Mark Albanese, PhD

Professor of Population Health Sciences & Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

Email: maalbane@wisc.edu

Biography:

Mark Albanese is Professor of Population Health Sciences and affiliate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics and Measurement from the University of Iowa in 1981. Dr. Albanese began his professional career as a statistician and adjunct professor of biostatistics in the Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education at the University of Iowa. He has been involved in research in Medical Education as a major emphasis since that time, although his research interests are broad and include such topics as modeling behavior change, translating innovation into practice, reliability theory, psychometrics, item-response theory, program evaluation, and high-stakes selection methods. He has published over 125 articles in peer reviewed journals and serves on many national grant review committees including most recently the Special Emphasis Panel for the study section on health literacy for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Albanese is also active as an editor and reviewer for professional journals. He is Deputy Editor for North America for the journal Medical Education and Co-editor of Methodologist’s Corner for the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education.  He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Biomed Central, Evaluation and the Health Professions, and Educational Research.  Dr. Albanese is active in providing service to professional organizations as well, having served as President of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education in 1993 and was elected to two terms on the executive committee of the Society from 1989 to 1994. Professor Albanese is currently serving his second term on the Stemmler Fund Award Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners and is a member of the steering committee of the Best Evidence Medical Education Consortium. Professor Albanese has also been active in service to the UW, serving as a member of the faculty senate, the University Assessment Council, and the Health Sciences Library Policy Advisory Committee.  In the medical school, Professor Albanese has served on the Dean's Leadership Team, the Educational Policy Council, and served on numerous task forces, including: Faculty Accountability, Medical School Admission, Curriculum Flexibility, and the Medical Curriculum Architecture.  In the Department, Dr. Albanese has served on and chaired the Admissions and PhD Qualifier Exam committees.  He teaches PHS 800, Quantitative Methods in Population Health and is a small group leader for PHS 717. 

Affiliations and Association:

• National Council on Measurement in Education
• Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education (emeritus)
• Best Evidence Medical Education Consortium
• Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Educational Affairs

Recent Honors/Awards:

Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
Marquis Who’s Who in the World

2005: 2005 Jack L. Maatsch Medical Education Scholar Award recipient from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. “The Award continues the tradition of honoring the legacy of Jack L. Maatsch’s contributions to medical education… by stimulating and supporting interaction in medical education, with a primary focus on the development and assessment of clinical competence in the training of physicians, through the insights and experience of nationally recognized leaders and scholars.”

2005: Recipient of 2005 Distinguished Reviewer Award from the Mental Measurements Yearbooks Series. “In recognition of .. long-standing scholarly contributions”

2004: Albanese, M., Keynote Presentation: “Formation of a New Doctor,” I International Conference on Medical Education of UNIFENAS-BH, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October 27-29, 2004.

2004: Recipient of the 2004 AUR Memorial Award. Wood J., Collins J., Burnside ES., Albanese MA, Propeck PA, Kelcz F, Spilde JM, Schmaltz LM, “Patient, Faculty and Self-Assessment of Radiology Resident Performance: A 360-degree Method of Measuring Professionalism and Interpersonal/Communication Skills,” Academic Radiology, 2004; 11:931-939.

2004: Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare

2003: Invited participant, Reviewers’ Panel. Measuring Professionalism in Medicine. American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Colloquium. Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, November 10, 2003.

2002: Invited participant, Medical Education Outcomes Research Expert Meeting, Sponsored by the Agency for Health Research and Quality and the Health Resources and Services Administration.

2002: Appointed, Deputy Editor for North America, Medical Education

2001: Appointed Co-editor (with John Norcini), section on Methodologists Corner, Advances in Health Sciences Education

2000: Appointed, Member of Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Steering Group

2000: Elected, Member of Executive Committee, American Educational Research Association, Division I

1998: 1998 John P. Hubbard Award recipient from the National Board of Medical Examiners. The Award is given each year to an individual recognized for making significant contributions to the pursuit of excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine.

Select Publications: (2006 - date)

Albanese M. Life is tough for curriculum researchers. Medical Education, 2009; in press.

Collins J, Hinshaw JL, Fine E, Albanese MA. “Radiology Resident Compliance with Recommended Health Guidelines: Effect of Resident Work Environment.” Academic Radiology, 2008;15:1046-1057.

Albanese MA, Mejicano GC, Gruppen L. “Competency-based Medical Education: A Defense Against the Four Horsemen of the Medical Education Apocalypse”, Academic Medicine, 2008;83(12):1132-1139.

Albanese MA., Mejicano GC, Xakellis G, Kokotailo P, “Physician Practice Change: A Critical Review and Description of an Integrated Systems Model”, Academic Medicine, Accepted 8-07-08.

Albanese MA., Mejicano GC, Xakellis G, Kokotailo P, “Physician Practice Change: Implications for the Future of Continuing Medical Education”, Academic Medicine, Accepted 8-07-08.

Morgan PA, Shah N, Kaufman J, Albanese MA. “Impact of physician assistant care on health services utilization in the United States”. Health Services Research, 2008;43(5 Pt 2):1906-22.

Albanese MA, Mejicano G, Anderson M, Gruppen L. “Building A Competency-Based Curriculum: The Agony and The Ecstasy”, Advances in Health Sciences Education, accepted 10-26-07.

Albanese MA “Benchmarking progress tests for cross-institutional comparisons: Which road taken makes a difference and all roads have bumps”, Medical Education, 2008;42:4-7.

Albanese MA, Mejicano G, Mullan P, Kokotailo P, Gruppen L. “Defining Characteristics of Educational Competencies”, Medical Education, 2008;42:248-255.

Kokotailo P, Nicholls G, Albanese M, “A comparison of US and UK Medical educators’ views of changes in medical education”, International J. of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 2007;6(9):25-32. Electronic (PDF File;
1.978MB)1-07.

Morgan PA, Strand J, Ostbye T, Albanese MA, “Missing in action: care by physician assistants and nurse practitioners in national health surveys”, Health Services Research, 2007;42(5 October): 2022-37.

Albanese MA, “Three Blind Mice--Might Make Good Reviewers”, Medical Education, (Invited Editorial), 2006;40:828-830.

Albanese M, Dottl S, Mejicano G, Zakowski L, Seibert C, Van Eyck S, Prucha C, “Distorted Perceptions of Competence and Incompetence are More Than Regression Effects,” Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2006;11(3):267-278.

Albanese MA, “Crafting the reflective lifelong learner: Why, what and how”, Medical Education, 2006;40(4):288-290.

 Courses Taught:

• PHS 800: Quantitative Methods in Population Health I.
• PHS 717: Principles of Population Medicine and Epidemiology

Contact Information:

Address:
Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
610 Walnut St., 707 WARF, rm 1007C
Madison, WI 53726-2397

Phone: 608-263-4714
Fax: 608-263-2820
Email: maalbane@wisc.edu