Maureen Smith, MD, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences, Family Medicine, and Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI

Email: maureensmith@wisc.edu

Biography:

Dr. Smith received M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Yale University School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration in 1999. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health Departments of Population Health Sciences, Family Medicine, and Surgery. She leads a research program that examines the effectiveness and equity of the health care system for aging and chronically ill persons. As Faculty Director of the Health Innovation Program (HIP), Director of the Community Academic Partnerships (CAP) Core of the new Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and Associate Director of Cancer Control Research at the UW Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is able to lead efforts at the UW to build a transformative research infrastructure that will create, consolidate, and translate new and existing knowledge into community-based practice to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes.

Dr. Smith is also the Director of the AHRQ-funded T32 Training Grant Program in Health Services Research and Healthcare Quality Improvement, which provides multidisciplinary training opportunities for pre and post-doctoral students. In addition to her duties as a professor and program director, Dr. Smith is a prolific researcher, currently acting as the Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator in multiple active research grants. Her research program addresses the following goals: 1) to evaluate the impact of health system changes on access to and quality of medical care for older patients, 2) to improve health care decision making for older patients, and 3) to characterize factors that protect vulnerable patients against preventable complications of care and that assist patients in recovering from these complications. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Medical Care, and Quality and Safety in Healthcare. (Download CV)

Affiliations and Associations:

Recent Honors/Awards:

2009                AHRQ John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award

2007                Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society – Alumni Recognition

1998                Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society – Student Recognition

Selected Publications:

Mell MW, Kind AJ, Bartels CM, Leverson G, Smith MA. "Superior outcomes for rural patients after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair supports a systematic regional approach to AAA care." J Vasc Surg (in press).

Smith MA, Wright A, Queram C, Lamb GC. "Public reporting helped drive quality improvement in outpatient diabetes care among Wisconsin physician groups and clinics." Health Affairs 2012;31(3):570-7. [Link to abstract]

Bartels C, Kind A, Thorpe C, Everett C, Cook R, McBride P, Smith M. "Lipid testing in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and key cardiovascular comorbidities: A Medicare analysis." Semin Arthritis Rheum (in press).

Thorpe CT, Thorpe JM, Kind AJH, Bartels CM, Everett CM, Smith MA. "Receipt of diabetes monitoring in older adults with co-morbid dementia." J Am Geriatr Soc (in press).

Pandhi N, DeVoe JE, Schumacher JR, Bartels C, Thorpe CT, Thorpe JM, Smith MA. "Number of first-contact access components required to improve preventive service receipt in primary care homes." J Gen Intern Med (in press). [Link to abstract]

Kind AJH, Thorpe CT, Sattin JA, Walz SE, Smith MA. "Provider characteristics, clinical work-processes, and their relationship to discharge summary quality for sub-acute care patients." J Gen Intern Med (in press). [Link to abstract]

Weiss JM, Pfau P, O'Connor E, King J, LoConte N, Kennedy G, Smith M. "Mortality by stage for right- vs. left-sided colon cancer: Analysis of SEER-Medicare data." J Clin Oncol 2011;29(33):4401-9. [Link to abstract]

Tuan WJ, Sheehy AM, Smith MA. "Building a diabetes screening repository using electronic medical records." J Diabetes Sci Technol 2011;5(3):514-22. [Link to abstract]

Sheehy A, Pandhi N, Coursin DB, Flood GE, Kraft S, Johnson HM, Smith MA. "Minority status and diabetes screening in an ambulatory population." Diabetes Care 2011;34(6):1289-94. [Link to abstract]

Thorpe CT, Flood GE, Kraft SA, Everett CM, Smith MA. "Effect of patient selection method on provider group performance estimates." Medical Care 2011;49(8):780-5. [Link to abstract]

Pandhi N, DeVoe JE, Schumacher JR, Bartels C, Thorpe C, Smith MA. "Preventive service gains from first contact access in the primary care home." J Am Board Fam Med 2011;24(4):351-9. [Link to abstract]

Pandhi N, Schumacher JR, Barnett S, Smith MA. "Hearing loss and older adults' perceptions of access to care." J Commun Health 2011;36(5):748-55. [Link to abstract]

O'Connor ES, Greenblatt DY, LoConte N, Gangnon R, Liou J, Heise CP, Smith MA. "Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II colon cancer with poor prognostic features." J Clin Oncol 2011;29(25):3381-8. [Link to abstract]

