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We work with communities to research health needs and implement solutions.

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Faculty Position
  • Desai, Jay R., PhD, MPH, Research Investigator 2011 -
  • Hooker, Stephanie A., PhD, MPH, MS, Research Investigator 2019 -
  • Katz, Abigail S., PhD, Former Research Investigator 2010 -
  • Kottke, Thomas E., MD, MSPH, FACC, FAHA, Senior Research Investigator 2004 -
  • Martinson, Brian C., PhD, Senior Research Investigator 1998 -
  • Westgard, Bjorn C., MD, MA, Research Investigator
  • Publications While At HealthPartners
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Impact of opioid dose reductions on patient-reported mental health and suicide-related behavior and relationship to patient choice in tapering decisions
    Journal of Pain. 2024
  • Introducing the Lifestyle Health Index in the American Nations
    Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. 2024
  • Principles for stakeholder engagement in observational health research
    JAMA Health Forum. 2024
  • Psychotherapy disruption before and after the transition to virtual mental health care induced by the COVID-19 pandemic
    Psychiatric Services. 2024
  • Use of sequential hot-deck imputation for missing health care systems data for population health research
    Medical Care. 2024
  • 30-year cardiovascular disease risk for young adults with serious mental illness
    General Hospital Psychiatry. 2023
  • A UVR-sensor wearable device intervention to reduce sun exposure in melanoma survivors: results from a randomized controlled trial
    PloS One. 2023
  • A randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce stigma toward people with opioid use disorder among primary care clinicians
    Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 2023
  • Connecting Vietnamese-speaking immigrants who smoke to the Asian Smokers Quitline: a feasibility pilot of proactive outreach interventions
    Nicotine & tobacco research. 2023
  • Describing racial disparity in hypertension control in a large Minnesota outpatient practice
    Health services research and managerial epidemiology. 2023
  • Design of a pragmatic clinical trial to improve screening and treatment for opioid use disorder in primary care
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2023
  • Development and initial validation of a measure to assess self-efficacy to reduce sedentary behavior
    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2023
  • Differential effects of an intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk for patients with bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia: a randomized clinical trial
    Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2023
  • Estimating the cardiovascular disease risk reduction of a quality improvement initiative in primary care: findings from EvidenceNOW
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2023
  • Factor analysis in distinguishing coronavirus disease 2019 from other influenza-like illness using a validated patient-reported outcome instrument FLU-PRO Plus: a prospective real-world cohort study
    Medical Care. 2023
  • Inequalities in communicating about nutrition information during prenatal care: the after-visit summary
    American journal of health education. 2023
  • Minnesota data sharing may be model for near-real-time tracking of drug overdose hospital and ED trends
    Health Affairs. 2023
  • Periodontal treatment and subsequent clinical outcomes and medical care costs: a retrospective cohort study
    PloS One. 2023
  • Preoperative depression status and 5 year metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes in the PCORnet Bariatric Study cohort
    Annals of Surgery. 2023
  • Survey-based evaluation of a fish consumption information dissemination campaign within an integrated health system: learnings from ChooseYourFish
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2023
  • "We will do whatever it takes": understanding socioecological level influences on Hmong-American adolescents and parents' perceptions of the human papillomavirus vaccine
    Journal of Cancer Education. 2022
  • A new pandemic of loneliness
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2022
  • An email coaching option increases participant program utilization and coach productivity
    American Journal of Health Promotion. 2022
  • Assessing the implementation of a clinical decision support tool in primary care for diabetes prevention: a qualitative interview study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Science
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2022
  • Association of an automated blood pressure measurement quality improvement program with terminal digit preference and recorded mean blood pressure in 11 clinics
    JAMA network open. 2022
  • Behaviors, beliefs, and recommendations to optimize promotion of safe fish consumption before and during pregnancy: a physician survey
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2022
  • Cardiovascular risk for patients with and without schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022
  • Change that matters: a health behavior change and behavioral health curriculum for primary care
    Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 2022
  • Clinical implementation of suicide risk prediction models in healthcare: a qualitative study
    BMC psychiatry. 2022
  • Clinician perceptions of a clinical decision support system to reduce cardiovascular risk among prediabetes patients in a predominantly rural healthcare system
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2022
  • Comparing pharmacist-led telehealth care and clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure: the Hyperlink 3 pragmatic cluster-randomized trial
    Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.. 2022
  • Depression and cardiovascular risk in primary care patients
    Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2022
  • Effect of clinical decision support on cardiovascular risk among adults with bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia: a cluster randomized clinical trial
    JAMA network open. 2022
  • Effects of devotional prayer and secular meditation on cardiovascular response to a faith challenge among Christians
    Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 2022
  • Exploiting interdisciplinary research design for temporally complex big data: discussion of a case-study using on heterogenous bibliographic big data
    Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2022
  • Findings and future directions from a smoking cessation trial utilizing a clinical decision support tool
    Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. 2022
  • Gaing the upper hand
    MetroDoctors. 2022
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care delivery
    Clinical Diabetes. 2022
