A. Rani Elwy
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Rani Elwy, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health

(617) 358-2056
relwy@bu.edu
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Biography

Dr. A. Rani Elwy, PhD is a health psychologist, health services researcher and implementation scientist who examines Veterans’ access to mental health care and communication between patients, families and providers.Dr. Elwy is also an Investigator at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), a VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Innovation, based at the Boston and Bedford VA Medical Centers. At CHOIR, she directs the Health Communications Research focus area, and within the VA Healthcare System, she has spearheaded the "Disclosure Technical Assistance and Support Program", a communication program developed from health services research evidence and implementation science strategies. Now funded by VA Clinical Operations, Dr. Elwy and her colleagues provide verbal and written communication expertise to facilities needing to disclose information about healthcare to patients, families, employees and the public.

Specific projects as Principal Investigator include examining surgeons’ communication with patients and families about unanticipated surgical events and the impact on this on surgeons’ well-being and patients’ trust in VA; investigating and improving large-scale adverse event disclosures in the VA; predicting Veterans’ treatment seeking for a new episode of depression from their illness perceptions; and establishing an evidence-base for complementary and alternative medicine as first-line treatments for Veterans with depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. In 2012-2014, Dr. Elwy was a fellow with the NIMH- and VA- funded Implementation Research Institute, under the direction of Professor Enola Proctor. A new avenue of research resulting from this fellowship involves examining social networks of providers to better understand where and how provider behavior change may occur in an organization.

From 2015-2017, Dr. Elwy served as the Director of the MPH Certificate in Program Management. Dr. Elwy also teaches a MPH course called Healthcare Delivery Systems: Issues and Innovations (PM755) and a PhD/DrPH/MS course on Research Theory and Design (PH842). She advises many MPH, MS and PhD students in the Health Law, Policy and Management department and the Health Services Research program.

Other Positions

  • - Bedford VA - Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hosp

Education

  • King's College London, PhD Field of Study: Psychology
  • London School of Economics and Political Science, MS Field of Study: Psychology
  • University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, BA Field of Study: Psychology

Websites

Publications

  • Published on 5/29/2024

    Smith DG, Elwy AR, Rosen RK, Bueno M, Sarkar IN. Who's in control? Situating expertise, (mis)trust, and power among the Latine/Hispanic community in COVID-19's liminal moments. Soc Sci Med. 2024 May 29; 354:117027. PMID: 38959814.

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  • Published on 5/25/2024

    Darling KE, Evans EW, Elwy AR, Klinepier K, Jelalian E. Scaling and sustaining research tested interventions: Lessons learned from Rhode Island Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration 3.0. Transl Behav Med. 2024 May 25. PMID: 38794999.

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  • Published on 5/17/2024

    Frank HE, Albanese A, Sun S, Saadeh F, Johnson BT, Elwy AR, Loucks EB. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Health Insurance Coverage: If, How, and When? An Integrated Knowledge Translation (iKT) Delphi Key Informant Analysis. Mindfulness (N Y). 2024; 15(5):1220-1233. PMID: 38817538.

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  • Published on 4/23/2024

    Albanese AM, Geller PA, Steinkamp JM, Elwy AR, Frank HE, Barkin JL. The education of experience: Mixed methods evidence demonstrates the benefit of multiparity. Midwifery. 2024 Jul; 134:104015. PMID: 38688050.

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  • Published on 4/6/2024

    Taylor SL, Elwy AR, Bokhour BG, Coggeshall SS, Cohen A, Der-Martirosian C, Haderlein T, Haun J, Kligler B, Kloehn AT, Lorenz KA, Lott B, Shin MH, Schult T, Toyama J, Whitehead AM, Zhang X, Zeliadt SB. Measuring Patient-Reported Use and Outcomes From Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies: Development of the Complementary and Integrative Health Therapy Patient Experience Survey. Glob Adv Integr Med Health. 2024; 13:27536130241241259. PMID: 38585239.

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  • Published on 3/1/2024

    Moitra E, Amaral TM, Benz MB, Cambow S, Elwy AR, Kunicki ZJ, Lu Z, Rafferty NS, Rabasco A, Rossi R, Schatten HT, Gaudiano BA. A Hybrid Type 1 trial of a multi-component mHealth intervention to improve post-hospital transitions of care for patients with serious mental illness: Study protocol. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Apr; 139:107481. PMID: 38431134.

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  • Published on 10/27/2023

    Arnold T, Giorlando KK, Barnett AP, Gaudiano BA, Rogers BG, Whiteley L, Ward LM, Edet PP, Elwy AR, Brown LK. Social, Structural, Behavioral, and Clinical Barriers Influencing Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Use Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in the South: A Qualitative Update to a 2016 Study. Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Feb; 53(2):785-797. PMID: 37891436.

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  • Published on 9/28/2023

    Al Lawati H, Shin M, Lamkin R, Thompson T, Epshtein I, Mull H, Basnet Thapa D, Drekonja D, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Xu TH, Gold H, Elwy AR, Strymish J, Branch-Elliman W. Engaging patients in antimicrobial stewardship: co-designed educational tool to improve periprocedural care through de-implementation of guideline-discordant antimicrobial use. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023; 3(1):e163. PMID: 38028930.

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  • Published on 9/7/2023

    Elwy AR, Taubenberger S, Dodds N, DeSensi R, Gillman A, Wasan A, Greco CM. Costs of Implementing Electronic Context Factor Assessments and Patient-reported Outcomes in Pain Clinic Settings. Med Care. 2023 Oct 01; 61(10):699-707. PMID: 37943525.

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  • Published on 8/29/2023

    Pyne JM, Seal KH, Manuel JK, DeRonne B, Oliver KA, Bertenthal D, Esserman D, Purcell N, Petrakis BA, Elwy AR. Developing and testing a COVID-19 vaccination acceptance intervention: A pragmatic trial comparing vaccine acceptance intervention vs usual care - Rationale, methods, and implementation. Contemp Clin Trials. 2023 Oct; 133:107325. PMID: 37652356.

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