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CHS Scientific Staff
The Center's scientific staff have graduate training and experience in
areas such as behavioral science, epidemiology, preventive medicine, family
medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, health services
research, biostatistics, operations research, and survey research. Many have
faculty appointments at the University of Washington, contributing to its
teaching and research programs.
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Linn Abraham, MS,
Biostatistician
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer surveillance; radiologist
variability in mammography, women's health—urinary tract infections,
urinary incontinence
- Biostatistics methodological research: longitudinal data analysis
Melissa Anderson, MS,
Biostatistician
- Applied biostatistics: aging—disability, behavioral
interventions/health behavior change, domestic violence
- Biostatistics methodological research: diagnostic test accuracy,
longitudinal data analysis
David Arterburn, MD, MPH,
Assistant Investigator
- Aging: obesity prevention and control
- Behavior change: obesity prevention and control
- Chronic illness: obesity prevention and control
- Child/adolescent health: obesity prevention and control
- Mental health: obesity
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety: outcomes research
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Ben Balderson, PhD,
Research Associate
- Aging: senior care management
- Behavior change: self-management support, illness behavior,
motivational interviewing, problem-solving therapy, co-morbid conditions
- Child/adolescent health: asthma in children, psychology, chronic
illness management, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Chronic illness: asthma care, management
Chronic pain: back pain
- Patient/provider interaction: patient self-management support,
self-care
Bill Barlow, PhD,
Senior Investigator
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer screening, breast cancer and
multiple myeloma treatment, acupuncture efficacy
- Biostatistics methodological research: case cohort analysis,
diagnostic test accuracy, survival analysis
- Cancer control: biostatistics, mammography, biomarkers
Bill Beery, MPH, Director, Center for
Community Health and Evaluation
- Community health and evaluation: evaluation of community-based
health improvement efforts, health promotion in populations, evaluation
of the efforts of health-related philanthropy
Denise M. Boudreau, PhD,
Assistant Investigator
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety: validation of pharmacy data
sources, pharmacy practice research, pharmaceutical outcomes research,
drug benefits, drug safety
- Health outcomes research: cost-effectiveness analysis, quality of
life
- Cancer control: breast cancer, prostate cancer, reproductive organ
cancers, economics
Erin J. Aiello Bowles,
MPH, Research Associate
- Cancer control: breast cancer, epidemiology, mammographic breast
density, molecular markers, breast cancer screening surveillance,
automated data collection, quality of care, pharmacoepidemiology
- Women's health: menopause, hormone replacement therapy
Diana Buist, PhD,
Associate Investigator
- Aging: osteoporosis, quality of care
- Cancer control: breast cancer, mammography,
breast cancer treatment, quality of life measurement, breast cancer
screening surveillance, breast treatment, outcomes,
pharmacoepidemiology, survivorship, surveillance, screening, secondary
prevention
- Women's health: osteoporosis/fracture, osteoporosis/fracture control
- Midlife women: hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Older women: osteoporosis/fracture
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C
Sheryl Catz, PhD,
Associate Investigator
- Behavior change: treatment adherence, telephone interventions,
motivational interviewing, self-management support
- Chronic illness: prevention
- Sexually transmitted diseases: STD/HIV prevention, HIV management
Dan Cherkin, PhD,
Associate Director and Senior Investigator
- Alternative approaches to healing: utilization, role in health
care, back pain, neck pain, acupuncture, chiropractic care, massage,
meditation, tai chi, naturopathic medicine, yoga
- Chronic illness: management
- Chronic pain: back pain, neck pain
- Patient/provider interaction: patient expectations, the
therapeutic encounter
Jessica Chubak, PhD, Assistant
Investigator
- Behavior change: cancer screening promotion/participation
- Cancer control: epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, secondary
prevention, survivorship, quality of life, breast cancer, reproductive
organs cancer
- Health services: chronic illness management, translation of
preventive care research into clinical practice
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety: drug safety, validation of
