Catarina Kiefe, MD, PhD

email: ckiefe@uab.edu
Department: Preventive Medicine
Academic Title: Professor, Preventive Medicine

Phone: (205) 934-3773
Fax: (205) 934-7959

Dr. Kiefe is Professor and Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine and a Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. Dr. Kiefe is co-Director of the UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE) and is a Senior Scholar at the Lister Hill Center for Policy Research. She is also PI or co-PI on several NIH funded grants and PI of the methodology core of the NIAMS-funded MCRC (P-60). Dr. Kiefe is a Senior Quality Scholar for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Director of the VA HSR&D Deep South Effectiveness Research Targeted Research Enhancement Program. Dr. Kiefe serves on the CERTs Executive Committee

Current Projects:
Impact of Guidelines on Quality of Care: Unstable Angina
Measuring Quality by Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABC™)
Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT) of Musculoskeletal Disorders
Improving Healthcare Quality for Aetna U.S. Healthcare Beneficiaries with Depression Using Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABC): A Cooperative Project Between UAB and USQA
Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA): Coordinating Center

Representative Publications:
Kiefe CI, Williams OD, Lewis CE, Allison JJ, Sekar P, Wagenknecht LE. Ten-year changes in smoking among young adults: Are racial differences explained by socioeconomic factors in the CARDIA Study? American Journal of Public Health 2001;91(2):213-218.

Kiefe CI, Williams OD, Weissman NW, Schreiner P, Sidney S, Wallace DD. Changes in US Health Care Access in the 90s: Race and Income Differences from the CARDIA Study. Ethnicity and Disease 2000;10(3):418-431.

Kiefe CI, Weissman NW, Allison JJ, Farmer RM, Weaver M, Williams OD. Identifying Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABCs): Concepts and Methodology. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 1998;10(5):443-447.