About Make It Matter

Oversee multiple federal clients human services research portfolios to advance healthcare quality by applying the latest technology to measures, clinical decision support, and implementation workflows 

Develop and execute strategies to advance client missions and grow the research portfolios impact

Prepare briefs and written reports to share impact and facilitate strategic decision-making to achieve impact at a national scale

Lead multi-year Internal Research and Development project to prototype a tool leveraging 

Large Language Modeling to streamline healthcare measurement

Conduct quality measure research in patient safety, prevention, inpatient, pediatrics, and healthcare-associated infections, and chronic disease

Lead customer technical assistance and data analysis to improve responses

Lead communication and outreach, including user assessment surveys, to enhance customer use of the evidence-based quality measure resources

Associate evaluator of public health projects using qualitative and quantitative research methods

• van Leeuwen, D., Mittleman, M., Fabian, L.A., and Lomotan, E. Nothing for Me or About Me, Without Me: Codesign of Clinical Decision Support. Applied Clinical Informatics, 2022.

• Standards Committee: Scientific Methods collaborative Publication. The NQF Scientific Methods Panel: Enhancing the Review and Endorsement Process for Performance Measures. American Journal of Medical Quality Volume, 2020.

• Standards Committee: Scientific Methods collaborative Publication. NQF Guidelines for Evaluating the Scientific Acceptablity of Risk-adjusted Clinical Outcome Measures: A Report From the National Quality Forum Scientific Methods Panel. Annals of Surgery, 2019.

• Fabian LA. Waiting for Data, American Evaluation Association 365 Blog, April 2016.

• Fabian, LA. Knowledge Focus: What’s In a Measure? Care Cost and Quality Newsletter, MITRE, February/March 2015.

• Fabian LA. AEA Values Walking the Talk with Lacy Fabian. Newsletter article for the American Evaluation Association, 2015, available at: http://www.eval.org/blog/aea-newsletter-january-2015?source=1

• Fabian L., McGuire L, Goodin B and Edwards RR. Ethnicity, catastrophizing, and qualities of the pain experience. Pain Medicine 2011;12:314-321.

• Bento SP, Goodin BR, Fabian LA, Page GG, Quinn NB, and McGuire L. Perceived control moderates the influence of active coping on salivary cortisol response to acute pain among women but not men. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010; 6:944-948.

• Goodin BR, McGuire LM, Stapleton L, Quinn NB, Fabian LA, Haythornthwaite J, and Edwards RR. Pain catastrophizing mediates the relation between strenuous-exercise involvement and pain experience: The moderating role of anxiety sensitivity. Psychosomatic Medicine 2009; 71:1018-1025.

• Goodin B, McGuire L, Allshouse M, Stapleton L, Haythornthwaite J, Burns N, Mayes L, and Edwards RR. Associations between catastrophizing and endogenous pain-inhibitory processes: Sex differences. Journal of Pain 2009;10:180–190. 

• Fabian L, McGuire L, Page G, Goodin BR, Edwards R, and Haythornthwaite J. The association of the cortisol awakening response with experimental pain ratings. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009;34:1247–1251.

• Fabian LA, Canlas L, Malson J, and Pickworth WB.  Laboratory smoking of little cigars and cigarettes.  Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2012;14:368-371.

• Ackerman JP, Llorente AM, Black MM, Ackerman CS, Mayes L, and Nair P. Sustained visual attention: Associations with prenatal drug exposure and placement in non-maternal care. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2008;29:467–474.

2017-2021

National Quality Forum

2010-2016

Eastern Evaluation Research Society, American Evaluation Association Affiliate

2014-2015

University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy

2012-2015

Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy (2012-2015)

A Third on the Shelf: Rethinking Power in Community Research

2018-2025

The MITRE Corporation

CDS. Listen, Learn, Informed Choice.

Acheiving Meaningful Measures with Practical Alignment--An Automated Approach

National Quality Forum Annual Conference, 2018