Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Aaron Seaman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. He holds a primary appointment in the Carver College of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine and a secondary appointment in the College of Public Health’s Department of Community and Behavioral Health. He is an associate member of the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Epidemiology and Population Science program, a co-investigator with the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network, and a co-investigator with the Iowa City VA Health Care System’s Center for Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE). In addition, he is the current President of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (anthropologyandgerontology.com).
Dr. Seaman’s research focuses on the patient-centered investigation and evaluation of care management and delivery for older adults living with chronic conditions. As a medical anthropologist and health services researcher, he uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to illuminate the complexity of care for these patients and to demonstrate how factors across levels—patient, provider, and system—can affect patients’ experiences and outcomes. His program of research focuses on the intersection of patient-side management and provider-/system-side delivery of cancer survivorship care. He also has worked with patients, their families and communities, and clinicians and care providers in various disease contexts, including dementia and osteoporosis. Through research with patients and clinicians, his work highlights the importance of evaluating care for older adults with chronic conditions from multiple stakeholder perspectives, and demonstrates the potential of careful qualitative data collection and analysis to illustrate the complexity and variation of care.
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Friday, November 4, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Friday, November 4, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET