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Melissa D Aldridge, PhD
About Me
Dr. Aldridge is a Professor and Vice-Chair for Research. She is a health services researcher focusing on quality and access to healthcare services for patients with serious illness and those at the end of life. Her body of work examines the impact of for-profit hospice ownership, size, and other organization-level features on the delivery of hospice care and access to hospice services. Her research expertise includes the use of large, national, population-based datasets including Medicare administrative and survey data. Dr. Aldridge leads the National Palliative Care Research Center's research methods technical assistance program and the Population Research and Effectiveness Core of Mount Sinai's Claude D. Pepper Center. Her formal research training includes a Ph.D. from Yale University's School of Public Health with emphasis in health economics, health policy, and statistical methods in health services research.
Language
English
Position
PROFESSOR | Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Education
B.A., College of the Holy Cross
M.B.A., New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
M.P.H., Columbia University, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
Ph.D., Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Awards
2011
Junior Faculty Investigator Award
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
2007
Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship
Publications
Selected Publications
- The ASCENT Consortium: A New Resource to Support Palliative Care Science Across the Lifespan. Jean S. Kutner, Melissa D. Aldridge, Abraham A. Brody, Chris Feudtner, Kimberly Johnson, Stacy M. Fischer, Susan Lysaght Hurley, Alexis Bakos, Elena M. Fazio, Karen A. Kehl, Sandra A. Mitchell, Elizabeth A. Necka, Brennan Parmelee Streck, Chandra Keller. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Comparative Effectiveness of Propensity Score Estimation Methods for Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting Analysis with Complex Survey Data: A Simulation Study. Lihua Li, Chen Yang, Liangyuan Hu, Wei Zhang, Melissa Aldridge, Bian Liu, Madhu Mazumdar. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
- Six-Month Prognostic Tool for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia. Krista L. Harrison, Sun Y. Jeon, W. James Deardorff, Alexandra K. Lee, Lauren J. Hunt, Claire Ankuda, Melissa D. Aldridge, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Irena Cenzer, W. John Boscardin, Sei J. Lee, Alexander K. Smith. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Industry Relationships
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Dr. Aldridge has not yet completed reporting of industry relationships or has no industry relationships to report.
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