Basilico, Enrica: Working on an evaluation of the impact of a palliative care service on care quality and cost.
Buckvar-Keltz, Lynn: Dean of students at NYU School of Medicine. Developing and implementing innovative new curriculum for the Physical Diagnosis course.
Capponi, Louis: Currently involved in two studies: the use of reminder cards as a means of enhancing patient show rates and patients in primary care practice with physical or sexual abuse: a study of prevalence.
Dowell, Deborah: Investigating decision analysis in HIV treatment.
Gany, Francesca: Involved in a number of immigrant-related studies, including: lowering access barriers to health care for immigrants, the evaluation of the impact of community based education for immigrant patients with cancer, the evaluation of the impact of community based education for prevention of cancer in immigrant communities with disparately high rates of preventable cancers, threats of hepatitis among immigrant groups, the effect of welfare reform on health care services among immigrants, and Tuberculosis in immigrants: prevalence of infection, strategies to effect prophylaxis in immigrant populations; comparison of community-based vs health-care-facility-based approaches. Work also includes a specialized study on Tooy, a somatization syndrome, in a Senegalese immigrant population, and general investigation of the evaluation of the impact on care of remote, simultaneous medical interpretation, as well as the cross-cultural medical interview and working with interpreters.
Hanley, Kathleen: Working on the women's health initiative at Gouverneur, including the development of a curriculum for PCP/OBGYN to increase skills, knowledge and attitudes around women's health topics.
Janicik, Regina: Studying the educational impact of teaching residents to teach and the author of papers on creating competency based curricula and the impact of competency based education for the Macy Initiative.
Kalet, Adina: MD, MPH Dr.Kalet is the Director of Medical Education in the Section of Primary Care, Society Master of NYU SOM’s Master Scholars Program Walter Read Society for Public Health and Health Policy, Firm Chief in the Department of Medicine and the NYU Director for the Macy Initiative. She is recognized for curriculum innovations and has conducted and published educational research focused on PC competencies including: communication skills training, professionalism, cross-language interviews, and faculty development. Dr. Kalet mentors residents and fellows on research projects and curriculum development projects.
Keller, Allen: Primary research interests focus on working with survivors of torture, including: the prevalence of torture survivors among Tibetan refugees in India, the prevalence of torture survivors among immigrant patients seen at Bellevue Hospital, the demographic evaluation of individuals presenting for treatment to the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and clinical outcomes in treatment of torture survivors. Also working on the evaluation of a program to teach human rights to Cambodian health professionals and the medical and social consequences of land mines.
Lipkin, Mack: Primary research subjects include the medical interview and the doctor-patient relationship, psychosocial issues in primary care, somatization in primary care, and the relationship of medicine and psychiatry. Also serving as the principal investigator of a three-school four-year program to define, teach, and evaluate the competencies of graduating physicians in health communications for the Macy Initiative and responsible for creating the Lipkin Model for higher order education in medicine: a randomized trial with cancer doctors in the United Kingdom. Currently collaborating with Michael Yedidia on resident work and professionalization, as well as physician interest in primary care and retraining. Other interests include lowering depression rates in the community and the development and evaluation of professionalism teaching in related disciplines such as law.
Schachter, Allison: Investigating language barriers in provision of care at Gouverneur and Cross-cultural medicine: the provision of HIV services in Cuba. Also an active participant in the clinician-educator mentoring project.
Schwartz, Mark: Primary research includes papers focusing on the use of standardized patients in performance-based education in medicine, the study of evidence-based medicine, developing and validating a clinical prediction rule to predict abnormal "UGI" among patients with dyspepsia, developing a randomized controlled trial of "Dyspepsia Score" as screening tool, a national survey of physician job satisfaction, random sample stratified by specialty and degree of managed care penetration, and a qualitative study of dyspeptic patients' concerns and attributions of their symptoms, and their expectation of the UGI test. Also studying the effect of clinical epi course on residents' attitudes toward The Macy Initiative in Health Communication: development, implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive, competency based approach to teaching medical communications. Currently holds the position of NYU Site Evaluation Coordinator for the Initiative and is collaborating with Louis Capponi on a randomized controlled trial of mailed reminder cards to decrease no show rates for clinic appointments and Damara Gutnik on D.A. model to assess impact of psychosocial consequences of false positive tests on screening for chlamydia in healthy women.
Stevens, David: Director of Medicine, Gouverneur Diganostic and Treatment Center. Co-director of the NYU SOM Patient and Society course. Directs the Geriatrics and Paliative Care Blocks.
