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DFM MSA Project List

The Department of Family Medicine has numerous and varied opportunities for your MSA project. Following is a list of DFM faculty and relative MSA research options.

Mark Deutchman, MD
Michele M. Doucette, PhD
David L. Gaspar, MD
Carol Giffen-Jeansonne, EdD
Larry Green, MD
Bonnie Jortberg, MS, RD, CDE
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH
Wilson Pace, MD
Bennett Parnes, MD
Kent Voorhees, MD
Jack Westfall, MD

 

Mark Deutchman, MD

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Rural Colorado
  • Development of Adult Screening Guidelines for a State Guideline Consortium
  • Interdisciplinary Health Professions Education

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Michele M. Doucette, PhD

  • Effective Translation of Healthy Lifestyles Research into Practice
  • Medical Students' Knowledge and Behaviors Surrounding Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Chronic Disease Risk

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David L. Gaspar, MD

  • Increasing Awareness of the Yampa Valley Autism Program
  • Rural Physicians' Attitudes towards Health Care Reform
  • Student Perceptions of Medication Sample Use During a Rural Clerkship
  • Survey of Service Learning Opportunities in Rural Colorado

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Carol Giffen-Jeansonne, EdD

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Education for Rural Providers

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Larry Green, MD

  • Redesign of residency training
  • Elaboration of maintenance of certification for physicians in all specialties
  • PCMH work, especially pertaining to mental health

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Bonnie Jortberg, MS, RD, CDE

  • Follow-up of Students' Specially Choice and Practice Site after Participating in a Summer Rural Preceptorship
  • Nutrition

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Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH

  • Redesign of residency training
  • Elaboration of maintenance of certification for physicians in all specialties
  • PCMH work, especially pertaining to mental health

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Wilson Pace, MD

  • Medication Management within the University Hospital System
  • Depression Monitoring in primary care - national project
  • Mindful eating project nationally
  • Best practices research within CaReNet focused on hypertension, behavioral change, asthma
  • Numerous existing databases for secondary analysis

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Bennett Parnes, MD

  • Clinician attitudes about home blood pressure monitoring

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Kent Voorhees, MD

  • Health policy
  • Residents to the State Capitol for "Doctor of the Day"—can potentially include medical students

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Jack Westfall, MD

  • Rural ER visits, colon cancer prevention, asthma—willing to consider most any rural health idea

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