Team
Core Faculty
J. Scott Parrott, PhD
I have over 30 years of experience working as a methodological and statistical consultant both within and outside the university setting in such areas as medical and healthcare research, international law, public health, evidence-based medicine, urban poverty, education, and international aid, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. My recent work has focused on evidence analysis methods and statistical modeling of intervention and outcome and evaluation studies. For the past twelve years, I have worked as faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey with appointments in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Studies, Nutritional Sciences, and the Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology in the School of Public Health.
Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia, EdD, RD
After 20 years of clinical nutrition practice and research in pediatric HIV, I transitioned to a faculty role at the Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) in 2013. My role evolves but a common theme throughout my career is that I incorporate stakeholder perspectives into research through qualitative and mixed methods. When I first began doing this it was like swimming upstream in a quantitative current. Now that qualitative and mixed methods research are recognized as integral and complementary research methodologies, much of my time is happily spent building student, faculty, and workforce capacity in these methods.
Yuane “Joy” Jia, PhD
Yuane “Joy” Jia, PhD., a faculty member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and a team member of the Methodology and Statistics Support Team (MSST) at the School of Health Professions at Rutgers University. My doctoral training was in Educational Research, Statistics & Evaluation in the School of Education at the University of Virginia. I have strong expertise in the scale development and validation process (e.g. reliability and validity, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, Rasch modeling). I have extensive experience working with large complex sample design datasets and advanced statistical modeling, and data management. I have served as a methodological and statistical co-investigator on over 10 projects on clinical and educational practice across a wide range of research designs since joining Rutgers. My recent work has focused on teaching as research in health professions, evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and how to do educational projects in health and medical education.
Affiliate Faculty
Lisa Palladino-Kim, MS
I have 15 years of pharmaceutical expertise, with a concentration in Clinical Operations (Patient Recruitment, Data Management, and Project Management), which allowed me to gain experience leading career, policy, and process development initiatives. Currently, I am a faculty member in the Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) Master of Science in Clinical Research Management Program. My love and experience with clinical research, training, and process improvement has led me to support MSST in pioneering the establishment of a Project Optimizer role, which will be a member of the faculty research and scholarship teams.
Matthew Rubinstein, MS
I have been a clinical laboratory professional since 2002, with experience ranging from service in the US Army as a Clinical Laboratory Officer to Health Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, I am a faculty in the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. These experiences have aligned my knowledge and skills with the healthcare quality improvement evidence base and with qualitative and quantitative knowledge synthesis techniques. Since 2013, I have co-taught graduate students in Rutgers SHP how to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analysis. As a knowledge synthesis methodologist, I have engaged external partners for production of systematic review and scoping reviews since 2015.