Dr. Jeroan J. Allison, M.D., M.Sc. Epi., is Professor and Vice Chair of the newly
established Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School, where he also serves as Associate Vice Provost for Health Disparities.
Dr. Allison's research focuses on quality measurement, implementation science, and
statistical methodology, with an emphasis on eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in
medical care and health outcomes. Dr. Allison has a ten-year history of sustained funding
from several extra-mural sources, including the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Along with Dr. Catarina Kiefe, Dr.
Allison is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Medical Care, sponsored by American Public Health
Association. Dr. Allison has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in print or press.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine and received a Masters' degree in
Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Articles

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Patient-provider secure messaging in VA: variations in adoption and association with urgent care utilization (with Stephanie L. Shimada, Timothy P. Hogan, Sowmya R. Rao, Ann L. Quill, Hua Feng, Barrett Phillips, Kim M. Nazi, Susan T. Haidary, and Thomas K. Houston), Medical care (2013)
 

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Greater knowledge and appreciation of commonly-used research study designs (with Robert J. Goldberg and David D. McManus), The American journal of medicine (2013)
 

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Patient, provider, and system-level barriers and facilitators to addressing perinatal depression (with Nancy Byatt, Kathleen Biebel, Rebecca Lundquist, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Gifty Debordes-Jackson, and Douglas M. Ziedonis), Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology (2012)
 

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Beyond joint implant registries: a patient-centered research consortium for comparative effectiveness in total joint replacement (with Patricia D. Franklin and David C. Ayers), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2012)
 

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Medication intensification in diabetes in rural primary care: a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial (with Katherine L. Billue, Monika M. Safford, Amanda H. Salanitro, Thomas K. Houston, William Curry, Yongin Kim, and Carlos A. Estrada), BMJ open (2012)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Implementation Research: Beyond the Traditional Randomized Controlled Trial (with Amanda H. Salanitro and Carlos A. Estrada), Essentials of Clinical Research (2008)
 

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Quality Improvement and the Electronic Health Record: Concepts and Methods (with Feliciano B. Yu and Thomas K. Houston), Electronic Medical Records: A Guide for Clinicians and Administrators (2008)
 

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Quality Improvement: Concepts and Technical Issues (with J. Michael Hardin), Electronic Medical Records: A Guide for Clinicians and Administrators (2001)
 

Posters and Presentations

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FORCE-TJR: Innovative design for a national TJR comparative effectiveness research database (with Patricia D. Franklin, Wenjun Li, Leslie R. Harrold, Bruce A. Barton, Benjamin Snyder, Milagros C. Rosal, Norman Weissman, John E. Ware Jr., and David C. Ayers), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
 

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Overcoming Barriers to Perinatal Depression Treatment (with Nancy Byatt, Kathleen Biebel, Liz Friedman, and Douglas M. Ziedonis), Community Health & Research: Making the Connections Symposium (2011)