Sorina V. Madison, PhD, MD, MPH

Dr. Madison is an Assistant Professor in Health Informatics and the Coordinator of the Health Informatics Capstone Program at George Mason University. Capitalizing on her experience in health policy and health informatics, as well as her clinical background, Dr. Madison is able to build bridges across disciplines and support collaborations among diverse groups of researchers. She has worked on various related topics, from privacy and security to system implementation, and the use of health IT to improve health outcomes. Dr. Madison has conducted both academic and applied work in the field, and supported HIT projects at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the MAPs clinics. More recently, she has specialized in data extraction from various electronic health records (EHRs) using SQL and reporting tools, as part of two large research grants from AHRQ and SAMHSA.

Dr. Madison has taught classes in Health Informatics, Health System Delivery, Health Policy, and Continuous Quality Improvement, all of which relate directly to the goals of the proposed research. Also, as the Coordinator for the Health Informatics Capstone Program at GMU, she has directly supervised health informatics, policy, and management graduate students conducting research in various health facilities throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. This position has allowed her to work closely with health providers and gain an excellent understanding of the most pressing issues providers are facing, such as value-based initiatives, quality improvement, and data collection and reporting to address current regulatory requirements.

Research

Select Publications

• McNeely, C.L., & Vlaicu, S. (2010). Exploring Institutional hiring trends of women in the U.S. STEM professoriate. Review of Policy Research, 27(6).

• Walters, J., McNeely, C.L., & Vlaicu, S. (2009). Positioning women in the STEM workforce: The triumvirate of U.S. anti-discrimination law in context and effect. In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics, and Societies, 4(2), 71-95.

• Yang, R.C., Thiessen-Philbrook, H., Klarenbach, S., Vlaicu, S., & Garg, A.X. (2008). Insurability of living organ donors: A systematic review. American Journal of Transplantation.

• Vlaicu, S.O., Klarenbach, S., Dempster, T., Yang, R., & Garg, A. (2007). Current Canadian initiatives to reimburse live organ donors for their non-medical expenses. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(6), 481-83.

• Klarenbach, S., Vlaicu, S., & Garg, A.X. (2007). Reimbursing living organ donors for incurred costs. American Journal of Transplantation, 7(3).

• Clarke, K., Klarenbach, S., Garg, A.X., & Vlaicu, S.O. (2006). The direct and indirect economic costs incurred by living kidney donors: A systematic review. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 21(7), 1952-1960.

• Klarenbach, S., Garg, A.X., & Vlaicu, S.O. (2006). Living organ donors face financial barriers: A national reimbursement policy is needed. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 174(6).

• Agrawal, J.R., Vlaicu, S.O., & Carrasquillo, O. (2005). Progress and pitfalls in underrepresented minority recruitment: Perspectives from the medical schools. Journal of the National Medical Association, 97, 1226-1231.

• Carrasquillo, O., Agrawal, J.R., Vlaicu, S.O. (2005). Inclusion of Qualified Underrepresented Minority Students – Authors Respond, Journal of the National Medical Association, 97(12), 1734.

Book Chapter

Klarenbach, S., Garg, A.X., & Vlaicu, S. (2007). Organ Donors Should Be Reimbursed for Their Expenses. In S. Hunnicutt (Ed.), Organ Transplants. Cengage.

Degrees

• PhD, Public Policy, George Mason University
• MPH, Admin. Medicine/Health Policy, George Washington University
• MD, Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania