Alison R. Carroll MD, MPH

Alison (Ali) R. Carroll, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, a board-certified pediatric hospitalist, and a physician-scientist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. She completed her pediatrics and chief residency at UNC Chapel Hill and then went on to complete a pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) fellowship at Vanderbilt. During her PHM fellowship she also obtained a Master in Public Health from Vanderbilt University and completed an AHRQ NRSA T32 post-doctoral research fellowship where she obtained training in implementation science and patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Carroll’s research interests include care transitions, health literacy, health related social needs, implementation of evidence-based practice, user-centered co-design and applied clinical informatics, and the learning health system. She is currently the Chair of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital asthma steering committee. Her research program has been supported by a Gerber Foundation Novice Investigator Award, the Vanderbilt Department of Pediatrics Turner-Hazinski Award, and the Vanderbilt Faculty Research Scholars Program (an NIH KL2 program). She is currently completing an AcademyHealth Applied Implementation Science Fellowship and a Dissemination and Implementation Science Certificate Program through the University of Colorado. Dr. Carroll’s career objective is to become an independent, federally funded applied implementation scientist focused on testing and implementing patient- and systems-level interventions to improve care delivery and long-term health outcomes for hospitalized children. Her current work focuses on designing and evaluating an electronic health record clinical decision support enabled intervention to improve adherence to chronic asthma management guidelines during an acute hospitalization for children with severe uncontrolled asthma—a leading cause of preventable hospitalizations in children.