pharmacy data sources
Katie Coleman, MSPH, Research
Associate
- Economics and risk adjustment: health care financing: pay for
performance, business case for quality; capitated payment reform;
chronic illness; performance measurement and incentives
- Chronic illness: management: collaborative approaches to
transforming health care systems, design of health care systems and
teams, evaluation of health care systems
- Health services: health policy: access to care, health
disparities, primary care safety-net providers (FQHCs); health
outcomes research: cost-effectiveness analysis, quality of life;
chronic illness management: collaborative approaches to transforming
health care systems, evaluation of health care systems, measurement of
change in health care systems; practice variation; primary care
organization and design; translation of preventive care research into
clinical practice
- Patient/provider interaction: communication
Andrea Cook, PhD, Assistant
Investigator
- Applied biostatistics: alternative approaches to healing,
screening—breast cancer, vaccine safety, cardiovascular screening,
obesity
- Biostatistics methodological research: hierarchial modeling,
longitudinal data analysis, nonparametrics, survival analysis, spatial
statistics
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D
Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD, Assistant
Investigator
- Aging and geriatrics: quality of care, prevention of
cardiovascular disease, use of preventive medications, age-related
disease and disability
- Cardiovascular health: epidemiology
- Infectious diseases: pneumonia
- Epidemiologic methods: case-control studies, measurement and
control of confounding
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
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Paul Fishman, PhD,
Associate Investigator
- Cancer control: economics
- Chronic illness: economics
- Economics and risk adjustment: capitated payment reform, chronic
illness, drug benefits medicare policy and cost, flu, medicaid managed
care, smoking
- Health services: practice variation
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Sarah Greene, MPH,
Research Associate
- Patient/provider interaction: health literacy, communication
- Cancer control: survivorship, epidemiology, biobehavioral, cancer
screening promotion/participation, health outcomes
- Chronic illness: quality assessment in health care, design of
health care systems and teams
David Grossman, MD, MPH,
Senior Investigator, CHS;
Medical Director, Preventive Care, Group Health Permanente
- Child/adolescent health: mental health, injury prevention
- Injury prevention: suicide and attempts, firearm injury
- Oral health
- Mental health: suicide prevention
Lou Grothaus, MA,
Biostatistician
- Behavior change: smoking cessation
- Applied biostatistics: aging, behavior change, chronic illness,
women's reproductive health
- Biostatistics methodological research: hierarchical modeling,
missing data, longitudinal data analysis
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Sebastien Haneuse, PhD,
Assistant Investigator
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer, mammography, mammographic
breast density, breast cancer surveillance, Alzheimer's disease, back
pain, massage
- Biostatistics methodological research: diagnostic test accuracy,
hierarchical modeling, Bayesian analysis, nonparametric Bayesian
methods, longitudinal data analysis, ecological studies, two-phase
case-control studies
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I
Laura Ichikawa, MS,
Biostatistician
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer, women's health, osteoporosis
- Biostatistics methodological research: longitudinal data analysis
- Cancer control: mammography
- Women's health—adolescents/younger women: bone density,
depo-provera use and bone density; reproductive health–contraception
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Lisa Jackson, MD, MPH,
Senior Investigator
- Immunization studies: vaccine safety, influenza vaccine
effectiveness in the elderly, methodologic issues in vaccine
effectiveness evaluations, pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
effectiveness, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunogenicity in the
elderly
- Infectious diseases: epidemiology of E. coli bacteremia,
epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia
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Andrea LaCroix, PhD,
Senior Investigator
- Aging: disability in older women, menopause, osteoporosis
- Cardiovascular health: in older women
- Women's health: osteoporosis/fracture
- Midlife women: menopause
- Older women: cardiovascular health, disability in,
osteoporosis/fracture
Eric Larson, MD, MPH,
Executive Director and Senior Investigator
- Aging: dementia, cognitive health, quality-of-life, quality of
