Basic Information
Name: Marla Clayman
Title: Research Health Scientist/Associate Professor
Institution: Veterans Health Administration (US); University of Massachusetts medical school
Discipline: Public Health
Years of experience: 20
Research
Primary methodological research approach:
- Health literacy
- Message design
- Oncology
- Patient-centeredness
- Patient education
- Patient–provider relationship
- shared decision making
Focus of research in communication and healthcare:
- Co-design
- Delphi and consensus finding methods
- Implementation research
- Mixed methods
- Observational studies
- Qualitative methods
- (Quasi-)experiential designs
- RCT
- Systematic literature review
- Video analysis
Description
Three keywords describing expertise and interest:
- shared decision making
- patient engagement in care
Description of field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:
Shared decision making; patient provider interaction; patient education; triadic communication; comparative health systems; communication and cancer.
Brief biography:
Dr. Clayman is a dedicated health services and health communication researcher with two decades’ experience in designing and carrying out studies related to patient engagement and healthcare decision making. She is an internationally known scholar in the fields of shared decision making and analysis of patient-provider interaction.
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