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Faculty Fellow

Karen Glanz

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George A. Weiss University Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Professor of Nursing

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

About

Karen Glanz is George A. Weiss University Professor, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Professor of Nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences in the School of Nursing and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is Director of the UPenn Prevention Research Center and serves on the NHLBI Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. Her research seeks to understand health behavior and improve it through education, public policy, and organizational change. A globally influential public health scholar, her work spans psychology, epidemiology, nutrition, and other disciplines. Her research in community and health care settings covers healthy eating, obesity prevention, cancer prevention and control, chronic disease management and control, reducing health disparities, and health communication technologies. She has published more than 440 journal articles and book chapters. Thomson Reuters named her one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015” in general social sciences. The Institute for Scientific Information has named her a Most Highly Cited Researcher. Over the past 15 years, Glanz has received more than $45 million in research funding. 

Selected Publications

Cain KL, Gavand KA, Conway TL, Geremia CM, Millstein RA, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Adams MA, Glanz K, King AC, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Developing and validating an abbreviated version of the Microscale Audit for Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS-Abbreviated).” Journal of Transport & Health.

Wang X, Conway TL, Cain KL, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Geremia C, Kerr J, Glanz K, Carlson JA, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Interactions of psychosocial factors with built environments in explaining adolescents’ active transportation.” Preventive Medicine.

Carlson JA, Mitchell TB, Saelens BE, Staggs VS, Kerr J, Frank LD, Schipperijn J, Conway TL, Glanz K, Chapman JE, Cain KL, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Within-person associations of young adolescents’ physical activity across five primary locations: Is there evidence of cross-location compensation?” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity.

James P, Hart JE, Hipp JA, Mitchell JA, Kerr J, Hurvitz PM, Glanz K, Laden F. 2017 (in press). “GPS-based exposure to greenness and walkability and accelerometry-based physical activity.” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Glanz K, Johnson L, Yaroch A, Phillips M, Ayala G, Davis E. 2016. “Measures of Retail Food Store Environments and Sales:  Review and Implications for Healthy Eating Initiatives.” Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 48: 280-288.

Faculty Fellow

Matthew McHugh

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The Independence Chair for Nursing Education; Professor of Nursing

Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research

Faculty Director, Nursing and Health Care Management Coordinated Dual Degree Program

School/Department

Areas of Interest

    About

    Matthew McHugh is The Independence Chair for Nursing Education and Professor of Nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences in the School of Nursing; Associate Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research; and Faculty Director of the Nursing and Health Care Management Coordinated Dual Degree Program. McHugh is a nursing outcomes and policy researcher as well as a family nurse practitioner and psychiatric–mental health clinical nurse specialist. The fundamental question underlying his research is “How does the organization of nursing influence the achievement of our most important national health policy goals?” He draws on his expertise in nursing, law, public health, and health services research to conduct studies demonstrating nursing’s position as a force for quality, equity, and innovation in health services. 

    Selected Publications

    McHugh, MD, LH Aiken, ME Eckenhoff, LR Burns. 2016. “Achieving Kaiser Permanente quality.” Health Care Management Review 41(3): 178-88.

    Stimpfel, A.W., D.M. Sloane, M.D. McHugh, , and L.H. Aiken. 2016. “Hospitals known for nursing excellence associated with better hospital experiences for patients.” Health Services Research 51: 1120-1134.

    Chau, Janita P. C., Suzanne H. S. Lo, K. C. Choi, Eric L. S. Chan, Matthew D. McHugh, Danny W. K. Tong, Angela M. L. Kwok, W. Y. Ip, Iris F. K. Lee, and Diana T. F. Lee. 2015. “A longitudinal examination of the association between nurse staffing levels, the practice environment and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in hospitals.” BMC Health Services Research 15: 538.

    Silber, Jeffrey H., Paul R. Rosenbaum, Matthew D. McHugh, Justin M. Ludwig, Herbert L. Smith, Bijan A. Niknam, Orit Even-Shoshan, Lee A. Fleisher, Rachel R. Kelz, and Linda H. Aiken. 2016. “Comparing the value of better nursing work environments across different levels of patient risk.” JAMA Surgery 151(6), 527-536.

    McHugh, M.D., Rochman, M.F., Sloane, D.M., Berg, R.A., Mancini, M.E., Nadkarni, V.M., Merchant, R. M., and Aiken, L.H. for the American Heart Associations Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators. 2016. “Better nurse staffing and nurse work environments associated with increased survival of in-hospital cardiac arrest patients.” Medical Care 54: 74-80.

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