Dr. Perzynski is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology in the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University. His doctoral degree is in sociology and his current research interests include: novel strategies to eliminate health disparities, health outcomes measurement over the life course and mixed methods research. His methodologic expertise spans the continuum from focus groups and ethnography to psychometrics and structural equation modelling. He routinely shares this expertise locally in undergraduate and graduate courses and nationally at scientific meetings. He has more than 50 publications and 100 presentations at scientific meetings which span many disciplines and stand out against the backdrop of a career long effort to infuse the study of biomedical scientific problems with the knowledge, theories and methods of social science. In 2014, he was recognized with CWRU’s Scholarship in Teaching Award for his creative contributions to primary care medical education on the topic of health disparities.
Sarah Shick is a Research Associate in the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University. Ms. Shick is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in medical sociology and disability, with interests in health disparities, global health trends, and health measurement. She is trained as a certified nursing assistant through Lorain Community College, and has earned a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Cleveland State University's Honors College and an M.A. in Medical Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Sarah also has extensive experience in community outreach, medical education, women’s health, disability assessment, health policy, and research.
Dr. Adebambo trained as a physician at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria in 1987. She subsequently excelled in residency of both surgery and family medicine becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 1996 and chief resident of family medicine in 2000. Bode was also presented with the Family Medicine Obstetric award for her commitment to her female patients and their children. Bode is currently faculty at MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio, a public safety net teaching hospital where she continues to practice full spectrum family medicine and is on the list of best doctors in America for 2016, which is an impartial peer review process that about 5% doctors in America are awarded. Her position as a minority physician, the diversity of patients in her practice and diversity in her group at an inner city hospital and its surrounding community puts her in a unique position to develop and execute research projects.