Gender	Female
E-mail	melissa.carlson@mssm.edu
Education and Training	Ph.D., Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
	M.P.H., Columbia University, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
	M.B.A., New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
	B.A., College of the Holy Cross

Dr. Carlson's research focuses on the quality of healthcare services in the end of life. In past research, she has examined the impact of ownership and other organization-level factors on the delivery of hospice care and access to hospice services. She has also evaluated the impact of hospice care on caregivers of the terminally ill. Her formal research training includes a Ph.D. from Yale University with emphasis in health economics, health policy, and statistical methods in health services research.
Dr. Carlson is the recent recipient of a Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship and an NIH Career Development Award for which she will be studying access and quality of hospice care nationally. The goal of these projects is to identify where gaps in the availability of hospice care exist and to highlight the strategies and processes employed by high-performing hospices with the goal of disseminating this information to improve the quality of hospice care.

http://directory.mssm.edu/faculty/facultyInfo.php?id=37791&deptid=14

Education and Training	Ph.D., Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
	M.P.H., Columbia University, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
	M.B.A., New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
	B.A., College of the Holy Cross

Morrison RS, Carlson MA. Evaluating Palliative Care Programs: Let's Do It Right. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2007; 10(1): 17-18.

Carlson MA, Bradley EH, Holford T, Morrison RS. Hospice Care: What Services Do Patients and Their Families Receive? Health Services Research. Health Services Research 2007; 42(4): 1672-1690.

Bradley EH, Carlson MD, Gallo WT, Scinto J, Campbell MK, Krumholz HM. From adversary to partner: have quality improvement organizations made the transition?. Health Serv Res 2005 Apr; 40(2): 459-76.

Carlson MD, Gallo WT, Bradley EH. Ownership status and patterns of care in hospice: results from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey. Med Care 2004 May; 42(5): 432-8.

Bradley EH, Prigerson H, Carlson MD, Cherlin E, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Kasl SV. Depression among surviving caregivers: does length of hospice enrollment matter?. Am J Psychiatry 2004 Dec; 161(12): 2257-62.