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Desai, Jay R., PhD, MPH
Former Research Investigator
About

Joined the Institute: 2011

Education and training: PhD and MPH (epidemiology), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Overview/research interests: Chronic disease epidemiology, prevention and quality improvement in adults and children, including diabetes, diabetes prevention, cardiovascular disease, and cancer prevention; health equity research; clinical decision support for primary care providers and patients; dissemination and implementation research; large electronic health record studies; and mHealth interventions.

Current research activities and funding:

  • Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in Prediabetes Patients Using EHR-Based Decision Support Cardiovascular Benefits and Safety of Glucose-Lowering Therapies in Adults with Diabetes
  • Minnesota Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Diabetes
  • Prioritized Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
  • The Patient Outcomes Research to Advance Learning (PORTAL) Network Adult Overweight and Obesity Cohort
  • NIH Health Delivery Systems Center for Diabetes Translational Research
  • Multi-Level Communication Strategies for HPV Vaccination in Hmong Adolescents
  • A Path to Identifying Effective Treatments for Hmong Adults Suffering from Gout and Gout Related Co-Morbidities

Publications
Publications While At HealthPartners
selected publications
Journal Article
  • Preoperative depression status and 5 year metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes in the PCORnet Bariatric Study cohort. 
    Annals of Surgery. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Implementing a prediabetes clinical decision support system in a large primary care system: design, methods, and pre-implementation results. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 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
  • Association of cardiovascular outcomes and mortality with sustained long-acting insulin only vs long-acting plus short-acting insulin treatment. 
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • A commercially available crime index may be a reliable alternative to actual census-tract crime in an urban area. 
    Preventive medicine reports. 2020
  • Comparison of mortality and major cardiovascular events among adults with type 2 diabetes using human vs analogue insulins. 
    JAMA network open. 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
  • 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
  • Safety and effectiveness of longer-term phentermine use: clinical outcomes from an electronic health record cohort. 
    Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2019
  • Associations of overweight/obesity and socioeconomic status with hypertension prevalence across racial and ethnic groups. 
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 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
  • Male undergraduates' HPV vaccination behavior: implications for achieving HPV-associated cancer equity. 
    Journal of Community Health. 2018
  • Understanding primary care provider attitudes and behaviors regarding cardiovascular disease risk and diabetes prevention in the northern midwest. 
    Clinical Diabetes. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • An innovative approach to informing research: gathering perspectives on diabetes care challenges from an online patient community. 
    Interactive journal of medical research. 2015
  • Methods for engaging stakeholders in comparative effectiveness research: a patient-centered approach to improving diabetes care. 
    Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 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
  • Trends in diabetes incidence among 7 million insured adults, 2006-2011: the SUPREME-DM project. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 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
  • Randomized trial of telephone outreach to improve medication adherence and metabolic control in adults with diabetes. 
    Diabetes care. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cardiovascular disease risks in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand. 
    Journal of immigrant and minority health. 2009
  • Randomized trial of quality improvement intervention to improve diabetes care in primary care settings. 
    Diabetes care. 2005
  • Diabetic patients who smoke: are they different?. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2004
  • Improving diabetes care and outcomes: the secondary benefits of a public health-managed care research collaboration. 
    Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2003
  • Variation in diabetes care by age: opportunities for customization of care. 
    BMC Family Practice. 2003
    • 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
  • 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
  • Personalized and prioritized diabetes treatment recommendations to reduce cardiovascular risk [editorial]
    2014
  • Patient preferences in diabetes care: overcoming barriers using new strategies [editorial]. 
    Journal of comparative effectiveness research.  2. 2013
    • Chapter
  • Diabetes. 
    Chronic disease epidemiology and control. 2010
    • Conference Paper
  • Prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand
    2007
    • Conference Poster
  • Factors associated with Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compliance and weight loss among low-income participants [poster]
    2019
  • Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: challenges to appropriate use [poster]
    2017
  • What factors facilitate weight loss among Medicaid beneficiaries participating in the diabetes prevention program [poster]?
    2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand [poster]
    2007
    • Review
  • 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
    • Abstract
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Randomized trial of telephone outreach to improve medication adherence and metabolic control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
    • presentations
    Presentation
  • Addressing missing data and clinical relapse can improve composite diabetes quality of care measure [presentation], HMO Research Network 20th Annual Conference: Embedded Research to Improve Health
  • Benefits of early versus later hypertension treatment and control on cardiovascular outcomes in those with diabetes: clinical and research implications [presentation], HMO Research Network (HMORN) 18th Annual Conference--Learning Health Care Systems: Leading Through Research
  • Chronic diseases in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand [presentation], HealthPartners Celebration of Research Annual Conference
  • Comparative cardiovascular safety of human versus analog insulins [presentation], EDEG (European Diabetes Epidemiology Group) 2017 Meeting
  • Declining rates of major cardiovascular events in adults with and without diabetes: 2005-2011 [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research 18th Annual Conference
  • Declining rates of major cardiovascular events in adults with and without diabetes: 2005-2011 [presentation] , HMO Research Network 20th Annual Conference: Embedded Research to Improve Health
  • Diabetes registries for CER, surveillance and other research purposes [presentation], The Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum Methods Symposium
  • Do financial incentives improve diabetes prevention program outcomes among Medicaid beneficiaries? The We Can Prevent Diabetes Study [presentation], AcademyHealth 2017 Annual Research Meeting
  • Health informatics technology in diabetes care [presentation], Diabetes Translation Research -NIH/NIDDK
  • Impact of human versus analog insulins on mortality and occurrence of myocardial infarction [presentation], Third Cardiovascular Outcome Trial (CVOT) Summit of the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease (D&CVD) EASD Study Group
  • Impact of human versus analog insulins on occurrence of myocardial infarction [presentation], CVOT (Cardiovascular Outcome Trial) 3rd Summit of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease - EASD Study Group
  • Multi-site diabetes registry using electronic health records: identification, validation, and representativeness [presentation], Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum Symposium: Building an Electronic Clinical Data Infrastructure to Improve Patient Outcomes
  • Point-of-care prioritized clinical decision support reduces cardiovascular risk in adults with elevated cardiovascular risk: randomized trial [presentation], Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, 10th Annual
  • Recent trends in CV risk factor control and CV risk in adults with diabetes [presentation], European Diabetes Epidemiology Group 2016 Annual Meeting
  • SUPREME-DM: surveillance, prevention, and management of diabetes mellitus. The diabetes datalink. Practical applications, challenges, and opportunities: how registries can help support a learning healthcare system [presentation], Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
  • SUrveillance, PREvention, and ManagEment of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM): trends in myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, and all-cause mortality in patients with and without diabetes, 2005-2011 [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research Conference
  • Using CV wizard to reduce CV risk in adults [presentation], Geek Talk, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation
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    Publications
    Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at HealthPartners. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
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