Paul K. J. Han, MD, MA, MPH

Director
Center for Outcomes Research, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
509 Forest Avenue
Suite 200
Portland, ME
USA 04101
Email: hanp@mmc.org


Biographical Sketch: Dr. Han is the Director of CORE, a behavioral and health services researcher, and a board-certified general internist and palliative care physician. He received an M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine, and an M.A. in Bioethics and an M.P.H. from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed Internal Medicine residency training at UCLA, and a fellowship in cancer prevention and control at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Han’s research program focuses on understanding and improving the communication and management of uncertainty in health care, and his work bridges the disciplines of health services and behavioral research. His specific research projects focus on risk communication, shared decision making, and predictive modeling, and examine various clinical problems in cancer care, genomic medicine, and palliative and end-of-life care. His clinical activity is in palliative medicine, and he is an attending physician at the Hospice of Southern Maine. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator of the Maine LungCAPS Initiative, a statewide lung cancer prevention and screening program primarily funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and the Maine Cancer Foundation. Dr. Han is actively involved in initiatives to promote shared decision making and to teach risk communication skills to medical students and physicians. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Decision Making, and the External Advisory Board of the NCI Cancer Research Network.

Papers:
3G-4 COMMUNICATING AMBIGUITY ABOUT VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS REDUCES VACCINATION INTENTIONS: AMBIGUITY AVERSION AND ITS MECHANISMS 5M-2 HOW IS UNCERTAINTY IN RISKS AND BENEFITS PRESENTED IN PATIENT DECISION SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS? A REVIEW SYMPOSIUM: HOW CAN WE BEST PRESENT UNCERTAINTY THAT ACTIVATES PATIENTS TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS? DISCLOSING THE UNCERTAINTY ASSOCIATED WITH PROGNOSTIC ESTIMATES IN BREAST CANCER: CURRENT PRACTICES AND PATIENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF UNCERTAINTY