Jeroan J. Allison, MD, MS CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL

Jeroan J. Allison, MD, MS CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Place of Birth: Montgomery, Alabama Citizenship: USA Institution: University of Massachusetts Medical School Rank/title: Vice Chair and Professor, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences (Primary) Department of Medicine (Secondary) Associate Vice Provost for Health Disparities Research Professional Address: University of Massachusetts Medical Center Department of Quantitative Health Sciences 368 Plantation Street Worcester, MA 01605 EDUCATION March 1997 Master of Science in Harvard School of Public Health, Epidemiology with Boston, MA Concentration in Clinical Epidemiology July 1985- June 1989 Doctor of Medicine. University of Alabama at Cum Laude Birmingham, AL May 1985 Bachelor of Science, Samford University, Major in Chemistry and Birmingham, AL Biology, Summa Cum Laude CURRICULUM VITAE Jeroan J. Allison, M.D. Page 2 PERSONAL STATEMENT As the founding Vice Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (http://www.umassmed.edu/qhs/), it has been an extraordinarily rewarding experience to work with Dr. Kiefe as Chair in establishing and nurturing this new academic venture. Beginning in June, 2009, with only Dr. Kiefe and myself, we have grown over the subsequent years to a broad-based department that includes 34 primary faculty and 31 doctoral and post-doctoral students. Our departmental vision is that, “We will be leaders in the science of moving from discovery to improving individual and population health by transforming healthcare delivery through methodological innovation.” Our core values include: social justice through improved health, collective creativity, scientific integrity and excellence, diversity and mutual respect, and science that makes a difference. Our department houses four divisions (Biostatistics and Health Services Research, Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Vulnerable Populations, Health Informatics and Implementation Science, and Outcomes Measurement), a doctoral training program (Clinical and Population Health Science), a Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation Program, and a Quantitative Methods Core, which provides statistical consultation and data collection and management across all units of the medical school. Since its inception, QHS faculty have been PIs on 103 extramurally funded projects, with over $86 million total cost. Collectively, we have published over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications since 2010, some in high profile journals. From a high-level perspective, the name of our flourishing department reflects the legacy of those who first envisioned its establishment but does not describe the breadth of our work. Granted much of our work is quantitative, but our department extends way beyond this to encompass a set of research, training, service, and policy-relevant programs that we often describe as a “mini school of public health.” Initially trained as a primary care physician and epidemiologist, my early research career focused on quality improvement and implementation science in many disease areas, including musculoskeletal disease, cardiovascular disease, and HIV. Over the past 10 years, I have made an increasing commitment to the emerging fields of health disparities research, health equity intervention, and public health. Promoting health equity and understanding the root causes of health disparities has emerged for me as a powerful and rewarding pathway to pursue at the level of the individual patient as well as more broadly within clinical care systems and the domain of healthcare financing. For example, my research team has focused on understanding and mitigating the health and social consequences of discrimination. I recently worked with Dr. Arlene Ash, to develop a new model of health care financing described in JAMA Internal Medicine as a viable model to be used across the nation to promote health equity. Much of my work may be described as “community-based participatory research,” in which our academic team enters into an equal and bi-directional partnership with local community organizations. I currently co-lead the University of Massachusetts Center for Health Equity Intervention Research (CHEIR), an NIH funded center of excellence that has three R01-level projects that employ narrative intervention to promote health equity. In addition, CHEIR also seeks to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce by training the next generation of scientists interested in health equity research. My team has developed specialized expertise in the use of narrative intervention, or “storytelling,” as method to promote health equity. Our approach to storytelling is culturally appropriate and captures powerful and authentic stories from the community to address identified problems. Our group published a seminal manuscript on this topic in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In this work, we presented a randomized trial demonstrating that our storytelling approach had a 2 CURRICULUM VITAE Jeroan J. Allison, M.D. Page 3 dramatic impact on hypertension control among African Americans treated at an inner-city, safety-net setting in Birmingham, Alabama. Our group has delivered a series of highly-rated workshops on this approach. More recently, this work has been widely disseminated. For example, our storytelling intervention for hypertension study was adapted for use by Kaiser Permanente Southern California and was made available to their 600,000 members in Southern California. Our work with WellPoint/Anthem to use storytelling to improve prenatal care outcomes has been distributed to all pregnant members in California, Texas, and other areas of the southwest. My research group has also developed a strong interest in enhancing participation of under- represented groups in clinical research. Through pilot work funded by the UMass Clinical and Translational Science Award, we developed an innovative approach to improving recruitment by training research assistants on cultural competency in the medical simulation laboratory. This work led to the development of the Science Participation Resource Center, an important cornerstone of our recently funded CTSA renewal. This center, built on the principle of equitable community partnership, will provide resources to enhance research participation across the spectrums of age, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. This work is currently being expanded upon through a three-campus partnership with the University of Massachusetts, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Vanderbilt University. Implementation research is woven throughout my research portfolio as a unifying thread. I have strong experience as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several previously completed federally funded, randomized trials testing interventions to improve health care delivery in “real-world” clinical setting (e.g., R01CA129091, R18DK0650001, U18HSO16956, R01HL70786, U18HS011124, and R01HS08843). Although these projects cover a wide range of disease areas and topics such as, patient safety, cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disease, and HIV, each of them focuses on the knowledge base necessary to translate evidence-based interventions into routine care. Over the past several years, I have also been working to address health equity in the global health arena. We have established a robust collaboration with Charutar Arogya Mandal, a charity- based, rural tertiary hospital in Gujarat India. The collaboration has grown to include a bilateral student exchange program, which students from one institution are paired with students from the other institution and then respectively serve as hosts to each other in their home countries. In addition, our exchange students have the opportunity to meaningfully engage in ongoing research projects. In fact, we have found that working with successive generations of students, provides sustainability and ongoing vital energy. This novel approach was presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global health by Apurv Soni and Nisha Fahey, two UMass students who have been spearheading this collaboration in collaboration with me as their mentor. The presentation was recognized as the most outstanding student submission at the conference. (http://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2015/06/mdphd-student-expanding- research-and-advocacy-for-health-care-in-india/). The UMass research program in India now includes projects focused on reducing trauma from motor vehicle accidents, promoting maternal child health, detecting atrial fibrillation through community-based screening with an innovative smart-phone app, and developing new approaches to treating resistant helminthic infections. My group is also working in partnership with the Vietnam Ministry of Health to address population health. For example, we have just received new NIH funding for three projects focused on non-communicable diseases, including a large population-based randomized trial for smoking cessation, a 16-site, community-based, cluster randomized trial for hypertension control, and a planning grant to establish a center of excellence in cardiovascular diseases as a partnership between Hanoi Medical University and the University of Massachusetts. 3 CURRICULUM VITAE Jeroan J. Allison, M.D. Page 4 I have particular interest in statistical and epidemiologic methods. I have served as methodologist for several federally funded proposals and many papers published in the peer-reviewed literature. Quantitative

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