Division of General Internal
Medicine

Colleen Gillespie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Phone: 212-998-7419 / 212-263-4247
Fax: 212-263-4240
E-mail: Colleen.Gillespie@med.nyu.edu

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Colleen Gillespie’s research interests focus on evaluating innovations in the education and training of health professionals, the translation of evidence-based health and mental health practices into real world settings, program evaluation, and more broadly, social and institutional influences on health and health-related behavior.   Special areas of interest include the intersection of the mental health and criminal justice systems, HIV prevention, substance abuse prevention and treatment, provider/patient communication, patient decision-making, and improving care for underserved populations. 

Dr. Gillespie is currently most excited about working on a collaborative project within the Division called ROMEO – Research on Medical Education Outcomes – which seeks to develop the evidence base for medical education, focusing especially on linking residency training to the quality of patient care and to actual patient outcomes.  Dr. Gillespie maintains an affiliation with the Wagner Graduate School at NYU where she teaches the core Research Methods course and a course in Program Analysis and Evaluation.  She enjoys teaching people how to do research and in particular how to creatively develop and refine methodological approaches that work in complex, applied settings and she is also very interested in the challenges of measurement, especially the use of performance-based assessment approaches.

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