CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Using Nominal Group Technique to Elicit Barriers and Facilitators? As a research strategy?”
Lynn Madden, PhD, MPA (President, CEO, APT Foundation, Inc./Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine)
Dr. Madden is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine and CEO of one of Connecticut's largest addiction treatment programs providing comprehensive integrated services for over 7000 patients. Her professional interests are focused on identifying treatment gaps to guide implementation. She has focused her activities on improving both access to and retention in clinical care (addiction treatment, primary care, HIV services) as well as understanding the relationships between improved access and treatment outcomes and cost per episode of treatment. She is an MPI on two NIDA-funded grants focused on improving opioid use disorder identification and treatment that simultaneously focus on HIV (and HCV) identification and treatment as well as coinvestigator on a NIDA-funded grant involving a stepped care design to identify the sequence of several implementation strategies to achieve optimal pain medication prescribing by primary care physicians and a co-investigator on other current studies.
Dr. Madden is an established and well-recognized consultant and facilitator working throughout the United States since 2004, Ukraine since 2014, Central Asia since 2021, and Peru since 2022 specializing in systems change, improving treatment access, stigma reduction and program uptake and outcomes using rapid cycle process improvement, decision science, guideline development and implementation frameworks. She brings her expertise in using and evaluating implementation frameworks for improving access and creating financially and clinically sound programs to these research projects.
QRDG Overview:
The goal of the Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG) is to provide opportunities for individuals involved in qualitative or mixed-methods research to meet regularly to discuss the qualitative research process and potentially problem-solve issues that may arise when engaged in qualitative research. Discussion topics include, but are not limited to: logistics, data management, analysis, dissemination, role of the researcher, and ethics. It is intended as a venue for discussing research in progress and new or relevant literature on qualitative methods and practice as well as to create networking opportunities and foster research collaborations. CIRA's Dissemination Implementation Science and Methods (DISM) Core member, Lauretta Grau, PhD, is coordinating the meetings. She can be reached at lauretta.grau@yale.edu.