Paul D Juarez, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair

Department of Family and Community Medicine

615-327-5506
3rd Floor Old Hospital
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
3rd Floor Old Hospital
Room 3015
Nashville, TN  37208

pjuarez@mmc.edu

CV or Bio (PDF)

1979 - 1982 Ph.D., Public Policy and Social Research, The Florence Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
1975 - 1976 M.Ed., Psychology,Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. Initial Counseling Certification. 1971 - 1975 B.A., Psychology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
1979 - 1982 Fellowship, Doctoral Research in Mental Retardation Policy, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Extensive experience in academic family medicine including leadership positions in community medicine, research, and health information technology. His previous experience includes the Director of Research and Evaluation at White Memorial Medical Center in East LA and Director of Research and Telehealth for the Department of Family Medicine at Charles R. Drew University. In addition, Dr. Juarez has extensive experience as Principal Investigator/Project Director on many research, training, and service grants and has taught distance education courses at CA State University, Long Beach in the Master of Social Work program. In addition, he has established resident research programs in the Family Medicine programs at both Drew and White Memorial. Dr. Juarez will devote 25% of his time (15% funded by the grant) supervising, implementing community based research infrastructure component of the grant.

Juarez, P. The Socialization of Aggression: a Developmental/ Ecological Approach to Violence Prevention. Manuscript in progress.

Juarez, PD Schlundt, D, Goldzweig, I &. Stinson, N. A Conceptual Framework for Addressing Teen Driving Behaviors. Accepted, Injury Prevention, April 2006.

Matthews-Juarez, PA & Juarez, PD. Human Genome Sequencing, Cultural Competency, and New Approaches to Eliminating Health Disparities. Journal of Health and Social Policy. In press, March 2006.

Juarez, PD with Fred Ernst. Domestic Violence in Primary Care Settings: A Review of Clinical Guidelines for Routine Screening and Intervention of Domestic Violence Domestic Violence. American Family Physician. Submitted December 2005.

Juarez, PD. (April 2003). Research in Family Practice: A Primer for New Investigators. (Unpublished document).