Program Faculty


Name

Expertise and interests

Program responsibilities

Richard Deyo, MD, MPH 
Director

Clinical research methods; clinical use of health status measures; back pain; outcomes research; internal medicine

Program administration; mentoring individual Scholars; faculty for critical reading sessions; seminars; work-in-progress sessions; VA liaison

Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH
Assoc Director

Measuring and improving the quality of care for children with chronic disease; using the internet to provide parents with high quality, up to date, information that pertains to their children,

Individual mentoring; work-in-progress sessions; seminars; work-in-progress sessions.

Joann Elmore, MD, MPH
Assoc Director

Research methods, clinical epidemiology and internal medicine

Research methods mini-course; work-in-progress sessions; seminars; individual mentorship

Thomas Koepsell, MD, MPH 
Co-Director Emeritus

Epidemiologic and health services methods; evaluation of community-based health promotion programs; chronic disease etiology

Individual mentorship; faculty for critical reading; attend work-in-progress sessions; seminars.

William Dowling, PhD

Health services administration

Health care administration and management summer program; seminars; individual mentorship

Patrick Heagerty, PhD

Biostatistics

Biostatistical advising on Scholars’ projects

William Lafferty, MD, MPH

HIV/AIDS-related health services research

Introductory summer course in health care organization

Lorna Rhodes, PhD

Medical anthropology; qualitative research methods

Seminar on qualitative research methods; faculty for seminars and work-in-progress sessions

Allen Cheadle, PhD

Program Prof Staff

Statistical programming, database management, economics, community-based research

Analytic support and database management for individual research projects; seminars

 

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