Michael Wolf MA, MPH, PhD

Dr. Michael Wolf is a Professor of Medicine and Learning Sciences, and Associate Division Chief – Research for General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics. He is a health services researcher and cognitive/behavioral scientist with expertise in health literacy, risk communication, medication safety and adherence. For the past 15 years, Dr. Wolf has studied health literacy-related issues, spanning the extent and association of limited literacy with various health outcomes, its meaning and measurement, and the development and testing of practical and scalable interventions to improve health communication, behavior, and subsequent health outcomes. He has served on multiple national panels on health literacy, aging, medication safety, drug labeling, and chronic disease self-management, and now actively lead numerous federal and private-funded studies pertaining to literacy skills, medication understanding, and adherence with colleagues across the country, Europe and Australia.