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Dr. Sellers, who specializes in research methods, has considerable experience in research design, survey methods, multivariate data analysis, evaluation research, and research administration. At the Center for Applied Ethics, Dr. Sellers has directed a number of projects, including the Adoption of Cancer Pain Guidelines in Managed Care, which involved designing a cancer pain management intervention and evaluating its impact on more than 1,000 cancer patients, the Project on Adult Care in Cystic Fibrosis, a 3-year longitudinal study of adults with CF, and Toward Optimal End-of-Life Care in the PICU, a study in which the views of parents and clinicians who cared for 300 children who died will be gathered in order to gain insight into how dying and death are experienced in the pediatric intensive care setting and to advance research methods in pediatric palliative care. Dr. Sellers also manages the data processing and analysis components of other projects in CAE that have included administration of needs assessment surveys to some 30,000 healthcare providers in over 90 hospitals and nursing homes across the country. Prior to her work at EDC, she was the Project Director of REACT, a multi-center evaluation of a community education program to reduce pre-hospital delay among persons experiencing heart attack symptoms funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes. The multi-faceted evaluation of this national project, which involved over 40 hospitals in 20 communities across the country, included abstraction of medical records and telephone surveys of both patient and general population samples, as well as extensive documentation on intervention activities that included community, patient, and professional education, as well as community organization. Dr. Sellers received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a master’s degree in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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