Core Mentors by Competency Area

Systems science

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Bjorn Berg, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Health care operations, medical decision-making, health care scheduling, stochastic optimization, simulation
Susan Hallbeck, PhD	MC, HSR, CSHCD	Medical device ergonomics improvement, teamwork, health care ergonomics, and lean health care systems
Kate Diaz Vickery, MD, MSc	HCMC, CPPE	Multi-disciplinary care teams, interactions among health care, social services, public health, education, employment, and other sectors to produce health
Nathan D. Shippee, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Intersection of social, medical, and mental/behavioral health factors for patient outcomes, Cumulative Complexity Model – a framework for conceptualizing, measuring, and addressing patient complexity, and practice-based research
Kalyan Pasupathy, PhD	MC, HSR, CSHCD	Translating evidence through better prediction and new heuristics within decision support systems, improving surgical utilization and reducing cost, systems science and health informatics
Michael Finch, PhD	CMRI	Cost, quality, and financing of health care in public and private markets, and in long-term and integrative care

Research questions and standards of scientific evidence

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Timothy Wilt, MD, MPH	MVAHCS, CCDOR	Evidenced-based chronic disease management, Clinical Practice Guidelines
Mary Butler, PhD, MBA	UMN, SPH, HPM	Scientific evidence standards, research design and systematic review methodology, evidence-informed health care
M. Hassan Murad, MD	MC, DOM, CSHCD	Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, meta-regression, meta-narrative synthesis, and clinical practice guideline development
Elyse Olshen Kharbanda, MD, MPH	HPI	Vaccine and drug safety in pregnancy and clinical decision support

Research methods

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Andrea Cheville, MD	MC, PM&R	Delivery of supportive care services to optimize the functionality and quality-of-life for patients with cancer in all disease stages
Ezra Golberstein, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Health economics, quantitative methods, practice-based studies/real-world evaluation
Karen Kuntz, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Chronic diseases, decision analysis, simulation modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, cancer screening
Timothy Barnes, PhD, MPH	CMRI	Program evaluation, social determinants of health, environmental factors
Rebekah Pratt, PhD	UMN, FMCH	Qualitative methods, mixed methods research, health disparities and equity
Bijan Borah, PhD	MC, HSR, CSHCD	Observational comparative effectiveness research, econometric analysis
J. Michael Oakes, PhD	UMN, SPH, EpiCH	Applied methodology, study design and analytic methods within LHS, research ethics

Informatics

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Daryl Kor, MD	MC, DOM, CSHCD	Medical informatics and the electronic medical record to facilitate knowledge discovery and implementation of best practices to improve quality of care in the perioperative environment with specific emphasis on the ICU
Patrick O’Connor, MD, MA, MPH	HPI	Clinical decision support for primary care providers and patients, and electronic medical records
Ognjen Gajic, MD	MC, DOM	Health care delivery, simulation modeling and informatics in the ICU
Serguei Pakhomov, PhD	UMN, IHI, PCHS	Evaluating and developing novel computational approaches to natural speech and language processing in the medical domain, including text of medical records and language produced by patients during cognitive testing
Sripriya Rajamani, PhD, MBBS, MPH	UMN, SPH, HPM	Public health informatics, the impact of information technology in public health practice and population health
Joel Farley, PhD	UMN, Pharm	Pharmaceutical outcomes research using secondary medical claims data
Elizabeth Habermann, PhD	MC, HSR, CSHCD	Use of statistical modeling and existing data to better predict surgical patients at risk for complications or mortality
Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH	UMN, SPH, HPM	Access to health care and use and outcomes of that care using Medicare administrative claims data
Irina Haller, PhD, MS	EIRH	Utilization of large administrative data sets and electronic health records in the study of rural and minority health

