Dr. Vivier's work focuses on the health status and health services utilization of low income families. Important health issues investigated in Dr. Vivier's work include lead poisoning and childhood obesity. Health system issues addressed by Dr. Vivier and colleagues include emergency department utilization and improving information systems to enhance the delivery of health care.

Dr. Vivier's work focuses on the health status and health services utilization of low-income families.  Current research areas include lead poisoning, injury, asthma, emergency department use, and early life factors that impact health as well as flourishing, incuding a focus on predictors of third grade reading proficiency.

1. Project title: Improving information systems to enhance the delivery
   of immunizations and other preventive services.
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD
   Consultants: Anthony J. Alario, MD and Georges Peter, MD
   Funding Source: Rhode Island Department of Health
   Funding Period: February 1, 1996 to March 31, 1997
2. Project title: Improving information systems to enhance the delivery
   of immunizations and other preventive services II.
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Consultants: Anthony J. Alario, MD and Georges Peter, MD
   Funding Source: Rhode Island Department of Health
   Funding Period: April 1, 1997 to December 31, 1997
3. Project title: A comparison of patient characteristics and utilization
   patterns for children with different types of primary care provider sites in a
   Medicaid managed care program.
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Mentors: Vincent Mor, PhD and Larry Culpepper, MD
   Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
   Funding Period: July 1, 1997 to June 30, 2002
4. Project title: Development of a Child Health Status Measure.
   Principal Investigator: Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH
   Co-Investigator for subcontract: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Funding source: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
   Subcontract period: April 1, 1998 to December 31, 2000
5. Project title: Hallet Prevention Initiative.
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Funding Source: Hallet Trust
   Funding Period: January 1, 1998 to December 31, 2003
6. An evaluation of childhood obesity among elementary and middle school students.
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Funding Source: HELP Coalition
   Funding Period: July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2003
7. Rhode Island Access Project
   Mentor on the Brown University subcontract: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Funding source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
   Subcontract period: July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2004
8. Designing community-based interventions to address the problem of childhood obesity.
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Funding Source: HELP Coalition
   Funding Period: July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2006
9. An analysis of greater emergency department (ED) use by Medicaid enrolled children
   as compared to those commercially insured in the same managed care organization (MCO).
   Principal Investigator: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
   Funding Source: Center for Health Care Strategies
   Funding Period: August 1, 2003 to May 31, 2005
10. State and regional demonstration in health information technology.
    Principal Investigator: Patricia Nolan, MD, MPH
    Principal Investigator for Brown University subcontract: Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
    Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Funding Period: April 1, 2005 to September 31, 2009

11. Healthy Communities Initiative
    Principal Investigator:     Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD
    Funding Source:              Brown University (with funds received as part of an agreement between the DuPont Corporation and Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch)

12. Medicaid Managed Care and the Quality of Care for Women and Children:  Evaluating a Randomized Trial of Enrollment in a Medicaid-Focused or Commercial Health Insurance Plan
    Principal Investigator:  Amal Trivedi, MD
    Funding Source:  HRSA
    Funding Period:  April 1, 2015 to June 31, 2018

13. Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute
    Executive Committee: Patrick M. Viviver, MD, PhD; Maureen Phipps, MD, MPH; Phyllis Dennery, MD
    Funding Source:  Family of Alan Hassenfeld
    Funding Period:               January 1, 2016-October 31, 2021

Vivier PM, O'Haire C, Alario AJ, Simon P, Leddy T, Georges P. A statewide assessment of tuberculin skin testing of preschool children enrolled in Medicaid managed care. Maternal Child Health Journal 2006;10:171-176.

O'Haire C, Dansereau LM, Simon P, MacRoy PM, Vivier PM. Eliminating disparities in preventive services between preschool children enrolled in Medicaid managed care and those commercially insured. (Research Letter) Public Health Reports. 2005;120:480-481.

Forrest CB, Riley A W, Vivier PM, Gordon NP, Starfield B. Predictors of children's healthcare use: The value of child versus parental perspectives on healthcare needs. Medical Care. 2004;42:232-238.

