Research Interests

We are interested in learning more about our faculty's research interests. Please complete this brief survey to provide your input. 

Research Interests by Topic:

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Research Interests by Faculty Member:

Suraj A. Achar, MD

• Sports medicine (anabolic steroid use, performance enhancers, adolescent health)
• Medicine and the law
• Drug-drug interactions
  
• Delay in diagnosis
  
• Pediatric and adolescent sports medicine
• Advanced MRI techniques for OA AND MENISCAL TEAR
• Sports medicine (anabolic steroid use, performance enhancers, adolescent health)
• Medicine and the law
• Drug-drug interactions
• Delay in diagnosis

Timothy Barounis, MD

• Obstetrics
• Family Medicine
• Medical ethics
  

David Bazzo, MD

• Sport med
• Physician quality
• Aging physician
  

Ellen Beck, MD

• Health care of underserved
  

Patricia Brady, MD

• Primary Care
• Ob/GYN
• Women's health
• Obesity
• Pregnancy
• Exercise
• Medical student education
• Tuburculosis
  

Julie Celebi, MD

• Family centered maternity care
• LGBT healthcare/disparities, and inter-professional education/collaboration
• Shared decision-making
  

Laura DiPaolo, MD 

• Aging
• Sleep
• Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
• Nutrition
• Resident education
  

Amelia Eastman, MD

• Sports concussion
• Back pain in workers
• Validating objective physical activity and performance measures

Rina Edi, MD

• Smoking cessation (Individual and population based approaches to smoking cessation, long term e-cigarette use and smoking cessation, physician attitudes and use of E-cigarettes)
• Women's Health (Point of care testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea)

Melanie Fiorella, MD

• Primary Care
• Ob/GYN

Jake Fleming, MD

• Mind-body connection
• Global health in Fiji

David Folsom, MD, MPH

• Health care of older homeless

Geneen Gin, DO

• Primary Care
• Ob/GYN

Amy Guigliano, MD

• Family Medicine

Esmatullah Hatamy, MD

• Development of patient education materials (for Afghanis)

Tyson Ikeda, MD

• Primary care education
• Group medical visits
• "Energy" (diet, exercise)
• Patient centered medical home

Michelle Johnson, MD

• Health Disparities
• Quality Improvement and Patient Satisfaction
• Medical Student Education

Martin Kabongo, MD, PhD

• Primary care
• Community-based research
• Dermatology training
• Global Health
• Error prevention

Gene Kallenberg, MD

• Chronic disease management (diabetes)
• Mental/behavioral health and primary care: screening approaches; collaborative care
• Health services: Continuity of care and panel complexity

Hollis King, DO, PhD

• Traumatic Brain Injury, Intraocular Pressure Lowering in Glaucoma, Parkinson's disease, dementia/Alzheimer's, balance and equilibrium, plagiocephaly in children, prenatal OMT, the doctor-patient relationship, and cranial manipulation

Mike Kurisu, DO

• Osteopathic Medicine (Glaucoma Intraocular pressure study, BI headache study, Parkinsons Disease Study, Quantified Osteopathic Self)
• Integrative Medicine (Technology and Integrative Medicine)

Robert Y. Lee, MD

• Family Medicine
• Chronic diseases

Amy Leu, DO

• Sports medicine
• Injury prevention
• Functional movement

Dustin Lillie, MD

• Health services research
• Health care variations
• QI/Practice redesign
• Shared decision making

Kurt Lindeman, MD

• Combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry Residency training
• Integration of Mental Health care into Primary Care
• Teaching Primary Care residents
• Mental Health Care

Sarah Linke, PhD, MPH

• Development, implementation, and evaluation of health behavior treatments/interventions
• Multiple health behavior change
• Mental health (depression, anxiety) and substance use disorders
• Implementation and dissemination research, including practice-based research in the clinic

Zephon Lister, PhD

• Integrated behavioral health/Medical Family Therapy, Couple relationships and chronic illness, Religion and family functioning, Trauma informed couples therapy

