HSR Center for Health Information and Communication (CHIC)
Alissa L. Russ-Jara, PhD
Affiliate Investigator, VA HSR Center for Health Information and Communication
Alissa L. Russ-Jara, PhD, is a former Research Scientist for HSR CHIC. Her interests include human factors engineering, informatics, usability, and patient safety, with a particular emphasis on medication safety. Since 2007, Dr. Russ has been conducting research on the design medication alerts, including drug-allergy, drug-drug interaction, and drug-disease alerts that are intended to aid prescriber decision-making. Through her research, she developed an alert design that significantly improved prescribing efficiency and reduced prescribing errors (Russ et al JAMIA 2014). In 2013, she applied for and received a five-year VA HSR&D Career Development Award entitled, “Improving Medication Safety through Human Factors and Informatics Research.” As part of this award, Dr. Russ conducted research to uncover the cognitive strategies that prescribers use to make decisions when they encounter medication-related problems.
