Susan C. Miller, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Health Services, Research & Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Her PhD training was in gerontology and epidemiology. Dr. Miller’s research focuses on the study of palliative and hospice care, and on nursing home quality and access more generally. Dr. Miller was principal investigator on a NIA-funded study (R01 AG048940) that used longitudinal nursing home survey data to evaluate how changes in culture change practice implementation affects quality outcomes, and a NIA-funded study (R21AG042550) examining the impact of the receipt of palliative care consults in nursing homes on hospital and emergency room use near the end of life. She was also co-investigator on a VA QUERI project titled, Implementing Goals of Care Conversations with Veterans in VA LTC Settings.
| Shield R, Tyler D, Berridge C, Clark M, Miller SC. "Innovative Use of Cognitive Interviewing for Nursing Home Research." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 19, no. 12, 2018, pp. 1133-1135. |
| Cai, Shubing, Miller, Susan C., Gozalo, Pedro L. "Nursing Home-Hospice Collaboration and End-of-Life Hospitalizations Among Dying Nursing Home Residents." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 19, no. 5, 2018, pp. 439-443. |
| Lima JC, Miller SC. "Palliative Care Consults in U.S. Nursing Homes: Not Just for the Dying." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, pp. 188-193. |
| Miller, Susan C., Schwartz, Margot L., Lima, Julie C., Shield, Renée R., Tyler, Denise A., Berridge, Clara W., Gozalo, Pedro L., Lepore, Michael J., Clark, Melissa A. "The Prevalence of Culture Change Practice in US Nursing Homes." Medical Care, vol. 56, no. 12, 2018, pp. 985-993. |
| Ersek M, Miller SC, Wagner TH, Thorpe JM, Smith D, Levy CR, Gidwani R, Faricy-Anderson K, Lorenz KA, Kinosian B, Mor V. "Association between aggressive care and bereaved families' evaluation of end-of-life care for veterans with non-small cell lung cancer who died in Veterans Affairs facilities." Cancer, vol. 123, no. 16, 2017, pp. 3186-3194. |
| Bergeron CD, Friedman DB, Messias DK, Spencer SM, Miller SC. "Older women's responses and decisions after a fall: The work of getting "back to normal"." Health Care for Women International, vol. 37, no. 12, 2016, pp. 1342-1356. |
| Miller SC, Dahal R, Lima JC, Intrator O, Martin E, Bull J, Hanson LC. "Palliative Care Consultations in Nursing Homes and End-of-Life Hospitalizations." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 52, no. 6, 2016, pp. 878-883. |
| Miller SC, Lima JC, Intrator O, Martin E, Bull J, Hanson LC. "Palliative Care Consultations in Nursing Homes and Reductions in Acute Care Use and Potentially Burdensome End-of-Life Transitions." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 64, no. 11, 2016, pp. 2280-2287. |
| Miller SC. "Providing Palliative Care, and Beyond…." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 19, no. 10, 2016, pp. 1022-1024. |
| Miller, Susan, Tyler, Denise, Shield, Renee. "Disseminating Palliative Care Knowledge and Practice in Nursing Homes: Lessons from the Nursing Home Culture Change Movement (TH318-A)." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 49, no. 2, 2015, pp. 340-341. |
| Unroe KT, Cagle JG, Lane KA, Callahan CM, Miller SC. "Nursing Home Staff Palliative Care Knowledge and Practices: Results of a Large Survey of Frontline Workers." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 50, no. 5, 2015, pp. 622-9. |
| Shield, Renée R., Tyler, Denise, Lepore, Michael, Looze, Jessica, Miller, Susan C. "Would You Do That in Your Home?" Making Nursing Homes Home-like in Culture Change Implementation." Journal of Housing For the Elderly, vol. 28, no. 4, 2014, pp. 383-398. |
| Bowman, Jason, Miller, Susan, Teno, Joan, Gozalo, Pedro. "Changes in End-of-Life Care for Hispanic vs. White Medicare Beneficiaries (S710)." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 47, no. 2, 2014, pp. 471. |
| Miller SC, Looze J, Shield R, Clark MA, Lepore M, Tyler D, Sterns S, Mor V. "Culture change practice in U.S. Nursing homes: prevalence and variation by state medicaid reimbursement policies." The Gerontologist, vol. 54, no. 3, 2014, pp. 434-45. |
