Faculty
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Eric Coleman, MD, MPH Division of Health Care Policy |
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Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine within the
Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Coleman is the Director of the Care Transitions Program, aimed at improving quality
and safety during times of care “hand-offs”. He is also the Executive Director of the Practice Change
Fellows Program, designed to build leadership capacity among health care professionals who are responsible
for geriatric programs and service lines. As a board-certified geriatrician, Dr. Coleman maintains direct
patient care responsibility for older adults in ambulatory, acute, and subacute care settings.
Dr. Coleman's research focuses on: (1) enhancing the role of patients and caregivers in improving the quality of
their care transitions across acute and post-acute settings; (2) measuring quality of care transitions from the
perspective of patients and caregivers; and (3) implementing system-level quality improvement interventions
and (4) using health information technology to promote safe and effective care transitions.
Dr. Coleman concurrently pursued his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and a
Master's in Public Health and Aging from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed residency
training in primary care internal medicine, fellowship training in The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars
Program and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington.
For more information, Please go to www.caretransitions.org or www.practicechangefellows.org
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