Margaret Lee

Margaret T. Lee, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Behavioral Health located within Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Her research focuses on treatment quality and performance measures for behavioral health. She has worked on projects that focus on the development and testing of quality measures for substance use disorders, and examining interventions that may be associated with improvements in process or outcome measures. Dr. Lee has conducted environmental scans to identify measurement gaps, developed and tested new measures, and has worked on submitting measures for endorsement by the National Quality Forum. Research areas of interest include access to care, delivery of treatment services, follow-up treatment, continuity of care, and improving quality of care for patients with opioid use disorders and substance use disorders in general. She worked on an NIH funded project that examined the effects of electronic alerts and provider incentives on treatment engagement and continuity of care rates in Washington State. A current study in collaboration with Washington State is a study of their implementation of a hub-and-spoke model for improving access to pharmacotherapy for individuals with an opioid use disorder. Other research projects examined the intersection of research on opioid use disorders and disability services, and the feasibility testing of a patient-reported outcome measure for opioid use disorders.