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Senior’s Name: Marla Clayman
Availability: 3/3

Pairing - Junior
Title: Research Health Scientist/Associate Professor
Institution: Veterans Health Administration (US); University of Massachusetts medical school
Discipline: Public Health
Years of experience: 20

Research

Areas of work:
  • Health literacy
  • Message design
  • Oncology
  • Patient-centeredness
  • Patient education
  • Patient–provider relationship
  • shared decision making
Research methods:
  • Co-design
  • Delphi and consensus finding methods
  • Implementation research
  • Mixed methods
  • Observational studies
  • Qualitative methods
  • (Quasi-)experiential designs
  • RCT
  • Systematic literature review
  • Video analysis

Keywords describing expertise and interest:
  1. shared decision making
  2. patient engagement in care
Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Shared decision making; patient provider interaction; patient education; triadic communication; comparative health systems; communication and cancer.

Biography/CV:

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.