  • Implementing a prediabetes clinical decision support system in a large primary care system: design, methods, and pre-implementation results
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022
  • Patient expectations of and experiences with a suicide risk identification algorithm in clinical practice
    BMC psychiatry. 2022
  • Patient perspectives on opioid risk discussions in primary care
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2022
  • Systematic surveillance of patient-reported symptoms of viral respiratory tract infectious syndromes in diverse populations
    BMC Health Services Research. 2022
  • Unique considerations for the management of gout in the Hmong population: examining tertiary encounters at a large regional health care system
    Arthritis Care & Research. 2022
  • Using advanced racial and ethnic identity demographics to improve surveillance of work-related conditions in an occupational clinic setting
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2022
  • What is success in treatment for opioid use disorder? Perspectives of physicians and patients in primary care settings
    Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2022
  • Association of cardiovascular outcomes and mortality with sustained long-acting insulin only vs long-acting plus short-acting insulin treatment
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • Brief report: Meaning in life is mediated by self-efficacy in the prediction of physical activity
    Journal of Health Psychology. 2021
  • Case series of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for central retinal artery occlusion
    Retinal Cases & Brief Reports. 2021
  • Change in perceived stress and health behaviors of emerging adults in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2021
  • Clinician perceptions about a decision support system to identify and manage opioid use disorder
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2021
  • Comparison of medical school financing plans among matriculating US medical students from 2017 to 2019
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • Cultural and structural features of zero-burnout primary care practices
    Health Affairs. 2021
  • Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam
    Research integrity and peer review. 2021
  • Impact of demographic survey questions on response rate and measurement: a randomized experiment
    Survey Practice. 2021
  • It's important to hear and learn from youth experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities
    MinnPost. 2021
  • It’s important to hear and learn from youth experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities
    MinnPost. 2021
  • Longitudinal assessment of mental health and well-being in patients being treated with medications for opioid use disorder in primary care
    Addictive behaviors reports. 2021
  • Prevalence of cardiovascular disease and risk factors among Somali immigrants and refugees
    Journal of immigrant and minority health. 2021
  • Promoting fish consumption messages: perspectives of hmong women of childbearing age
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2021
  • Promoting the public's health with personal commitment and gun safety policies
    Creative Nursing. 2021
  • Psychosocial needs of parents engaged in treatment for opioid use disorder
    Substance Use and Misuse. 2021
  • Quick cuts: a comparative study of two tools for ring tourniquet removal
    American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021
  • Using a brief tool to assess healthy school environments: a pilot study
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2021
  • A commercially available crime index may be a reliable alternative to actual census-tract crime in an urban area
    Preventive medicine reports. 2020
  • A strategy to promote population-wide life satisfaction while advancing equity
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2020
  • An analysis of changes in emergency department visits after a state declaration during the time of COVID-19
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2020
  • Awareness of meaning in life is protective against burnout among family physicians: a CERA study
    Family Medicine. 2020
  • Characterization of regional poison center utilization through geospatial mapping
    Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020
  • Comparison of mortality and major cardiovascular events among adults with type 2 diabetes using human vs analogue insulins
    JAMA network open. 2020
  • Complementary, integrative, and nondrug therapy use for pain among US military veterans on long-term opioids
    Medical Care. 2020
  • Do physical activity, caloric intake, and sleep vary together day to day? Exploration of intraindividual variability in 3 key health behaviors
    Journal of physical activity & health. 2020
  • Engaging in personally meaningful activities is associated with meaning salience and psychological well-being
    Journal of Positive Psychology. 2020
  • Integrating meaning in life and self-determination theory to predict physical activity adoption in previously inactive exercise initiates enrolled in a randomized trial
    Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 2020
  • Mental health and psychosocial needs of patients being treated for opioid use disorder in a primary care residency clinic
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2020
  • Multiple dimensions of wellness: development and psychometric properties of the Anschutz Wellness Evaluation 360 (AWE360)
    J Well Being Assess. 2020
  • Patient loneliness in an urban, underserved family medicine residency clinic: prevalence and relationship to health care utilization
    Family Practice. 2020
  • Predictors of family medicine patient retention in opioid medication-assisted treatment
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2020
  • Recognizing our local COVID-19 heroes
    MetroDoctors. 2020
  • The effects of financial incentives on diabetes prevention program attendance and weight loss among low-income patients: the We Can Prevent Diabetes cluster-randomized controlled trial
    BMC public health. 2020
  • The evaluating prescription opioid changes in veterans (EPOCH) study: design, survey response, and baseline characteristics
    PloS One. 2020
  • UVR-sensor wearable device intervention to improve sun behaviors and reduce sunburns in melanoma survivors: study protocol of a parallel-group randomized controlled trial
    Trials. 2020
  • Using self-determination theory to understand eating behaviors and weight change in emerging adults
    Eating behaviors. 2020
  • Values-based behavioral activation for chronic pain in primary care: a pilot study
    Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 2020
  • A behavioural economics approach to improving healthy food selection among food pantry clients
    Public Health Nutrition. 2019
