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Research focus:
- Provider-patient communication
- Health literacy
- Patients' perspectives and experiences with healthcare
- Measure development and survey design
Stephen Erban, MD
Section Chief, Clinical Informatics
Research focus:
- Using the electronic health record to improve quality of care
- Improving reconciliation of medications and allergies
- Patient and provider engagement using patient portals
- Telehealth and remote patient monitoring
Research focus:
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Medication and vaccine safety during pregnancy
- Use of electronic health data for epidemiologic research
Research focus:
- Use of telehealth-based solutions to improve access to care and patient outcomes
- Care at home leveraging telehealth and remote patient monitoring
- Use of natural language processing and machine learning to facilitate patient understanding of clinical documentation
Research focus:
- Screening for social needs in clinical settings
- Implementation of health care and community organization partnerships
- Stakeholder engagement methods
Research focus:
- Cancer Epidemiology, Screening, and Survival
- Use of databases derived from electronic health records and health claims for population-based cancer research
- Hematological cancers and precursor conditions
Research focus:
- Communication in healthcare
- Clinical practice guideline implementation
- Patient safety and quality improvement
Research focus:
- Health informatics
- Lung cancer and lung cancer screening
- Shared decision making
- Technology-assisted implementation
Research focus:
- Improving the health and healthcare of older adult populations
- Advancing the science of multiple chronic conditions
- Improving medication safety in older adults
- Deprescribing potentially inappropriate medications in older adults
Research focus:
- Decision analysis
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
Research focus:
- Anticoagulation use and underuse, especially in patients from underserved populations
- Medication safety
- Transitions of care
- Clinical decision support tools to improve care for patients with cardiovascular disease
Research focus:
- Bioinformatics analysis of multi-omics data
- Statistical genetic study of complex diseases
- Exploration of wearable technologies for health monitoring
- Development of machine learning models for early disease diagnosis
Research focus:
- Drug safety
- Evidence synthesis
- Shared decision making
Research focus:
- Community-based treatment for addiction and mental health
- Treatment development
- Adapting treatment for special populations
- Large-scale implementation trials
Research focus:
- Risk prediction and stratification models
- Digital site-less trials and implementation science
- Pragmatic trials and health equity
Research focus:
- Epidemiology of aging
- Multiple chronic conditions/multimorbidity: Epidemiology and measurement
- Best approaches to measuring frailty using electronic medical records
- Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease
Research focus:
- Statistical genetics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Multilevel data integration
- Machine learning and disease diagnosis
