Research Opportunities
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Research Program - 2008
Research Faculty
Catherine Buettner
Roger Davis
Angela Fowler-Brown
Mary Beth Hamel
Suzanne Leveille
Ed Marcantonio
Ellen McCarthy
Ken Mukamal
Long Ngo
Mara Schonberg
Russell Phillips
Jan Walker
Christina Wee
Other Division Faculty Who Conduct Research
Andrew Ahn
Mark Aronson
Carol Bates
Tom Delbanco
David Feinbloom
Grace Huang
Thomas Isaac
Bruce Landon
Howard Libman
Jennifer Potter
Christopher Smith
Anjala Tess
Amy Weinstein
Gloria Yeh
Themes
We conduct interdisciplinary patient-centered research focused on preventing and treating health conditions to maximize patients’ quality of life and functional independence. Themes include:
- Aging
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
- Improving care for patients with chronic illness using mind-body interventions
- Disability
- End-of-life/palliative care
- Healthcare disparities
- Obesity
- Patient safety
- Quality of care
- Evaluations of innovative models for primary care
Research Projects
- Cancer care and its outcomes for disabled Medicare patients
- Improving chronic disease care with PatientSite
- Neighborhood risk factors for falls in the elderly
- Population-based study of chronic pain as a risk factor for falls among older adults: the MOBILIZE Boston Study
- Pain as a risk factor for falls among elder community dwellers
- Secondary data analysis of pain and disability: MOBILIZE Boston Study, Women's Health and Aging tudy
- Disparities in cancer and end-of-life care
- Language and cardiovascular risk factor screening and control in U.S. Hispanics
- Advance care planning and preferences in Framingham cohort
- Tai Chi mind-body therapy for chronic heart failure
- Pulmonary STs - mind-body exercises in the management of cardiac disease
- The use of Co-enzyme Q for the treatment of statin-induced myalgia
- Decision-making and clinical outcomes in elders with severe osteoarthritis of hip and knee - surgery vs medical therapy
- FOCUS hip fracture transfusion trial: delirium and other cognitive outcomes
- Donepezil-enhanced management of delirium in aged hip fracture patients
- Caregiver-based intervention for persistent delirium
- Development and validation of a short diagnostic assessment for delirium
- The role of psychoactive medications in the persistence/resolution of delirium
- Alcohol and chronic disease among vulnerable populations
- Alcohol and atherosclerosis pilot study
- The psychological impact and decision-making of older women after an abnormal mammogram
- Benefits & burdens of screening oldest-old women: the case of mammography
- Qualitative study of patients and providers regarding screening mammography in patients age 80 and older
- Survey comparing attitudes about mammography in elderly vs. middle-aged women
- Screening issues in elderly women
- Effects of WHI on postmenopausal estrogen use, provider trust, and use of alternative treatments
- Obesity as a barrier to health care
- Influence of race on health outcomes associated with obesity
- Value of weight loss and bariatric surgery from patient's perspective
- The influence of personal, social, and cultural factors on the inter-relationship of obesity and work-related disability
- Acupuncture for dysphagia after chemoradiation for head and neck cancer
- Patient computing: insights from consumers, patients and health professionals
- Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibitor BAY 59-7939 in patients with acute symptomatic deep-vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism
- Response training for survivors of breast cancer
- Determining sexual well-being in sexual minority women
- Adverse drug events and PatientSite
- Diabetes care in Healthcare Associates
- Computerized tracking of abnormal screening test results
- Outcomes of inpatient procedure service
- Physician work life
- Practice improvement module -- Improving quality of care for elderly patients in the educational setting
- Systems-based practice: online learning for residents
- Young women's weight management program
- The relation between the MDVIP primary care model, healthcare resource use, quality of care, and patient perceptions of care
- Impact of incentive formularies on medication use and overall costs of care
- Evaluation of the Health Disparities Collaboratives (Quality Improvement Collaboratives in the areas of HTN, DM and Asthma)
- Impact of value based purchasing practices in the Medicaid and commercial sectors
- The relationship between physician payment arrangements and the costs and quality of care
- HIV-longitudinal interrelationships of viruses and ethanol (HIV/LIVE)
- Clinical decision-making and cost-effectiveness of interventions in elders
- Effects of short-term exposure on hospital admissions for acute lower respiratory incidence in young children in Ho Chi Minh City
- Estimating population counts of MSM in Vietnam
Affiliations with Harvard School of Public Health
Roger Davis (Department of Biostatistics)
Ken Mukamal (Visiting scientist in nutrition)
Bruce Landon (Department of Health Care Policy, HMS)
