Dr. Jill Nault Connors received her Ph.D. in health outcomes & policy research from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Her dissertation research focused on the impact of “super-utilization” on geographic variation in population-based rates of readmission and per capita readmission expenditures among local healthcare delivery systems. She has participated in several national and federally-funded research and quality improvement projects including a Health Care Innovation Award through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative, and the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) randomized controlled trial. In addition, she served as a care transitions consultant for Tennessee’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization under the 10th Scope of Work and as a Co-Principal Investigator on a state-funded minority health initiative grant to implement a community-based translation of the DPP.
Dr. Nault Connors was a 2016 AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellow. Her host site was the Geisinger Health System.