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Recent Publications (Selected)

General Internal Medicine


Faculty​ Publications​
Eva Aagaard, MD​
Bray-Hall S, Schmidt K, Aagaard EM.  Toward Safe Hospital Discharge: A Transitions in Care Curriculum for Medical Students. In Press JGIM, 2011.

Torre D, Aagaard EM, Durning S and Papp K. Simulation in the Internal Medicine Clerkship:  A National Survey of Internal Medicine Clerkship Directors. In Press, Teach Learn Medicine, 2011.

DelaCruz S, Johnson D and Aagaard EM. End of Life Decisions: Using Lectures, Small Groups and Standardized Patients to Develop Advanced Communication Skills. SGIM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2010; Palliative Care Research Day, January, 2011.

DelaCruz S, Nichola F, and  Aagaard EM. Dying Wish: Effects of a Documentary Film on Medical Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills Regarding Nutrition at the End of Life. SGIM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2010; Palliative Care Research Day, January, 2011.

Stickrath C, Anderson M, Zwillich C, Boyle D, Aagaard E. The “I-PLAN” Approach to Becoming a Better Bedside Teacher. Rocky Mountain Hospital Symposium, Denver, CO, October, 2010; Society of Hospital Medicine's Annual Meeting, Dallas, Tx, May, 2011.
Dan Barry, MD​
Barry DW, Hansen KC, Van Pelt RE, Witten M, Wolfe P, Kohrt WM. Acute Calcium Ingestion Attenuates Exercise-induced Disruption of Calcium Homeostasis.  Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2010 Aug 23. Epub ahead of print.

J Appl Physiol. 2009 Dec;107(6):1847-56. Epub 2009 Oct 15. When energy balance is maintained, exercise does not induce negative fat balance in lean sedentary, obese sedentary, or lean endurance-trained individuals.

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009 Nov;41(11):2050-5. Muscle forces or gravity: what predominates mechanical loading on bone?

Edward L. Melanson, Wendolyn S. Gozansky, Daniel W. Barry, Paul S. MacLean, Gary K. Grunwald, James O. Hill. Adaptation to high fat diets is similar in lean, obese, and endurance-trained individuals.  Poster Presentation at the 2009 annual meeting of The Obesity Society.​
Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH​
Binswanger IA, Nowels C, Corsi KF, Glanz J, Long J, Booth RE, Steiner JF. Return to drug use and overdose after release from prison: A qualitative study of risk and protective factors. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 7; 3 (15 March 2012).

Binswanger IA, Redmond N, Steiner JF, Hicks LS. Health Disparities and the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Further Research and Action. Journal of Urban Health. 2012 Feb; 89(1):98-107.

Binswanger IA, Mueller S, CB Clarke, Cropsey KL. Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer in Criminal Justice settings. Journal of Women’s Health. 2011; Dec; 20(12):1839-45.
 
Binswanger IA. Improving Health Outcomes During the Transition from Prison to the Community: A Pilot Patient Navigation Study. Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Program Annual Meeting, San Diego. November 30, 2011.

Binswanger IA, Nowels C, Corsi KF, Long J, Booth RE, Kutner J, Steiner JF. From the Prison Door Right to the Sidewalk, Everything Went Downhill: A Qualitative Study of the Health Experiences of Recently Released Inmates. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 2011; Jul-Aug;34(4):249-55.

Binswanger IA, Blatchford PJ, Yamashita TE, Stern MF. Drug-Related Risk Factors for Death after Release from Prison: A Nested Case Control Study. Society for General Internal Medicine 34th Annual Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona. May 6, 2011.
Mark Earnest, MD, PhD​
Misky, G, Manheim J, Zehnder N, Nguyen V, Swenson PF, Klem P, Trujillo T, Earnest MA, Health Care Disparities in the Acute Management of Venous Thromboembolism Based on Insurance Status in the U.S. The Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 2011, 32(4) 393-8.
 
