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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania is designed to provide training in health policy and community-relevant research to outstanding physicians who are committed to improving health and health care in the U.S. The core of the training experience includes coursework and a thesis leading to a Masters of Science in Health Policy Research. The program includes didactic experiences in study design and analysis for both community and policy research, as well as training in leadership, communication, bioethics and multidisciplinary science. The participating faculty, including lecturers and individual scholar mentors, are drawn from across the University from the Schools of Medicine, Law, Social Policy and Practice, Education and Nursing, as well as the Wharton School and Annenberg School for Communication. Key clinical partners include the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Philadelphia VA Medical Center. All scholars participate in clinical activities tailored towards their clinical interests.
Scholar research projects range from community-based research partnerships with primary data collection to large-scale health policy analysis using national administrative datasets. All research projects are guided by small teams of faculty mentors, with frequent opportunities for group feedback on research in progress. The program connects scholars with a strong network of faculty on the campus, community leaders from Philadelphia, and program alumni across the U.S. A multidisciplinary weekly seminar series and visiting speaker series help further link scholars to a diverse group of researchers and health care leaders. All scholars collaborate on a community-generated project at the start of the program and then individual organizational relationships with the nonprofit sector are facilitated by the program and help guide the scholar activities and professional development through the rest of the program. These organizational linkages help stimulate diverse training experiences for scholars both on and off the campus.
Directors
Katrina
Armstrong, M.D.. M.S.C. E.
Katrina Armstrong, M.D.. M.S.C. E. is Associate Professor
of Medicine and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine
and co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical
Scholars Program at Pennsylvania. She is also Senior
Fellow and Director of Research at the Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics, Senior Scholar in the
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and
the Program Leader of the Cancer Control and Outcomes
Program at the Abramson Cancer Center.
Dr. Armstrong was the recipient of the 2005 Alice Hersh
Young Investigator Award from AcademyHealth and was
elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation
in 2006. Dr. Armstrong’s research seeks to elucidate
the complex relationship among the social environment,
health care, and cancer outcomes. Her federally funded
research program has concentrated on several areas of
critical policy importance including genetic testing
for cancer susceptibility and racial disparities in
cancer outcomes. Her current projects explore the relationship
between segregation and prostate cancer outcomes and
the contribution of health care related distrust to
health care cost and quality.
Joshua
Metlay, M.D., Ph.D.
Joshua Metlay, M.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of
Medicine and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine
and co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical
Scholars Program at Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior
Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics, and a member of the Center
for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the VA Medical
Center in Philadelphia. He is the Program Leader for
the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship at Penn.
Dr. Metlay’s research training is in immunology
and health policy and management. His work applies methods
of clinical epidemiology and health services research
to understand patterns of infection and treatment for
respiratory tract pathogens. This work especially focuses
on the emergence of antibiotic drug resistance among
common bacterial pathogens. The goals of this work are
to identify and evaluate optimal clinical practice patterns
in the management of patients with respiratory infections
and examine policy relevant characteristics of communities
that influence transmission of respiratory tract pathogens.
University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Katrina Armstrong, M.D.. M.S.C. E., Co-Director
Joshua Metlay, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program
University of Pennsylvania
13th Floor, Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104
E-mail: rwjcsp@mail.med.upenn.edu
Alternate E-mail: mchri@mail.med.upenn.edu
http://www.med.upenn.edu/rwjcsp
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