HealthPartners Medical Group title: Cardiologist and epidemiologist, medical director for evidence-based health
Other offices: Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) on the prevention and management of chronic diseases, member of the faculty of the WHO's non-communicable disease prevention course.
Academic appointment: Professor of medicine, University of Minnesota/p>
Joined HPRF: 2004
Education: MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; MSPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research highlights: Building community-based heart disease-prevention programs; 163 peer-reviewed papers, 30 book chapters and 25 invited editorials. Member of both the first US Preventive Services Task Force and the federal panels that authored evidence-based guidelines for treating tobacco dependence (issued by the US Public Health Service in June 2000 and by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in 1996). While professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn., he developed and directed CardioVision 2020, a project to make Olmsted County, Minnesota the healthiest county in the country by the year 2020. He also helped build the Southeastern Minnesota Women's Health Project to increase screening rates for breast and cervical cancer.
Research interests/expertise: Delivery of preventive services, prevention of chronic diseases through lifestyle factors, smoking cessation.
Current projects: Promoting population health through lifestyle interventions directed at nutrition, physical activity, abstinence from tobacco, and prudent use of alcohol.
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