The Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research performs wide-ranging work, which results in transformative best practices to a scale that allows for sustainable impact to the quality of care, patient outcomes, and the value of the medical experience for clinicians, patients, and administrators alike. Action research led by our center lends specific focus to health information technology.
Featured CHSOR Health Research Scientist
Matthew Bair, MD, MS
Principal Investigator
mbair@iupui.edu
Physician Scientist Matt Bair, MD, MS is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. His specific program of research is in Improving Pain Management in Primary Care, which he received a VA Career Development Award in 2005 to pursue. He recently followed that up with winning a VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service grant to lead the first intervention for chronic pain treatment in Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom veterans. Dr. Bair is co-Investigator for an NIMH-funded clinical trial to evaluate medication management and pain self-management techniques for people with comorbid pain and depression.
Dr. Bair completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, followed by fellowship training in health services research at the Regenstrief Institute. He then completed a one-year VA fellowship in Medical Informatics at the Roudebush VA Medical Center. Dr. Bair is a member of the National VA Pain Management Coordinating Committee.