Paul E. Mazmanian, Ph.D.
Professor
Continuing Medical Education and Family Medicine
Joint appointment: Department of Epidemiology and Community Health
Phone: (804) 828-0492
E-mail: pemazman@vcu.edu
Role/responsibilities
- Provides insight on the organization and evaluation of continuing medical education and implications of ACORN work on continuing community practitioners
- Assists with qualitative data collection and analysis
- Develops dissemination products that provide continuing education opportunities to primary care health professionals, including e-curricula, distance education and videoconferencing options
Research
- Learning and change in physician performance
Professional affiliations
- Associate dean for continuing professional development and evaluation studies for the School of Medicine
- Chairman of the Master of Public Health Curriculum Committee
Education
- Ph.D. – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
- M.A. – Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
- B.S. – Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
Previous experience
- Member of the Study Section on Health Services Research Dissemination, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
- Consultant to the National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, in its efforts to assess prevention and treatment programs associated with violence in families
- Consulted with the National Cancer Institute’s efforts to expedite the translation of new knowledge into clinical solutions
- As editor of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, worked with the Cochrane Collaboration to produce a 2006 issue exploring theory and practice in knowledge translation