 | Paul Cleary |
Paul Cleary, who was named this spring as the new dean of public health and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH), has been appointed the C.E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health.
Cleary is an expert on ways to improve the quality of patient care. Prior to his Yale appointment, he served since 1993 as professor of medical sociology in the Departments of Health Care Policy and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Cleary's research has focused since the 1980s on people infected with HIV. His first study in this area was a randomized trial of an education and support program for blood donors infected with HIV. He has also investigated the ways in which infection affects people's lives and the factors affecting the quality of medical care for infected persons. He led a key component of the HIV Costs and Services Utilization Study, in which his team investigated the physician and clinic characteristics that predict the quality of care that patients receive. Cleary recently conducted a major national evaluation of a quality improvement program in HIV clinics funded by the Ryan White Care Act.
The dean has also been committed to developing better methods of eliciting information from patients about their care and studying the determinants of variations in care quality. He was a founding member of the Picker Institute, which was a major force in promoting the idea that routinely monitoring patient experiences is a critical component of quality assessment.
Cleary is the principal investigator of three Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (CAHPS) study teams. CAHPS surveys are the most widely used tools in the country for assessing ambulatory care experiences and are now also available for hospitalized patients, patients with behavioral health problems, and those receiving in-center hemodialysis, as well as for nursing home residents.
Cleary earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He taught there and at Rutgers University before joining the Harvard faculty. At Harvard, he was awarded the A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring in 1997.
A member of the Institute of Medicine since 1994, Cleary was selected as a distinguished fellow of the Association for Health Services Research in 1996 and in 2002 received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.
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EPH Dean Paul Cleary appointed
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