Allen Fremont

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Education

M.D., Dartmouth Medical School; Ph.D. in sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A. in social psychophysiology, University of California, Berkeley

Overview

Biography

Allen Fremont is a physician and sociologist at RAND, with clinical academic appointments at UCLA and the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He helped establish and then lead RAND's involvement in the National Health Plan Collaborative, a novel public–private partnership that included health care plans for more than 87 million Americans. He leads RAND's Q-DART project, which focuses on the development of GIS mapping and decision tools to help health plans and providers more efficiently and effectively target quality improvement interventions. Recent work focuses on supporting regional and community-level pilots to help foster shared action and coordinated community interventions among diverse stakeholders (e.g., health plans, provider groups, public health agencies, state regulators, and nonprofit organizations). Fremont received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School.

Research Focus

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Attending Physician, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Recent Projects

  • Reducing racial and ethnic disparities and improving overall quality of care, particularly within managed care plans
  • Developing indirect approaches to estimating race/ethnicity for quality improvement purposes when self-reported data are unavailable
  • Developing interactive mapping and decision tools to increase efficiency and effectiveness of targeting quality improvement interventions
  • Evaluating use of lay community navigators to reduce barriers to care for minority cancer patients
  • Assessing relationship between patient-centered care and long-term health outcomes

Selected Publications

Allen M. Fremont et al., "Differences in HIV Care Between Patients With and Without Severe Mental Illness," Psychiatric Services, 58(5), 2007

Nicole Lurie et al., "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: The Perspectives of Cardiologists," Circulation, 111(10), 2005

Allen M. Fremont et al., "Use of Indirect Measures of Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status in Managed Care Settings to Identify Disparities in Cardiovascular and Diabetes Care Quality," Health Affairs, 24(2), 2005

Allen M. Fremont and Nicole Lurie, The Role of Race and Ethnic Data Collection in Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs, National Academies Press, 2004

Allen M. Fremont et al., "Patient-Centered Care Processes and Long-Term Myocardial Infarction Outcomes," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(12), 2001

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: PBS

Publications

Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: A Role for Community Clinicians - 2011

Patient Incentives to Motivate Doctor Visits and Reduce Hypertension Disparities - 2011

A Prototype Interactive Mapping Tool to Target Low Health Literacy in Missouri - 2010

Estimating and Mapping Health Literacy in the State of Missouri - 2010

Building Bridges Between Medical Care and Public Health - 2009

Developing Predictive Models of Health Literacy - 2009

Training a Patient Safety Work Force: The Patient Safety Improvement Corps - 2009

Using the Census Bureau's Surname List to Improve Estimates of Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities - 2009

A New Method for Estimating Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities Where Administrative Records Lack Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity - 2008

Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Final Report -- Evaluation Report IV - 2008

Challenges to Using a Business Case for Addressing Health Disparities - 2008

The National Health Plan Collaborative to Reduce Disparities and Improve Quality - 2008

Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III (2004-2005) - 2007

Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Moving from Research to Practice Evaluation Report II (2003-2004) - 2007

Differences in HIV Care Between Patients with and Without Severe Mental Illness - 2007

Differential Diffusion of HIV Technologies By Gender: The Case of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy - 2007

Does Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Differ By Gender for Enrollees in Managed Care Plans? - 2007

Gender Disparities in Managed Care It's Time for Action - 2007

An HIV Collaborative in the VHA: Do Advanced HIT and One-Day Sessions Change the Collaborative Experience? - 2006

Evaluation of the Patient Safety Improvement Corps: Experiences of the First Two Groups of Trainees - 2006

Looking Forward: Cross-Cutting Issues in the Collection and Use of Racial/ethnic Data - 2006

Patterns of HIV Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness - 2006

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: The Perspectives of Cardiovascular Surgeons - 2006

Use of Geocoding and Surname Analysis to Estimate Race and Ethnicity - 2006

Assessment of the National Patient Safety Initiative: Context and Baseline Evaluation Report I - 2005

Do Cardiologists Perceive Racial or Ethnic Disparities in the Treatment of Heart Patients? Results of A RAND Survey - 2005

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: The Perspectives of Cardiologists - 2005

Use of Geocoding in Managed Care Settings to Identify Quality Disparities - 2005

Symptom-based Framework for Assessing Quality of HIV Care - 2004

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule: A Practical Guide for Researchers - 2004

Improving Women's Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: The Feasibility and Desirability of Stratified Reporting of Objective Performance Measures - 2003

Patterns of Care for Open-Angle Glaucoma in Managed Care - 2003

Patient-centered Processes of Care and Long-Term Outcomes of Myocardial Infarction - 2001

Medical Sociology at the Millennium - 2000

Social and Psychological Factors, Physiological Processes, and Physical Health - 2000

Integrating Sociological and Biological Models: An Editorial - 1999

Gender, Time Use, and Health - 1991