  • Availability of bedside and laboratory testing for carbon monoxide poisoning in the upper midwestern United States
    Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2019
  • Esophageal stricture following radiation, concurrent immunochemotherapy, treated with hyperbaric oxygen and dilation
    2019
  • Facilitators and barriers of cervical cancer screening and human papilloma virus vaccination among Somali refugee women in the United States: a qualitative analysis
    Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 2019
  • Perceived workplace health and safety climates: associations with worker outcomes and productivity
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2019
  • Perceptions of research integrity climate differ between academic ranks and disciplinary fields: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam
    PloS One. 2019
  • Predictors of intervention interest among individuals with short sleep duration
    Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2019
  • Responses to a social media campaign promoting safe fish consumption among women
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2019
  • Safety and effectiveness of longer-term phentermine use: clinical outcomes from an electronic health record cohort
    Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2019
  • The 2018 physical activity guidelines for Americans II: associations between social determinants of health and meeting guidelines for physical activity among employees
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2019
  • The 2018 physical activity guidelines for Americans: addressing signal events at the workplace to prevent disease
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2019
  • The health and well-being of an ACO population
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2019
  • The predicted impact of adopting health-promoting behaviors on disease burden in a commercially insured population
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2019
  • Validating a method to assess disease burden from insurance claims
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2019
  • A psychometric approach to theory-based behavior change intervention development: example from the Colorado Meaning-Activity Project
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2018
  • An approach to treating a patient with a HeartMate II left ventricular assist device in a multiplace hyperbaric chamber: a case report
    Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2018
  • Associations of overweight/obesity and socioeconomic status with hypertension prevalence across racial and ethnic groups
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2018
  • Burnout among physicians, advanced practice clinicians and staff in smaller primary care practices
    Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2018
  • Clinical decision support directed to primary care patients and providers reduces cardiovascular risk: a randomized trial
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2018
  • Cost-effectiveness of a community-based diabetes prevention program with participation incentives for medicaid beneficiaries
    Health Services Research. 2018
  • Daily meaning salience and physical activity in previously inactive exercise initiates
    Health Psychology. 2018
  • Do monetary incentives increase fitness center utilization? It depends
    American Journal of Health Promotion. 2018
  • Encouraging health behavior change: eight evidence-based strategies
    Family Practice Management. 2018
  • Evidence review-social determinants of health for veterans
    Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2018
  • Healthy nutrition and dietary considerations for the workplace
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2018
  • Male undergraduates' HPV vaccination behavior: implications for achieving HPV-associated cancer equity
    Journal of Community Health. 2018
  • Mediators of weight loss maintenance in the Keep It Off Trial
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2018
  • Microangiography to monitor treatment outcomes following severe frostbite injury to the hands
    Journal of burn care & research. 2018
  • Mutuality and heart failure self-care in patients and their informal caregivers
    European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 2018
  • Piquing their “Pinterest”: a qualitative study to format and deliver complex fish consumption guidelines to women who are or could become pregnant
    2018
  • Psychometric properties of the postpartum depression screening scale beyond the postpartum period
    Research in Nursing and Health. 2018
  • Supporting families managing parental mental illness: challenges and resources
    International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 2018
  • Understanding primary care provider attitudes and behaviors regarding cardiovascular disease risk and diabetes prevention in the northern midwest
    Clinical Diabetes. 2018
  • Denver Spirited Heart: mixed-methods pilot study of a psychospiritual intervention for heart failure patients
    Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 2017
  • Financial incentives for diabetes prevention in a Medicaid population: study design and baseline characteristics
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2017
  • High rates of severe hypoglycemia among African American patients with diabetes: the surveillance, prevention, and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) network
    Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications. 2017
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the prevention of arterial gas embolism in food grade hydrogen peroxide ingestion
    American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2017
  • Main outcomes of an RCT to pilot test reporting and feedback to foster research integrity climates in the VA
    2017
  • Use and customization of risk scores for predicting cardiovascular events using electronic health record data
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2017
  • "Well-Being in All Policies": promoting cross-sectoral collaboration to improve people's lives
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2016
  • Concordance between life satisfaction and six elements of well-being among respondents to a health assessment survey, HealthPartners Employees, Minnesota, 2011
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2016
  • Congruence of organizational self-score and audit-based organizational assessments of workplace health capabilities: an analysis of the HealthLead Workplace Accreditation
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2016
  • Health, function, and performance benefits of workplace strength training programs
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2016
  • Identifying groups at risk for 1-year membership termination from a fitness center at enrollment
    Preventive medicine reports. 2016