care, genomic advances
- Mental health: Alzheimer's disease, elderly
- Chronic illness: management, self management, prevention
- Economics and risk adjustment: chronic illness, cost effectiveness
analysis, performance measurement and incentives
- Information Technology: eHealth, health informatics
- Patient/provider interaction: self- management, patient provider
relationships
- Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacogenomics, and drug safety
- Women's health: older women
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Paula Lozano, MD, MPH,
Associate Investigator
- Behavior change: brief behavioral interventions, co-morbid
conditions, motivational interviewing, problem-solving therapy,
self-management support
- Child/adolescent health: anxiety and depression, asthma in
children, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, chronic
illness management, disadvantaged children's health care services,
Medicaid managed care, mental health
- Chronic illness: management: child/adolescent health,
collaborative approaches to transforming health care systems, disease,
self-management support: patient/family self-management of chronic
conditions, self-care
- Health services: chronic illness management: collaborative
approaches to transforming health care systems, evaluation of health
care systems, health care disparities, population-based interventions,
practice variation
- Information technology: computer-delivered interventions, eHealth,
health informatics
- Patient/provider interaction: provider decision support at point
of care, support for patient/family self-management of chronic
conditions
Evette Ludman, PhD,
Senior Research Associate
- Behavior change: brief behavioral interventions, telephone
interventions, cancer screening promotion/participation, motivational
interviewing, smoking cessation, smoking prevention,
self-management support, obesity control and prevention, alcohol
- Cancer screening: promotion/participation
- Chronic illness: self-management support: self-care,
patient/family self-management of chronic conditions
- Health services: implications of genetic information use in health
care, provider training (CME), chronic illness management, chronic
illness collaborative approaches to transforming health care systems
- Mental health: bipolar disorder, depression, depression and
obesity, depression and diabetes, peer support interventions,
telephone interventions, cognitive behavioral and problem solving
approaches to mood disorders
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Meg Mandelson, PhD,
Associate Investigator
- Cancer control: breast cancer, colon cancer screening, molecular
markers
Jennifer McClure, PhD,
Associate Director and Associate Investigator
- Behavior change: brief behavioral interventions, motivational
interviewing, smoking cessation, dietary change, informed medical
decision making
- Cancer control
- Chronic illness: management, prevention
- Information technology: computer-delivered interventions
Diana Miglioretti, PhD,
Associate Investigator
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer, mammography, mammographic
breast density, breast cancer surveillance, colorectal cancer,
colorectal cancer screening, chronic pain; health services: imaging
- Biostatistics methodological research: diagnostic test accuracy,
hierarchical modeling, latent variable modeling, longitudinal data
analysis, microsimulation modeling, Bayesian analysis
- Alternative approaches to healing: yoga, massage
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Jennifer Nelson, PhD,
Assistant Investigator
- Applied biostatistics: aging, vaccine preventable disease, vaccine
safety and efficacy, cardiovascular disease
- Biostatistics methodological research: residual confounding bias
in observational studies, sequential monitoring of observational data
for drug safety, diagnostic test performance—accuracy and reliability
Katherine Newton, PhD,
Associate Director and Senior Investigator
- Alternative approaches to healing: menopause
- Cardiovascular health
- Chronic illness: diabetes care, diabetes prevention, management
- Women's health: urinary incontinence
- Midlife women: menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT),
selective estrogen receptor modulators, urinary incontinence
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Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD,
Senior Investigator
- Cardiovascular health: epidemiology, myocardial infarction and
stroke, hypertension, venous thromboembolism
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety: pharmacogenetics
- Patient/provider interaction
- Epidemiologic methods
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James Ralston, MD, MPH,
Assistant Investigator
- Information technology: health informatics, eHealth
- Chronic illness: management
- Behavior change: self-management support
