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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars at UCLA receive intensive training in the methods of creating health and health care change at community, practice and policy levels. The curriculum is based on a social, behavioral and community conceptual framework that combines didactic and experiential teaching methods. Scholars build on their own talents, as well as those of their mentors and diverse community partners, in order to become agents for improving health and health care.
Scholars spend their first year in intensive, community-based learning and project development, followed in subsequent years by advanced project completion and elective work. Scholars also learn health services research methods, including theory, study design, and data analysis; fundamentals in health policy; biostatistics; scientific writing; and the application of these skills to conduct original research and to change health policy.
Scholars participate in clinical programs at the UCLA Medical Center, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, King Drew Medical Center, the Veterans Administration Hospitals at Sepulveda and West Los Angeles, or their affiliated community programs. Scholars may also collaborate with nationally recognized staff at RAND who work in areas ranging from health policy and national security to civil justice, public safety, education, child policy, and science and technology.
UCLA seeks applicants who are interested in coupling rigorous evaluation and research with efforts to enact community and policy change. Advanced elective experiences are available in supervised policy placements in Washington, D.C., and in the use of media to improve community health, building on the diverse media resources in Los Angeles. The community partners for the UCLA program are: Behavioral Health Services; Carson-Wilmington Community Advisory Board; Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; Healthy African-American Families; L.A. County Department of Mental Health; L.A. County Department of Health Services; L.A. County of Department of Public Health; Los Angeles Unified School District; Mid-Valley Family Health Center; QueensCare Health and Faith Partnership; UCLA Health System; Venice Family Clinic; and the Veterans Administration.
Directors
Robert
H. Brook, M.D.
Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc. D., F.A.C.P. is Vice-President and Director of RAND Health, and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA where he co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program. He has been on the medical school faculty at UCLA since 1974, and divides his research time between UCLA and RAND.
A prolific scholar, Dr. Brook conducted pioneering work in the field of quality measurement. He operationalized the concept of appropriateness by establishing the scientific basis for determining whether various medical and surgical procedures were being used appropriately. More than any other individual, he is responsible for focusing policymakers' attention on quality-of-care issues and their implications for the nation's health. Most of the quality of care and health status measures being used today throughout the developed world were developed by Dr. Brook or by research teams that he led.
In 2002, Dr. Brook was named chair of a panel to advise the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development on how to report outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery at California hospitals. In 2005, Bob was awarded the Institute of Medicine's prestigious Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the advancement for personal health care services in the United States.
Carol M. Mangione, M.D.
Carol M. Mangione, M.D., M.S.P.H., is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA, and is also a consultant in the RAND Health Program. Dr. Mangione is the Director of the NIA funded UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research and is Co-Director of the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program. She completed medical school and a primary care residency at the University of California at San Francisco, and the Faculty Development Post-doctoral Fellowship in general internal medicine and her public health degree at Harvard University.
Dr. Mangione's research focuses on the care that older Latinos and African Americans with diabetes receive. As part of this research agenda she is a principal investigator for a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control to study the quality of care for persons from ethnic and racial minority groups with diabetes in managed care settings. Dr. Mangione is currently conducting a community-based empowerment intervention among older Latinos and African Americans with diabetes to improve their self-care skills and has a long-standing interest in the relationship between visual disability, falls and functional decline among the elderly. She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Kenneth
B. Wells, M.D.
Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor-in-Residence of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital and of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, and a Senior Scientist at RAND. He is a psychiatrist and health services researcher. Dr. Wells is the Principal Investigator of the UCLA/RAND Center for Research on Quality in Managed Care funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and of Partners in Care, a study of quality improvement for depression in managed, primary care, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The MacArthur Foundation, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Wells directs the UCLA-Semel Institute Health Services Research Center, which focuses on improving quality of care for mental health disorders across the lifespan. He is a Co-Director of the UCLA Clinical Scholars program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Wells is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the first recipient of the Young Investigator Award and also received the Distinguished Investigator Award of Academy Health, as well as the Senior Health Services Research Award and the Research Prize (lifetime achievement) of the American Psychiatric Association.
The
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