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Paul D. Cleary
Dean of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale School of Medicine
60 College Street
P.O. Box 208034
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8034
Telephone:  203 785-2867
Fax:        203 737-6103

E-mail:  Paul.Cleary@yale.edu 

Education 

Short Biographical Sketch

Dr. Cleary’s research interests include developing better methods for using patient reports about their care and health status to evaluate the quality of medical care and studying the relationships between clinician and organizational characteristics and the quality of medical care.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences..

Dr. Cleary’s current research includes a study of how organizational characteristics affect the costs and quality of care for persons with AIDS, a national evaluation of a continuous quality improvement initiative in clinics providing care to HIV infected individuals, and a statewide effort to improve cancer care in Massachusetts.  He also is Principal Investigator of one of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Studies (CAHPS II) funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to develop survey protocols for collecting information from consumers regarding their health plans and services.

Selected Recent Publications (From over 250 articles and chapters)

Cleary PD, Edgman-Levitan S.  Health care quality: Incorporating consumer perspectives.  JAMA; 1997; 278(19):1608-1612.       

Landon BE, Wilson IB, Cleary PD.  A Conceptual Model of the Effects of Health Care Organizations on the Quality of Medical Care.  JAMA; 1998; 279(17):1377-1382.  

Kao AC, Green DC, Zaslavsky AM, Koplan JP, Cleary PD. The relationship between method of physician payment and patient trust. JAMA; 1998; 280 (19):1708-1714. 

Ayanian JZ, Cleary PD. Perceived risks of heart disease and cancer among cigarette smokers. JAMA; 1999; 281(11):1019-1021. 

Cleary PD.  The increasing importance of patient surveys. (Editorial).  Br Med J; 1999; 319: 720-1.  Reprinted in: Qual Health Care; 1999; 8:212. 

Ayanian JZ, Cleary PD, Weissman JS, Epstein AM. The effect of patients' preferences on racial differences in access to renal transplantation N Engl J Med, 1999; 341:1661-9. 

Fremont AM, Cleary PD, Hargraves JL, Rowe RM, Jacobson NB, Ayanian, JZ.  Patient-Centered Processes of Care and Long-Term Outcomes of Myocardial Infarction.  J Gen Int Med; 2001; 16: 800-808.  

Cleary PD. A Hospitalization from Hell: A Patient's Perspective on Quality. Ann Int Med, 2003; 138(1): 33-39. 

Landon BE, Wilson IB, McInnes K, Landrum MB, Hirschhorn L, Marsden PV, Gustafson D, Cleary PD.  The impact of a quality improvement collaborative for the care of patients With HIV Infection: the Evaluation of Quality Improvement for HIV (EQHIV) study.  Ann Int Med, 2004; 140(11): 887-896. 

Landon BE, Zaslavsky AM, Bernard SL, Cioffi MJ, Cleary PD.  Comparison of performance of traditional Medicare vs Medicare managed care. JAMA. 2004; 291: 1744-1752.