Paulina Sockolow, DrPH, MS, MBA

Paulina Sockolow DrPH MBA MS is a public health informatician. She has been trained in the fields of health informatics and health policy and management as a National Library of Medicine/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Informatics Fellow at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research involves evaluating health information technology (HIT) in community settings. Her recent and current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded research studies focus on informatics evaluation in home care, a setting that provides health care to medically underserved populations, to identify HIT implementation barriers and success factors. Her research has been added to the AHRQ HIT Library Survey Compendium. Dr. Sockolow has also conducted research in cross-national comparisons of electronic health record systems and in consumersí use of mobile health information technology to reduce health disparities. She also has a Masters degree in Business Administration: specifically health care systems, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her health care training, Dr. Sockolow has an applied background in informatics with over 15 years of experience. She successfully managed large projects implementing clinical information systems in academic hospitals.