Kimberly Rask
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management
Associate Professor
Faculty, Health Policy and Management
Kimberly J. Rask, MD PhD is an Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and Chief Data Oficer for Alliant Health, the CMS QIN-QIO for the States of Georgia and North Carolina. A magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. After completing her residency in Internal Medicine, she became a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and received a doctoral degree in Health Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on access to health care, health promotion and outcomes measurement. Dr. Rask has published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on prevention practices, primary care practice, cost-effectiveness, performance improvement, and outcomes measurement. She serves on four national expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Quality Forum (NQF). She speaks nationally on federal value-based purchasing programs and teaches graduate level classes on health outcomes and quality measurement, mentoring both graduate students and junior faculty.
Contact Information
Rollins School of Public Health , 1518 Clifton Road NE
, GA
Phone: (404) 727-1483
Fax: (404) 727-9198
Email: kimberly.rask@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Diabetes
- Evaluation
- Health Economics
- Health Outcomes
- Health Promotion
Education
- BA 1980, Bryn Mawr College
- MD 1984, University of Pennsylvania
- PhD 1991, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
- HPM 799R: Dissertation Research
Affiliations & Activities
Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine
Chief Data Officer Alliant Health Solutions
Executive Board Member Project Open Hand
Publications
- Ellingson K, McCormick K, Sinkowitz-Cochran R, Woodward T, Jernigan J, Srinivasan A, Rask K. , 2014, Enhancement of health department capacity for healthcare-associated infection prevention through Recovery Act-funded programs. , Am J Public Health , 104, e27-e33
- Lupi JL, Haddad MB, Gazmararian JA, Rask KJ. , 2014, Parental Perceptions of Family and Pediatrician Roles in Childhood Weight Management, J Pediatr , 165, 99-103
- Proia KK, Thota AB, Njie GJ, Finnie RKC, Hopkins DP, Mukhtar Q, Pronk NP, Zeigler D, Kottke TE, Rask KJ, Lackland DT, Brooks JF, Braun LT, Cooksey T, and the Community Preventive Services Task Force. , 2014, Team-based Care and Improved Blood Pressure Control: A Community Guide Systematic Review. , Am J Prev Med , 47, 86-89
- Brock J, Mitchell J, Irby K, Stevens B, Archibald T, Goroski A, Lynn J; Care Transitions Project Team, 2013, Association between quality improvement for care transitions in communities and rehospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries, JAMA, 309, 381-91
- Blake SC, Kohler SS, Culler SD, Hawley J, Rask KJ. , 2013, Designing effective healthcare quality improvement training programs: Perceptions of nursing and other senior leaders. , Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 3, 66-77
- Rask KJ, Gazmararian JA, Kohler SS, Hawley JN, Bogard J, Brown VA, 2013, Designing insurance to promote use of childhood obesity prevention services., J Obesity , ,
- Gargano LM, Herbert NL, Painter JE, Sales JM, Morfaw C, Rask K, Murray D, Diclemente RJ, Hughes JM, 2013, Impact of a physician recommendation and parental immunization attitudes on receipt or intention to receive adolescent vaccines. , Hum Vaccin Immunother , ,
- Drenkard C, Rask KJ, Easley KA, Bao G, Lim SS, 2013, Primary preventive services in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Study from a population-based sample in Southeast U.S. , Semin Arthritis Rheum , ,
- Daugherty JD, Blake SC, Kohler SS, Culler SD, Hawley JH, Rask KJ., 2013, Quality Improvement Training: Frontline Staff Experiences. , Int J Healthcare Qual Assurance , 26,
- Rask KJ, Gitomer RS, Spell NO, Culler SC, Blake SC, Kohler SS, Hawley JN, Bornstein WA. , 2011, An interdisciplinary quality improvement curriculum for clinical and administrative leaders, Jt Comm. J Qual Patient Saf, 37(4), 147-53
- Rask KJ, Brigham KL, Johns MME, 2011, Integrating comparative effectiveness research into predictive health: a unique role for Academic Health Centers, Academic Medicine, 86(6), 718-23
- Rask K, O’Malley E, Druss B, 2009, Impact of socioeconomic, behavioral and clinical risk factors on mortality, J Public Health , 31(2), 231-238
- Rask KJ, Ziemer DC, Kohler SA, Hawley JN, Arinde FJ, Barnes CS, 2009, Patient activation is associated with healthy behaviors and ease in managing diabetes in an indigent population, Diabetes Educator , 35(4), 622-630
- Rask K, Parmelee PA, Taylor JA, Green D, Brown H, Hawley J, Schild L, Strothers HS, Ouslander JG. , 2007, Implementation and evaluation of a nursing home fall management program, J Am Geriatr Society , 55, 342-49