Dr. Gillian Bartlett is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the College of Medicine at Texas A&M where she is also a professor of Primary Care and Rural Medicine. Dr. Bartlett was the inaugural Associate Dean of Graduate Research Education at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri where she was also a tenured Professor originally in Family and Community Medicine then in Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology. She was the founding Director for the Translational Biosciences PhD program and the Office of Graduate Research Education. Before being recruited to the US, she was a full tenured professor at McGill University holding the position of Associate Chair (Research) and Graduate Program Director in Family Medicine for over 10 years. In 2022, she was awarded the Distinguished Research Mentor Award by the North American Primary Care Research Group. For the last three years, Dr. Bartlett was the Chair of the Working Party for the Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys Project with the OECD involving 22 countries for this inaugural project in primary care (https://www.oecd.org/health/paris/).
Dr. Bartlett specializes in implementation science for translation of evidence into clinical practice. Her current concentration is on convergence science and stakeholder engagement around health care utilization and outcomes for vulnerable populations; implementation of precision medicine using patient-oriented strategies; and the use of education innovations to advance the discipline of translational biomedicine. Dr. Bartlett was recently awarded, as Principle Investigator for Missouri, funding from the NIH All of Us program for the All of Us Heartland Consortium.