Geoffrey Curran, PhD

Professor of Pharmacy and Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Faculty, MS in Implementation Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Geoffrey Curran, PhD will be co-teaching Experimental Designs in the MS-IS program with Dr. Robert Brady. Dr. Curran is a professor in the departments of pharmacy and psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as well as the Director for the Center for Implementation Research at UAMS. He is trained as a medical sociologist and began his career looking at the complex etiology of substance use disorders. Later, Dr. Curran became interested in health services research and began to investigate predictors of treatment engagement and outcomes for substance use disorders. The Center for Implementation Research at UAMS is a joint effort between the University of Arkansas departments of pharmacy and medicine, and is devoted to developing and testing implementation strategies across a wide range of service contexts, assisting with the implementation of practices within UAMS clinics and community practices, and training the next generation of implementation scientists.