Allison Lynch, MD

• Promotion of exercise in practice

Marianne McKennett, MD

• Cancer prevention
• Underserved

Sarah Merrill, MD

• Musculoskeletal injuries and rehabilitation
• Nutrition
• Patient experience and integrative medicine
• Dr-patient communication
• Shared decision making

Roger Mignosa, DO

• Gait, Balance, Coordination
• Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization
• Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussions

Cassandra Morn, MD

• Health behavior/maintenance
• Patient education
• Practice improvement/registries

William Norcross, MD

• Assessment of Physician Competence/Director of the PACE Program
• Depression awareness/suicide prevention
• Prevention and management of disruptive physician behavior
• Antecedents and characteristics of physicians who are disciplined
• Evaluation of single medical record entries
• Validity of PACE assessment outcomes

Richard Novotny, MD

• Underserved populations including Global Health in Tijuana, human trafficking, naloxone training of high risk populations (homeless, IVDU, etc)

Chad Osborne, MD

• EMR effects on docs and ways to minimize EMR fatigue
• UTI treatment
• Sleep medicine

Akbar Rahman, MD, MPH

• Health Policy (Defensive Medicine, Tort Reform, P4P)
• Global Health

Natalie Rodriguez, MD

• Adolescent medicine training for residents - specifically around contraception/LARC's (long acting reversible contraception)

Rebecca Rosen, MD

• Women's health/TABs -reproductive health
• Increasing Peds numbers in our Fam Med clinics
• Patient-doctor relationship
• OB
• Menopause

Elizabeth Rosenblum, MD

• Reproductive Medicine
• Vaccination

Holly Salzman, MD

• Primary care including developing countries
• International health

Gordon Saxe, MD

• Integrative Medicine

Robert (Chris) Searles, MD

• FM-Pysc Residency program
• Underserved and community based medicine

Alan Shahtaji, DO

• Sports-related concussion
• Nutrition for prevention and treatment
• Low carb high fat diet
• Use of exercise as medicine
• Format of M&M and peer review: changing from a punitive and individual error concept to root cause analysis and system-based discussion
• MSK medicine in general and also specifically injury prevention, hamstring injuries and sports performance
• Community engagement
• OMT

William Sieber, PhD

• Survey methods for psychological well-being and behavior change
• Behavioral medicine
• Mental health screening
• Collaborative care
• Chronic disease/diabetes/obesity

Katrin Seifert, PsyD

• Integrated primary care implementation and outcomes
• Multidisciplinary chronic pain management
• Trauma and primary care
• Screening in primary care

Daniel Slater, MD

• Prevention/epidemiology
• Chronic disease
• Mental health
• Cancer
• Autoimmune diseases
• Smoking/addicition
• Nutrion/exercise
• Vitmains/supplements
• Integrative medicine
• Latino health
• Behavior change – patients and physicians

Sunny Smith, MD

• Patient and student outcomes in student-run free clinics
• Food insecurity
• Underserved medicine
• Academic communities
• Medical student education

Kenneth S. Taylor, MD

• Primary care
• Sports medicine
• Sports Ultrasound
• Performance Testing/Exercise Testing, Baseball
• International health

Christine Thorne, MD, MPH

• Cardiovascular disease prevention
• Dissemination and Implementation of best practices in chronic disease management
• Health Services Research

Mary Wang, MD

• Family Medicine
• Women's Health

Regina Wang, MD

• Family Medicine
• International health
• Women's health

Lesley Wilkinson, MD

• Primary care
• Clinical practice management
• St. Vincent de Paul Village
• Clinical quality/how to improve clinical functioning, quality improvement
• Chronic care: chronic care visits, group medical visits, registries, doctor-patient communications area, Scribe research

Jennifer Wu, MD, MS Ed

• Primary care
• Obstetrics
• Domestic violence
• Women's health (e.g. Vitamin D effect on pregnancy, breastfeeding, future health)
• Breast CA consortium