Neil Korsen
Neil Korsen, MD, MS, Co-Principal Investigator, is a family physician-geriatrician with 18 years of practice experience in Maine. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Maine Medical Center. He received an Advanced Research Training Grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2001. He used that grant to obtain a Masters in Science from the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) at Dartmouth in 2002, with an emphasis on health care improvement. He followed that training with a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at CECS. His research, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has involved assisting primary care practices in implementing evidence-based improvements in care for people with depression. He has been involved in research about that topic since 2001. He is a member of the Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems Resource and Development Group, which works closely with the Microsystems group at Dartmouth to develop the Microsystems model and to disseminate it in support of health care improvement activities. Dr. Korsen is developing a research agenda focused on the potential benefit in quality improvement activities of a structure in health care similar to the agricultural extension service, which he will advance through his experience with the BRIC project. He has worked closely with Muskie School researchers in the past and is an adjunct faculty member at IHP.
Project Role
Dr. Korsen will be responsible for the overall management of the research project, including study design, practice recruitment, survey selection, semi-structured interview design, data analysis, and manuscript development.