  • Initial results from the Survey of Organizational Research Climates (SOuRCe) in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
    PloS One. 2016
  • Modeled health and economic impact of team-based care for hypertension
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2016
  • New summary measures of population health and well-being for implementation by health plans and accountable care organizations
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2016
  • Proton pump inhibitor use by aspirin-treated coronary artery disease patients is not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events
    European heart journal. Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy. 2016
  • Purpose in life is associated with physical activity measured by accelerometer
    Journal of Health Psychology. 2016
  • Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research Integrity
    Research integrity and peer review. 2016
  • Severe hypoglycemia requiring medical intervention in a large cohort of adults with diabetes receiving care in U.S. integrated health care delivery systems: 2005-2011
    Diabetes care. 2016
  • The financial impact of team-based care on primary care
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2016
  • Using principles of complex adaptive systems to implement secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care
    The Permanente journal. 2016
  • A qualitative study of processes used to implement evidence-based care in a primary care practice
    Family Practice. 2015
  • An innovative approach to informing research: gathering perspectives on diabetes care challenges from an online patient community
    2015
  • Methods for engaging stakeholders in comparative effectiveness research: a patient-centered approach to improving diabetes care
    Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2015
  • Pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention for parents of preschool children: a pilot study
    2015
  • Persistence of smoking-cessation decision support use in a dental practice
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015
  • Prevalence of chronic kidney disease among individuals with diabetes in the SUPREME-DM Project, 2005-2011
    Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications. 2015
  • Preventable major cardiovascular events associated with uncontrolled glucose, blood pressure, and lipids and active smoking in adults with diabetes with and without cardiovascular disease: a contemporary analysis
    Diabetes care. 2015
  • Provider and staff perceptions of veterans' attrition from a national primary care weight management program
    Primary Health Care Research & Development. 2015
  • Sit, stand, learn: using workplace wellness sit-stand results to improve student behavior and learning
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2015
  • Trends in diabetes incidence among 7 million insured adults, 2006-2011: the SUPREME-DM project
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2015
  • Veterans Health Administration's MOVE! Weight Management Program: primary care clinicians' perceptions of program implementation
    Military Medicine. 2015
  • Who must we target now to minimize future cardiovascular events and total mortality? Lessons from the Surveillance, Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) cohort study
    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2015
  • Accuracy of hemoglobin A1c imputation using fasting plasma glucose in diabetes research using electronic health records data
    2014
  • Diabetes care and outcomes for American Indians and Alaska natives in commercial integrated delivery systems: a SUrveillance, PREvention, and ManagEment of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) Study
    BMJ open diabetes research & care. 2014
  • Honoring choices Minnesota: preliminary data from a community-wide advance care planning model
    Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2014
  • Job design and ethnic differences in working women's physical activity
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2014
  • Lipid abnormalities in foreign-born and US-born patients in a medical group
    Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 2014
  • Public and health professionals' misconceptions about the dynamics of body weight gain/loss
    2014
  • Randomized trial of telephone outreach to improve medication adherence and metabolic control in adults with diabetes
    Diabetes care. 2014
  • Self-reported activity and accelerometry in 2 behavior-maintenance trials
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2014
  • Survey of organizational research climates in three research intensive, doctoral granting universities
    Journal of empirical research on human research ethics. 2014
  • The association between optimal lifestyle-related health behaviors and employee productivity
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2014
  • The relationship between physical activity and care-seeking behavior among employed adults
    Journal of physical activity & health. 2014
  • An algorithm that identifies coronary and heart failure events in the electronic health record
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2013
  • Benefits of early hypertension control on cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes
    Diabetes care. 2013
  • Current status and future prospects for electronic point-of-care clinical decision support in diabetes care
    Current Diabetes Reports. 2013
  • Development and validation of the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SORC)
    Science and engineering ethics. 2013
  • Enhancing long-term weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off randomized controlled trial
    Preventive Medicine. 2013
  • Healthy for life: a randomized trial examining physical activity outcomes and psychosocial mediators
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2013
  • Hunger and food insecurity among patients in an urban emergency department
    Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2013
  • Leveraging lifestyle medicine and social policy to extend the triple aim from the clinic into the community
    American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2013
  • Longitudinal and regional trends in paramedic student exposure to advanced airway placement: 2001-2011
    Prehospital Emergency Care. 2013
  • Meeting the million hearts goal
    Minnesota Medicine. 2013
  • Relationships between the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SORC) and self-reported research practices
    Science and engineering ethics. 2013
  • Simple rules that reduce hospital readmission
    The Permanente journal. 2013
  • The effect of price reduction on salad bar purchases at a corporate cafeteria
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2013
  • What research should be addressed? or Moving research forward in RCR: do we dare to study ourselves?
