HealthPartners title: Vice president for health management, health science officer for JourneyWell.
Other offices: President of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion, member of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, the Clinical Obesity Research Panel at the National Institutes of Health, and the Carter Center Medical Home Initiative. He is senior editor of ACSM's Worksite Health Handbook, 2nd ed. (2009) and the author of the scientific background paper for the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan for Business and Industry.
Joined HPRF: 1994
Education: PhD, exercise physiology, Texas A&M University; postdoctoral studies in behavioral medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh.
Research highlights: Research in the areas of population health improvement, the role of physical activity in health, and the impact of multiple health behaviors on health outcomes.
Research interests/expertise: Health behavior change; population health; the role of multi-level and multi-component interventions on population health outcomes; the relationship between physical activity and health, obesity and other modifiable risk factors; and research related to the worksite setting. He is particularly interested in improving population health in context of the employer setting, the integration of health promotion with occupational safety and health, and the integration of health promotion, behavioral health, and primary care.
Current projects: Assessing the impact of multiple health behaviors on incidence of chronic conditions in the short-term and emotional health concerns; impact of multiple health behaviors on medical care costs and productivity loss; relationship between health assessment cores and employee health care costs and productivity loss; effectiveness of interventions that integrate health promotion and occupational safety and health; the association between organizational-level characteristics and individual-level health; the impact of physical activity on employee productivity; and the assessment of physician's behaviors and practice-level characteristics on care related to energy balance.
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