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Paul D. Cleary, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, Appointed to Winslow Professorship
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, has been appointed C-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. Cleary, who was named dean this past spring, is an authority in the field of patient care and has focused on developing better methods for eliciting patient-care information. He is the Principal Investigator of one of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) grants funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to develop surveys for collecting information from consumers regarding their health plans and services. CAHPS surveys are the most widely used tools in the country for assessing ambulatory care experiences and now are used for hospitalized patients. Cleary was a founding member of the Picker Institute, which promotes the idea that routinely monitoring patient experiences is a critical component of quality assessment. He has been involved in research focused on persons infected with HIV since the 1980s. His recent research includes a study of how organizational characteristics affect the costs and quality of care for persons with AIDS as well as a national evaluation of a continuous quality improvement initiative in clinics providing care to HIV-infected individuals. A member of the Institute of Medicine, Cleary has also been selected as Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research in 1996, and was the 2002 recipient of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy’s Distinguished Investigator Award. The C-E.A. Winslow Professorship is named for Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, who established one of the first public health programs in the United States at Yale, now the Yale School of Public Health, in 1915. Winslow served as Department Chairman and professor for thirty years. —Story by Marcie Foley |
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