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Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP

Dr. Florence Marie Momplaisir, MD, MSHP, FACP is an Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Vice Chief in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. As Director of the Penn Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) Implementation Science Core, Dr. Momplaisir leads the provision of technical assistance and consultative services for HIV implementation science research. She also co-leads the Penn CFAR Scholars Program and the Summer Program for Infectious Disease Research (SPIDR)—initiatives designed to cultivate interest in biomedical research and academic medicine among students, especially those focused on HIV or ID. She is also a member of the George W. Counts Interest Group within the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

Dr. Momplaisir’s clinical research centers on peer- and organizational-led behavioral interventions aimed at improving HIV care continuum outcomes. She focuses particularly on women’s health, including integrating sexual and reproductive health into HIV care and enhancing postpartum retention and viral suppression among women with HIV. Her work is distinguished by the use of mixed-methods, community-based, and implementation science approaches.

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Peter F. Cronholm, MD, MSCE, CAQHPM, FAAFP

I am Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). I have additional training in biostatistics, mixed methods, and epidemiology with content expertise in program evaluation, implementation science, and the science of community engagement.

My research has focused on community-based, participatory health services regarding: 1) Integration of trauma-informed care and primary prevention strategies into systems of care; 2) Advancing the use of mixed methodologies and patient-reported outcomes (PRO) into research and implementation paradigms through the science of community engagement; and 3) Improving models of care for medically and socially complex patients with a focus on primary care settings.

I have developed and serve as the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Mixed Methods Research Lab (MMRL) – A university Service Center housed within DFMCH – to foster the use of qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies with a focus on integrating key stakeholder perspectives and goals into research designs. The MMRL supports more than 60 mixed methods and qualitative studies annually with multiple projects supporting the training of investigators in mixed and qualitative methods.

I have extensive experience in the science of community engagement having served as the Principal Investigator on three; a Co-Investigator on one; and an engagement consultant on four PCORI Engagement Awards. I am leading the engagement core for a PCORI PLACER clinical trial and have supported federally funded initiatives developing PRO measures and clinical trial dissemination efforts implementing identified best-practices.

EPID 6290
Fall term (second half of term)
(annually)
0.5 CU
Elective

This course will introduce students to R. The aim is to provide them with enough familiarity with the language so that they can pursue, with the aid of modern tools, analyses and approaches to epidemiology that cannot be conducted with Stata or other proprietary software. The great majority of the class time will be dedicated to project-based learning. We will choose projects that focus on large health issues--climate change, infectious disease, spatial and temporal analyses, and others that require approaches beyond those available in Stata. In order to maximize the time for project-based learning some of the basics of R will be 'flipped'--students will be provided exercises and code to go through these outside of class, with access to a teaching assistant to help work through any bugs.

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