LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe and categorize an array of population-based data resources for use in secondary analyses
- Describe the attributes, barriers and methods required to access these population-based data resources
PRESENTER(S)
Allison Kempe, MD, MPH is the founding Director of ACCORDS. She is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and has conducted health services, outcomes, and implementation/dissemination research for over thirty years. She has extensive experience in conducting pragmatic trials, in program evaluation and in the conduct of surveys, with over 200 publications focusing on improving health care and health care delivery. Finding and testing methods of improving immunization rates and other preventive care delivery and decreasing disparities in health and health care delivery for children have been the major focus of her own research. She has received numerous R01 level grants from NIH, AHRQ, and the CDC throughout her career. Additionally, Dr. Kempe has played a major mentorship role for many fellows and junior faculty. She directed two federally funded primary care research fellowships for over 10 years and developed a fellowship for surgical and subspecialty faculty who wish to become outcomes or health services researchers. Currently, she is a Co-Director of a K12 from NHLBI that focuses on implementation and dissemination science.
Dr. Arthur Davidson, a family physician, served as a Denver Health community health center clinician and director of Public Health Informatics, Epidemiology and Preparedness at Denver Public Health over more than 3 decades. He continues building informatics applications supporting greater integration of clinical care, community and public health initiatives. He currently serves as a commissioner on the Colorado eHealth Commission. He was the principal investigator for an AHRQ contract that resulted in founding the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO). He has served on multiple HHS Federal Advisory Committees and was a founding member of the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee in the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT. He served on the Colorado State Innovation Model grant Advisory Committee and HIT workgroup. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee in Colorado’s School of Public Health. He is an associate professor in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and mentors clinicians in health services research through training programs at the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science.