Ethics of research and implementation in health systems

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Richard Sharp, PhD	MC, HSR, BEP, CIM	Increasing public trust in biomedical research through community engagement and outreach, establishing best practices for clinical and research ethics consultation services
Jon Tilburt, MD	MC, BEP, DOM	Promoting ethical models of research partnerships with American Indian and Alaska Native communities
Sarah Gollust, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Ethical challenges in public health practice, ethics of clinician communication
Brian Martinson, PhD	HPI	Systems science and simulation, research integrity and its relationship to the structural organization of science

Improvement and implementation science

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Hildi Hagedorn, PhD	MVAHCS, CCDOR	Critical analysis of implementation theory and action-oriented implementation intervention design
Joseph Gaugler, PhD	UMN, SON	Alzheimer’s disease and long-term care, community-based and psychosocial services for chronically ill adults and their caregiving families
Joan Griffin, PhD	MC, HSR, CSHCD	Measuring family engagement in chronic disease management, impact of health literacy on patient experiences and behavior in care
Lila Rutten, PhD	MC, HSR, CSHCD	Implementation of cancer prevention strategies in primary care practices, survey research methods
Katie White, EdD, MBA	UMN, SPH, HPM	Effectiveness of implementation of team-based innovative approaches to health care delivery
Roberto Benzo, MD	MC, DOM, MCCC	Developing and testing interventions that promote a participatory model of care, fosters self-awareness and consciousness of human behavior
Kathleen Harder, PhD	UMN, Design	Designing work processes to foster better patient outcomes, designing technology to enhance work processes
Anupam Kharbanda, MD, MSc	CMRI	Management of children in the emergency department setting through the use of clinical decision rules

Engagement, leadership, and research management

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Kathleen Call, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Equity, methods, access to care, community engaged research
Tetyana Shippee, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Aging, equity, quality of life, long-term care, community engaged research
Aaron Leppin, MD, MSc	MC, HSR	Building communities’ capacity to deliver at scale evidence-based health promotion programs, community stakeholder engagement
James Begun, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Leadership, management, teamwork, organizational theory and behavior, population health, complexity science
Gordon Mosser, MD, MLitt	UMN, SPH, HPM	Interprofessional teamwork, leadership, process Improvement, statistics for quality improvement
Christi Patten, PhD	MC, Psych, MCCC, CCaTS	Community-based participatory research to reduce health disparities among underserved populations

Health disparities and equity

Mentor Name	Institution/Department	Research Interests
Diana Burgess, PhD	MVAHCS, CCDOR	Pain and disparities, use of mindfulness-based interventions for chronic pain, provider unintentional or implicit bias
Rachel Hardeman, PhD	UMN, SPH, HPM	Role of the clinician, health care delivery systems, and the policy environment in reducing disparities in outcomes and quality of health care
Carmen Radecki-Breitkopf, PhD	MC, HSR, MCCC	Understanding and reducing disparities in health that may result from patient-related factors, psychological and behavioral aspects of cancer prevention among minority and vulnerable populations
Elizabeth Rogers, MD	HCMC, CPPE	Improving how safety-net primary care clinics support patients in self-management of diabetes made complex by concurrent social, behavioral, and medical issues
Tyler Winkelman, MD, MSc	HCMC, CPPE	Impact of health insurance and health care services for low-income individuals, particularly those with a history of criminal justice involvement

NOTES: HPM: Division of Health Policy and Management; SPH: School of Public Health; SoN: School of Nursing; EpiCH: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health; HSR: Department of Health Science Research; CIM: Center for Individualized Medicine; CSHCD: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery; CCaTS: Mayo Center for Clinical and Translational Science; CPPE: Center for Provider and Patient Experience; CMRI: Children’s Minnesota Research Institute; HPI: HealthPartners Institute; DOM: Mayo Department of Internal Medicine; MVAHCS: Minneapolis VA Health Care System; CCDOR: Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research; FMCH: Family Medicine and Community Health; PM&R: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; IHI: Institute for Health Informatics; EIRH: Essentia Institute for Rural Health; BEP: Biomedical Ethics Program; PCHS: Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems; MCCC: Mayo Clinic Cancer Center; HSR: Mayo Clinic Department of Health Sciences Research.