Stuart Grande
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Mayo D384
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Division of Health Policy and Management
MMC 729 8729A
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Stuart W. Grande, PhD, MPA

Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy & Management

Education

PhD, Health Behavior, Indiana University
MPA, Public Management and Community Development, Indiana University

Summary

I consider myself a medical sociologist with a particular interest in health education that positively disrupts traditional ways of solving problems. I teach methods associated with community and clinical engagement with a focus on cultural and upstream intervention design. I earned a PhD in health behavior and an MPA in public management both from Indiana University in Bloomington. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, I served as postdoctoral fellow in Shared Decision Making (SDM) under the mentorship of Glyn Elwyn at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (Geisel School of Medicine). My research generally looks at the intersection of community and clinical practice with a focus on designing and developing tools and strategies to improve communication between people and their caregivers. Specifically, I help to co-design tools and technologies with communities and patients to guide meaningful health communication and reduce bias. My hope is to improve care delivery, promote patient preferences, and support authentic clinical relationships.

Expertise

Shared Decision Making - designing, testing, and implementing tools and techniques for delivering evidence-based medicine in partnership with patient preferences to improve care outcomes for individuals, families, and care teams.

Community-Based Participatory Research - centered around nine principles of shared leadership, power, decision making, and agenda setting, CBPR is an approach to working with communities to craft, implement, and evaluate programs or strategies to improve the quality of life of communities. Based on Paulo Friere’s framing of education as activism, CBPR seeks to raise the voices of people who are often marginalized or worse. Doing this work requires deep commitment and sensitivity to a process of working in close collaboration with members of the community who have little awareness or interest in research or academic hierarchies, but have deep commitment to their communities.

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