    2013
  • Accuracy of heart disease prevalence estimated from claims data compared with an electronic health record
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2012
  • Construction of a multisite DataLink using electronic health records for the identification, surveillance, prevention, and management of diabetes mellitus: the SUPREME-DM project
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2012
  • Diabetes and asthma case identification, validation, and representativeness when using electronic health data to construct registries for comparative effectiveness and epidemiologic research
    Medical Care. 2012
  • Disparities in potentially avoidable emergency department (ED) care: ED visits for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
    Medical Care. 2012
  • Reducing occupational sitting time and improving worker health: the Take-a-Stand Project, 2011
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2012
  • The simple health system rules that create value
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2012
  • A pilot study evaluating a telephone-based exercise intervention for pregnant and postpartum women
    Journal of midwifery & women's health. 2011
  • Adherence to optimal lifestyle behaviors is related to emotional health indicators among employees
    Population health management. 2011
  • Examining the relationships between family meal practices, family stressors, and the weight of youth in the family
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2011
  • Five payment models: the pros, the cons, the potential
    Minnesota Medicine. 2011
  • Identifying opportunities for a medical group to improve outcomes for patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure: an exploratory study
    The Permanente journal. 2011
  • Keep it off: a phone-based intervention for long-term weight-loss maintenance
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2011
  • Obesogenic family types identified through latent profile analysis
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2011
  • Telephone-based support for weight loss surgery: a practice-based program evaluation
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2011
  • The academic birth rate. Production and reproduction of the research work force, and its effect on innovation and research misconduct
    EMBO reports. 2011
  • The predicted impact of heart disease prevention and treatment initiatives on mortality in Lithuania, a middle-income country
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2011
  • The use of telehealth technology in assessing the accuracy of self-reported weight and the impact of a daily immediate-feedback intervention among obese employees
    International journal of telemedicine and applications. 2011
  • Extending the Mertonian norms: scientists' subscription to norms of research
    The Journal of higher education. 2010
  • Maintaining physical activity among older adults: 24-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial
    Preventive Medicine. 2010
  • Measuring health care access and quality to improve health in populations
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2010
  • Population reach and recruitment bias in a maintenance RCT in physically active older adults
    Journal of physical activity & health. 2010
  • Reasons for not meeting coronary artery disease targets of care in ambulatory practice
    The Permanente journal. 2010
  • Social determinants of health. A call to action for the employer community
    ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2010
  • The association between optimal lifestyle adherence and short-term incidence of chronic conditions among employees
    Population health management. 2010
  • The importance of organizational justice in ensuring research integrity
    Journal of empirical research on human research ethics. 2010
  • The long and winding road to physical activity maintenance
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2010
  • Cardiovascular disease risks in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand
    Journal of immigrant and minority health. 2009
  • Disease management strategies to optimize cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes mellitus
    Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports. 2009
  • Institutions' expectations for researchers' self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior
    Academic Medicine. 2009
  • Readiness of US health plans to manage cardiometabolic risk
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2009
  • Self-weighing promotes weight loss for obese adults
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2009
  • Taking on the social determinants of health: a framework for action
    Minnesota Medicine. 2009
  • Telephone counseling and home telemonitoring: the Weigh by Day Trial
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2009
  • A new approach to physical activity maintenance: rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota Trial
    BMC Geriatrics. 2008
  • Declining patient functioning and caregiver burden/health: the Minnesota stroke survey--quality of life after stroke study
    The Gerontologist. 2008
  • Maintaining physical activity among older adults: six-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial
    Preventive Medicine. 2008
  • Optimizing practice through research: a new perspective to solve an old problem
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2008
  • Partnering care delivery and research to optimize health
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2008
  • Preventing chronic disease risk factors: rationale and feasibility
    Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania). 2008
  • Optimizing practice through research: a preventive services case study
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007
  • Universities and the money fix
    Nature. 2007
  • CardioVision 2020: program acceptance and progress after 4 years
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2006
  • Physical activity optimizing practice through research
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2006
  • Preventing sudden death with n-3 (omega-3) fatty acids and defibrillators
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2006
  • Scientists' perceptions of organizational justice and self-reported misbehaviors
    Journal of empirical research on human research ethics. 2006
  • Health care charges associated with physical inactivity, overweight, and obesity
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2005
  • Randomized trial of quality improvement intervention to improve diabetes care in primary care settings
    Diabetes care. 2005
  • Scientists behaving badly
    Nature. 2005
  • Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different?
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2004
  • Meeting recommendations for multiple healthy lifestyle factors. Prevalence, clustering, and predictors among adolescent, adult, and senior health plan members
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2004
  • Obesity: another wolf at the door?
    Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2004
  • The association between work performance and physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2004
  • Changes in physical activity and short-term changes in health care charges: a prospective cohort study of older adults
    Preventive Medicine. 2003
  • Improving diabetes care and outcomes: the secondary benefits of a public health-managed care research collaboration
    Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2003
  • Smoking cessation attempts in relation to prior health care charges: the effect of antecedent smoking-related symptoms?
