Faculty

Bio

Sara Shaunfield, MD is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She takes a social constructivist approach to research, primarily utilizing qualitative methods to understand experiences, develop measures, and evaluate interventions with the aim of enhancing patient and informal caregiver health outcomes. Dr. Shaunfield has over fifteen years' experience conducting qualitative research with patients, caregivers, health professionals, and medical students. Her qualitative research training and experience includes open-ended and semi-structured interviews, focus groups, provider interviews, expert panels, concept elicitation interviews, cognitive interviews, qualitative data analysis, and grant writing to support qualitative and mixed methods research. She has served as informal content mentor or advisor on qualitative research methods to several graduate students, junior faculty, K scholars, and staff. Dr. Shaunfield looks forward to teaching the MS-HPE Qualitative Research course and am excited to train the next generation of educators, clinicians, and healthcare professionals on conducting rigorous qualitative research in the health professions educational environment.