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Kathleen M.B. Balestracci, PhD, MSW

Associate Research Scientist (Cardiovascular Medicine)
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Director, Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)

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Associate Research Scientist (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Director, Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)

Biography

Kathleen Balestracci, PhD, MSW, is a Director at the Yale University School of Medicine and Associate Director of Quality Measurement at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). Dr. Balestracci oversees the development of quality measures for the assessment of health care delivery, with expertise in patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures and electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). She has been research faculty at the Yale School of Medicine since 2002, first at the School of Public Health from 2002 through 2005, then at the Child Study Center from 2005 through 2016. Prior to her work at CORE, Dr. Balestracci was the Director of Research and Evaluation for IICAPS Services and In-Home Programs at the Child Study Center, with primary responsibility for the statewide evaluation of the Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service (IICAPS) at 20 sites across Connecticut. Dr. Balestracci received her doctoral degree from Yale University in Epidemiology and Public Health and her social work degree in policy and planning from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

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Education & Training

PhD
Yale University, Health Policy & Administration (2001)
MSW
University of Connecticut, Policy & Planning (1994)
BA
Haverford College, Sociology & Anthropology (1989)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health Policy; Quality Assurance, Health Care

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Kathleen M.B. Balestracci's published research.

Publications

2023

2017

  • Intensive In-Home Psychiatric Treatment Approaches
    Balestracci KMB, Adnopoz JA, Rowland MD, Moffett SJ, Woolston JL. Intensive In-Home Psychiatric Treatment Approaches. In Lewis’ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook (5th ed), ed. A. Martin, FR Volkmar, M Lewis. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2017, Chapter 6.3.3.
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2012

2001

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Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)

195 Church Street

New Haven, CT 06510

United States