Dr. Rand is a general academic pediatrician and health services researcher at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, where she co-directs of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship. Her research experience combines expertise in adolescent immunization and preventive services delivery, quality improvement, and health informatics. She has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and NIH to improve immunization rates for adolescents. She is currently Co-PI of a multi-center project, funded by the CDC, to improve HPV vaccination rates using QI methods in residency clinics and private practices nationwide. Over 100 practices have participated in the project and made significant improvements in HPV immunization rates. In addition, she supervises residents and sees her own patients in a busy pediatric continuity clinic which provides the context for her translational research.
