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| Research Profile - Sharon Hull |
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Email
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| Medical Humanities |
shull@siumed.edu |
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| 913 N. Rutledge, Springfield |
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Laboratory
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| 217-545-4261 |
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| Willing
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Yes |
| Research
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Physician health and wellbeing
Physician workforce planning
Access to health care
Rural health
Population health, esp in education
Education for research skills
Evidence-based medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine
The US Health Care System in Transition
Role of the Humanities in Medical Training |
| Techniques
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Survey research
Qualitative analysis of interview research
Community-oriented primary care
Collaborative strategic planning
Focus groups on community health issues |
Equipment:
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Stata Statistical software
Atlas TI - Qualitative Analysis software |
Current
Collaborators:
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Lisabeth DiLalla, PhD
J. Kevin Dorsey, MD, PhD
Nicole Roberts, PhD |
| Current
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CURRENT:
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES & CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
5/2006 ? 9/2006 $50,000
10/2006 ? 9/2007 (Competitive Renewal) $50,000
Developing a Regional, Collaborative, Integrated Curriculum in Population Health
This planning grant to design and implement a Regional Medicine Public Health Education Center at SIU School of Medicine under a partnership agreement between the AAMC and the CDC. Medical school curriculum will be designed in population health and prevention domains with extensive collaboration among medical school faculty and partners from state and local health departments in the service region of the school.
Role: Principal Investigator
PREVIOUS FUNDING
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ? Grant Number 036829 5/2000 ? 4/2004
$1,090,566
Use of Faith-Based Healers in the Rural South
This substudy of the RWJ Southern Regional Access Program Evaluation Project (D. E. Pathman, PI) utilized telephone survey data to determine factors associated with the use of faith-based healers in a population-based sample of rural southern residents.
Role: Lead Investigator on substudy project during research fellowship
TEMPLETON FOUNDATION
2000 ? 2003 - $25,000
Empathy, Spirituality and Wellness in Medicine
This longitudinal study (J. K. Dorsey, PI) utilizes survey data from medical students and physicians regarding attitudes, beliefs and practices about patient-physician communication, spirituality, and wellness behaviors.
Role: Co-investigator
SIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TELEHEALTH PROGRAM
1/1/2002 ? 12/31/2002 - $46,244
Psychiatry Service Delivery to a Native American Population
This telehealth implementation pilot project (S. Vicari, PI) demonstrated a model for long-distance delivery of psychiatric services to patients and in-service educational programming for staff at a rural Indian Health Service Hospital in Rosebud, SD.
Role: Co-investigator
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY BENEFITS PROGRAM
3/13/1996 ? 3/13/2001 - $38,110
Partnership for Health ? A Proposal for Expanded HIV Testing On the Campus of Southern Illinois University
This foundation grant project provided funds to develop and implement a limited on-demand testing procedure for HIV at the Student Health Program Clinic for Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Role: Principal Investigator
OTHER ORIGINAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES
6/2006 ? Present
SPARCLS ? Studying Physicians Who Agree To Report Their Career Life Stories
This mixed-methods study involves survey and interview (quantitative and qualitative) techniques to explore the satisfiers, dissatisfiers, sociodemographic factors, career planning strategies and life course trajectories of physicians? careers.
Role: Lead Investigator
5/2006 ? Present
ESWIM ? Prevalence of Health-Related Behaviors Among Physicians and Medical Trainees This cross-sectional analysis of wellness-related data from the Empathy, Spirituality and Wellness Survey assesses the prevalence of various health-related behaviors in a survey of over 1,000 physicians, residents and medical students. Exploration of the impact of age, gender, ethnicity and level of training on these behaviors is performed.
Role: Lead Investigator
6/2004-6/2005
Clinically Relevant Outcomes for Acupuncture in an Academic Family Practice Center
This prospective cohort study (R. Coeyteaux, PI) utilizes patient survey data, insurance and other fiscal information to describe patient-centered outcomes from an eight-week course of treatment in an acupuncture clinic housed within an academic family practice center.
Role: Co-Investigator
3/2005-6/2005
Life Course Analysis and Physician Career Trajectories
This substudy of the Physician Worklife Study Update (T. R. Konrad, PI), utilizes a combined quantitative/qualitative analysis of telephone interview data from physicians age 45-62 to describe life course events as they relate to physician career change decisions.
Role: Lead Investigator for substudy project during research fellowship |
| Publications: |
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HULL S, Thaker S, Daaleman T, Pathman D. A Prevalence Study of Faith-Based Healing in the Rural Southeastern United States. Southern Medical Journal. 2006;99(6):644-653.
HULL S, Page C, Skinner B, Colvin J, Coeytaux R. Exploring Outcomes Associated With Acupuncture. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2006;12(3):247-254.
HULL S, Collins LJ, Saseen J. How useful is high-sensitivity CRP as a risk
factor for coronary artery disease? Journal of Family Practice. 2005;54(3):268,271-272.
HULL S, Kahwati L, Kanoff E, Proko J. The Practice of Quality: Incorporating High-Yield Strategies into the Daily Reality of Medical Practice. The North Carolina Medical Journal. 2004;65(5):275-281.
DiLalla L, HULL S, Dorsey J. Effect of Gender, Age and Relevant Course Work on Attitudes Toward Empathy, Patient Spirituality, and Physician Wellness. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2004;16(2):165-170.
Albers J, HULL S, Wesley R. Abnormal Uterine Bleeding. American Family Physician. 2004;69(8):1915-26;1931-1932.
HULL S, DiLalla L, Dorsey J. Student Attitudes Toward Wellness, Empathy, and Spirituality in the Curriculum. Academic Medicine. 2001;76(5):520.
HULL S. ?Thanksgiving,? Scope ? the Literary Magazine of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Volume IX, p. 6, Spring, 2002. (Third Prize ? Poetry).
HULL S. ?Awaiting Artemis,? Scope ? The Literary Magazine of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Volume IX, p. 42, Spring, 2002.
HULL S. ?Equinox,? Scope ? The Literary Magazine of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Volume IX, p. 17, Spring, 2002.
HULL S. ?Mrs. K,? Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987. 258(7):904. (Honorable Mention, William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition) |
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