Health Care Research Training (HCRT) Study Section Members

Chairperson

Hsu, John,  MD, MBA, MSCE
Director
Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis Group
Mongan Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Boston, MA  02114

Members

Alexander, Caleb G, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205

Ancker, Jessica S, PhD, MPH*
Associate Professor
Department of Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY 10065

Arbaje, Alicia Ines, MD, MPH, PhD*
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Transitional Care Research
John Hopkins Centerr for Transformative Geriatrics Research
Division of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21224

Burkhart, Lisa, PhD
Associate Professor
Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago IL 60626

Burns, Edith A, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee, WI 53295

Elder, Nancy C, MD, MPH
Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0582

Fuji, Kevin T, PhD, MD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Director, Center for Health Services Research and Patient Safety
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178

Gray, Stacy W, MD*
Associate Clinical Professor
Harvard Medical School
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA 02215

Irwin, Charles E, MD
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine
Director, Health Policy, Dept. of Pediatrics
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
San Francisco, CA 94143-0503

Kuo, Grace M, PhD*
Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Clinical Affairs
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093

Litvin, Cara B., MD, MS
PPRNET Investigator
Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC 29425

Mays, Glen P., PhD
Professor and Chair
Health Services and Systems Research
College of Public Health
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40536

McHugh, Megan, PhD*
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL 60654

Merwin, Elizabeth I, PhD
Ann Henshaw Gardiner Professor of Nursing
Executive Vice Dean
Duke University School of Nursing
School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry & Behavior Science
Durham, NC 27710

Meurer, Linda, MD, MPH
Professor
Director, Academic Fellowship in Primary Care Research
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Mullins, Daniel C, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, MD 21201

Naik, Aanand D, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
Houston Center for Innovations in Quality, Safety and Effectiveness
Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX  77004

Newgard, Craig, MD, MPH
Professor of Emergency Medicine & Public
Health &  Preventive Medicine
Departments of Emergency Medicine & Public Health
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR 97239

Peterson, Kevin Arthur, MD, MPH
Professor
Director, Center of Excellence in Primary Care
Department of Family Medicine & Community Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55105

Schmid, Christopher H, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health
Brown University School of Public Health
Providence, RI 02912

Scott, Linda D, PhD
Dean and Professor
School of Nursing
University of Wisconsin Madison
Madison WI 53705

Snyder, Margie E, PharmD, MPH*
Associate Professor
Community Pharmacy Programs
Purdue University College of Pharmacy
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Sumner, Walton, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO 63110

Wallace, Andrea Schneider, PhD*
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Weech-Maldonado, Robert, PhD
Professor and L.R. Jordan Endowed Chair
Department of Health Services Administration
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294

Wisnivesky, Juan P, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029

Scientific Review Officer

Azadegan, Ali A, PhD, DVM
Scientific Review Officer
Division of Scientific Review (DSR)
Office of Extramural Research Education and Priority Populations (OEREP)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Rockville, MD 20857

Extramural Support Assistant

Robinson, Diana C.
Program Analyst
Division of Scientific Review (DSR)
Office of Extramural Research Education and Priority Populations (OEREP)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Rockville, MD 20857

* Temporary Member. For grant applications, temporary members may participate in the entire meeting or may review only selected applications as needed.

Consultants are required to absent themselves from the room during the review of any application if their presence would constitute or appear to constitute a conflict of interest.