CCEB • DBE

Description of CCEB Expertise

James Guevara, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has a number of administrative roles including Director of Interdisciplinary Initiatives at PolicyLab: Center to Bridge Research, Practice, and Policy at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and Assistant CEU Director for Faculty and Trainee Diversity at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He participates on a number of state and national committees including Chair of the Prevention/Intervention Subcommittee of the Early Childhood Mental Health Steering Committee for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, member of the Executive Research Committee of the Academic Pediatrics Association, and Associate Editor for the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. He has interests in the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services to children with developmental and behavioral disabilities. He was the principal investigator on a K23 Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health 1) to develop a measure of collaborative ADHD care and 2) to pilot an intervention to link schools, mental health, primary care, and families for ADHD management. Currently, he is the principal investigator on an R18 Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of the American Academy of Pediatrics policy on developmental screening in urban primary care setting; an R40 Award from the Maternal Child Health Bureau to adapt and test a parenting intervention for depressed caregivers in primary care practices; and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award to identify faculty diversity programs and assess their association with underrepresented minority faculty statistics at U.S. medical schools. Through these diverse research initiatives, he has focused on improving the delivery of healthcare in primary care settings, reducing health disparities, and translating research findings into practice and policy.

Description of Content-based Expertise

Pediatrics, Psychosocial, Asthma, ADHD Care & Management, Early Child Development

Description of Methodology Expertise

Health Services Research, Meta-analysis, Multivariate Analysis