Brousseau DC, Dansereau LM, Linakis JG, Leddy T, Vivier PM. Pediatric emergency department utilization within a statewide Medicaid managed care system. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2002;9:296-299.

Vivier PM, Alario AJ, Peter G, Leddy T, Simon P, Mor V. An analysis of the immunization status of preschool children enrolled in a statewide Medicaid managed care program. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2001;139:624-629.

Vivier PM, Flanagan P, Simon P, Diana BJ, Brown L, Alario AJ. An assessment of selected preventive screenings among children aged 12 through 35 months in a hospital-based, Medicaid managed care practice. Ambulatory Child Health 2001:7:3-10.

Vivier PM, Hogan JW, Simon P, Leddy T, Dansereau LM, Alario AJ. A statewide assessment of lead screening histories of preschool children enrolled in a Medicaid managed care program. Pediatrics. 2001;108:e28.

Vivier PM, Alario AJ, O'Haire C, Dansereau LM, Jakum EB, Peter G. The impact of outreach efforts in reaching underimmunized children in a Medicaid managed care practice. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2000;154:1243-1247.

Lakhiani CN, Vivier PM, Alario AJ, Simon P, Diana BJ, Peter G. An analysis of the transition from OPV to IPV for primary immunization in a hospital-based, primary care practice. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2000;19:575-576.

Vivier PM, Alario AJ, Simon P, Flanagan P, O'Haire C, and Peter G. Immunization status of children enrolled in a hospital-based Medicaid managed care practice - The importance of the timing of vaccine administration. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 1999;18:783-788.

Golova N, Alario AJ, Vivier PM, Rodriguez M, High P. Literacy promotion in Hispanic families in a primary care setting: A randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics 1999;103:993-997.

Hughart N, Holt E, Rosenthal J, Ross A, Jones A, Keane V, Vivier P, and Guyer B. Effectiveness of pediatric practice consultation on missed opportunities for immunization. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1998;75:123-134.

Hughart N, Vivier P, Ross A, Strobino D, Holt E, Hou W, Guyer B. Are immunizations an incentive for well child visits? Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 1997;151:690-695.

Holt E, Guyer B, Hughart N, Keane V, Vivier P, Ross A, Strobino D. The contributions of missed opportunities to childhood under-immunization in Baltimore. Pediatrics 1996;97(4):474-480.

Vivier PM, Lewander WJ, Block SH, Simon PR, Alario AJ, Linakis JG. Is continuity of care preserved in children who utilize the pediatric emergency department? Pediatrics 1995;95(1):37-41.

Vivier PM, Lewander WJ, Martin HF, Linakis JG. Isopropyl alcohol intoxication in a neonate through chronic dermal exposure: A complication of a culturally based umbilical care practice. Pediatric Emergency Care 1994;10:91-93.

Vivier PM, Dietrich AJ, and Witters LA. Management of elevated cholesterol levels by New Hampshire primary care physicians. The Journal of Family Practice 1988;27:167-172.

Smith SR, Vivier PM, Blain ALB. A comparison of first year medical school performances of students admitted with and without interviews. Journal of Medical Education 1986;61:404-406.

Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence

Brown University, 2014-2017

2007 Healthy Housing Award
RI Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Rhode Island Department of Health

 

Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 1997 to June 2002

Medical Student Teaching Award
Brown University Pediatric Residency Program, 1992

Quigley Continuity Clinic Award
(Awarded to the resident who sees the most continuity clinic patients)
Brown University Pediatric Residency Program, 1991 and 1992

Intern Active Continuity Clinic Award
Brown University Pediatric Residency Program, 1990

New England Pediatric Society Prize
Brown University Program in Medicine, 1989

Harry L. Gardner Award
Rhode Island Lung Association, 1985

American Pediatric Society, 2016 to present

Society for Pediatric Research, 2001 to present

Academic Pediatric Association, 1996 to present

American Academy of Pediatrics, July 1989 to present
Member of the Rhode Island Chapter Executive Board, 1998 to 2002

Dr. Vivier is the former Director of the MPH Program and Clinical and Translational Research Training Programs at the Brown University School of Public Health.