Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MA, MPH
Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Dept of Medicine
General Internal Medicine

MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
MA, Jewish Theological Seminary of America




Expertise includes: The role of health literacy in health outcomes and health disparities, and health services interventions; The potential for behavioral informatics to help people with limited health literacy overcome literacy barriers.

Member
Boston University
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research




Health Literacy and Informed Consent and Authorization
07/01/2007 - 10/31/2008 (PI)
HHS/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality


Improving Advance Care Planning in Oncology: A Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized Trial Integrating…
07/15/2019 - 06/30/2023 (PI)
Dana Farber NIH-NIA

(Prenotification) Wake Forest Subcontract - National Estimates for Inpatient Care, Outcomes & …
09/01/2019 - 11/30/2022 (PI)
Wake Forest University Health Sciences NIH-NIMHD

Reducing Assessment Barriers for Patients with Low Literacy
03/07/2017 - 01/31/2022 (PI)
Northwestern University NIH-NIMHD

HRSA Primary Care
07/01/2016 - 06/30/2021 (PI)
HRSA

Conversational Agents to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care
04/22/2016 - 02/28/2021 (PI)
NIH-NINR
5R01NR016131-04

REDUCING ASSESSMENT BARRIERS FOR PATIENTS WITH LOW LITERACY
02/01/2018 - 01/31/2021 (PI)
Northwestern University NIH-NIMHD

(Prenotification) Wake Forest Subcontract - Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Due to Ambulance…
10/01/2019 - 12/31/2020 (PI)
Wake Forest University Health Sciences NIH-NHLBI

Mobile health intervention for rural atrial fibrillation
09/01/2019 - 08/31/2020 (PI)
University of Pittsburgh NIH-NHLBI

SCC: Smart & Connected Churces for Promoting Health in Disadvantaged Population
09/01/2018 - 08/31/2020 (PI)
Northeastern University National Science Fdn
502658-78050

Mechanisms of Health Literacy and Information Accessibility in the Deaf
09/17/2015 - 08/31/2020 (PI)
UNIV OF MICHIGAN NIH-NIDCD

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2021 I kua na'u Let Me Carry Out Your Last Wishes Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Elders 5R01NR018400-02
2021 Improving Medical Decision Making for Older Patients with End Stage Renal Disease 5R01AG066892-02
2021 Reducing Assessment Barriers for Patients with Low Literacy 5R01MD010440-05 1
2020 I kua na'u Let Me Carry Out Your Last Wishes Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Elders 1R01NR018400-01A1
2020 Improving Medical Decision Making for Older Patients with End Stage Renal Disease 1R01AG066892-01
2020 Reducing Assessment Barriers for Patients with Low Literacy 5R01MD010440-04 1
2020 Conversational Agents to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care 5R01NR016131-05
2020 Conversational Agents to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care 5R01NR016131-05
2020 Conversational Agents to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care 3R01NR016131-05S1
2019 Reducing Assessment Barriers for Patients with Low Literacy 5R01MD010440-03 1
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  1. Lakin JR, Gundersen DA, Lindvall C, Paasche-Orlow MK, Tulsky JA, Brannen EN, Pollak KI, Kennedy D, McLeggon JA, Stout JJ, Volandes A. A Yet Unrealized Promise: Structured Advance Care Planning Elements in the Electronic Health Record. J Palliat Med. 2021 Apr 07. PMID: 33826860
     
  2. Lu FQ, Hanchate AD, Paasche-Orlow MK. Racial/ethnic disparities in emergency department wait times in the United States, 2013-2017. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Mar 26; 47:138-144.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33812329
     
  3. Banerjee S, Paasche-Orlow MK, McCormick D, Lin MY, Hanchate AD. Association between Medicare's Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and readmission rates across hospitals by medicare bed share. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Mar 19; 21(1):248.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33740969
     
  4. Johnston C, Brown ER, Stewart J, Karita HCS, Kissinger PJ, Dwyer J, Hosek S, Oyedele T, Paasche-Orlow MK, Paolino K, Heller KB, Leingang H, Haugen HS, Dong TQ, Bershteyn A, Sridhar AR, Poole J, Noseworthy PA, Ackerman MJ, Morrison S, Greninger AL, Huang ML, Jerome KR, Wener MH, Wald A, Schiffer JT, Celum C, Chu HY, Barnabas RV, Baeten JM. Hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin for treatment of early SARS-CoV-2 infection among high-risk outpatient adults: A randomized clinical trial. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Mar; 33:100773. PMID: 33681731
     
  5. El-Jawahri A, Bohossian HB, Paasche-Orlow MK, Lakin JR, Johnson PC, Cooper Z, Jagielo AD, Brannen EN, Reynolds MJ, Coogan K, Vaughn D, Volandes A. Clinical Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Boston. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Feb 24. PMID: 33629266
     
  6. Stallings TL, Temel JS, Klaiman TA, Paasche-Orlow MK, Alegria M, O'Hare A, O'Connor N, Dember LM, Halpern SD, Eneanya ND. Integrating Conservative kidney management Options and advance care Planning Education (COPE) into routine CKD care: a protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2021 Feb 22; 11(2):e042620. PMID: 33619188
     
  7. Wang C, Paasche-Orlow MK, Bowen DJ, Cabral H, Winter MR, Norkunas Cunningham T, Trevino-Talbot M, Toledo DM, Cortes DE, Campion M, Bickmore T. Utility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories among vulnerable patient populations: A randomized controlled trial. Patient Educ Couns. 2021 Feb 18.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33750594
     
  8. Schulson L, Lin MY, Paasche-Orlow MK, Hanchate AD. Limited English Proficient Patient Visits and Emergency Department Admission Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in California: a Retrospective Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Feb 02.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33528781
     
  9. Maschke A, Paasche-Orlow MK, Kressin NR, Schonberg MA, Battaglia TA, Gunn CM. Discussions of Potential Mammography Benefits and Harms among Patients with Limited Health Literacy and Providers: "Oh, There are Harms?" J Health Commun. 2021 Jan 17; 1-11.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33455518
     
  10. Paasche-Orlow MK. With Gratitude-HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice 2020 Reviewers. Health Lit Res Pract. 2021 Jan 11; 5(1):e24-e25. PMID: 33433630
     
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This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 203 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2017

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Michael Paasche-Orlow - Spotlight on Diversity

BU Professor Hopes To Study Inexpensive Drug To Treat COVID-19

CBS Boston 1/19/2021

Authors retract study that raised questions about drug used to treat COVID-19

USA Today 6/4/2020

Everyone — Including Trump — Has An Opinion About This Potential COVID-19 Treatment, And That’s Making It Hard To Find Out If It Works

The Boston Globe 5/30/2020

SLACK Incorporated Announces HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice Now Indexed by Medline

Healio 3/12/2020

Readability of Patient Educational Materials in English Versus Arabic

Healio 7/19/2019
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Health Literacy
Health Services Research

I do not have a unified theory or philosophy for my mentoring approach or style. How mentoring plays out depends on many factors.
But -- here are some of the main themes, inspirations, and aspirations:

a) knowledge is a flame that can spread - we are not diminished - but can be stronger together. so why be stingy??
b) "It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but you are not free to desist from it either" (Pirkei Avot 2:16) - the work will have to carry on when we are gone.
c) "who is wise, they who learn from all people" (~Pirkei Avot 4:1) - so do not work alone.
d) Fred Brancati was a great mentor to me during my post-doctoral training. I am inspired by his memory and hope he would be proud of me.



Available to Mentor as: (Review Mentor Role Definitions):
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Contact for Mentoring:
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