Paul Shekelle, MD, MPH, PhD
VA Medical Center West Los Angeles
VA WADSWOR
Los Angeles,
CA
USA
90095
Biographical Sketch: Paul G. Shekelle is a staff physician at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center and has served as director of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center for the RAND Corporation since 1997. He is also a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. He is widely recognized in the field of guidelines, quality measurement, and evidence-based medicine. Dr. Shekelle has extensive experience in the health care arena and was previously the methodologist for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ) Low-Back Guidelines Panel, and he has participated in a number of other guideline development activities. He is the immediate past-chair of the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians.
After receiving a B.S. in both biology and chemistry at the University of Illinois, Dr. Shekelle earned his M.D. in 1982 from Duke University. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship at UCLA, where he also obtained his M.P.H. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1993. A practicing general internist and an international leader in evidence-based medicine and quality improvement, he led an AHRQ-funded effort to better define the role of context in patient safety.
Papers:
THE VALUE OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INTERVENTIONS FOR CATHETER-ASSOCIATED URINARY AND BLOOD STREAM INFECTIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW