Leslie Harrold is an Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a Senior Research Associate at the Meyers Primary Care Institute (a joint endeavor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Fallon Foundation and Fallon Community Health Plan). She is a board-certified rheumatologist, an epidemiologist and a health services researcher. Dr. Harrold has extensive experience using administrative claims data as well as registry data to identify patients with rheumatic conditions, assess their medication usage, health care utilization and outcomes. She is interested in improving quality of care and patient’s ability to manage his or her own condition. She has received a mentored career development award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS AR053856); this research focus on medication adherence in gout based on pharmacy dispensings at two health plans and on identifying the patient and provider barriers to optimal care though use of in-depth interviews and questionnaires. She is also a co-investigator on FORCE-TJR, a nationwide registry examining the outcomes of total joint replacement surgery (PI Patricia Franklin) including pain, function and adverse events; she leads the collection of the clinical data to both identify and confirm adverse events.
