At the Leading Edge of Innovation
The Department of Family Medicine is one of the premier primary care research departments in the US and internationally. Research is conducted on a variety of topics important to family medicine and utilizing innovative research methods. The Department’s researchers are national leaders in the areas of practice-based, community participatory, and practice redesign and improvement research. Our researchers currently lead or have led the major national organizations fostering research and primary care and inform policy through membership and leadership positions at the national level.
Current Research
Family medicine research faculty and staff were involved in research totaling over 8 million in 2013 alone from granting institutions such as the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and various Colorado based foundation such as the Colorado Health Foundation.
Research faculty and staff are active in sharing their knowledge in the form of publications, presentations at local, state, national and international meetings, via webinars and through the development of materials and guides to drive the field of primary care forward.
Research Leadership
As a department, our faculty and staff bring a passion for improving healthcare delivery through innovative and impactful research. The research leadership includes Dr. Donald Nease and Dr. Jodi Holtrop. Both have served as principal investigators for large NIH, AHRQ and foundation funded research and utilize that expertise to create an environment of excellence and strong support. The Department maintains strong ties to the Colorado Clinical Translational Sciences Institute, the Colorado Health Outcomes Program, other campus groups, and community organizations. Both Drs. Nease and Holtrop play leadership roles with guiding practice-based research networks in the state. The synergy of these roles and connections to the Department’s research group help to foster a dynamic, collaborative research environment in which family medicine researchers play key roles as leaders of and contributors to research involving investigators across the Anschutz campus, the State and the US.