Health Assessment Lab

Awards

Award Recipients 2010-2011 | 2011-2012

2011-12 Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Doctoral Dissertation
and Post- Doctoral Awards in Patient Reported Outcomes

The Board of Directors of the Health Assessment Laboratory (HAL) is pleased to announce the solicitation of applications for the 2011-12 cycle of the Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Doctoral Dissertation and Post-Doctoral Awards in Patient Reported Outcomes. The purpose of these awards is to encourage doctoral dissertations and post-doctoral research using patient reported outcomes. We envision up to five (5) awards being given for the 2011 - 2012 academic year, with each award being for $25,000 ($20,000 made in September 2011, and an additional $5,000 upon receipt of a satisfactory progress report at the end of the academic year). Eligibility for the 2011-12 academic year is limited to U.S. citizens enrolled in U.S. based doctoral programs or post-doctoral fellowships in U.S. research programs.

This award is named in honor of the Health Assessment Laboratory's founders, Dr. Alvin Tarlov and Dr. John Ware, Jr. - two of the world's leading pioneers in the development and use of patient reported outcome measures. The Health Assessment Lab is a free-standing not-for-profit organization with the goal of advancing state-of-the-art tools for monitoring health care services and health outcomes from the patient/consumer point of view. Historically it has had four missions: development and validation of new measures; translation and adaptation of tools for use in international research; technical assistance in support of patient-based tools in a variety of specific applications; and education and training in psychometrics as applied to the health care field.

The Selection Committee for 2011-2012 is chaired by Professor Eugene Nelson, DSc, a HAL Board Member, Director of the Population Health Measurement Program at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Other members of the selection committee include: Shelly Greenfield, MD (UC -Irvine), Lewis Kazis, DrPH (Boston U), Sherry Kaplan, PhD (UC-Irvine), Ed Perrin, PhD (U of Wash), Cathy Sherbourne, PhD (RAND), and Lisa Zubkoff, PhD (VA). Members of the selection committee will be required to recuse themselves from discussions and votes on any applicants from their home institution or any affiliated entities.

Details about the application and review process follow:

Fundable proposals will be dissertations or post-doctoral research projects that use patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as a dependent variable. Patient satisfaction will be considered as a type of PRO. The review process will not include Pink Sheet-like critiques; the review adopts the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation policy of only providing decisions. Applicants may apply more than once.

Applicants for 2011-2012 should submit:

1. CV (including contact information)
2. Name of degree granting institution and program, including contact information
3. Name and contact information of dissertation advisor
4. Two recommendations (including one from dissertation advisor)
5. 8-10 page narrative (excluding appendices) on the dissertation, including the:

a. Overall aims of proposed work
b. Specific research questions
c. Conceptual framework or model
d. Proposed methods for work
e. Importance or implications of using patient reported outcomes (as a dependent variable)

Submit applications via email before midnight of June 1, 2011 to awards@hal-health.org. Any questions that arise should also be sent to awards@hal-health.org.

Michael Zubkoff, President, Board of Directors, Health Assessment Laboratory
Eugene Nelson, Chair, Selection Committee, and Member, Board of Directors, HAL

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2011-2012 Awardees

Suzanne Bentler, Univeristy of Iowa

Title: Continuity of Care for Older Adults in the Patient-Centered Medical Home Era

Advisor: Fredric Wolinsky

Alicia Cooper, Brown University

Title: Examination of Predictors and Consequences of Inappropriate Drug Prescription Among the Elderly

Adivor: Amal Trivedi

Eva DuGoff, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Title: Evaluating Patient-Reported Continuity of Care in Multimorbid Older Adults

Advisor: Gerard Anderson

Kathryn Martinez, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Title: Evaluating the Association Between Colorectal and Lung Cancer Patients Perceived Quality of Care and Self-Reported Pain and the Racial and Ethnic Disparities in both Perceived Quality of Care and Self-Reported Pain

Advisor: Sydney Morss

Adele Shartezer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Title: The Impact of Health Insurance Competition on Consumer Access and Satisfaction

Advisor: Gerard Anderson

2010-2011 Awardees

Mark A. Unruh: Brown University
Title: The Influence of Medicaid and Medicare Policies on Hospitalizations and Outcomes Dissertation Advisor: Vincent Mor, PhD

Larrell Wilkinson: University of South Carolina
Title: A population-based analysis of the association between health insurance coverage and psychological distress, and the influence of other mediating factors among young adults in the United States.
Dissertation Advisor: Saundra Glover, PhD.

Aubri Hoffman: Dartmouth College
Title: Patient reported information-seeking and health care decision making, the effectiveness of interactive capabilities in patients’ decision support tools and variance across socio-demographic, cognitive and clinical subgroups.
Dissertation Advisor: Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, Ph.D.