Colleen Gillespie
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Colleen Gillespie, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within the Division of General Internal Medicine at NYU's School of Medicine.  She has taught the core doctoral Research Methods course (PHD-GP 5901) since her appointment as a Research Professor at the Center for Health and Public Service Research at Wagner and also teaches Program Analysis and Evaluation (PADM-GP 2171) in the Spring semester.  In addition, Dr. Gillespie lectures and mentors resident physicans, fellows, and medical students on methods, measurement, program evaluation and research design.  Dr. Gillespie received her Ph.D. in community psychology from New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science and her B.A. in psychology and history from Rice University.

Dr. Gillespie's main interests include medical education research, health services research, and program evaluation.  Within medical education research, her focus is on evaluating innovations in the education and training of health professionals, understanding and improving the doctor-patient relationship and using performance-based assessment to better understand the development of clinical competence.  Research interests also include the translation of evidence-based health and mental health practices into real world settings, program evaluation, and more broadly, social and institutional influences on health and health-related behavior.  She has conducted formative, process, and outcome evaluations of evidence-based and promising mental health treatment practices, including an alternative to incarceration program for felony offenders with serious mental illness, adaptations of ACT (Assertive Community Treatment), and a multi-site demonstration project seeking to integrate employment and clinical services in Continuing Day Treatment Programs.  Special areas of interest include the intersection of the mental health and criminal justice systems, HIV prevention, substance abuse prevention and treatment, provider/patient communication, patient decision-making, and improving care for underserved populations. 

Dr. Gillespie's current focus grows out of a collaborative project within the Division  called ROMEO - Research on Medical Education Outcomes - which seeks to develop the evidence base for medical education, focusing especially on linking residency training to the quality of patient care and to actual patient outcomes. 

Dr. Gillespie uses mixed methods in most of her evaluation studies and seeks to make use of the most rigorous designs possible, given the realities of applied research.  She enjoys teaching people how to do research and in particular how to creatively develop and refine methodological approaches that work in complex, applied settings and she is also very interested in the challenges of measurement, especially the use of performance-based assessment approaches.











Contact Details

colleen.gillespie@nyu.edu
(212) 263-4247
NYU SOM 423 E 23rd Street 15th Floor (#15028AN)
Office Hours: By appointment only
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Areas of Expertise

  • Criminal Justice
  • Education
  • Evaluation
  • Health Management
  • Health Policy
  • Housing & Community Development
  • Management
  • Obesity Politics/Policy
  • Politics
  • Public & Nonprofit Orgs.
  • Social Policy