Researchers by Department

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Anesthesiology
http://wichita.kumc.edu/anes/
anesthe1@kumc.edu
(316) 268-6147

Jim Walker, M.D.

• • Patient safety
  • Quality Improvement in the neurointensive care unit

Family and Community Medicine
http://wichita.kumc.edu/fcm/
wicfcm@kumc.edu
(316) 293-2607

Gretchen Dickson, M.D., MBA

• • Optimizing patient safety and quality of care in the ambulatory environment
  • Developing educational curriculum to address community needs in primary care
  • Identify learner outcomes from established and novel educational techniques

Robert Kraft, M.D.

• • Ambulatory setting quality improvement with a focus on prevention
  • Outcomes-based resident and recent residency graduate evaluation

Doug Woolley, M.D. 

• • Primary care geriatrics, including home-care and long-term-care
  • Assessment of function in the elderly, including cognitive function
  • Processes and outcomes in hospice care
  • Teaching geriatrics in the office and in long-term-care settings

Internal Medicine
http://wichita.kumc.edu/im/
internalmed-wichita@kumc.edu
(316) 293-2650

Robert Badgett, M.D.

• • Quality improvement and information retrieval and representation
  • Meta-analysis and meta-regression
  • Virtual information retrieval laboratory and clinical quality improvement

K James Kallail, Ph.D. (Primary Contact, kkallail@kumc.edu)

• Primary care
• Cancer education
• Nutrician education

Obstetrics and Gynecology
http://wichita.kumc.edu/obgyn/
wicobgyn@kumc.edu
(316) 962-3181

Primary contact: Jennifer Duong, Research Assistant, jduong@kumc.edu

James Delmore, M.D.

• Gynecologic oncology
• Utertine cancer
• Cervical cancer

Darren Farley, M.D.

• Maternal fetal health
• High risk pregnancies
• Clinical trials
• prenatal education/counseling
• medications prescribed during pregnancy

David Grainger, M.D., MPH

• Reproductive medicine
• Medical eduction
• Simulations
• Registries

Melissa Hague, M.D.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• General gynecology

Kerri Hild, M.D.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Medical education
• Simulation

Zachary Kuhlmann, D.O.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Quality improvement
• Compliance
• Randomized control trials
• Medical education

Edgar LeClaire, M.D.

Kevin Miller, M.D.

• Female pelvic surgery
• Urogynecology

Jacqueline Morgan, M.D.

• Clinical research related to gynecologic malignancies, including:
  • Impact of comorbidities on presentation and treatment
  • Obesity
  • Barriers to care and preventive care
  • Robotic surgery

Randall Morgan, M.D.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Quality improvement

Margaret O'Hara, M.D.

• Maternal fetal medicine
• High risk pregnancies

Ashley Robbins, M.D.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• General gynecology

Jackson Sobbing, D.O.

Travis Stembridge, M.D.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Resident education
• Simulations

Laura Tatpati, M.D.

• Reproductive medicine

Bruce Tjaden, D.O.

• Reproductive medicine

Steve Zielke, M.D.

• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Informatics
• Medical records
• Registries

Orthopedics
http://wichita.kumc.edu/ortho/
jridgewa@kumc.edu
(316) 268-5988

Bradley Bruner, M.D.

• Spirituality and religion in the provision of surgical health care

Bradley Dart, M.D.

• • Developing new options for operative treatment of long bone diaphyseal fractures
  • Effects of repeated sterilizations on the composite materials in reusable instruments/devices
  • Biomechanics of tibiofibular syndemosis reduction fixation

Michael Heggeness, M.D.

• • Bone tissue engineering
  • Molecular biology of fracture healing
  • Pathophysiology of axial spine pain, with attention to intraosseous sources

Ryan Livermore, M.D.

• • Biomechanics of arthroscopic knots: effect of surgeon, techniques and materials

Alan Moskowitz, M.D.

• • Diagnostic, clinical and functional outcomes of Stand Alone Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease of the Lumbar Spine

Charles Pence, M.D.

• • Developing minimally invasive pelvic bridging techniques for posterior pelvic ring fixation

Shang-you Yang, M.D., Ph.D.

• • Relationship of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor with the invasiveness of osteosarcoma

Pediatrics
http://wichita.kumc.edu/pediatrics/
peds@kumc.edu
(316) 962-2250

Kari Harris, M.D.

