Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, MPH, RN
- Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Nursing and Professor of Health Policy and Management
Overview
Dr. Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, is an internationally recognized health services researcher with expertise in studying primary care organizations, health care workforce, teamwork, and quality of patient care, especially for chronic diseases. Dr. Poghosyan’s research produces evidence regarding ways to optimally utilize nurse practitioners as primary care providers and build primary care teams to assure patients—particularly racial and ethnic minorities and those living in underserved areas—have access to timely, safe, and high-quality primary care.
Dr. Poghosyan is the Principal Investigator on multiple federal and foundation-funded research projects, including those funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Institute on Aging, among others. Dr. Poghosyan serves as Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Delivery Research and Innovation (HDRI), which is a leader in cutting-edge healthcare systems and health services research.
Dr. Poghosyan has served as the past Chair for the Primary Care Expert Panel at American Academy of Nursing and AcademyHealth’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues interest group’s Advisory Board. Dr. Poghosyan will start her position as a member of Board of Directors at AcademyHealth in December 2023 (2024-2026). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the New York Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Poghosyan is the recipient of multiple awards, including the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame from Sigma Theta Tau International, American Nurses Foundation Scholar Award; Mentorship Award, and New Investigator Award from the AcademyHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues; and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar award.
She can be contacted at: lp2475@columbia.edu.Academic Appointments
- Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Nursing and Professor of Health Policy and Management
Administrative Titles
- Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Delivery Research & Innovations
Gender
- Female
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania
- MPH, American University of Armenia
Committees, Societies, Councils
- 2024-2026, Member, AcademyHealth Board of Directors
- 2022-2023, Chair, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Engaging Scientists in Central Asia on Data Governance Principles for Life Science Data Workshop Planning Committee
- 2019-2020, Chair, Primary Care Expert Panel, American Academy of Nursing
- 2016-2019, Co-Chair, Primary Care Expert Panel, American Academy of Nursing
- 2015-2017, Chair/Past Chair, AcademyHealth, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues Advisory Board
- 2012-2014, At-Large Member, AcademyHealth, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues Advisory Board
- 2010-Present, Member, American Nurses Association
- 2006 -Present, Member, Eastern Nursing Research Society
- 2005-Present, Member, AcademyHealth
Honors & Awards
• Speaker, 2023 National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Director’s Lecture as part of NINR’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan launch
•International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, 2022
• Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
• Fellow of American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
• Senior Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
• Mentorship Award, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI), AcademyHealth
• New Investigator Award, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues, AcademyHealth
• ANF Scholar, American Nurses Foundation/Nurses Charitable Trust of Greater Miami
• Research Scholar, Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Epsilon Chapter
• PhD Award from Sigma Theta Tau, Xi Chapter
Research
Dr. Poghosyan’s research produces evidence regarding how to assure patients have timely access to high quality primary care. Most of Dr. Poghosyan’s studies focus on transforming organizational structures of primary care practices to promote teamwork and nurse practitioner practice as mechanisms to increase primary care capacity and reduce health disparities.
Research Interests
- Healthcare Policy
- Healthcare workforce
- Organizational impact
- Primary care
Grants
06/2023-06/2028
Systems Science and Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists (S2CER2), NINR, T32 NR014205
Role: Principal Investigator (MPI: Patricia Stone)
04/2023-01/2027
Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Delivery to Address Social Determinants of Health and Reduce Health Disparities: A Mixed-Methods National Study, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), R01 NR021007
Role: Principal Investigator
02/2023-11/2027
Impact of Nursing Home Leadership Care Environments and Health Information Technology on Outcomes of Residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)
Role: Multiple Principal Investigator
07/2022-07/2024
Home Based Primary Care for Persons Living with Dementia: Nurse Practitioner Teams and Outcomes, National Institute on Aging (NIA), R21AG077384
Role: Principal Investigator (MPI: Zainab Osakwe)
09/15/2020-05/31/2025
Care for Persons with Dementia in Nurse Practitioner Practices and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, National Institute on Aging (NIA), R01 AG069143
Role: Principal Investigator
02/2019-01/2024
Social Networks in Medical Homes and Impact on Patient Care and Outcomes, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), R01 HS025937
Role: Principal Investigator
Selected Publications
Poghosyan, L., Liu, J., Spatz, E., Flandrick, K., Osakwe, Z., Martsolf, GR. (2023). Nurse Practitioner Care Environments and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Coronary Heart Disease. Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08367-1
Poghosyan, L., Courtwright, S, Flandrick, KR, Pollifrone, MM, Schlak, A, O'Reilly-Jacob, M, Brooks Carthon, JM, Hittle Gigli, K, Porat-Dahlerbruch, J, Alexander, G, Brom, H, Maier, CB, Timmons, E, Ferrara, S, & Martsolf, GR. (2023). Advancement of Research on Nurse Practitioners: Setting a research agenda. Nursing Outlook, 71(5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2023.102029
Poghosyan, L., Kueakomoldej, S., Liu, J., & Martsolf, G. (2022). Advanced practice nurse work environments and job satisfaction and intent to leave: six-state cross sectional and observational study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(8). https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15176
Poghosyan, L., Pulcini, J., Chan, G. K., Dunphy, L., Martsolf, G. R., Greco, K., Todd, B. A., Brown, S. C., Fitzgerald, M., McMenamin, A. L., & Solari-Twadell, P. A. (2022). State responses to COVID-19: potential benefits of continuing full practice authority for primary care nurse practitioners. Nursing Outlook, 70(1), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.07.012
Poghosyan, L., Brooks, J. M., Hovsepian, V., Pollifrone, M., Schlak, A. E., & Sadak, T. (2021). The growing primary care nurse practitioner workforce: a solution for the aging population living with dementia. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(6), 517–526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2021.01.135
Poghosyan, L., Ghaffari, A., Liu, J., & McHugh, M. D. (2020). Organizational support for nurse practitioners in primary care and workforce outcomes. Nursing Research, 69(4), 280–288. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0000000000000425
Poghosyan, L., Ghaffari, A., Liu, J., & Friedberg, M. W. (2020). Physician-nurse practitioner teamwork in primary care practices in New York: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(4), 1021–1028. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05509-2
Poghosyan, L., Ghaffari, A., & Shaffer, J. (2019). Nurse practitioner primary care organizational climate questionnaire: item response theory and differential item functioning. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(15-16), 2934–2945. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14895
Poghosyan, L., Norful, A. A., Liu, J., & Friedberg, M. W. (2018). Nurse Practitioner Practice Environments in Primary Care and Quality of Care for Chronic Diseases. Medical Care, 56(9), 791–797. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000000961
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov.
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov