Daniel R. Longo, Sc.D.
Director, research
Co-director, Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network
Director, Grant Generating Project
Phone: (804) 828-9652
E-mail: drlongo@vcu.edu
Role/responsibilities
- Continuing and expanding ACORN’s strong and distinguished tradition of excellence as a practice-based research network
- Expanding the network and research team’s capability in several new areas of research, including an emphasis on quality of care
- Director of the Grant Generating Project in partnership with the University of Missouri-Columbia
Areas of interest
- Facilitating a team of well-established experts to advance in professional development
- Mentoring and promoting junior faculty
Research
- Health care quality
- Patient safety
- Health and spirituality
- Health policy
- Primary care, with an emphasis on health communication from the patients’ perspectives
Education
- Sc.D., public health – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
- M.H.A., hospital administration – George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
- B.S., education – Villanova University, Villanova, Pa.
- Health Behavior Theory – National Cancer Institute’s Advanced Training Institute on Health Behavior Theory
Previous experience
- Health services researcher with the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Family Medicine and the Missouri School of Journalism
- President, Hospital Research and Educational Trust
- Director of research, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations