Jennifer Mei Gan

Research Faculty Instructor

UAMS

Also affiliated: University of California, Los Angeles (1974); University of California, Irvine (2009–2010); Cal Humanities (2023)

8 h-index 58 pubs 382 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

Links

ORCID Lab Website

OverviewAI-generated summary

Jennifer Gan's research focuses on improving the clarity and accessibility of health information, particularly for informed consent processes and patient education. She has investigated methods to enhance the readability of written informed consent forms, including the development and testing of a tool called the "informed consent form navigator." This work aims to ensure that patients can better understand the information presented to them, contributing to more informed decision-making.

Her research also extends to health literacy interventions, as demonstrated by a randomized pragmatic trial evaluating the effectiveness of a health literacy intervention for improving diabetes outcomes in rural family medicine clinics. Additionally, Gan has explored caregiver burden through the analysis of social media discussions. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIH) for $216,670, focused on developing and testing implementation strategies for falls risk management in outpatient rehabilitation programs, utilizing the STEADI protocol.

Gan's scholarly contributions include 58 publications with 378 citations and an h-index of 8. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Aaron S. Kemp, Jonathan P. Bona, Alison Caballero, and Mathias Brochhausen.

Metrics

h-index: 8
Publications: 58
Citations: 382

Positions

Research Faculty Instructor 2017–present

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Center for Health Literacy, Medical Humanities and Bioethics ORCID

Selected Publications

Effectiveness of a health literacy intervention to improve diabetes outcomes in rural family medicine clinics: a randomized pragmatic trial (2024)

Health Literacy and Communication Open 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
235 Use of Community Review Boards to Evaluate the Utility of the ICF Navigator - A Browser-based Tool to Create Plain-Language Informed Consent Forms (2023)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Analysis of Caregiver Burden Expressed in Social Media Discussions (2023)

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
The informed consent form navigator: a tool for producing readable and compliant consent documents (2022)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Institutional improvements in readability of written informed consent forms sustained post-revised Common Rule (2021)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Exploring Knowledge, Beliefs, and Attitudes about Teen Pregnancy among Latino Parents in Arkansas (2020)

Southern Medical Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Establishing a digital health platform in an academic medical center supporting rural communities (2020)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Accuracy of the Spinal Pain Diagram Is Influenced by Patient Health Literacy in Completion of the Scoliosis Research Society30 Questionnaire. (2020)

PubMed OpenAlex
Barriers and solutions to implementing a pragmatic diabetes education trial in rural primary care clinics (2020)

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Implementation of a health-literate patient decision aid for chest pain in the emergency department (2019)

Patient Education and Counseling 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Rationale and development of a randomized pragmatic trial to improve diabetes outcomes in patient-centered medical homes serving rural patients (2018)

Contemporary Clinical Trials 4 citations DOI OpenAlex