| Miller SC, Looze J, Shield R, Clark MA, Lepore M, Tyler D, Sterns S, Mor V. "Culture change practice in U.S. Nursing homes: prevalence and variation by state medicaid reimbursement policies." The Gerontologist, vol. 54, no. 3, 2014, pp. 434-45. |
| Miller SC, Looze J, Shield R, Clark MA, Lepore M, Tyler D, Sterns S, Mor V. "Culture Change Practice in U.S. Nursing Homes: Prevalence and Variation by State Medicaid Reimbursement Policies." The Gerontologist, vol. 54, no. 3, 2014, pp. 434-445. |
| Miller, Susan C., Lepore, Michael, Lima, Julie C., Shield, Renee, Tyler, Denise A. "Does the Introduction of Nursing Home Culture Change Practices Improve Quality?." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 62, no. 9, 2014, pp. 1675-1682. |
| Miller SC, Cohen N, Lima JC, Mor V. "Medicaid capital reimbursement policy and environmental artifacts of nursing home culture change." The Gerontologist, vol. 54 Suppl 1, 2014, pp. S76-86. |
| Miller, Susan, Lima, Julie, Mor, Vincent. "Residents' End-of-Life Hospital Use Is Lower in Nursing Homes with Substantial Palliative Care Knowledge (FR431-B)." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 47, no. 2, 2014, pp. 436-437. |
| Teno JM, Gozalo PL, Bynum JP, Leland NE, Miller SC, Morden NE, Scupp T, Goodman DC, Mor V. "Change in end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries: site of death, place of care, and health care transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009." JAMA, vol. 309, no. 5, 2013, pp. 470-7. |
| Miller, Susan, Lima, Julie, Mitchell, Susan. "Influence of Hospice Among Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia Who Received Medicare-Skilled Nursing Facility Care Near the End of Life (TH317-A)." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 45, no. 2, 2013, pp. 344. |
| Shield, R. R., Looze, J., Tyler, D., Lepore, M., Miller, S. C. "Why and How Do Nursing Homes Implement Culture Change Practices? Insights From Qualitative Interviews in a Mixed Methods Study." Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol. 33, no. 6, 2013, pp. 737-763. |
| Mitchell SL, Black BS, Ersek M, Hanson LC, Miller SC, Sachs GA, Teno JM, Morrison RS. "Advanced dementia: state of the art and priorities for the next decade." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 156, no. 1 Pt 1, 2012, pp. 45-51. |
| Miller, Susan, Looze, Jessica. "Do US Nursing Homes “Build Or Buy” Their Palliative Care Expertise? (312-B)." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012, pp. 339. |
| Miller SC, Lima JC, Looze J, Mitchell SL. "Dying in U.S. nursing homes with advanced dementia: how does health care use differ for residents with, versus without, end-of-life Medicare skilled nursing facility care?." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 15, no. 1, 2012, pp. 43-50. |
| Miller SC, Lima JC, Mitchell SL. "Influence of hospice on nursing home residents with advanced dementia who received Medicare-skilled nursing facility care near the end of life." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 60, no. 11, 2012, pp. 2035-41. |
| Miller, Susan, Lima, Julie, Mitchell, Susan. "Reporting Dementia on Hospice Claims of Nursing Home Residents Dying With Advanced Dementia (312-C)." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012, pp. 340. |
| Jalbert JJ, Daiello LA, Eaton CB, Miller SC, Lapane KL. "Antipsychotic use and the risk of diabetes in nursing home residents with dementia." The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy, vol. 9, no. 3, 2011, pp. 153-63. |
| Tyler DA, Leland N, Lepore M, Miller SC. "Effect of increased nursing home hospice use on nursing assistant staffing." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 14, no. 11, 2011, pp. 1236-9. |
| Lepore MJ, Miller SC, Gozalo P. "Hospice use among urban Black and White U.S. nursing home decedents in 2006." The Gerontologist, vol. 51, no. 2, 2011, pp. 251-60. |
| Tyler, D. A., Shield, R. R., Rosenthal, M., Miller, S. C., Wetle, T., Clark, M. A. "How Valid Are the Responses to Nursing Home Survey Questions? Some Issues and Concerns." The Gerontologist, vol. 51, no. 2, 2011, pp. 201-211. |
| Sterns S, Miller SC. "Medicare hospice care in US nursing homes: a 2006 update." Palliative medicine, vol. 25, no. 4, 2011, pp. 337-44. |
| Miller SC, Gozalo P, Lima JC, Mor V. "The effect of Medicaid nursing home reimbursement policy on Medicare hospice use in nursing homes." Medical Care, vol. 49, no. 9, 2011, pp. 797-802. |
