Alison R. Carroll, MD, MPH
Alison R. Carroll, MD, MPH
Specialty
General Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine
M.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2015
Residency
Pediatrics - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2018
Chief Residency
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2019
Fellowship
Pediatric Hospital Medicine - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2021
M.P.H.
Epidemiology - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2022
Clinical Interests
Eliminating inequities in care delivery using implementation science to improve the clinical outcomes for hospitalized children with a focus on transitions of care, health literacy, and social determinants of health
Research Information
Dr. Carroll is a clinical and health services researcher. She is a AHRQ T32 Patient/pRactice Outcomes and Research in Effectiveness and Systems Science (PROgRESS) scholar and has received a Novice Research Grant from the Gerber Foundation to help support her current research on health literacy and discharge medication counseling which includes a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a health literacy-informed communication intervention to reduce discharge medication errors in infants and young children. Dr. Carroll plans to submit a career development award which will focus on utilizing implementation science to reduce disparities in clinical outcomes for children hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infections.