Long J, Lee R, Federico S, Battaglia C, Wong SF, Earnest MA, Developing Leadership and Advocacy Skills in Medical Students through Service-Learning. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice – In Press.

Lee R, Battaglia C, Long J, Wong S, Federico S, Earnest MA, Interprofessional Education in Leadership and Advocacy, Medical Teacher, Accepted Nov 2011.
 
Earnest MA, Wong S, Federico S, Physician Advocacy – What Is It and How Do We Do It?  Academic Medicine, 2010, 85(1), 63-67.
Amy Huebschmann, MD​
Huebschmann AG, Regensteiner JG, Kohrt W: Exercise Attenuates the Premature Cardiovascular Aging effects of Type 2 Diabetes. Vascular Medicine. 16(5):378-390, 2011. PMID: 21893560

Huebschmann AG, Crane LA, Belansky ES, Scarbro S, Marshall JA, PhD, Regensteiner JG. Fear of Injury with Physical Activity is Greater in Adults with Diabetes Mellitus compared with Adults without Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care. 34(8):1717-1722, 2011. PMID: 21700920
 
Huebschmann AG, Mizrahi T, Soenksen A, Beaty BL, Denberg TD. Reducing Clinical Inertia in Hypertension Treatment: a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 2012 (In Press) PMID: Pending

Huebschmann AG, Kohrt WM, Regensteiner JG.  Exercise Attenuates the Accelerated Vascular aging effects of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.  Vascular Medicine, 2011.  (In Press)

Braun PA, Huebschmann AG, Kim CA, Lezotte DC, Shupe A, Dabelea D.  Effect of Maternal Birthplace on Gestational Diabetes Prevalence in Hispanic Women in Colorado.  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.  2010 Jul 18.  PMID: 20640918.
Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH​
Kutner JS, Wheeler JL, Abernethy AP. Clinical Research. In: Cote TR, Kinzbrunner BM. The Hospice Medical Director Manual. Glenview, IL. American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 2012

Kutner JS, Smith MC. CAM in Chronic Pain and Palliative Care. In: Moore RJ ed. Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care: Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course. New York, Springer, 2012.

Fischer SM, Sauaia A, Min S, Kutner JS, Advance Directive Discussions: Lost in Translation or Lost Opportunities? J Palliat Med. 2012 (in press)

Reither J, Nowels D, Nowels CT, Motz-Storey L, Mellis BK, Keech T, Matlock DD, Kutner JS. We’re Hands-On: Exploring a Supplemental Approach to Hospice Care Provision. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 2012; 14(6): 1-7.

Kutner, JS. A Significant Milestone for Palliative Care: Imperative for Dissemination and Implementation Research. J Palliat Med. 2011; 14(11): 1194 – 1195.
Danielle Loeb, MD​
Loeb DL, Bayliss EA, Binswanger IA, Candrian C, deGruy FV. Primary Care Physician Perceptions of Caring for Complex Patients with Medical and Mental Illness. J Gen Intern Med; epub Feb 2012.

Loeb DL, Lee RS, Binswanger IA, Ellison MC, Aagaard SM. Patient, Resident Physician, and Visit Factors Associated with Documentation of Sexual History in the Outpatient Setting. J Gen Intern Med; August 2011.

Loeb DL, Bayliss EA, Candrian C, Binswanger IA. Physician Perspectives on the Role of Mental Illness in the Care of Complex Patients - “It makes everything more difficult!” Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Poster Presentation. Phoenix, AZ. May 2011.

Loeb DL, Cali SR, Aagaard SM, Lee RS. Modest Impact of a Brief Curricular Intervention on Poor Documentation of Sexual History in University-Based Resident Internal Medicine Clinics. J Sex Med; June 2010.

