James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Faculty Labs

Our lab partners with healthcare leaders and frontline teams to reduce preventable employee harm, improve well-being and retention, and advance safer patient care through research-driven innovation.

Our lab uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to improve shared decision-making and patient engagement for children and families managing chronic conditions.

The Mitchell Lab focuses on health disparities, sickle cell disease, obesity, early childhood health and social/emotional functioning, school-based mental health, and community-based research, using qualitative methods, program evaluation, technology, and public policy approaches to improve outcomes, particularly through studies examining nutritional intake, mealtime behaviors, depression, and behavioral functioning in children with sickle cell disease.

Our lab uses behavioral and social science, along with multidisciplinary collaboration, to understand how to reliably deliver the right treatment to the right child in the right way at the right time across diseases.

Our lab focuses on improving pediatric hospice and palliative care by advancing quality measurement and enhancing clinician well-being to support compassionate, sustainable care.