Alison Carroll, MD, MPH

Dr. Alison (Ali) Carroll is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a physician-scientist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the 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 (MPH) and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the AHRQ Vanderbilt Patient/pRactice Outcomes Research in Effectiveness and Systems Science (PROgRESS) T32 Program where she obtained training in implementation science and patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Carroll is a health services researcher with a research program focused on testing and implementing interventions to improve care delivery and reduce outcome disparities for hospitalized children and those at risk for hospitalization. As a physician-scientist, she studies risk factors associated with healthcare utilization and uses implementation science methodologies to design, implement, and evaluate interventions to improve the hospital-to-home transition. She is currently the recipient of an institutional KL2 NIH Career Development Award and the Vanderbilt Department of Pediatrics Turner-Hazinski award. Her current work centers on the development and evaluation of an electronic health record (EHR)-enabled clinical decision support (CDS) to promote guideline-concordant, longitudinal asthma care to improve post-discharge outcomes in children hospitalized with asthma