    American Journal of Health Promotion. 2003
  • Variation in diabetes care by age: opportunities for customization of care
    BMC Family Practice. 2003
  • Physical inactivity and short-term all-cause mortality in adults with chronic disease
    Archives of Internal Medicine. 2001
  • Variation in clinical preventive services
    Effective Clinical Practice. 2001
  • Effectiveness of monetary incentives for recruiting adolescents to an intervention trial to reduce smoking
    Preventive Medicine. 2000
  • Failure of a continuous quality improvement intervention to increase the delivery of preventive services. A randomized trial
    Effective Clinical Practice. 2000
  • Improving prevention is difficult
    Effective Clinical Practice. 2000
  • Lessons from experienced guideline implementers: attend to many factors and use multiple strategies
    Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 2000
  • Editorial Article
  • Comparative safety and effectiveness of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy for weight loss and type 2 diabetes across race and ethnicity in the PCORnet Bariatric Study cohort [editorial]
    JAMA surgery.  157. 2022
  • Failing cardiovascular health: a population code blue [editorial]
    Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  80. 2022
  • Gun laws: enough is enough [editorial]
    2021
  • Heart disease and stroke: down, but not out [editorial]
    Lancet Reg Health Eur.  7. 2021
  • Bring back the notepads: drawing as an underutilized approach to improving patient comprehension and recall [editorial]
    Patient Education and Counseling.  103. 2020
  • Multiples of median income: a tool to call out drugs that are high cost and low value [editorial]
    The Permanente journal.  24. 2020
  • A body of work, a missed opportunity: dyadic research in older adults [editorial]
    Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  67. 2019
  • Overdue: a US advisory board for research integrity [editorial]
    Nature.  566. 2019
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes by BMI: Patient Outcomes Research To Advance Learning (PORTAL) multisite cohort of adults in the U.S [editorial]
    Diabetes care.  42. 2019
  • Access to affordable housing promotes health and well-being and reduces hospital visits [editorial]
    The Permanente journal.  22. 2018
  • Expanding the scope of research ethics consultation services in safeguarding research integrity: moving beyond the ethics of human subjects research [editorial]
    The American journal of bioethics.  18. 2018
  • Comment on "Improving research misconduct policies" by Redman & Caplan [editorial]
    EMBO reports.  18. 2017
  • Give researchers a lifetime word limit [editorial]
    Nature.  550. 2017
  • Philanthropy and beyond: creating shared value to promote well-being for individuals in their communities [editorial]
    The Permanente journal.  21. 2017
  • Strategies to prioritize clinical options in primary care [editorial]
    Annals of Family Medicine.  15. 2017
  • Counterpoint: Teamwork is the best medicine, not "autonomy" [editorial]
    2016
  • Here's how we can end extortionate drug price increases. Runaway medication costs are the fastest-growing driver of health-care expenses [editorial]
    2016
  • A paradox of well-being [editorial]
    2015
  • A commentary on: "Comparative health systems research among Kaiser Permanente and other integrated delivery systems: a systematic literature review" [editorial]
    The Permanente journal.  18. 2014
  • Personalized and prioritized diabetes treatment recommendations to reduce cardiovascular risk [editorial]
    2014
  • Prevent the next generation of nicotine addiction [editorial]
    2014
  • The adoption of quality indicators [editorial]
    Health Affairs.  33. 2014
  • Four opportunities to prevent diabetes and coronary heart disease [editorial]
    Diabetes Spectrum.  26. 2013
  • Optimizing the health of mothers, infants, and communities through research [editorial]
    Mayo Clinic Proceedings.  88. 2013
  • Patient preferences in diabetes care: overcoming barriers using new strategies [editorial]
    Journal of comparative effectiveness research.  2. 2013
  • Reversing the slide in US health outcomes and deteriorating health care economics [editorial]
    Mayo Clinic Proceedings.  88. 2013
  • Medicine is a social science in its very bone and marrow [editorial]
    Mayo Clinic Proceedings.  86. 2011
  • The lessons of COURAGE (Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation)
    Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  58. 2011
  • The need for social epidemiology: now as much as ever [editorial]
    Annals of Epidemiology.  21. 2011
  • A theoretical comparison of the models of prevention of research misconduct [editorial]
    Accountability in research.  17. 2010
  • Power in the study of mortality and necrotizing soft tissue infections [editorial]
    Surgical Infections.  11. 2010
  • Does prevention save money [editorial]?
    Health Affairs.  28. 2009
  • Health care reform? Don't forget the simple things that matter most [editorial]
    2009
  • Chapter
  • Case study: the power of community in population health: PowerUp for kids
    Population health: creating a culture of wellness. 2015
  • Causation of common cardiovascular problems
    AMA guides to the evaluation of diseases and injury causation. 2013
  • Getting from regulatory compliance to genuine integrity: have we looked upstream?
    Practical guidance on science and engineering ethics education for instructors and administrators: papers and summary from a workshop. 2013
  • Health promotion in health systems
    Lifestyle medicine. 2013
  • Diabetes
    Chronic disease epidemiology and control. 2010
  • Conference Poster
  • Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among firefighters: application of the Health Belief Model [poster]
    2023
  • Factors associated with Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compliance and weight loss among low-income participants [poster]
    2019
  • A randomized controlled trial of emergency department dental care vouchers to improve care and reduce return visits [poster]
    2017
  • Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: challenges to appropriate use [poster]
    2017
  • How should we evaluate cardiac risk in the older asymptomatic scuba diver [poster]?
    2017
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the prevention of arterial gas embolism in food grade hydrogen peroxide ingestion [poster]
    2017
  • Iatrogenic arterial gas embolism case series treated with hyperbaric oxygen [poster]
    2017
  • Improvements in teamwork, care quality and patient safety through the implementation of an emergent hyperbaric treatment checklist [poster]
    2017
  • Successful treatment of a patient with a left ventricular assist device with hperbaric oxygen at 2.4 ATA [poster]
    2017
  • What factors facilitate weight loss among Medicaid beneficiaries participating in the diabetes prevention program [poster]?
