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Samantha (Sam) supports the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) and Rural Primary care Research, Education, and Practice (Rural PREP). She collaborates with lead investigators and other researchers in all phases of research, including developing and managing study work plans, drafting and managing study protocols in collaboration with a project team, obtaining Institutional Review Board reviews, collecting data and preparing it for analysis, maintaining databases, conducting analyses, and reporting findings. Her previous work includes research on diversity in medical education at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and prenatal maternal health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

CHWS Publications

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Oster NV, Pollack SW, Skillman SM, Stubbs BA, Dahal A, Guenther G, Frogner BK . The Pharmacist Workforce in the U.S.: Supply, Distribution, Education Pathways, and State Responses to Emergency Surges in Demand Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington 09-24-2020

Pollack SW, Skillman S, Frogner BK. Assessing the Size and Scope of the Pharmacist Workforce in the U.S Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington 09-04-2020

Pollack SW, Skillman SM, Frogner BK. The Health Workforce Delivering Evidence-Based Non-Pharmacological Pain Management Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington 02-07-2020

 

CHWS Presentations

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Pollack SW. The Emergency Medical Services and Community Paramedic Workforces Respond to COVID-19 Department of Family Medicine 50th Anniversary Annual Fair and Scholarship Forum

Pollack SW. Training Occupational Therapy Practitioners for the Behavioral Health Workforce Department of Family Medicine 50th Anniversary Annual Fair and Scholarship Forum

Pollack SW, Patterson D, van Eijk M, Stubbs B, Hanson C. “EMS Providers Are Masters of the Workaround”: The Emergency Medical Services and Community Paramedic Workforces Respond to COVID-19 AAMC 2021 Group on Diversity and Inclusion and Health Workforce Research Joint Virtual Conference

Oster NV, Skillman SM, Frogner BK, Dahal A, Stubbs BA, Pollack SW, Guenther G. Characterizing the Respiratory Therapist, Physical Therapist and Pharmacist Workforce Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic AAMC 2021 Group on Diversity and Inclusion & Health Workforce Research Joint Virtual Conference

Lee D, Pollack S, Mroz T, Frogner BK, Skillman S. Disability Competency Training in Medical Education AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2021

 

RHRC Publications

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Pollack SW, Andrilla CHA, Peterson LE, Morgan ZJ, Longenecker R, Schmitz D, Evans D, DG Patterson. Rural versus urban family medicine residency scope of training and practice Fam Med 01-26-2023

Peterson LE, Morgan ZJ, Andrilla CHA, Pollack SW, Longenecker R, Schmitz D, Evans D, DG Patterson. Academic achievement and competency in rural and urban family medicine residents Fam Med 01-26-2023

Kaplan L, Pollack SM, Skillman SM, Patterson DG. Is Being There Enough? Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner Residencies in Rural Primary Care J Rural Health 11-22-2022

Kaplan L, Pollack SW, Skillman S, Patterson DG. Factors that encourage and support advanced practice registered nurses to work in rural and safety-net settings J Health Care Poor Underserved 31(5):163-181 11-01-2020

Kaplan L, Pollack SW, Skillman SM, Patterson DG. NP program efforts promoting transition to rural practice The Nurse Practitioner 45(10):48-55 10-01-2020