- Hanna E. Bloomfield (formerly Rubins) is
interested in preventive cardiology with an emphasis on epidemiology and
management of lipid disorders. Her work includes clinical trials, outcomes
studies, and translation of evidence into clinical practice.
- Diana Burgess is pursuing a research agenda
designed to understand and ameliorate disparities in healthcare, which
incorporates patient-level, provider-level and system-level factors. Her research
draws heavily on theory and research findings from social psychology. She has a
particular interest in understanding disparities in the context of preventive care
and pain management.
- Kathleen F. Carlson is an injury epidemiologist
and health services researcher examining the interplay between physical and
psychological trauma. Her research focuses on co-occurring traumatic brain injury
and post-traumatic stress disorder with the goal of developing services that will
maximize health and functioning among injured veterans and their families. Dr.
Carlson also conducts work in injury prevention and control, risk-taking behavior,
and disparities in veterans’ access to health care.
- Kristine Ensrud studies the epidemiology and
prevention of chronic disease with a focus on osteoporosis prevention/treatment,
aging, and frailty. Her research expertise includes the design, conduct, and
analyses of several large multi-center clinical and epidemiologic studies
sponsored by the NIH and pharmaceutical industry.
- Steven Fu is interested in smoking cessation and
tobacco-related health disparities. His research is focused on identifying
best practices for improving the delivery and utilization of tobacco dependence
treatments among diverse and disadvantaged populations.
- Joan Griffin focuses on evaluating the effects
of stress and coping on health, health behavior, and use of health services.
Specifically she is interested in the intersections of paid and unpaid work on
health and behavior. For example she is currently studying how the work of
informal caregiving affects caregiver, family and care recipient health. She
is also interested in specific sources of stress, such as poor health literacy,
that may act as barriers to initiate and maintain healthy behaviors, including
cancer screening.
- Hildi Hagedorn is a clinical psychologist
and the Implementation Research Coordinator for the Substance Use Disorders
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (SUD-QUERI). Her research is currently
focused on implementation of best-practice recommendations for the identification
and treatment of substance use disorders.
- Frank Lederle is interested in optimizing
diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in the primary care of older men with a
particular emphasis on the diagnosis, management, and epidemiology of
abdominal aortic aneurysms. His research primarily involves large scale
clinical trials and technology assessment.
- Maureen Murdoch focuses on studying the
intersection of behavior, mental health, physical health, and health care
utilization. She also is interested in improving survey technology and
developing and validating scales for survey research.
- David Nelson (biostatistician) is developing
stepwise Bayes theory with applications in finite population sampling and
nonparametric statistics as well as statistical theory for covariate reduction
and selection bias control in the analysis of observational studies.
- Siamak Noorbaloochi (biostatistician) is
working on Bayesian least biased inference rules providing a unified theory
for most powerful testing and unbiased estimation. In addition to providing
statistical support for Center projects, Dr. Noorbaloochi is also working on
inferential procedures for left truncated right censored ordinal count data.
- Melissa Partin is a behavioral scientist with
interests and expertise in patient-directed health promotion and decision
support interventions, shared decision making, survey research, and
implementation. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of
interventions to promote compliance with best practices in the area of cancer
prevention and control.
- Melissa Polusny is a staff clinical psychologist
in the Posttraumatic Stress Recovery Program at the Minneapolis VAMC and associate
professor in the of of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Her research interests focus on identifying risk and resilience factors associated
with mental health outcomes in OIF/OEF veterans, with a special emphasis on the
longitudinal course of military-related PTSD.
- Adam Powell's research focuses on applying his
background in social psychology to facilitate the implementation of evidence based
best practices and to improve VA performance measurement. Adam is currently working
closely with the VA's Office of Quality and Performance to develop strategies, tools,
and measurement systems to improve cancer screening and care.
- Thomas Rector's research interests are focused
on evaluation of pharmaceutical use and interventions for patients with heart
failure, development of outcome prediction models, measurement of patient-oriented
outcomes such as quality of life and communication of evidence from clinical
trials to patients.
- Nina A. Sayer is a clinical psychologist and a health
services researcher whose work focuses on post-deployment health including PTSD,
disability, combat-related polytrauma and unmet service needs.
- Michele Spoont is a health and neuropsychologist at
the Minneapolis VAMC. Dr. Spoont is funded through VA HSR&D to understand what
factors contribute to mental health treatment participation and adherence among
veterans with PTSD.
- Brent Taylor is an epidemiologist with a focus on
quantitative methodology. His research interests include systematic review of
observational studies, health services genomics, and using large clinical and
administrative databases to evaluate the epidemiology, health care utilization, and
treatment outcomes for chronic diseases.
- Erin Warshaw is Chief of Dermatology at the
Minneapolis VAMC and is interested in applications of telemedicine in
dermatology.
- Rachel Widome is a social epidemiologist with research
interests in how social factors influence health-related behaviors such as tobacco use,
physical activity, and diet. She is particularly interested in the young adult age
group, health disparities, and how policy can be used to promote health.
- Timothy Wilt has a research agenda which involves
conducting clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analysis to evaluate
the effects of health care interventions on outcomes in adults with chronic
diseases. Dr. Wilt primarily focuses on the epidemiology, prevention and
treatment of common urologic diseases frequently managed by primary care
providers.
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