    2017
  • Case series of patients with central retinal artery obstruction with the diagnosis confirmed with bedside ultrasound [poster]
    2016
  • Fluorescence microangiography to guide management of non-healing wounds [poster]
    2016
  • Prospective study of mucosal atomizer device use on myringotomy patency [poster]
    2016
  • Awake, anesthetized myringotomy: a retrospective case series from a new standard of practice [poster]
    2015
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for central retinal artery occluation (CRAO): improved outcomes in a retrospective case series [poster]
    2015
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is associated with improved mortality in necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs): a retrospective case-control study in two urban hospitals [poster]
    2015
  • Initial results from the Survey of Organizational Research Climates (SOuRCe) in the VA [poster]
    2015
  • Intensive community engagement to address cardiovascular disease risk factors in a disadvantaged refugee population [poster]
    2015
  • Triple-aim hotspots: neighborhood factors in potentially avoidable emergency department visits and costs [poster]
    2015
  • Hotspots of triple aim opportunity: identifying geographic clusters of potentially preventable emergency department visits and costs [poster]
    2014
  • Implementation of evidence-based cardiac care in a primary care practice [poster]
    2014
  • Morbidity and mortality in necrotizing soft tissue infections (INSTIs): hyperbaric oxygen versus standard therapy in two urban hospitals [poster]
    2014
  • Timing and impact of transition from pediatric to adult care on glycemic control among adolescents and young adults with diabetes: results from the SUPREME-DM pilot study [poster]
    2014
  • A project to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to hotspot preventable, high-cost conditions and potential community health solutions [poster]
    2013
  • Association between healthy food availability and emergency department presentations for diet-related illness [poster]
    2013
  • Frequency of CV Wizard use and gender disparity [poster]
    2013
  • Healthy neighborhoods and the emergency department: is neighborhood healthy food availability associated with emergency department presentations for diet-related illness [poster]?
    2013
  • Inter-hospital transfer vectors and the de-facto regionalization of specialty care [poster]
    2013
  • Morbidity and mortality in necrotizing soft tissue infections: hyperbaric oxygen versus standard therapy in two urban hospitals [poster]
    2013
  • An algorithm that identifies coronary and heart failure events in the electronic health record [poster]
    2012
  • Aspirin decision support using data-driven treatment algorithms [poster]
    2012
  • Associations between healthy food availability and emergency department presentations for diet-related illness [poster]
    2012
  • Benefits from an innovative approach to acute low back pain treatment in primary care [poster]
    2012
  • Enhancing weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off trial [poster]
    2012
  • Impact of pricing change on cafeteria salad bar purchases [poster]
    2012
  • Improving disparities in pain control in the Emergency Department [poster]
    2012
  • Lipid patterns among foreign and U.S. born patients in a medical group [poster]
    2012
  • We can prevent diabetes in Minnesota [poster]
    2012
  • Designing a patient interface for shared decision support [poster]
    2011
  • Does depression status impact recognition, treatment, or control of hypertension [poster]?
    2011
  • Provider and staff beliefs and attitudes about creating care systems for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in a private medical group [poster]
    2011
  • The relationship between physical activity and care seeking behavior among employed adults [poster]
    2011
  • Changes in cognitive function and plasma biomarkers in a pilot trial of a multi-domain intervention to prevent cognitive decline [poster]
    2010
  • EHR-based clinical decision support for assessing cardiovascular risk [poster]
    2010
  • Optimal lifestyle adherence and 2-year incidence of chronic conditions [poster]
    2010
  • Physical activity maintenance [poster]
    2010
  • Prevalence of self-reported and observed misconduct in western countries [poster]
    2010
  • Cardiovascular disease surveillance to optimize care: pros and cons of a managed care research network system [poster]
    2009
  • Prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand [poster]
    2007
  • Review
  • America's racial reckoning within perinatal communication: a rapid review using sociotechnical systems theory to compare publications before and after 2020 [review]
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2023
  • Economics of team-based care for blood pressure control: updated Community Guide Systematic Review [review]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2023
  • Pharmacist interventions for medication adherence: Community Guide economic reviews for cardiovascular disease [review]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022
  • Priorities Wizard: multisite web-based primary care clinical decision support improved chronic care outcomes with high use rates and high clinician satisfaction rates [review]
    EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019
  • Harnessing centred identity transformation to reduce executive function burden for maintenance of health behaviour change: the Maintain IT model [review]
    Health Psychology Review. 2018
  • Family caregiving for persons with heart failure at the intersection of heart failure and palliative care: a state-of-the-science review [review]
    Heart Failure Reviews. 2017
  • Obesity treatment at HealthPartners: adaptation of clinical guidelines into systems for practice operations [review]
    Current obesity reports. 2016
  • Clinical decision support systems and prevention: a Community Guide cardiovascular disease systematic review [review]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015
  • Economics of team-based care in controlling blood pressure: a Community Guide systematic review [review, systematic review]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015
  • Reducing medication costs to prevent cardiovascular disease: a community guide systematic review [review, systematic review]
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2015
  • The impact of relationship quality on health-related outcomes in heart failure patients and informal family caregivers: an integrative review [review]
    Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 2015
  • Team-based care and improved blood pressure control: a Community Guide systematic review [review, systematic review]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2014
  • Physical activity promotion as a strategic corporate priority to improve worker health and business performance [review]
    Preventive Medicine. 2009
  • Preventing and managing cardiometabolic risk: the logic for intervention [review]
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2009
  • The comparative effectiveness of heart disease prevention and treatment strategies [review]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2009
