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Catarina Kiefe, PhD, MD, and Jeroan J. Allison, MD, MS
Named new Editors-in-Chief of Leading Healthcare Services Research Journal
Philadelphia (May 23, 2006) – Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a leading medical publisher and information services provider and part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has named Catarina Kiefe, PhD, MD, and Jeroan J. Allison, MD, MS, new editors-in-chief of Medical Care, effective January 2007. Together, Drs. Kiefe and Allison will continue to ensure the editorial integrity of Medical Care, while leading the journal into the future of the rapidly changing field of healthcare services research. A free sample issue of Medical Care, the official journal of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association, can be viewed at http://www.lww-medicalcare.com.
Catarina Kiefe, PhD, MD, professor of medicine and biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is a clinical epidemiologist and general internist with considerable methodological expertise. Her main research interests are in health services and outcomes research, specifically ethnic disparities in healthcare, and measurement and improvement of quality of care, areas in which she has published widely. Dr. Kiefe has served on numerous AHRQ and NIH study sections, as well as VA Merit Review Boards. She was Associate Editor of Annals of Epidemiology from 1995-2000 and is Founding Director of UAB’s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education as well as the Birmingham VA’s Deep South Center on Effectiveness. She is a Senior Scholar in the VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, a training program for physicians who wish to become leaders in health care improvement implementation and research. She is also the PI on an AHRQ funded T-32 institutional training grant in clinical effectiveness research.
Jeroan J. Allison, MD, MS, is associate professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with appointments in General Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Allison is the associate director of the UAB COERE and the Associate Director of the UAB Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Diseases. Dr. Allison’s main research interests include implementation research, with a focus on quality measurement and eliminating ethnic disparities. Dr. Allison has served on several expert panels, advisory committees, and federal study sections, publishing widely in the peer-reviewed literature. For the past five years, he has also served as deputy editor for Medical Care.
Drs. Kiefe and Allison will take over the editorial reigns from current Editors-in-Chief Carol Ashton, MD, MPH and Colleen McHorney, PhD with the January 2007 issue of Medical Care.
About Medical Care
Rated as one of the top journals in healthcare services research, Medical Care is devoted to all aspects of the administration, delivery, and improvement of healthcare. This scholarly journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers documenting the most current developments in the rapidly changing field of healthcare. This timely journal reports on the findings of original investigations into issues related to the research, planning, organization, financing, provision, and evaluation of health services.
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