FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (DACP) at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Matthew W. Gillman, M.D., S.M. Fellowship Co-Director Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Dr. Matthew W. Gillman is Associate Professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. His current research interests are in early life prevention of adult chronic disease, optimal nutrition for children and adults, and clinical epidemiology. He directs an NIH-funded cohort study of pregnant women and their offspring, focusing on effects of gestational diet on outcomes of pregnancy and early childhood. He participates in several other federally-funded studies of diet, activity, obesity, and cardiovascular risk in children and adults. He is the recipient of awards including the Merck/Society for Epidemiologic Research Clinical Epidemiology and Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Awards. He has leadership roles in the American Heart Association, the U.S. National Children's Study, and the International Society for Study of the Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease. As course Co-Director for HMS course AC701.0, Clinical Epidemiology, Dr. Gillman led its transformation into a core course that focuses on clinically relevant topics and is taught through student-directed problem-based learning in small tutorial groups. Dr. Gillman's clinical work has been as a combined medicine/pediatrics primary care physician. Alyce Adams, Ph.D., M.P.P. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Policy Research, Harvard Medical School Access to and use of prescription drugs by vulnerable populations; methodological issues in health services research Onesky Aupont, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., Ph.D. Lecturer on Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Health care system innovation and redesign intended to improve the quality of mental health care delivery in primary care and of pharmaceutical use and health care seeking behavior in developing countries Mary B. Barton, M.D., M.P.P. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Breast cancer screening; health services research Maureen T. Connelly, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, Harvard Medical School Women's health; management of menopause Jonathan A. Finkelstein, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Associate Director, Center for Child Health Care Studies, DACP Childhood asthma and to study asthma care for low-income children; changing patterns of antibiotic use for children Alison A. Galbraith, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Effects of insurance policy on access to care and quality of care for vulnerable populations of children Muriel Gillick, M.D. Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Ethical issues near the end of life; ethical implications of nursing home regulations and of the process of deciding on reimbursement for expensive technology Susan Huang, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Bacterial antimicrobial resistance; evaluating invasive disease due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Harvey P. Katz, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor Deputy Director, Pri-Med, Harvard Medical School Director, Primary Care Division, Harvard Medical School Clerkship Director, Primary Care Clerkship, Harvard Medical School Pediatric endocrinology Ken P. Kleinman, Sc.D. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Methods for clustered and longitudinal repeated measures data; missing data methods Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Development of statistical methods for disease surveillance; spatial and space-time scan statistics for geographical disease surveillance, including methods for the early detection of disease outbreaks Maryjoan D. Ladden, Ph.D., R.N., Assistant Clinical Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Developing family centered models of care to support families during difficult life situations; designing and evaluating educational programs to change clinician behavior in primary care; and collaborative interprofessional team education and faculty development and training for chronic care management Grace M. Lee, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Infectious disease epidemiology and decision-making regarding vaccine use Tracy A. Lieu, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Director, Center for Child Health Care Studies, DACP Primary care delivery; family-centered outcomes; cost-effectiveness Jeanne Marie Madden, Ph.D. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Effects on maternal and infant health outcomes, service utilization, and service costs of two policies that, in succession, shortened and then lengthened standard hospital stays at childbirth; international pharmaceuticals policy and pricing Gordon T. Moore, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Director, Partnerships for Quality Education Educational strategies in health care, management of health care organizations, ambulatory health services, health policy, and effectiveness of primary care Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Director, Community Laboratory Practice Core, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Patient education and decision-making, particularly in the area of breast cancer Emily Oken, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Childhood anemia; international nutrition; impact of nutrition upon outcomes of pregnancy and offspring health Antoinette S. Peters, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Director of Curriculum Development, Harvard Medical School Medical education, such as the process of curricular and cultural change in medical schools, the effect of instructional design on learning outcomes, small group process, and correlates of specialty choice Richard Platt, M.D., M.S. Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Interim Chairman and Director of Research Developing multi-institution automated record linkage systems for use in pharmacoepidemiology and population based surveillance and control of both hospital and community acquired infections, including bioterrorism events Lisa A. Prosser, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Economic evaluations of health interventions; patient and community preferences regarding outcomes and treatments; resource allocation decisions in managed care organizations Janet W. Rich-Edwards, Sc.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Prenatal and childhood determinants of adult-onset disease; predictors of fertility and pregnancy outcome; lifestyle determinants of women's health in adulthood Dennis Ross-Degnan, Sc.D. Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Co-Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Pharmaceutical Policy, DACP and the Boston University Center for International Health Improving health in developing countries; effects of pharmaceutical policies, factors underlying appropriate use of medicines, and interventions to improve quality of care James E. Sabin, M.D. Director of Teaching Programs Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Clinical and theoretical aspects of fair resource allocation and the role of consumers in overseeing health policy and practice; ways to improve the effectiveness and equity of national and organizational programs that seek to deliver antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS in India and Uganda Steven R. Simon, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Application of rigorous methods to evaluate undergraduate medical education and the development and evaluation of innovative educational strategies to improve quality of care Stephen B. Soumerai, Sc.D. Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Drug policy research; quality improvement interventions; impact of health policies on drug utilization and clinical outcomes; access to health services by vulnerable populations Colin M. Sox, M.D., M.S. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Medical decision-making; quality of care in pediatrics Sharon Steinberg, R.N., M.S., C.S. Lecturer on Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School End-of-life care; caregiving relationships and quality of life for older women with late stage cancer Elsie Mireya Taveras, M.D. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Nutrition and physical activity as they affect child health, childhood obesity prevention interventions, and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity Anita K. Wagner, Pharm.D., M.P.H., D.P.H. Instructor in Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Safe and effective use of medicines; the effects of pharmaceutical policies on use of medicines and population health, nationally and internationally; and methodological issues in pharmaceutical policy research W. Katherine Yih, Ph.D., M.P.H. Lecturer on Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Population dynamics and evolution of pathogens in response to immunization and other disease-control measures Denotes faculty who graduated from the Fellowship Program

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