  • A clinical practice guideline for treating tobacco use and dependence: 2008 update. A U.S. Public Health Service report [meta-analysis]
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2008
  • Abstract
  • Using implementation science to identify clinician-reported barriers to discussing safe fish consumption during routine prenatal care [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • A web-based clinical decision support system (Wizard) increases appropriate cardiometabolic diagnostic coding at primary care visits [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Dissemination and sustained use of an outpatient clinical decision system with high use rates, high clinician satisfaction, and positive impact on quality of care [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Variation in care improvement opportunities suggests need for tailored clinician-specific improvement interventions [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • A comparison of the impact of the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines on primary care populations with and without diabetes [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2018
  • Impact of human versus analog insulins on occurrence of myocardial infarction [abstract]
    Diabetologia. 2017
  • Rethinking the standard of care for patients with central retinal artery occlusion [abstract]
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2017
  • All is not equal...or is it? Targeting uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors in racial and ethnic populations to prevent major cardiovascular events [abstract]
    Diabetologia. 2016
  • Can financial incentives prevent diabetes in a low-income population? [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Comparative effectiveness of two diabetes clinical decision support systems on cardiometabolic outcomes and CV risk: randomized trial [abstract 2304-PUB]
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Designing outpatient diabetes care clinical decision support systems for high use rates [abstract 2309-PUB]
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Overuse and underuse of acetyl-salicylic acid for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes [abstract]
    Diabetologia. 2016
  • Are composite measures of diabetes quality of care associated with major CV events [abstract 440-P]?
    Diabetes. 2015
  • How to minimize future CV events and total mortality in adults with diabetes: lessons from the 10,000,000 person-year SUPREME Cohort Study [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Implementation of an electronic dental record tool to increase referrals to a tobacco counseling quit line [abstract]
    Implementation science. 2015
  • Severe hypoglycemia in a large cohort of adults with diabetes mellitus treated in U.S. integrated health care delivery systems, 2005-2011 [abstract 390-P]
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Surveillance of cardiovascular events and total mortality among insured adults with and without diabetes: the SUPREME Cohort Study [abstract 55-OR]
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Association of missed outpatient appointments and emergency department visits and inpatient admissions [abstract]
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2014
  • Healthy food availability is associated with neighborhood incidence of emergency department visits for diet-related illnesses [abstract]
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2014
  • Randomized trial of telephone outreach to improve medication adherence and metabolic control in adults with diabetes [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2014
  • Aspirin decision support using data-driven treatment algorithms [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Diabetes prevalence among 2.4 million health maintenance organisation (HMO) members < 20 years of age, 2005-2009: the SUPREME-DM project [abstract]
    Diabetologia. 2012
  • Diabetes prevalence among 7 million adult HMO members, 2005-2009: The SUPREME-DM Project [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Experiences in designing a simple education interface for shared decision support for cardiovascular risk [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Five-year incidence of diabetes among 6.7 million adult HMO members: the SUPREME-DM Project [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Prevalence of elevated blood pressure and BMI in U.S. children and adolescents [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Spatial information, geographic information systems (GIS), and geo-spatial methods in public health and emergency care research [abstract]
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2012
  • Use of electronic health records to estimate 5-year incidence of diabetes among health maintenance organization (HMO) members <20 years of age: the SUPREME-DM Project [abstract]
    Pediatric Diabetes. 2012
  • Changes in physical activity and nutrition in a behavioral intervention pilot study - passport to brain wellness [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Comparing characteristics of adults who successfully lost weight using exercise vs. non-exercise focused methods [abstract]
    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2010
  • Disease management strategies to optimize cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes mellitus [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Does physical activity promote positive body image in recent weight losers [abstract]?
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • Enhancing long-term weight loss maintenance: Keep It Off trial design and baseline data [abstract]
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • Increasing rate of patients who are homeless and have unstable living situations presenting to the emergency department at an urban county hospital between 2007 and 2009 [abstract]
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2010
  • Increasing rate of the experience of hunger among patients presenting to the emergency department at an urban county medical center [abstract]
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2010
  • Pilot study of sleep disturbance and lung disease in older adults [abstract]
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2010
  • Readiness of U.S. health plans to manage cardiometabolic risk [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • The long and winding road to physical activity maintenance: theory-driven mediation analysis in the Keep Active Minnesota (KAM) trial [abstract]
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • Disease management strategies to optimize cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes mellitus [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2009
  • Longitudinal analysis of the Minnesota Homeless Survey data 1991-2006: changing associations between emergency department usage, shelter type, chronic illness, and access to services [abstract]
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2009
  • Two-year outcomes of a physical activity maintenance RCT in 50 to 70-year-old adults [abstract]
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2009
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