CDI for Psychiatry
Harold Pincus

Harold Pincus, M.D.

Dr. Pincus' research has focused on the practice of evidence-based medicine, quality improvement and the relationships among general medicine, mental health, and substance abuse, developing and empirically testing models of those relationships. He is the National Director of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program (Atlantic Philanthropies), of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program on Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and Systems Strategies, and of John A. Hartford Foundation's national program on Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Centers.

Positions

  • Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
  • Director of Quality & Outcomes Research, New York Presbyterian Hospital
  • Associate Director, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University
  • Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation

 

Education

  • B.A. 1972, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Sociology
  • M.D., 1975, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, Medicine

 

Relevant Publications

  • Pincus HA, Page AEK, Druss B, Appelbaum PS, Gottlieb G, England MJ. Can psychiatry cross the quality chasm? A guide for improving the quality of health care for mental and substance-use conditions. American Journal of Psychiatry 2007; 164(5):712-719.
  • Keyser DJ, Lakoski JM, Lara-Cinisomo S, Schultz DJ, Williams VL, Zellers DF, Pincus HA. Advancing institutional efforts to support research mentorship: a conceptual framework and self-assessment tool. Acad Med. 2008; 83(3):217-25.
  • Keyser DJ, Houtsinger JK, Watkins K, Pincus HA. Applying the institute of medicine quality chasm framework to improving health care for mental and substance use conditions.. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2008; 31(1):43-56.
  • Taylor JK, Schoenbaum M, Katon WJ, Pincus HA, Hogan DM, Unutzer J. Strategies for identifying and channeling patients for depression care management Am J Manag Care. 2008; 14(8):497-504.
  • Kilbourne AM, Lasky E, Pincus HA, Good CB, Cooley S, Basavaraju A, Greenwald D, Fine MJ, Bauer MS. The continuous improvement for veterans in care: Mood Disorders (civic-md) Study, a VA-academic partnership. Psychiatr Serv. 2008;59(5): 483-5.