Paula Lozano, MD, MPH
Assistant Medical Director, Group Health Department of Preventive Care
Associate Investigator
206-287-2113
lozano.p@ghc.org
Recent publications
Research interests and experience
- Behavior change: brief behavioral interventions; co-morbid conditions; motivational interviewing; problems-solving therapy; self-management support
- Child & adolescent health: asthma; anxiety and depression; Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); chronic illness management; disadvantaged children's health care services; Medicaid managed care
- Chronic illness management: child and adolescent health; collaborative approaches to transforming health care systems; patient/family self-management of chronic conditions; self-care
- Health services & economics: collaborative approaches to transforming health care systems; evaluation of health care systems; health care disparities; population-based interventions; practice variation; Medicaid managed care
- Health informatics: computer-delivered interventions; eHealth
- Obesity: childhood obesity prevention and control
- Mental health: children and adolescents
- Patient/provider interaction: provider decision support at point of care; support for patient/family self-management of chronic conditions
As a practicing pediatrician for Group Health Physicians, Dr. Lozano develops innovations and strategies for performance improvement in Group Health's Department of Preventive Care and serves as an associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute.
As an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington, Dr. Lozano practiced general pediatrics at Harborview Children and Teens Clinic and has had inpatient/emergency department call responsibilities on the pediatric burn/trauma consultation service at Harborview Medical Center. She has also attended on the general medical inpatient service at Seattle Children's Hospital. She has taught residents and medical students in general pediatric settings, leading a communication-skills training program for residents based on motivational interviewing.
Dr. Lozano's research interests include health behavior change counseling (including motivational interviewing), obesity treatment in health care settings, and the role of social networks/social support in weight management. She has also served as director of the UW Primary Care Research Fellowship, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide research training in the primary care disciplines of general internal medicine, family medicine, and general pediatrics.
She has conducted research on the care of care of children with asthma, ADHD, and other chronic conditions, and the delivery of health services to disadvantaged children. Her work has focused on improving health care quality through changing the delivery system, supporting clinical decision-making by providers, and supporting patients and parents in health behavior change.
Dr. Lozano is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and completed her residency in pediatrics at UW. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UW, where she also earned her Master's in Public Health.
Recent publications
Tandon PS, Zhou C, Chan NL, Lozano P, Couch SC, Glanz K, Krieger J, Saelens BE. The impact of menu labeling on fast-food purchases for children and parents. Am J Prev Med. 2011;41(4):434-8. PubMed
Meischke H, Lozano P, Zhou C, Garrison MM, Christakis D. Engagement in "My Child's Asthma", an interactive web-based pediatric asthma management intervention. Int J Med Inform. 2011 Nov;80(11):765-74. Epub 2011 Sep 29. PubMed
Garrison MM, Lozano P, Christakis DA. Controller medication use and sleep problems in pediatric asthma: a longitudinal case-crossover analysis. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165(9):826-30. PubMed
Van Cleve WC, Hagan P, Lozano P, Mangione-Smith R. Investigating a pediatric hospital’s response to an inpatient census surge during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011; 37(8)376-82.
Wilkins V, Elliott MN, Richardson A, Lozano P, Mangione-Smith R. The association between care experiences and parent ratings of care for different racial, ethnic, and language groups in a Medicaid population. Health Serv Res. 2011 Jun;46(3):821-39. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01234.x. Epub 2011 Jan 28. PubMed
Tandon PS, Zhou C, Lozano P, Christakis DA. Preschoolers' total daily screen time at home and by type of child care. J Pediatr. 2011 Feb;158(2):297-300. Epub 2010 Oct 27. PubMed
Lozano P, McPhillips HA, Hartzler B, Robertson AS, Runkle C, Scholz KA, Stout JW, Kieckhefer GM. Randomized trial of teaching brief motivational interviewing to pediatric trainees to promote healthy behaviors in families. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164(6):561-6. PubMed
Quistberg DA, Lozano P, Mack CD, Schwartz R, Ebel BE. A comparison of self-report and direct observation of booster seat use in Latino families. Inj Prev. 2010 Aug;16(4):225-9. Epub 2010 May 25. PubMed
Grow HM, Cook AJ, Arterburn DE, Saelens BE, Drewnowski A, Lozano P. Child obesity associated with social disadvantage of children's neighborhoods. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Aug;71(3):584-91. Epub 2010 May 12. PubMed
Sathyanarayana S, Basso O, Karr CJ, Lozano P, Alavanja M, Sandler DP, Hoppin JA. Maternal pesticide use and birth weight in the Agricultural Health Study. J Agromedicine. 2010 Apr;15(2):127-36. PubMed
To view more publications, please see Ms. Lozano's CV.