Aanand Naik
Professor and Chair, Management, Policy and Community Health, Associate Dean for Learning and Health Systems, Director, Consortium on Aging, Nancy P. and Vincent F. Guinee, MD Distinguished Chair, and Uzi and Micki Halevy and Carmel Dyer, MD Interpro
Management, Policy & Community Health
713/500-9156
Reuel Stallones Building
1200 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030
About
Aanand Naik, MD is a Medical Geriatrician and Health Outcomes Researcher. His research program focuses on defining patient-centeredness and characterizing it as a dimension of health care quality and integral to learning health systems. This research uses basic social, behavioral, and systems (sociomedical) sciences to describe how patients and clinicians communicate, arrive at decisions, and act on those decisions within clinical encounters and the broader learning health system. This descriptive research is then translated into proscriptive interventions to improve health outcomes for older adults with multiple morbid conditions. His lab uses (1) qualitative and survey based studies to develop conceptual models for patient goals driven care. These models provide the scaffolding for (2) intervention design and testing. Their current intervention model, Patient Priorities Care, uses a structured clinical approach to identify health outcome goals and care preferences rooted in what matters most. These identified patient health priorities guide communication and align treatment decisions. Dr. Naik is currently testing these interventions in clinical trials. The lab (3) routinely recruits postdoctoral fellows and graduate students who participate in active research projects and clinical studies matched with their professional objectives. **Dr. Naik also serves as the executive director of the Institute on Aging advancing academic, research and clinical innovation missions focused on aging across the member schools and centers of UTHealth Houston. The Institute on Aging accelerates collaborations, funding opportunities, and innovations in education, research, and clinical care. The Institute works across UTHealth Houston to recruit talented students and faculty who seek to improve the health of older adults. **Dr. Naik has a weekly ambulatory clinic serving older adults at the UT Physicians Center for Healthy Aging.
Center Affiliation
Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice
Research Interests
- Big Data/Data Science
- Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
- Clinical Trials
- Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
- Management and Health Policy