Dr. Lee Anne Roman

Lee Anne Roman is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Roman is affiliated with the Institute for Health Care Studies (IHCS) as a research scientist. In this capacity, she provides leadership for various IHCS activities focusing on Medicaid and maternal and child health. 

Dr. Roman is the principal investigator of the Michigan Families Medicaid Project (MFMP), which was created through an administrative match agreement in collaboration with the IHCS, the Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center (GRMERC), and the Kent County Health Department. The primary purpose of the MFMP is to determine if state sponsored programs are reaching the highest risk women, having an impact on health outcomes, at what cost, and to use these findings to make recommendations that will assist the Michigan Department of Community Health in the development of a new system of care for Medicaid women and infants.

Dr. Roman’s other major projects are the Mothers Offering Mothers Support (MOMS) trial and the Community Assessment Technology Changing Children’s Health (CATCCH) feasibility study, which are the result of collaborative maternal child health research between Michigan State University, GRMERC, and Spectrum Health’s DeVos Children’s Hospital.  The MOMS trial was a community-based, longitudinal, randomized clinical trial that targeted Medicaid insured pregnant women and tested a nurse-community health worker team approach to services. The CATCCH study, a partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health, Grand Rapids community hospitals, Kent County Health and Human Services agencies, and Grand Rapids Public Schools, tested the feasibility of linking individual data across many entities that serve pregnant women and their children in Kent County.

 As a member of the Prematurity Study Group, Dr. Roman is also a co-investigator in Dr. Claudia Holzman’s Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) study. This study followed pregnant women from five Michigan communities, taking a broad view of the determinants of preterm delivery by attempting to link underlying biological and psychosocial factors. The long-range goal of the study is early detection/intervention and prevention of preterm delivery.