- Health services: health care disparities
- Patient/provider interaction: patient/provider communication
Rob Reid, MD, PhD,
Associate Investigator
- Health services: primary care organization and design, translation
of preventive care research into clinical practice
Carolyn Rutter, PhD,
Senior Investigator
- Applied biostatistics: colorectal
cancer, colorectal cancer
screening, mental health
(treatment for depression, treatment adherence), cost-effectiveness
between provider variability, breast cancer screening
- Biostatistics methodological research: microsimulation modeling, diagnostic test accuracy,
hierarchical modeling, longitudinal data analysis,
meta-analysis, Bayesian analysis
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Judith Schaefer, MPH,
Research Associate
- Behavior change: brief behavioral interventions, motivational
interviewing, provider training (CME), self-management support
- Chronic illness: asthma interventions in primary care,
collaborative approaches to transforming health care systems,
evaluation of health care systems
- Patient/provider interaction: patient/provider communication,
provider training (CME)
Delia Scholes, PhD,
Senior Investigator
- Infectious diseases: epidemiology of pyelonephritis and cystitis (UTI)
- Sexually transmitted diseases: contraception, Chlamydia
prevention/screening, STD/HIV prevention
- Women's health: urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection/pyelonephritis,
hormonal contraception
- Adolescents/younger women: bone density, depo-provera use and bone
density, reproductive health, contraception, Chlamydia
prevention/screening, STD/HIV prevention, urinary tract infection/pyelonephritis
- Midlife women: urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection/pyelonephritis
- Child/adolescent health: bone mineral density, hormonal
contraception
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Karen Sherman, PhD, MPH,
Senior Investigator
- Alternative approaches to healing: utilization in health care,
role in health care, back pain, fibromyalgia, neck pain, menopause,
naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, massage, meditation, tai chi, yoga
- Chronic illness: management, diabetes care
- Chronic pain: back pain
- Mental health: anxiety disorders
- Patient/provider interaction: patient education (CME), patient
self-management support—self-care, patient/provider communication
- Women's health: menopause
Greg Simon, MD, MPH,
Senior Investigator
Psychiatry
- Mental health: depression, bipolar disorder, suicide,
self-management, treatment adherence
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Robert S. Thompson, MD,
Senior Investigator Emeritus
- Injury prevention: domestic violence, intimate partner violence,
injury prevention (bicycles, motor vehicles)
- Child/adolescent health: child development, domestic violence,
injury prevention (bicycles)
- Health services: population-based interventions, primary care
organization and design, translation of preventive care research into
clinical practice
- Information technology: computer-delivered interventions, eHealth
- Behavior change: cancer screening promotion/participation, self-
management support, telephone interventions
- Cancer control: colon cancer, colorectal cancer screening,
screening promotion/participation
- Chronic illness: prevention
- Patient/provider interaction: provider decision support at point
of care
- Sexually transmitted diseases: Chlamydia prevention/screening
- Women's health: health conditions affecting women—domestic
violence, adolescent/younger women Chlamydia prevention/screening
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Michael Von Korff, ScD,
Senior Investigator
- Chronic illness: disability, health care use, disease management,
symptom management
- Chronic pain: back pain, headache, temporomandibular disorders
- Mental health: depression, depression and chronic disease
co-morbidity
- Patient/provider interaction: patient self-care
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Ed Wagner, MD, MPH,
Director, MacColl Institute; Senior Investigator
- Aging: senior care management
- Cancer control
- Cardiovascular health
- Chronic illness: diabetes care, management, collaborative
approaches to transforming health care systems
Rod Walker, MS, Biostatistician
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer, mammography, breast cancer
surveillance, dementia, Alzheimer's disease
- Biostatistics methodological research: longitudinal data analysis,
two-phase case-control studies
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Onchee Yu, MS, Biostatistician
- Applied biostatistics: breast cancer, immunization, vaccine
efficacy, vaccine safety
- Biostatistics methodological research: case cohort analysis,
survival analysis
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