Systems science
Mentor Name |
Institution/Department |
Research Interests |
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 |
Dori Cross, PhD |
UMN, SPH, HPM |
Use of IT to improve care coordination and transitions of care; the role of informatics in implementation and quality improvement; implementation outcomes evaluation |
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 |
Dori Cross, PhD |
UMN, SPH, HPM |
Use of IT to improve care coordination and transitions of care; the role of informatics in implementation and quality improvement; implementation outcomes evaluation |
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.