| Miller SC. "A model for successful nursing home-hospice partnerships." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 13, no. 5, 2010, pp. 525-33. |
| Jalbert JJ, Eaton CB, Miller SC, Lapane KL. "Antipsychotic use and the risk of hip fracture among older adults afflicted with dementia." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 11, no. 2, 2010, pp. 120-7. |
| Lepore, Michael, Miller, Susan, Gozalo, Pedro, Feng, Zhanlian, Rhodes, Ramona. "Black and White Differences in Hospice Use among U.S. Nursing Home Decedents." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 39, no. 2, 2010, pp. 390-391. |
| Miller SC, Lima JC, Mitchell SL. "Hospice care for persons with dementia: The growth of access in US nursing homes." American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, vol. 25, no. 8, 2010, pp. 666-73. |
| Miller, Susan C., Lima, Julie C., Mitchell, Susan L. "Hospice care in U.S. nursing homes for persons with end-stage dementia: How U.S. medicare payment policy influences hospice election and end-of-life hospitalizations." Alzheimer's & Dementia, vol. 6, no. 4, 2010, pp. S337. |
| Miller, Susan C., Lima, Julie C., Mitchell, Susan L. "Hospice care in U.S. nursing homes for persons with end-stage dementia: how U.S. medicare payment policy influences hospice election and end-of-life hospitalizations." Alzheimer's & Dementia, vol. 6, no. 4, 2010, pp. S117. |
| Miller SC, Miller EA, Jung HY, Sterns S, Clark M, Mor V. "Nursing Home Organizational Change: The "Culture Change" Movement as Viewed by Long-Term Care Specialists." Medical Care Research and Review, vol. 67, no. 4 Suppl, 2010, pp. 65S-81S. |
| Mitchell SL, Miller SC, Teno JM, Kiely DK, Davis RB, Shaffer ML. "Prediction of 6-month survival of nursing home residents with advanced dementia using ADEPT vs hospice eligibility guidelines." JAMA, vol. 304, no. 17, 2010, pp. 1929-35. |
| Mitchell SL, Miller SC, Teno JM, Davis RB, Shaffer ML. "The advanced dementia prognostic tool: a risk score to estimate survival in nursing home residents with advanced dementia." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 40, no. 5, 2010, pp. 639-51. |
| Sterns S, Miller SC, Allen S. "The complexity of implementing culture change practices in nursing homes." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 11, no. 7, 2010, pp. 511-8. |
| Miller SC, Lima J, Gozalo PL, Mor V. "The growth of hospice care in U.S. nursing homes." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 58, no. 8, 2010, pp. 1481-8. |
| Miller, Susan, Nathilvar, Venkatesh, Lima, Julie. "The Longitudinal Use of Hospice Care in U.S. Nursing Homes." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 39, no. 2, 2010, pp. 389-390. |
| Intrator O, Hiris J, Berg K, Miller SC, Mor V. "The residential history file: studying nursing home residents' long-term care histories(*)." Health Serv Res, vol. 46, no. 1 Pt 1, 2010, pp. 120-137. |
| Shield RR, Wetle T, Teno J, Miller SC, Welch LC. "Vigilant at the end of life: family advocacy in the nursing home." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 13, no. 5, 2010, pp. 573-9. |
| Dizon DS, Schutzer ME, Politi MC, Linkletter CD, Miller SC, Clark MA. "Advance Care Planning Decisions of Women with Cancer: Provider Recognition and Stability of Choices." Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, vol. 27, no. 4, 2009, pp. 383-95. |
| Lima, Julie C., Miller, Susan C., Shield, Renée R. "Palliative and Hospice Care in Assisted Living: Reality or Wishful Thinking?." Journal of Housing For the Elderly, vol. 23, no. 1-2, 2009, pp. 47-65. |
| Rhodes RL, Mitchell SL, Miller SC, Connor SR, Teno JM. "Bereaved family members' evaluation of hospice care: what factors influence overall satisfaction with services?." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 35, no. 4, 2008, pp. 365-71. |
| Gruneir A, Lapane KL, Miller SC, Mor V. "Does the presence of a dementia special care unit improve nursing home quality?." Journal of aging and health, vol. 20, no. 7, 2008, pp. 837-54. |
| Miller SC, Han B. "End-of-life care in U.S. nursing homes: nursing homes with special programs and trained staff for hospice or palliative/end-of-life care." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 11, no. 6, 2008, pp. 866-77. |
