PCOR Fellowship contacts
Patrick Romano, M.D., M.P.H. Director, PCOR Fellowship Dr. Romano is general internist and general pediatrician (med-peds) based in the Division of General Medicine and the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research. He is director of the Primary Care Outcomes Research (PCOR) faculty development fellowship program, a co-director of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Sciences Center (CTSC) for clinical and epidemiologic study design, and a prominent health services researcher. His research focuses on health care quality measurement and improvement, with a particular emphasis on measures and risk-adjustment methods based on administrative or claims data. He is particularly interested in how information about health care quality can be used to inform consumers and providers, to drive quality improvement, to reward high performing organizations, and to strengthen health policymaking. His collaborations with junior faculty cover many areas relevant to primary care practice, including breast cancer screening, obesity screening and treatment, and surgical complications. http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/chpr/profiles/romano.html |
Robert Byrd, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Director (Pediatrics), PCOR Fellowship Dr. Robert Byrd is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of General Pediatrics. The focus of his research is behavioral epidemiology, investigating epidemiology of school readiness, school failure, enuresis, adolescent risk behavior, blood lead exposure, literacy, and autism. He has collaborated on a wider range of research topics, including asthma, obesity, otitis, health insurance, and electronic medical records. He has expertise in use of national health and education data. He is a co-investigator on Sacramento’s portion of the National Children’s Study and sits on the national study’s Health Informatics Working Team. The rest of his research time is divided between mentorship of fellows and junior faculty, pursuit of his own research, and collaborative research within UC Davis and with colleagues in other pediatric departments. |
Peter Franks, M.D. Associate Director (Family Medicine), PCOR Fellowship Dr Franks is a senior researcher in the Department of Family & Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research. He divides his time between mentoring junior faculty and fellows and pursuing his own research agenda in collaboration with colleagues locally and around the US. His primary areas of research include reducing disparities, health status measurement, clinician-patient communication, and research design in primary care. |
Richard White, M.D. Associate Director (General Internal Medicine), PCOR Fellowship Dr. White is a Chief of the Division of General Medicine within the Department of Medicine, and he is also Director of the UC Davis Anticoagulation Service. He divides his research time between mentoring junior faculty and fellows regarding use large data bases to analyze issues related to venous thromboembolism, and conducting clinical trials of testing or treatment of thrombotic disorders. His primary areas of research include defining risk factors for venous thromboembolism, use of administrative data to address research questions, anticoagulation treatment, and analyzing the quality anticoagulation care both in the hospital and in the clinic. |
Associate Director (Geriatrics) PCOR Fellowship Dr. Hirsch is an internist and geriatrician in the Dept. of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. On the clinical side, he has been Program Director in Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Internal Medicine Geriatrics Clinic. His principal research interests’ center around predictors of physical and functional decline and the benefits of physical activity in the elderly, utilizing data from large cohort studies like the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), on which he has been an active investigator. He has mentored junior investigators at UC Davis and elsewhere on the use of CHS data to address a variety of health-related issues, including racial disparities in the recognition and treatment of depression, low testosterone as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events and mortality in older men, and predictors of frailty. |
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