The purpose of the fellowship project is to fund research and evaluation projects that will significantly assist the learner’s development while contributing to the field of integrated care. Learn more about our past fellows and their projects.
Mara Sindoni
Project: Assessing Patient Satisfaction in Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH): The Psychometric Validation of a Patient Satisfaction Measure for PCBH Settings
Miriam Crinion
Project: Evaluating the Impact of Integrated and Co-Located Behavioral Health Care in a Pediatric Primary Care Setting
Christina New
Project: Evaluating the Impact of an Educational Seminar in an Integrated Healthcare Setting: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhancing Outcomes for Patients Pursuing Vaginoplasty
Joseph Harrison
Project: Applying Andersen’s Behavioral Model to the predictors of mental health services utilization in an integrated primary care setting during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jasmine Davis
This competitive award supports the work of a trainee or early career professional whose research project significantly contributes to the field of integrated care. CFHA is proud to support Jasmine Davis’ project entitled ” Identifying and Intervening with Highest-Risk Primary Care Patients.”
Angela Hiefner
Project: Family Support and Self-Management Behaviors in Underserved Latinx Patients with Diabetes
Julie Gass, PhD
Project: Primary care to order: adapting the Customized Care intervention to improve team communication for patients with multimorbidity to integrated care settings
Cody Hostutler, PhD
Project: Is psychological flexibility a protective factor in the relationship between adverse childhood events and salient health outcomes in adolescents?
Jennifer Carty, PhD
Project: Preventing and treating burnout in family medicine residents utilizing written emotional disclosure: a pilot study
Jeffrey Shahidullah, PhD
Project: This study will empirically evaluate an innovation in training by delivering a behavioral health curriculum to pediatric residents in a setting in which behavioral health services are integrated in primary care. The curriculum is delivered by behavioral health providers who are embedded within the patient-centered medical home.
Jennifer Wray, PhD
Project: This project focuses on qualitative interviews with behavioral health providers and primary care providers to better understand the barriers and facilitators of implementing brief interventions for tobacco use and alcohol misuse in integrated primary care settings. In the second phase of this project, we will be using these responses to create a survey that will be filled out by providers working in integrated primary care clinics to assess these barriers and facilitators on a larger scale.
Robyn Shepardson, PhD
Project: Anxiety disorders are prevalent among primary care patients, so it is not surprising that anxiety is the second most common reason (after depression) that primary care patients are referred to integrated behavioral health providers (BHPs). I developed this study because little is known about how BHPs treat anxiety in real-world clinical practice in integrated primary care and what types of symptoms/problems co-occur with anxiety in primary care patients. Better understanding of provider practices and patient presentations will ultimately help inform the development of new treatments for use in integrated primary care.
Christina L. Vair, PhD
Project: My project, entitled “Training Experiences, Needs Assessment, and Model Adherent Behaviors of Psychology Integrated Care Trainees,” emerged directly from own experiences while training to be a behavioral health consultant within the Department of Veterans Affairs. One of the seminal experiences of my pre-doctoral internship was a rotation focused on learning about integrated care research at the VA Center for Integrated Healthcare. A core component of that rotation was assisting in developing a comprehensive didactic reading list of scholarly literature pertaining to the implementation of integrated care.
Caitlin Burditt, PhD
Project: UMASS Worcester Department of Family Medicine has developed collaborative, multidisciplinary, healthcare teams by integrating behavioral health services into family medicine residency training. One of the novel integrated primary care methods employed is the dual interview (Blount, DeGirolamo, Mariani, 2006). In its simplest form, a dual interview is a patient visit where both the medical and behavioral health provider are present, and each add value to the patient encounter.
