Mr. Meissner is a public health practitioner, health planner and program administrator at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY where since 1990 he has focused on developing community based primary care service and research programs for the medically underserved.

He is wears several hats: Director of Research Program Development, Montefiore Care Management Organization (CMO); Network Coordinator, New York City Research Improvement Networking Group (NYC RING), which he helped found in 2000; Program Director for the Ryan White Part C funded CICERO Program which serves over 1000 HIV+ people and their family members in a network of 10 community health centers in the Bronx.  He has a special interest in implementing community-based services and research programs for people with HIV and has worked on programs for women, palliative care, community outreach, substance abuse, single room occupancy hotel residents, and buprenorphine, mental health integration.

Engaging stakeholders in providing meaningful input into program development has been a consistent theme throughout my career trajectory.  I am interested in incorporating research into routine program and service activities.  The ultimate goal of these activities is that our health system generates learning that can be applied and replicated within the organization and shared with others experiencing similar opportunities and challenges.  This lends itself to conducting implementation science research which reflects a multitude of stakeholder perspectives with regard to its immediate utility to influence clinical care when conducted in routine practice environments to serve our diverse populations.  Implementation science research allows for the participation of many professionals who do not view themselves as researchers as part of our research community.  

He has an undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland and received his MSPH in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina.   

1.    Bennett, N., Orlando, E., & Meissner, P. (2020). Linking dissemination and implementation science to Learning Health Systems: Opportunities for Clinical and Translational Science Award institutions. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 1-4. https://doi:10.1017/cts.2020.15

2.    Meissner, P., Cottler, L., Eder, M., & Michener, J. (n.d.). Engagement science: The core of dissemination, implementation, and translational research science. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 1-3. https://doi:10.2017/cts.2020.8 

3.    Dolor RJ, Proctor E, Stevens KR, Boone LR, Meissner P, and Baldwin L-M For the Dissemination, Implementation, and Knowledge Transfer (DI&KT) Working Group. Dissemination and implementation science activities across the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium: Report from a survey of CTSA leaders. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science https://doi:10.1017/cts.2019.422

4.    Leppin AL, Mahoney JE, Stevens KR, Bartels SJ, Baldwin L-M, Dolor RJ, Proctor EK, Scholl L, Moore JB, Baumann AA, Rohweder CL, Luby J, and Meissner P. Situating dissemination and implementation sciences within and across the translational research spectrum. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science,  https://doi:10.1017/cts.2019.392

5.    Blank AE, Weiss ES, Salcedo B, Leach EE, Rapkin B, Barsanti F, Meissner P, DeLeon S, Hernandez PI, Walker EA. Bronx Community Collaborative Opportunities for Research and Education: Implementation and Evaluation of a Community-Academic Partnership. Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2019;13(3):273-282. https://doi:10.1353/cpr.2019.0055 PubMed PMID: 31564668.

6.    Meissner P. LADDERS: A dynamic paradigm for planning, implementing, and evaluating sustainable change in learning health systems. Learn Health Sys. 2018;e10058. https://doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10058

7.    Pinnock H, Barwick M, Carpenter CR for the StaRI Group, et al Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI): explanation and elaboration document BMJ Open 2017;7:e013318. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013318

8.    Pinnock, Hilary, Barwick, Melanie, Carpenter, Christopher R, Eldridge, Sandra, Grandes, Gonzalo, Griffiths, Chris J, Rycroft-Malone, Jo , Meissner, Paul, ,Murray, Elizabeth, Patel, Anita, Sheikh, Aziz, Taylor, Stephanie J C, Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI) Statement. BMJ. 2017 Mar 6;356:i6795. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i6795

9.    Thomas W. Concannon, Paul Meissner, Jo Anne Grunbaum, Newell McElwee and Jeanne-Marie Guise, et al. A New Taxonomy for Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, Journal of General Internal Medicine, J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Aug;27(8):985-91. PMID: 22528615 

10.  Behrends CN, Eggman AA, Gutkind S, Bresnahan MP, Fluegge K, Laraque F, Litwin AH, Meissner P, Shukla SJ, Perumalswami PV, Weiss J, Wyatt BE, Schackman BR. “A Cost Reimbursement Model for Hepatitis C Treatment Care Coordination”. J. Public Health Manag. Pract. 2018.

11.   Futterman D, Stafford S, Meissner P, Lyle-Gassama M, Blank A, DuBois L, Swartz J., Ten Sites, 10 Years, 10 Lessons: Scale-up of Routine HIV Testing at Community Health Centers in the Bronx, New York., Public Health Rep. 2016 Jan-Feb;131 Suppl 1:53-62., PMID: 26862230 

12.  Kazimiroff, J., Spal, S., Farson, D., Meissner, P. Integrating Dental Care into Patient Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations: A United States of America Perspective. International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Science, 2016. 3(8): p. 296-300. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.19070/2377-8075-1600060