Research



      

 


he following is a list of faculty research interests and research projects within the division of general internal medicine. Each links to the appropriate faculty member or research project page. Select the first letter of a topic to go directly to that section of the index:

A B C D E F G H I-J K L M-N O P Q R S T U V W-Z

A
Addiction treatment in medical settings
ADHD in adults
Aging and dementia
Agriculture, occupational health in
AIDS care
Alcoholism prevention
Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Registry
Ambulatory care
Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (A.C.Q.U.I.P.)
Ambulatory conditions, common
Ambulatory medicine
Androgens in aging
Androgens in orthopedic surgery
Antibiotic use in respiratory infections
Antimicrobal agents in treating various bacterial infections, evaluation of new agents
Asbestos-exposed workers, ventilatory loss in
Asbestosis
Asian populations
Asthma health services research

B
Behavioral approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention
Benign breast disease
Blue toes syndrome
Brain resuscitation
Breast cancer screening

C
Cancer and mutagens
Cancer risk, guiding physicians in genetic assessment of
Cardiology, preventative
Cardiovascular diseases and exercise/diet
Cardiovascular diseases epidemiology
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
Cardiovascular risk factors
Cellulitis
Chronic anticoagulation
Chronic fatigue
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cooperative Research Center
Chronic heart disease, management o
f
Climate change and health
Clinical and technological developments in HIV/AIDS
Clinical epidemiology
Clinical event monitors
Clinical guideline development
Clinical skills
Commercial, political, and media influences on use of medical
technology

Communication, physician/patient
Community health assessment
Community researcher collaboration
Community-based health promotion/disease prevention
Community-based teaching
Computer-based medical records
Computers in medical care and education
Contraception, male
Cost of complications related to diabetes
Cost-effectiveness analysis alongside clinical trials
Cost effectiveness of different care strategies
Cross-cultural medicine
Cross-cultural competency curricula

D
Depression
Determining the impact of technology on outcomes of care
Development of teaching materials: videotape, website
Development of primary care guidelines for evaluation patients with dyspepsia
Diabetes and lipid disorders, epidemiology of
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes, diagnosis and treatment of foot infections
Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Prospective Study of Risk Factors for Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Diagnosis and treatment of foot infections in diabetic patients
Diagnosis, microbiology and treatment of urinary tract infections in males
Diagnostic test methodology
Direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs
Disclosure of medical errors and adverse events
Disease patterns in nuclear weapons workers
Diseases of the prostate
Domestic violence
Dyspepsia, development of primary care guidelines for evaluation of patients

E
Economic assessment of lung and colon cancer treatments
Economic assessment of treatments for emphysema
Effective use of insulin and other diabetes treatments in primary care
Efficacy of environmental interventions to reduce asthma
Electronic media in teaching, evaluation, and distance learning
Electronic physician-patient communication
Endocrinology
Environment and health
Epidemiologic methods
Epidemiology
Epidemiology and prevention, sudden cardiac death
Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, pharmacological
Epidemiology of diabetes and lipid disorders
Epidemiology, cardiovascular diseases
Epidemiology, clinical
Epidemiology, HIV and AIDS
Ethical and communication issues in conflicts of interest
Ethics in Medicine
Ethics in Research
Ethnomed
Evidence-based medicine
Evidenced based resource utilization in clinical settings of medical education
Exercise/diet and cardiovascular disease

F
Faculty development in education
Fatigue
Feedback and evaluations
Fibromyalgia
Induced hypothermia in resuscitation of brain injured patients
Folliculitis
Foot infections in diabetic patients, diagnosis and treatment of

G
Genetic assessment of cancer risk, guiding physicians
Genetic screening for colon cancer susceptibility
Genetic susceptibility in respiratory disease
Genetics of learning disabilities and other neurologic and behavioral disorders
Geriatrics, prevention
Graduate medical education, internal medicine
Graduate medical education

H
Health care for homeless patients
Health effects of diesel exhaust exposure
Health plan performance measures, risk adjustment of
Health promotion
Health promotion/disease prevention, community-based
Health services delivery to the non-English speaking poor
Health services research
Health services
Health Services Research and Development Field Program
Health status assessment
Health status measurement
Health status outcomes
Hepatic effects, solvent-related
HIV and AIDS epidemiology
HIV infected patients, primary care of
HIV/AIDS prevention and control, public policy regarding
HIV/AIDS prevention, behavioral approaches to
HIV/AIDS, clinical and technological developments in
Homeless patients, health care for
Hormone replacement therapy and mammography
Human health effects of pesticide exposure
Hypertension

I-J
Illnesses in famous people
Immigrant women's health
Induced hypothermia to improve neurologic outcomes
Inflammatory bowel disease
International health
International occupational health
Intimate partner violence


K
Klinefelter's Syndrome

L
Low back pain

M-N
Male contraception
Male hypogonadism
Male reproduction
Male reproductive physiology
Mammography, and hormone replacement therapy
Management of chronic heart disease
Management of diabetes
Managing care on cost and quality of care, impact of strategies
Mass media and health care delivery
Medical anthropology
Medical computing, research and development of
Medical education
Medical education research
Medical education, faculty development in
Medical ethics
Medical informatics
Medical professionalism
Mental health and physical well-being
Metabolic epidemiology of central obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Motivating dietary change to decrease fat intake and increase fruit/vegetable consumption
Mutagens and cancer
Myocardial infarction and stroke

O
Obesity
Observer variability
Occupational and environmental medicine, guidelines for ethical practice
Occupation and Environmental Medicine Research Program
Occupational and environmental respiratory disease
Occupational health in agriculture
Occupational health surveillance
Occupational health, international
Office-based opioid addiction treatment
OsteoEd
Osteoporosis education

Outcomes from restructuring clinical care
Outcomes research

P
Panic disorder in primary care
Patient-physician communication

Patient safety
Perioperative medicine
Pesticide exposure, human health effects
Pharmacoepidemiology
Pharmacogenetics
Pharmacological epidemiology of cardiovascular disease
Physical and mental health effects of caloric restriction
Physical diagnosis
Physician management
Physician social responsibility
Physician/patient communication
Prescription drug marketing, pricing, and prescribing practices
Preventative cardiology
Professional satisfaction among faculty
Professionalism and role conflict
Public policy regarding HIV/AIDS prevention and control

Q
Qualitative research
Quality improvement
Quality of medical care, assessment of

R
Refugee and immigrant health care
Reproductive health
Research and development of medical computing capabilities
Research ethics
Risk reduction
Ritual female genital surgery
Role of sex hormones in central obesity

S
Self-report measures and clinical assessment
Shared decision-making in prostate cancer screening in African-American men
Silicosis
Sudden cardiac death, epidemiology and prevention

T
Teaching critical reading of the medical literature
Technology assessment
Technology assessment, especially cost effectiveness
Technology, determining impact on outcomes of care
Testosterone replacement
Twin studies

U
Urinary tract infections
Use of XML in medical documents

V
Veterans’ Administration Health Services Research and Development Field Program
Venoms, bites, and stings, disorders caused by
Visceral adiposity

W-X-Y-Z
Women and heart disease
UW Center of Excellence in Women's Health
Women’s health
Work and environmental health and safety

    

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