| Miller SC, Kiely DK, Teno JM, Connor SR, Mitchell SL. "Hospice care for patients with dementia: does volume make a difference?." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 35, no. 3, 2008, pp. 283-91. |
| Gozalo PL, Miller SC, Intrator O, Barber JP, Mor V. "Hospice effect on government expenditures among nursing home residents." Health Serv Res, vol. 43, no. 1 Pt 1, 2008, pp. 134-53. |
| Gruneir A, Lapane KL, Miller SC, Mor V. "Is dementia special care really special? A new look at an old question." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 56, no. 2, 2008, pp. 199-205. |
| Welch LC, Miller SC, Martin EW, Nanda A. "Referral and timing of referral to hospice care in nursing homes: the significant role of staff members." The Gerontologist, vol. 48, no. 4, 2008, pp. 477-84. |
| Gruneir, Andrea, Miller, Susan C., Feng, Zhanlian, Intrator, Orna, Mor, Vincent. "Relationship between state medicaid policies, nursing home racial composition, and the risk of hospitalization for black and white residents." Health Serv Res, vol. 43, no. 3, 2008, pp. 869-81. |
| Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Miller SC, Connor SR, Spence C, Teno JM. "Hospice care for patients with dementia." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 7-16. |
| Gozalo PL, Miller SC. "Hospice enrollment and evaluation of its causal effect on hospitalization of dying nursing home patients." Health Serv Res, vol. 42, no. 2, 2007, pp. 587-610. |
| Gruneir A, Miller SC, Intrator O, Mor V. "Hospitalization of nursing home residents with cognitive impairments: the influence of organizational features and state policies." The Gerontologist, vol. 47, no. 4, 2007, pp. 447-56. |
| Intrator, Orna, Grabowski, David C., Zinn, Jacqueline, Schleinitz, Mark, Feng, Zhanlian, Miller, Susan, Mor, Vince. "Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents: The Effects of States' Medicaid Payment and Bed-Hold Policies." Health Serv Res, vol. 42, no. 4, 2007, pp. 1651-1671. |
| Martin WE, Miller SC, Welch LC, Burrill J. "Improving access to hospice: the Physician Feedback and Reminders to Improve Access to Hospice (PFRIAH) study." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 90, no. 12, 2007, pp. 388-90. |
| Gruneir A, Lapane KL, Miller SC, Mor V. "Long-term care market competition and nursing home dementia special care units." Medical Care, vol. 45, no. 8, 2007, pp. 739-45. |
| Miller, Susan C., Papandonatos, George, Fennell, Mary, Mor, Vincent. "Facility and county effects on racial differences in nursing home quality indicators." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 63, no. 12, 2006, pp. 3046-3059. |
| Gruneir A, Miller SC, Lapane KL, Kinzbrunner B. "Hospice care in the nursing home: changes in visit volume from enrollment to discharge among longer-stay residents." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 32, no. 5, 2006, pp. 478-87. |
| Mitchell SL, Teno JM, Miller SC, Mor V. "A national study of the location of death for older persons with dementia." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 53, no. 2, 2005, pp. 299-305. |
| Mor V, Papandonatos G, Miller SC. "End-of-life hospitalization for African American and non-Latino white nursing home residents: variation by race and a facility's racial composition." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 8, no. 1, 2005, pp. 58-68. |
| Wetle T, Shield R, Teno J, Miller SC, Welch L. "Family perspectives on end-of-life care experiences in nursing homes." The Gerontologist, vol. 45, no. 5, 2005, pp. 642-50. |
| Wu N, Miller SC, Lapane K, Roy J, Mor V. "Impact of cognitive function on assessments of nursing home residents' pain." Medical Care, vol. 43, no. 9, 2005, pp. 934-9. |
| Schockett ER, Teno JM, Miller SC, Stuart B. "Late referral to hospice and bereaved family member perception of quality of end-of-life care." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 30, no. 5, 2005, pp. 400-7. |
| Shield RR, Wetle T, Teno J, Miller SC, Welch L. "Physicians "missing in action": family perspectives on physician and staffing problems in end-of-life care in the nursing home." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 53, no. 10, 2005, pp. 1651-7. |
| Wu N, Miller SC, Lapane K, Roy J, Mor V. "The quality of the quality indicator of pain derived from the minimum data set." Health Serv Res, vol. 40, no. 4, 2005, pp. 1197-216. |