• • Teen mothers: Primary care utilization and barriers to medical care
  • Teen mothers: Role models for parenting teens and non-parenting teens
  • Teen mothers: Interventions to decrease repeat unintended pregnancies

Mark Harrison, M.D.

• • Medical education
  • Medical student clinical education

Shobana Kubendran, MBBS, MS, CGC

• • Developing new models to improve access to genetic services
  • Telegenetics for underserved areas

Cari Schmidt, Ph.D. (Primary Contact, cschmidt3@kumc.edu)

• • Text Reminders for Immunization Compliance in Kids (TRICKs)
  • Safe sleep promotion to decrease risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Natalie Sollo, M.D.

• • Clinical trials for patients with cystic fibrosis
  • Phenotypic description of rare CF genotypes

Hasmet Uner, M.D.

• • Transforming the health care system through operations research in Primary Care
  • Use models for systemic change to reform the team to include other "experts" change

Kerri Weeks, M.D.

• • Child abuse
  • Adolescent health/high risk youth
  • Teen pregnancy prevention

Preventive Medicine and Public Health
http://wichita.kumc.edu/prevmed
(316) 293-2627

Tracie Collins, M.D.

• • Vascular disease
  • Behavioral interventions
  • Underserved populations
  • Minority health
  • Health disparities
  • Physical activity
  • Dietary habits

Lisette Jacobson, Ph.D.

• • Women's health
  • Pregnancy and birth outcomes among underserved populations
  • Health outcomes associated with infertility and assisted reproductive technology
  • Cardiovascular and stroke risk factors
  • Program evaluation
  • Human lactation
  • Health disparities
  • Rural health

Michelle Redmond, Ph.D.

• • Health disparities
    • Health and mental health service utilization for underserved populations
    • Women's health
    • Racial/Ethnic minority health
    • Cardiovascular risk factors
  • Program evaluation
  • mHealth
  • Food security

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
http://wichita.kumc.edu/psych/
wicpsych@kumc.edu
(316) 293-2669

Lyle Baade, Ph.D., ABPP, Cn

• Neuropsychological assessment
• Dementia
• Response bias

Michael Burke, M.D., Ph.D.

• ECT
• Mood disorders
• Vagal nerve stimulation
• Medical education

Susan Carr, M.D.

• Suicide prevention
• Psychiatric emergencies
• Mild cognitive impairment

Robin Heinrichs, Ph.D., LP

• Cognition and functioning in neurologically-impaired adult and geriatric in-and out-patients

Nicole Klaus, Ph.D.

• Youth mood disorders with a focus on telehealth delivery for rural and underserved populations
• Adolescent Suicide: identifying resource utilization and coping strategies by high risk adolescents
• Development of new prevention strategies for adolescents at high risk of suicide

Matthew Macaluso, D.O. (Primary Contact, mmacaluso@kumc.edu)

• • Clinical trials examining investigational new drugs to treat psychiatric illness including major depressive disorder, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease
  • Translational Research: "first in human" testing to phase IV investigations

Dan Morgan, Ph.D.

• Personality assessment
• Personality disorders

Kelli Netson, Ph.D.

• • Quality of life research for rural Kansas cancer survivors in collaboration with the state-wide Kansas Cancer Partnership
  • Improving patient satisfaction with physician communication
  • Curriculum development to enhance parenting skills in children with executive function deficits (e.g. ADHD, behavior problems)
  • Retrospective reviews of childhood cognition across a range of medical, psychiatric and behavioral disorders

Ryan Schroeder, Psy.D.

• • Neuropsychological Research: retrospective studies of neuropsychological conditions and neuropsychological testing

Surgery
http://wichita.kumc.edu/surgery/
dawn_fountain@via-christi.org
(316) 268-5990

Alex Ammar, M.D.

• • Diagnostic studies for treatment planning for carotid artery disease
  • Outcome measures of medical student education

Therese E. Cusick, M.D.

• • Quality improvement in breast surgery

James M. Haan, M.D.

• • Outcomes and health services research in trauma, critical care and emergency medical services
    • Validation of new CDC criteria for Trauma Team activation
    • Roll of obesity in risk of falls for the elderly
    • Validation of known predictive models for pediatric TBI
    • New insights into splenic injuries
  • Public health implications of legislative actions

R. Joseph Nold, M.D.

• • Outcomes and health services research in trauma and critical care

Patty L. Tenofsky, M.D.

• Age related differences in screening and treatment for breast cancer
• Outcomes of surgical therapies for individuals with breast cancer
• Effect of family history on patients decisions for surgical intervention