Helena Temkin-Greener, Ph.D., M.S.

RESEARCH INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES: Dr. Temkin-Greener's research is focused in the following areas: 1) Quality of care - developing outcome measures and assessing quality of care in community-based, hospital and long-term care settings; 2) Organizational performance - developing and validating measures of care process, teamwork, and patient safety culture; 3) Aging and Long-term Care - assessing the impact of individual and organizational risk factors on quality of care for vulnerable elderly, including disparities; 4) Palliative and end-of-life care - design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve care; 5) Mental illness - understanding access to and quality of care for patients with dementia and other mental health disorders.

Dr. Temkin-Greener has served as Principal Investigator (PI) on a number of NIH-funded studies, as well as studies and demonstration projects funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Donaghue Medical Foundation, and others. She is currently the PI of a four-year study funded by the AHRQ to study patient safety culture and outcomes in Assisted Living communities. She is also a co-investigator on studies funded by the NIH, VA, and the AHRQ.

Dr. Temkin-Greener is the founder and director of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Data Analysis Center (PDAC), which receives data from the 120+ PACE organizations nationally. PDAC analyzes the impact of Medicare risk-adjusted payment models as well as focuses on PACE program outcomes.