Positions: 
  Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and
    Epidemiology

Dr. Fischer is nationally recognized for her research on improving care for patients with schizophrenia. Her most recent project: Stakeholder Perspectives on Sustaining Involvement in Schizophrenia Care -  is attempting to determine what factors are associated with long-term involvement in care for schizophrenia under usual conditions. It has both quantitative and qualitative components and involves consumers and their family members/friends. Information from the project should help inform future research and improve the quality of care that most outpatients with schizophrenia experience. (Dr. Fischer is also working as a Co-Investigator on a similar project led by Frederick Blow, PhD). 

In addition to her research on improving care, Dr. Fischer has done a lot of work assessing the outcomes of care. She is behind the development and validation of the Schizophrenia Outcomes Module.