AHRQ Grantee Profiles

These profiles highlight AHRQ research training grantees whose work has led to significant changes in health care policy and notably influenced research and practice. AHRQ supports a range of research training and career development grant programs that help emerging health services researchers better understand, improve, and share knowledge about how health care is delivered in the United States.

	Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge to Prevent Infections from Hospital to Home Susan Huang, M.D., M.P.H. "Understanding how to prevent infections in all settings of care is critical to keeping patients safe." More >>
	Advancing the Use of Health Information Technology to Reduce Medication Errors and Improve Patient Safety David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. More >>
	Improving the Safety and Quality of Medications and Diagnosis Mark Linzer, M.D., Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Director of the Office of Professional Work Life at Hennepin County Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis "I am truly indebted to AHRQ for the support that allowed us to identify the connections between work conditions, clinician reactions (including satisfaction and burnout), and patient outcomes..." More >>
	Improving the Safety and Quality of Medications and Diagnosis Gordon D. Schiff, M.D., Associate Director of Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice and Associate Professor Harvard Medical School "We can reduce medication errors by including a key piece of information..." More >>
	Reducing Avoidable Return Trips to the Hospital Brian Jack, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine Boston University School of Medicine "I am truly grateful to AHRQ for our collaboration that led to RED, the toolkit, and dissemination of these ideas..." More >>
	Laying the Groundwork to Improve Diagnosis in Health Care Mark L. Graber, M.D., Senior Fellow RTI International "The Agency’s continued support helped to sustain an annual conference series..." More >>
	Leading the Way on Research To Combat Preventable Medical Errors Lucian Leape, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Health Policy "AHRQ funding allowed me to conduct research on adverse events related to use of medications..." More >>
	Making Health Care Safer for Patients Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality; Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality; and Practicing Critical Care Physician "If you want a [return] on our basic and clinical investments at NIH, you need AHRQ...'" More >>
	Improving Health Outcomes Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., Acting Assistant Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "The AHRQ award allowed me to develop the expertise I needed to serve the New Orleans community...'" More >>
	Improving Diagnostic Safety Hardeep Singh, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Health Services Research Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas "Many senior researchers used to caution me saying, 'Are you sure you want to study this?..'" More >>
	Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Sanjeev Arora, M.D., Director of Project ECHO University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center "AHRQ funding allowed us to create technology-supported networks of continual learning..." More >>
	Effects of Sleep Loss and Night Work on Patient Safety Christopher P. Landrigan, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School "The primary focus of my research is patient safety..." More >>
	Health Plan Choice: Implications for Consumers and Purchasers M. Kate Bundorf, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy Stanford University School of Medicine "I'm very interested in how people make decisions…" More >>
	Does Parental Health Insurance Loss Affect Children's Access to Care? Jennifer E. DeVoe, M.D., D.Phil., Professor of Family Medicine Oregon Health & Sciences University "As a family physician, I’ve seen many patients…" More >>
	Insuring Uninsured Children Glenn Flores, M.D., Distinguished Chair for Health Policy Research Medica Research Institute "By having the support of AHRQ, I was able to do my research but also mentor future generations of investigators…" More >>

Page last reviewed October 2017
Page originally created December 2015

Internet Citation: AHRQ Grantee Profiles. Content last reviewed October 2017. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/index.html