| Mor V, Zinn J, Angelelli J, Teno JM, Miller SC. "Driven to tiers: socioeconomic and racial disparities in the quality of nursing home care." Milbank Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 2, 2004, pp. 227-56. |
| Miller SC, Intrator O, Gozalo P, Roy J, Barber J, Mor V. "Government expenditures at the end of life for short- and long-stay nursing home residents: differences by hospice enrollment status." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 52, no. 8, 2004, pp. 1284-92. |
| Miller SC, Teno JM, Mor V. "Hospice and palliative care in nursing homes." Clinics in geriatric medicine, vol. 20, no. 4, 2004, pp. 717-34, vii. |
| Miller SC. "Hospice care in nursing homes: is site of care associated with visit volume?." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 52, no. 8, 2004, pp. 1331-6. |
| Miller SC, Mor V. "The opportunity for collaborative care provision: the presence of nursing home/hospice collaborations in the U.S. states." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 28, no. 6, 2004, pp. 537-47. |
| Miller SC, Weitzen S, Kinzbrunner B. "Factors associated with the high prevalence of short hospice stays." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 6, no. 5, 2003, pp. 725-36. |
| Miller SC, Mor V. "Hospice and nonhospice nursing home residents." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 6, no. 5, 2003, pp. 771. |
| Miller SC, Mor V, Teno J. "Hospice enrollment and pain assessment and management in nursing homes." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 26, no. 3, 2003, pp. 791-9. |
| Miller SC, Kinzbrunner B, Pettit P, Williams JR. "How does the timing of hospice referral influence hospice care in the last days of life?." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 51, no. 6, 2003, pp. 798-806. |
| Wu N, Miller SC, Lapane K, Gozalo P. "The problem of assessment bias when measuring the hospice effect on nursing home residents' pain." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 26, no. 5, 2003, pp. 998-1009. |
| Miller SC, Mor V, Gozalo P. "Obstacles to palliation and end-of-life care in a long-term care facility"." The Gerontologist, vol. 42, no. 4, 2002, pp. 576; author reply 576. |
| Miller SC, Mor V, Wu N, Gozalo P, Lapane K. "Does receipt of hospice care in nursing homes improve the management of pain at the end of life?." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 50, no. 3, 2002, pp. 507-15. |
| Miller SC, Mor VN. "The role of hospice care in the nursing home setting." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 5, no. 2, 2002, pp. 271-7. |
| Miller SC, Prohaska TR, Furner SE. "Nursing home admission for African Americans with Alzheimer's disease." The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, vol. 54, no. 7, 1999, pp. M365-9. |
| Miller SC, Mor V, Coppola K, Teno J, Laliberte L, Petrisek AC. "The Medicare hospice benefit's influence on dying in nursing homes." Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 1, no. 4, 1998, pp. 367-76. |
| Miller SC, Prohaska TR, Furner SE, Freels S, Brody JA, Levy PS. "Time to nursing home admission for persons with Alzheimer's disease: the effect of health care system characteristics." GERONB, vol. 53, no. 6, 1998, pp. S341-53. |
Completed Research
Co-Investigator, Hospice Study and Report (PI Pedro Gozalo, PhD), HHSM-500-000881, Subcontract with Abt Associates, Inc., 5/10/12 – 9/13/2016.
Principal Investigator (of subcontract), Title: Determinants and Consequences of Veterans' Nursing Home Use (PI Orna Intrator, PhD, Providence VA), the Veterans Administration, total subcontract costs $112,179, 6/1/10 – 10/30/13.
Co-Investigator, Can Concurrent Hospice Care and Cancer Treatment Achieve Superior Outcomes? (PI Vincent Mor, PhD), the Veterans Administration, 2013-2016.
Principal Investigator, Palliative Care Consultations: An Unstudied Care Model in Nursing Homes, total costs $446,813, R21AG042550-01A1, the National Institute on Aging, 6/1/2013—5/31/15.
Principal Investigator, Transition to Resident-Centered Care in Nursing Homes: Impact of and on a Nursing Home’s Financial Health, total costs $83.972, #2013-016, The Retirement Research Foundation, 7/1/2013—6/31/2014.
Mentor, AHRQ National Research Service Award 2T32 HS000011-28 (PI Vincent Mor), 7/1/13-6/30/18.
