Lisa Meredith

Lisa S. Meredith (Ph.D., Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University) is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND and a Research Associate at the VA/UCLA/RAND Center of Excellence for the study of Health Care Provider Behavior, a VA HSR&D Field Program. She conducts research on health care provider behavior, mental health services, doctor-patient relationships, psychological factors in health and health behavior, and risk perception/communication, and social and psychological effects of terrorism.

She is currently co-PI on the NIMH Center Pilot study of provider incentives to improve depression care. Other current work includes her RWJF study to understand primary care clinicians' decisions for watchful waiting rather than active treatment for their patients with depression. She is also conducting an evaluation of the Department of Defense's demonstration to allow for expanded access to licensed/certified mental health counselors on TRICARE beneficiary use of mental health services and treatment outcomes. She is a key investigator on a Pfizer-funded study of optimal treatment for depression among adolescents seen in primary care settings and Co-PI of a study to evaluate incentives to improve the delivery of appropriate care for depression in a managed behavioral healthcare organization.

Dr. Meredith is about to begin a collaboration with staff from the Los Angeles County Departments of Public and Mental Health to assess hospital mental health needs resulting from a catastrophic terrorist incident involving biological, chemical, or radiological agents and to develop a template for hospitals and clinics to use in providing such care. On another Los Angeles County collaboration, she is leading the development and evaluation of focus groups with African-American participants to identify the factors associated with trust in public health officials with the goal of helping the county respond to health emergencies caused by terrorism. She also led the work on community behavioral response to terrorism scenarios and risk communication for a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Recently, she completed work on a project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) applying health behavior models to understanding how primary care providers deliver quality care to patients with depression. Other past work includes an NIMH study of counseling by primary care providers and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant examining the strength of the patient-provider relationship under different managed care arrangements. She was Co-PI on an NIMH project that evaluated the effects of team-based quality improvement on care for depression, a member of the steering committee for Quality Improvement for Depression, a multi-study consortium studying guideline-concordant care for depression, and is evaluating the impact of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation for depression funded by RWJF. As a Co-PI on a grant funded by the Agency for Health Research and Quality depression PORT-II, she led the primary care provider evaluation. On the Medical Outcomes Study, she led the work on clinician style of care and developed an evaluation framework for studying the attitudes and perceptions of clinicians in caring for and treating patients with psychosocial problems, depression, and anxiety.

Dr. Meredith is a recipient of the Distinguished Reviewer Award from the Society for General Internal Medicine and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, authored a NIMH book chapter on counseling for depression, co-authored a book on depression in primary care, and is currently Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Care.

Graduate Student Researchers Faculty Partners Ricky Bluthenthal Kathy Daly Carol Eisen Maga Jackson-Triche Lisa Jaycox Loretta Jones Paul Koegel Isabel Lagomasino David Martin Peter Mendel Lisa Meredith Michael Ong Gery Ryan Michael Schoenbaum Cathy Sherbourne Brad Stein Roland Sturm Belinda Tucker Jurgen Unutzer Kate Watkins Marleen Wong Post-Doctoral Fellows Staff
	Lisa S. Meredith, Ph.D. Lisa S. Meredith (Ph.D., Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University) is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND and a Research Associate at the VA/UCLA/RAND Center of Excellence for the study of Health Care Provider Behavior, a VA HSR&D Field Program. She conducts research on health care provider behavior, mental health services, doctor-patient relationships, psychological factors in health and health behavior, and risk perception/communication, and social and psychological effects of terrorism. She is currently co-PI on the NIMH Center Pilot study of provider incentives to improve depression care. Other current work includes her RWJF study to understand primary care clinicians' decisions for watchful waiting rather than active treatment for their patients with depression. She is also conducting an evaluation of the Department of Defense's demonstration to allow for expanded access to licensed/certified mental health counselors on TRICARE beneficiary use of mental health services and treatment outcomes. She is a key investigator on a Pfizer-funded study of optimal treatment for depression among adolescents seen in primary care settings and Co-PI of a study to evaluate incentives to improve the delivery of appropriate care for depression in a managed behavioral healthcare organization. Dr. Meredith is about to begin a collaboration with staff from the Los Angeles County Departments of Public and Mental Health to assess hospital mental health needs resulting from a catastrophic terrorist incident involving biological, chemical, or radiological agents and to develop a template for hospitals and clinics to use in providing such care. On another Los Angeles County collaboration, she is leading the development and evaluation of focus groups with African-American participants to identify the factors associated with trust in public health officials with the goal of helping the county respond to health emergencies caused by terrorism. She also led the work on community behavioral response to terrorism scenarios and risk communication for a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Recently, she completed work on a project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) applying health behavior models to understanding how primary care providers deliver quality care to patients with depression. Other past work includes an NIMH study of counseling by primary care providers and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant examining the strength of the patient-provider relationship under different managed care arrangements. She was Co-PI on an NIMH project that evaluated the effects of team-based quality improvement on care for depression, a member of the steering committee for Quality Improvement for Depression, a multi-study consortium studying guideline-concordant care for depression, and is evaluating the impact of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation for depression funded by RWJF. As a Co-PI on a grant funded by the Agency for Health Research and Quality depression PORT-II, she led the primary care provider evaluation. On the Medical Outcomes Study, she led the work on clinician style of care and developed an evaluation framework for studying the attitudes and perceptions of clinicians in caring for and treating patients with psychosocial problems, depression, and anxiety. Dr. Meredith is a recipient of the Distinguished Reviewer Award from the Society for General Internal Medicine and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, authored a NIMH book chapter on counseling for depression, co-authored a book on depression in primary care, and is currently Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Care.				Contact Info Publications