Division Chief: Molly McNairy MD, MSc
The Division of General Internal Medicine performs research in the following areas:
Clinical Epidemiology/Outcomes Research: interests include outcomes assessment measures, evaluation of health intervention studies, the epidemiology of occupational diseases, medical informatics, evaluation of educational and community interventions, cost effectiveness analysis, risk prediction, patient communication, and treatment in prognostic issues related to antithrombotic therapy.
Biostatistics/Genetic Epidemiology: interests include novel statistical methods for classification, analysis of complex data sets such as those derived from gene chips, and the use of genetic polymorphisms.
Research Ethics and Bioethics: interests include factors that support and inhibit professionalism in research and medicine, ethical issues arising in clinical and research settings, how leadership and management skills support ethics, and test development and outcome assessment of ethics training programs.
Health Behavior Research: interests include psychological aspects of illness and quality of life, factors associated with individuals' engagement in health behaviors and decision making, evaluating behavioral interventions, health communications, education of health professionals and evaluation of educational interventions, geographic variation in factors associated with health behaviors and disease outcomes, and reducing health disparities.
