Ellis Dillon, who defended her dissertation in late May has been offered a two year post-doc at a joint program of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and the Stanford University Clinical Excellence Research Center. She will be one of three Levy Fellows who will be using medical sociology to evaluate innovations in real world medical practices.
In their words, the three fellows “will collectively bring skills in a range of quantitative and qualitative methods and expertise in assessing not just whether an innovation “worked,” but also the organizational and economic factors contributing to its success (or failure), how the innovation was adopted and adapted by each setting, how patients and providers were engaged in the new care process, and how to draw lessons from the experience for scaling up.”
Congratulations to Ellis!