Meet the Team
Core faculty
Director
Expertise:
Behavioral health promotion interventions, cultural adaptation, qualitative methods, clinical trials and health disparities
Focus areas:
Culturally responsive smoking cessation treatments among indigenous populations; promoting access to evidence-based smoking cessation treatments among populations underserved; family and social network approaches to health promotion; cancer prevention; rural access to health care; and digital equity
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
Family medicine with obstetrical care
Focus areas:
Defining patient engagements in care; delivery of care and health care systems; disparities and opportunities within rural health care; and how technology can support and hinder care
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
Epidemiology and cancer population sciences
Focus areas:
Understanding multilevel factors hindering or facilitating the development and equitable implementation of evidence-based cancer prevention and control programs, guidelines, or policies
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
Translation of evidence-based care for patients with chronic conditions into practice; and qualitative and mixed-methods research
Focus areas:
Minimally disruptive medicine and patient capacity, under-cared-for chronic suffering, and professional development
Tabetha A. Brockman, M.A.
Program Manager
Expertise:
Management of behavioral health promotion interventions for clinical trials, qualitative methods and community-based participatory research (CBPR) strategies to evaluate behavioral interventions for clinical trials
Focus areas:
Addressing health disparities among diverse populations through research program management and coordination; training faculty and staff to facilitate behavioral health interventions
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
Digital equity and enablement in health care delivery, electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROMs), telecare, assessment and management of disability and pain in vulnerable populations
Focus areas:
The development and validation of equitable, digitally enabled supportive care delivery approaches that neutralize geographical and financial access barriers, including enhanced assessment and management of disablement and adverse symptoms
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
Medical informatics
Focus areas:
Developing artificial intelligence and natural language processing methods for health care applications; mining various health data such as electronic health records, patient portal messages, and social media posts for patient-centered care; creating digital health tools and solutions to advance rural health, telehealth and mental health
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
General internist and endocrinologist
Focus areas:
Leveraging real-world evidence to improve the quality, equity and accessibility of diabetes care; developing patient-centered care delivery models to improve diabetes care and health outcomes
Co-Investigator
Expertise:
Epidemiology and study design
Focus areas:
Impact and outcomes of chronic conditions in the upper Midwest
Collaborators
Expertise:
Physical medicine and rehabilitation, and brain injury rehabilitation medicine
Focus areas:
Connecting brain rehabilitation care to individuals in remote areas of the Midwest through partnering with community organizations and state-based agencies; testing complex behavioral interventions to better improve rehabilitation care; reducing traumatic brain injury-related health disparities experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native communities in the upper Great Lakes region
Expertise:
Public health, intervention development, qualitative and mixed methods, measure development, community-engaged research, health disparities
Focus areas:
Cancer screening and prevention in underserved populations and those at increased familial risk, chronic disease management, rural health care access, family- and community-based approaches to health promotion
Expertise:
Clinical trials, cancer care delivery, digital health, telemedicine and virtual care
Focus areas:
Transformation of cancer care delivery with digital health technologies and virtual care, transformation of clinical trials with decentralized capabilities
Expertise:
Pediatrics, asthma epidemiology, artificial intelligence, health equity
Focus areas:
Asthma epidemiology and immune phenotyping — specifically, asthma-associated infectious and inflammatory multimorbidities; artificial intelligence research on timely asthma diagnosis, management and prognosis; health equity — social and economic inequity, also known as socioeconomic disparities, in health outcomes; strategies for improving health equity
Expertise:
Implementation science applications to increase uptake, reach and sustainment of health care interventions; qualitative methods; health disparities and digital equity research; shared decision-making to address costs of health care
Focus areas:
Understanding digital access, uptake and disparities from both patient and provider perspectives; interventions to address substance use disorders in primary care and similar settings; area-based health disparities, including rural-based experiences and disparities; financial toxicity and cost conversations in health care encounters
Carolyn Petersen, M.S.
Expertise:
Health information technology and health literacy
Focus areas:
Patient engagement, person-generated health data and health communication
Joshua C. Pritchett, M.D.
Expertise:
Hematology and oncology, cancer care delivery, rural health, digital health, remote patient monitoring, telehealth, digital health economics
Focus areas:
The design and implementation of innovative, patient-centered models of cancer care delivery, including a Mayo Clinic remote patient monitoring program for the ambulatory management of cancer patients with neutropenic fever
Pravesh Sharma, M.D.
Expertise:
Substance use disorders, addiction treatment disparities, health care delivery and community engagement research
Focus areas:
Inhaled drug use including tobacco, cannabis and vaping, and associated medical and psychiatric conditions, digital health equity