Research Initiatives

Research in Progress

In addition to the grants currently awarded, several faculty members in the department are involved in a number of additional research projects, some of which are funded as collaborative efforts with other departments both internal and external to the University. Noted below (alphabetically) are several projects which departmental faculty are currently either seeking funds to develop further, working on as in-kind contributions to the project, or are collaborating on as interdisciplinary research efforts.

Biological Markers and Nicotine Dependence - Joe DiFranza, MD and Robert Wellman, PhD

Empowering Physicians to Improve Breast Cancer Screening - Roger Luckmann, MD, MPH

Evidence-Based Medicine in the Third Year Student Clerkship - Frank Domino, MD

Health Status of Low Income Women and Children - Linda Weinreb, MD

Identifying a History of Child Abuse Among Primary Care Adult Patients: Provider Attitudes, Practices and Barriers - Linda Weinreb, MD, Lucy Candib, MD, Judy Savageau, MPH and Lee Hargraves, PhD

Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening - Roger Luckmann, MD, MPH

Non-Cancer Care of Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients - Barry Saver, MD, MPH

Perceived Bias in Medical Care Among Ethnically Diverse Adults with Diabetes - Lee Hargraves, PhD

Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Physicians in Community Health Centers Throughout Massachusetts (MassAHEC Network) - Judy Savageau, MPH, Linda Cragin, MS and Warren Ferguson, MD

Recruitment of Community Physicians to an Education Program: Costs and Effects of Repeated Invitations, Incentives and Peer Persuasion - Roger Luckmann, MD, MPH

School Nurse-delivered Smoking Cessation Intervention - Joe DiFranza, MD

Service Utilization Patterns of Low Income Women and Children - Linda Weinreb, MD

Thirty Years of Residency Training: Characteristics Associated with Practice in Health Professions Shortage Areas - Warren Ferguson, MD, Suzanne Cashman, ScD, Judy Savageau, MPH and Dan Lasser, MD, MPH

Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Survival from Colorectal Cancer - Chyke Doubeni, MD, MPH