Principal Investigator (of subcontract with University of Rochester), Attributes of nursing home-hospice collaborations & end of life hospitalizations, R03 AG042648-010A (PI Shubing Cai), 7/1/13-6/30/15.
Principal Investigator, Understanding Sites of Death for Veterans who Receive Nursing Home Care, (project within VA GECDAC, PI Shubing Cai, PhD, Providence VA), the Veterans Administration, total costs $24,121, 10/1/12 – 9/30/13.
Co-Principal Investigator, Project 4, Variations in Life’s Final Chapter (PI Vincent Mor, PhD), total costs $956,779; and, co-investigator of Core A, Shaping Long-term Care in America, National Institute on Aging P01, 9/15/07—6/30/13.
Principal Investigator, Nursing Home Culture Change: Understanding its Implementation and Impact, total costs $289,435, Retirement Research Foundation, 6/1/2008 – 12/31/11.
Principal Investigator (of subcontract), Title: Developing Systems to Support Person-Centered Care: Optimizing Planetree’s Continuing Care Designation Criteria and Measurement Strategies (PI Heidi Gill, Planetree, Derby CT), The Commonwealth Fund, Total subcontract costs $15,401, 8/1/10 – 1/31/11.
Principal Investigator, End-of-Life Care and Hospice: Older Adults with Dementia in Nursing Homes, total costs $198,963, Alzheimer’s Association, 8/1/2008 – 12/31/10.
Principal Investigator (of subcontract), The ADEPT Study: Estimating Prognosis in Advanced Dementia (PI Susan Mitchell, Ph.D., Hebrew Senior Life / Harvard), subcontract total $313,413, National Institute on Aging, 7/1/06 – 6/31/10.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | PhD | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1982 | MBA | Golden Gate University |
2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Aging and Public Health Section of the American Public Health Association
American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual Paper Award for “The Introduction of Palliative Care Consults in Nursing Homes: The Effect on End-of-Life Hospitalizations,” 2016 Annual Meeting
American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine State of the Science recognized paper: Influence of Hospice among Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia who Received Medicare-Skilled Nursing Facility Care near the End of Life, 2013 Annual Meeting.
Ollie Randal Symposium Award for "Understanding Adoption of Culture Change Practices in U.S. Nursing Homes: A Mixed-Methods Approach," 2011 Gerontology Society of America Annual Meeting.
American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual Paper Award for "The Longitudinal Use of Hospice Care in US Nursing Homes," 2010 Annual Meeting
"Partner in Policy & Advocacy Award" presented by The Center for Hospice, Palliative Care & End-of-Life Studies, University of South Florida, March 4, 2005.
Faculty Scholar, Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute, 7/2002 to 6/2004
"James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award", Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association, 2000
Honorable Mention, "The Laurence G. Branch, Ph.D. Student Research Award," Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association, 1997
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Allen, Susan | Professor Emerita of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Clark, Melissa | Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Daiello, Lori | Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research), Associate Professor of Neurology (Research) |
| Fennell, Mary | C.V. Starr Professor Emerita of Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship and Professor Emerita of Sociology |
| Gozalo, Pedro | Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research) |
| Mor, Vincent | Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Shield, Renee | Clinical Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Tyler, Denise | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
Editorial Advisory Board Member: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management,appointment 9/2004 to 2020
Editorial Advisory Board Member: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, appointment 1/2005 to 2015
Associate Editor, Journal of Palliative Medicine, 4/2009 to 2020
Member: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's Research Committee, 20042017
Member: Task Force to Improve End-of-Life Care, sponsored by the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General, 2003-present
Expert Panel Member, for development of Surveyor Interpretive Guidelines for Federal Nursing Home Regulations, Palliative Care and Advance Directives, March 2010.
Chair, Aging and Public Health Section of the American Public Health Association's Action Board, 2009-2011
Editorial Advisory Board Member: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, appointment 9/2004-9/2006
Grant Reviewer: The Alzheimer's Association, 1999-2019
Advisory Board Member: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, appointment effective 1/2005.
Member: Association for Health Services Research, 1997-2019
Member: Gerontology Society of America, 1992-present
Member: American Public Health Association, Gerontological Health Section, 1992-present
Reviewer: Aging Health, Archives of Internal Medicine; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; Milbank Quarterly; The Gerontologist; Journal of American Geriatrics Society; Medical Care; Social Science and Medicine; Research on Aging; Health Services Research
