Chronic Care Management
Leadership
Position:
Director of Research, Family & Community Medicine
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
[email protected]
Position:
Associate Director of Research, Family & Community Medicine
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
[email protected]
Positions:
- Assistant Director of Research
- Assistant Director, Primary Care Research Fellowship
Position:
Family & Community Medicine
Email:
[email protected]
Mission
To develop and evaluate innovative chronic illness management initiatives, particularly related to diabetes, hypertension, and integrated behavioral health.
DFCM Research Team
- Amy Cunningham, PhD, MPH (Lead)
- Cynthia Cheng, MD, PhD
- Victor Diaz, MD
- Geoffrey Mills, MD, PhD
- Randa Sifri, MD
Recent Projects
- The effectiveness of a student-run motivational interviewing/meal-replacement dietary program with melatonin for weight loss and cardiovascular risk factor reduction in patients with mild OSA (Provost’s Award)
- Pre-diabetes and diabetes self-management (Funder: DERC)
- Primary Care Training and Enhancement: Training Primary Care Champions (Jeff) (Funder: HRSA)
- The Philly Difference: Connections for Better Chronic Illness Care (Funder: CDC)
- JeffBe Well: Whole Health Integration (Funder: HRSA)
- Accelerating Primary Care Transformation at Jefferson (JeffAPCT) (Funder: HRSA)
Selected Publications
- Schonberg: Overutilization of Breast Cancer Screening in the US
- Alcohol and other drug use in older adults: results from a community needs assessment
- Deprescribing: A simple method for reducing polypharmacy
- Cancer screening in older patients
- Health literacy in primary care practice
- Preventing aspiration pneumonia by addressing three key risk factors: Dysphagia, poor oral hygiene, and medication use
- Strategies to help reduce hospital readmissions
- Bullosis diabeticorum
- Clinical management of urinary incontinence in women
- The effects of a group visit program on outcomes of diabetes care in an urban family practice
- Chronic Disease Management: The Changing Landscape of Primary Care
- Common breast problems
- Racial differences in the recognition of cognitive dysfunction in older persons
- Gait and balance disorders in older adults
- Potential adverse effects of proton pump inhibitors in the elderly
- Diagnosing Cancer in the Symptomatic Patient
- Geriatric dermatology
- Ethical decision making in geriatric medicine
- Late diagnosis of early disseminated lyme disease: Perplexing symptoms in a gardener
- Aspirin + clopidogrel therapy: How does your care compare to the evidence?