Loeb DL, Lee RS, Cali SR, Binswanger IA, Aagaard EM. Sex after 50? Factors that Influence Sexual History-Taking Practices of Internal Medicine Residents. SGIM Annual Meeting; Poster Presentation April 2010.
Dan Matlock, MD​
Flint K, Matlock DD, Lindenfeld J, Allen LA. Frailty and the selection of patients for destination therapy left ventricular assist device. Circulation Heart Failure, 2012 (in press)

Matlock DD; Peterson PN; Wang Y; Curtis JP; Reynolds MR; Varosy P; Masoudi FA. Variation in Use of Dual Chamber Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Results from the NCDR. Archives of Internal Medicine 2012 (in press).

Matlock DD, Destination Unknown, Technologies and the Left Ventricular Assist Device. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2012 (in press).

Matlock DD, Nowels CT, Masoudi FA, Sauer WH, Bekelman DB, Main DS, et al. Patient and cardiologist perceptions on decision making for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: a qualitative study. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011 Dec;34(12):1634–44. PMID:21972983

Matlock DD; Kutner JS; Emsermann C; Al-Khatib S; Sanders GD; Rumsfeld JS; Dickinson LM; Masoudi FA. Regional Variations in Physicians’ Attitudes and Recommendations Surrounding Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators. J Card Fail 2011 17(4):318-24. PMID: 21440870
Linda Overholser, MD​ Overholser, L;  Zittleman, L;  Kempe, A;  Bublitz-Emsermann, C;  Froshaug, D;  Main, DS;  Felzien, M;  Westfall, JM.  "Use of Colon Cancer Testing in Rural Colorado Primary Care Practices,"  J Gen Intern Med.  2009 Oct;24(10):1095-1100.

Rim, SH; Zittleman, L;  Westfall, JM;  Overholser, L;  Froshaug, D;  Coughlin, SS. Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Personal Practices Regarding Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Healthcare Professionals in Rural Colorado:  A Pilot Survey,"  J Rural Health.  2009 Summer;25(3):303-308.​
Judith Regensteiner, PhD​
Duscha BD, Robbins JL, Jones WS, Kraus WE, Lye RJ, Sanders JM, Allen JD, Regensteiner JG, Hiatt WR, Annex BH. Angiogenesis in Skeletal Muscle Precedes Improvements in Peak Oxygen uptake in Peripheral Artery Disease Patients.  Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2011 Nov;31(11):2742-8
 
Murphy TP, Cutlip DE, Regensteiner JG, Mohler ER, Cohen DJ, Reynolds MR, Massaro JM, Lewis BA, Cerezo J, Oldenburg NC, Thum CC, Goldberg S, Jaff MR, Steffes MW, Comerota AJ, Ehrman J, Treat-Jacobson D, Walsh ME, Collins T, Badenhop DT, Bronas U, Hirsch AT; for the  CLEVER Study Investigators. Supervised Exercise Versus Primary Stenting for Claudication Resulting From Aortoiliac Peripheral Artery Disease: Six-Month Outcomes From the Claudication:  Exercise Versus Endoluminal Revascularization (CLEVER) Study.  Circulation. 2012 Jan 3;125(1):130-139. Epub 2011 Nov 16.
 
Creager MA, Belkin M, Bluth EI, Casey DE Jr, Chaturvedi S, Dake MD, Fleg JL, Hirsch AT, Jaff MR, Kern JA, Malenka DJ, Martin ET, Mohler ER 3rd, Murphy T, Olin JW, Regensteiner JG, Rosenwasser RH, Sheehan P, Stewart KJ, Treat-Jacobson D, Upchurch GR Jr, White CJ, Ziffer JA. 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACR/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM/SVN Key Data Elements and Definitions for Peripheral Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Data Standards for Peripheral Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease). J Am Coll Cardiol 2012 Jan 17;59(3):294-357. Epub 2011 Dec 5. (also published in Circulation)
 
Treat-Jacobson D, Lindquist Ruth, Witt D, Kirk L, Schorr E, Bronas, U, Davey C, Regensteiner, JG; The PADQOL: Development and Validation of a PAD-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire.  Vasc Med, in Press 12/8/2011 
 
