KENNETH ADAMS, PhD, epidemiologist and research investigator

Joined HPRF: 2008

 

Education: PhD, University of Washington, Seattle

 

Research highlights: The relationship between body mass and colorectal cancer, National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C.; pre-diabetes and the transition to diabetes in HealthPartners patients.

 

Research interests/expertise: Obesity-related chronic disease, natural language processing, virtual data warehouse for health research.

 

Current projects: 1) Site principal investigator (PI), HMO Research Network (HMORN) study on cancer screening in community-based health care, 2) Site PI, HMORN study of development of a cardiovascular surveillance system with integrated data systems.