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Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPHAssociate Professor of Family Medicine and Community & Preventive Medicine with tenure, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry Associate Director, Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care HIV Clinical Coordinator, Westside Community Health Center Contact Information: Email: Additional Education: Family Medicine Residency, SUNY @ Buffalo, 1983 Clinical and Research Fellow with the University and Eastman, 1975-76. |
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Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH, received his BA in Psychology from Antioch College and obtained his MD from the Medical College of Virginia. He completed his residency training in Family Medicine through the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1983. He worked for eight years as Medical Director for a federally qualified Community Health Center in Buffalo, NY where he developed and administered state-sponsored programs in prenatal care, women’s health, school health, hypertension, and HIV primary care. He subsequently completed a three-year fellowship in Health Services Research and obtained his MPH from the University of Rochester. He is certified in Addiction Medicine and served as medical director of a methadone maintenance program for nine years. He completed a three-year training program in Family Therapy. He is also certified in HIV Medicine through the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute and through the American Association of HIV Medicine. He is HIV clinical coordinator at Westside Community Health Center. Dr. Fiscella is currently tenured Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community & Preventive Medicine. He is Associate Director of the Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care. His research has focused on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care. He is currently conducting two AHRQ sponsored R01 projects. One project examines the impact of HMOs on disparities in health care using national data. Another examines the impact of reporting biases on estimates of disparities in preventive care. Dr. Fiscella is also conducting research in minority women’s health. One program is an R01 randomized controlled trial funded of mifepristone for fibroids funded by NICHD/NIH. He is also conducting several smaller studies funded by Athenium, Buffett Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served or continues to serve on a number of national advisory boards. These include the Institute of Medicine committee on Design of a National Healthcare Disparities Report and advisory groups for the AMA, Aetna, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He authored the congressionally-mandated report, “Assessing Health Care Quality for Minority and Other Disparity Populations” for AHRQ in addition to reports for Physicians for Human Rights, The Harvard Civil Rights Project, and the National Quality Forum. He has authored more than sixty papers. |
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