Jones WS, Duscha BD, Robbins JL, Duggan NN, Regensteiner JG, Kraus WE, Hiatt WR, Dokun AO, Annex BH. Alteration in Angiogenic and Anti-Angiogenic Forms of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Skeletal Muscle of Patients with Intermittent Claudication Following Exercise Training. Vasc Med (In Press)
Steve Ross, MD​ Danish U. Khan*, Katie A. Siek, Leah Haverhals, Steven Cali, Stephen E. Ross, and Jane Meyers*. Designing a Personal Health Application for Older Adults to Manage Medications. In First International ACM Conference on Health Informatics, pp. 10 pages, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2010.

Siek KA, Ross SE, Khan DU, Haverhals LM, Cali SR, Meyers J. Colorado Care Tablet: the design of an interoperable Personal Health Application to help older adults with multimorbidity manage their medications. J Biomed Inform 2010; 43:S22-6.

Fontaine P, Ross SE, Zink T, Schilling LM.  Systematic review of health information exchange in primary care practices.  J Am Board Fam Med 2010; 23: 655-70.

Delbanco T, Walker J, Darer JD, Elmore JG, Feldman HJ, Leveille SG, Ralston JD, Ross SE, Vodicka E, Weber VD.  Open notes: doctors and patients signing on.  Ann Intern Med 2010; 20:153:121-5.

Improving Efficiency in Primary Care (to be published on AHRQ web site)​
Lisa Schilling, MD​ Fontaine P, Ross SE, Zink T, Schilling LM. Systematic review of health information exchange in primary care practices. J Am Board Fam Med. 2010 Sep-Oct;23(5):655-70. Review.

Ross SE, Schilling LM, Fernald DH, Davidson AJ, West DR. Health information exchange in small-to-medium sized family medicine practices: motivators, barriers, and potential facilitators of adoption. Int J Med Inform. 2010 Feb;79(2):123-9. Epub 2010 Jan 12.

Tham E, Ross SE, Mellis BK, Beaty BL, Schilling LM, Davidson AJ. Interest in health information exchange in ambulatory care: a statewide survey. Appl Clin Inf 2010; 1:1-10.

Ross SE, Schilling LM, Fernald DH, Davidson AJ, West DR. Health information exchange in small to medium sized family medicine practices. Int J Med Inform 2010 Feb;79(2):123-129.​
Adam Tsai, MD​
Tsai AG. A quality-adjusted life year of prevention: the cost-effectiveness of nutrition counseling. J Am Diet Assoc. 2011 Jan;111(1):53-5.

Kumanyika S, Fassbender J, Phipps E, Tan-Torres S, Localio R, Morales K, Sarwer D, Harralson T, Allison K, Wesby L, Kessler R, Tsai AG, Wadden TA. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2010 Nov 7 (Epub ahead of print)

Christian JG, Tsai AG, Bessesen DH. Interpreting weight losses from lifestyle modification trials: using categorical data. International Journal of Obesity. 2010;34: 207-209.

Tsai AG, Mitchell NS.  Can we talk about your weight for a few minutes, Mr. Jones? Role of the PCP in obesity management. Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12(4):299-304.
 
Fabricatore AN, Tsai AG, Wadden TA, Higginbotham AJ, Anderson A, Foreyt J, Hill JO, Jeffery R, Gluck ME, Lipkin E, Reeves R, Van Dorsten B. Self-monitoring during the screening period in relation to outcomes in Look AHEAD. Obesity; 2010; 18(S2):108.​
Judy Zerzan, MD​ Zerzan JT, Linnebur S, OBryant C, Kutner J. Variation in pain medication use in end-of-life care. Journal of Palliative Medicine. In Press.

Egan A, Cumbler E,  Grout J, Guerrasio J, Zehnder N, Zerzan J. In the Literature. The Hospitalist. Aug 01, 2009.

Zerzan J. Duals, Drugs and Delivery Systems: Health Care Reform in DC. Public Policy and Aging Report. In press. ​