Karen Schlumpf, MPH

Assistant Professor
Primary Department
Clinical Research & Leadership
Affiliation
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Research Interests

Karen Schlumpf's research seeks to understand how healthcare providers can help facilitate sensemaking; she focuses on illness narratives in the context of group sensemaking such as families experiencing the loss of a family member and "health teams" such as doctors, practitioners, and patients engaging in shared decision-making. She is an expert in both qualitative and quantitative methods incluing epidemiological methods and statistical analysis. She is skilled in data base management and statistical coding. She has experience leading health service utilzation studies and narrative interviewing. 

Keywords

medical education, health function, Adult learning, Public Health and Learning, Sensemaking, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Research Design,

Research Level
T0 / T1: Basic Science Discovery and Initial Translation to Humans
T2: Translation to Patients
T3: Translation to Practice
Research Method(s)
  • Applying Theory, Measurement, and Methods
  • Biomedical Informatics and Data Analytics
  • Narrative analysis
  • Case studies
  • Phenomenology
  • Descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Multivariable regression modeling
  • Survey and instrument development and item assessment Survival analysis