improve the quality of patient dying and death by the appropriate use of complementary medicine (CAM).

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
PI:   Curtis           Dates:    01/2003 - 12/2005
The major goal of the project is to develop strategies to help clinicians provide patients with support for their hope and with truthfulness about their prognosis.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Curtis           Dates:    04/2002 - 04/2005
The major goals of this project are to establish the measurement characteristics of a questionnaire developed and pilot-tested by this research team to assess physician performance at specific end-of-life skills; and to assess the quality of end-of-life care provided by physicians who commonly care for dying patients.