Terry Field, D.Sc. is an epidemiologist and health services researcher who serves as
the Associate Director of the Meyers Primary Care Institute and an Associate Professor at
the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Her research focuses on provision of care
to disabled and elderly patients in the ambulatory and long-term care settings. She has
participated as a principal investigator or co-investigator on a series of grants from
NIA and AHRQ related to patient safety and health information technology. Her research
interests also include provision of care to cancer patients with a special interest in
survival deficits for patients at risk of receiving less than optimum care, including
elderly patients and members of minority groups. She is a member of the Steering
Committee of the NCI-funded HMO Research Network’s Cancer Research Network and co-leads
the Scientific and Data Resources Core. In this role, Dr. Field participated in the
process of constructing a virtual data warehouse that established data structures for
converting the legacy data at 14 integrated healthcare delivery systems into parallel
databases constructed identically and permitting easy merging of patient-level data on
healthcare utilization. Dr. Field is responsible for the required full year intermediate
epidemiology course in the Clinical and Population Health Research doctoral program. She
has led a series of seminars on evidence based medicine for medical students, residents,
and community physicians. She also mentors physicians on the faculty of the University of
Massachusetts Medical School who are initiating health services research careers.
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