Megan E Gregory, Ph.D.

Dr. Gregory is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, Faculty Liaison for Research IT Builds for the Office of Data Science & Research Implementation (ODSRI), and Director of the eHealth Core for the Cancer Informatics Shared Resource (CISR).

Her research seeks to study and improve health care safety and quality via clinical informatics tools (including the electronic health record [EHR], mHealth and eHealth, telehealth, and simulation-based training & virtual reality) with a particular focus around improving healthcare teamwork and patient-provider collaboration. She is passionate about collecting and using primary data to supplement real-world data (RWD; e.g., EHR data) in order to fully realize these goals. Her methodological expertise is primarily around the development and validation of survey measures, meta-analysis, and qualitative and user-centered design methods. She has served as Co-Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous funded projects, including from AHRQ, NIH, and Ohio Department of Medicaid grants and contracts. She is highly involved in the international Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), where she serves as Program Chair for the Health Care Technical Group and is on the Editorial Board for the Human Factors in Healthcare Journal. She is a proud mentor of three current Ph.D. students, one current MS student, and several medical and undergraduate students.

Dr. Gregory holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida, and completed an Advanced Fellowship in Health Professions Education, Evaluation and Research at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness & Safety with the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

My research focuses on use of technology including mHealth, clinical decision support via the electronic health record (EHR), and advanced methods of education and training, to improve collaboration between providers, healthcare professionals, and patients (both during and between episodes of care) to improve patient safety and quality of care. To accomplish this work, I use mixed methods such as user centered design, qualitative analysis, surveys/patient reported outcomes (PROs), and meta-analysis. My work is broadly applicable across clinical domains, including cancer, inpatient care, vascular disease, emergency medicine, primary care, pediatrics, and beyond.