Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor, and Executive Director, CATALYST
The Ohio State University
Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, is Associate Dean for Health Services Research, Distinguished Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and Executive Director of CATALYST, the Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science Research in the College of Medicine (COM) at The Ohio State University (OSU). She also holds appointments in the College of Public Health in the Division of Health Services Management and Policy and the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics in COM at OSU. She has over 30 years of health services research experience during which she has been actively involved in both performing research and disseminating research results to academic and practitioner audiences. Dr. McAlearney is internationally known for her expertise in both qualitative and mixed methods analyses, and has been continuously funded for more than 25 years. She has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications, 11 books/edited books and more than 100 book chapters. Dr. McAlearney has served as a grant reviewer for more than 20 years including for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Institutes of Health, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. McAlearney now leads an R01 designed to test an intervention to improve maternal and infant outcomes by helping pregnant persons connect with resources to address their social needs and a T32 training grant focused on training postdoctoral researchers in health services research. Her ongoing research focuses on addressing care disparities, information technology innovations in health care, population health management, quality improvement and organizational development. Dr. McAlearney received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Stanford University and her doctorate from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.