Bartels C, Kind AJ, Everett CM, Mell M, McBride P, Smith MA. "Low frequency of primary lipid screening among Medicare patients with rheumatoid arthritis." Arthritis Rheum 2011;63(5):1221-30. [Link to abstract]

Mell M, Bartels C, Kind AJH, Smith MA. "Failure to rescue and mortality after reoperation for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair." J Vasc Surg 2011;54(2):346-52. [Link to abstract]

Walz SE, Smith MA, Cox E, Sattin J, Kind AJH. "Pending laboratory tests and the hospital discharge summary in patients discharged to sub-acute care." J Gen Intern Med 2011;26(4):393-8. [Link to abstract]

Pandhi N, Guadagnolo BA, Kaneker S, Petereit DG, Karki C, Smith MA. “Intention to receive cancer screening in Native Americans from the Northern Plains.” Cancer Causes Control 2011;22(2):199-206. [Link to abstract]

Kind AJH, Bartels C, Mell M, Mullahy J, Smith M. "For-profit hospital status and rehospitalizations to different hospitals: An analysis of Medicare data." Ann Intern Med 2010;153(11):718-727. [Link to abstract]

Burns ME, Shah ND, Smith MA. "Why some disabled adults in Medicaid face large out-of-pocket expenses." Health Aff 2010;29(8):1517-1522. [Link to abstract]

Kind AJH, Anderson P, Hind J, Robbins J, Smith M. "Omission of dysphagia therapies in hospital discharge communications." Dysphagia (in press). [Link to abstract]

Greenblatt DY, Weber S, O'Connor ES, LoConte N, Liou J-I, Smith M. "Readmission after colectomy for cancer predicts one-year mortality." Ann Surg 2010;251(4):659-669. [Link to abstract]

Pandhi N, Guadagnolo BA, Kanekar S, Petereit DG, Smith MA. "Utilization and determinants of cancer screening in Native Americans from the Northern Plains." Am J Prev Med 2010;38(4):389-95. [Link to abstract]

Kind AJH, Smith MA, Liou J, Pandhi N, Frytak JR, Finch MD. "Discharge destination's effect on bounce-back risk in black, white, and Hispanic acute ischemic stroke patients." Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2010;91(2):189-95. [Link to abstract]

LoConte N, Smith M, Alberti D, Bozeman J, Cleary J, Setala A, Wodtke G, Wilding G, Holen K.  "Amongst eligible patients, age and comorbidity do not predict for dose limiting toxicity from phase I chemotherapy."  Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2010;65(4):775-80. [Link to abstract]

Sheehy AM, Flood G, Tuan WJ, Liou JI, Coursin DB, Smith MA.  "Analysis of diabetes screening guideliness in an ambulatory population."  Mayo Clinic Proceed 2010;85(1):27-35. [Link to abstract]

Golestanian E, Liou J, Smith MA.  "Long-term survival in older critically ill patients with acute ischemic stroke."  Crit Care Med 2009;37(12):3107-3113. [Link to abstract]

Everett CM, Schumacher J, Wright A, Smith MA.  "Physician assistants and nurse practitioners as a usual source of care."  J Rural Health 2009;25(4):407-14. [Link to abstract]

Schumacher J, Smith M, Liou J, Pandhi N.  "Insurance disruption due to spousal Medicare transitions: Implications for access to care and health care utilization for women approaching 65."  Health Serv Res 2009;44(3):946-964. [Link to abstract]

Pandhi N, Smith M, Kind AJH, Frytak J, Finch M.  "The quality of diabetes care following hospitalization for ischemic stroke."  Cerebrovasc Dis 2009;27:235-240. [Link to full text]

Massad S, Nieto FJ, Palta M, Smith M, Clark R, Thabet A.  "Mental health of children in Palestinian kindergartens: Resilience and vulnerability."  Child Adol Ment Health 2009;14:89-96.

Cox ED, Smith MA, Brown RL, Fitzpatrick MA.  "Learning to participate: Effect of child age and parental education on participation in pediatrics visits."  Health Commun 2009;24(3):249-58. [Link to abstract]

Courses Taught:

In the Population Health graduate program, Dr. Smith developed and teaches the introductory course in type 2 translational research (PHS 650).  She is also the lead instructor in developing a course in quality of healthcare and patient safety (PHS 703) to serve graduate students in both the Population Health program and Industrial Engineering. She also gives lectures on Quality of Care, Patient Safety, and Quantitative Methods in Population Health for students in the Population Health Sciences PhD Program, Masters of Public Health Program, and other graduate programs within the School of Medicine and Public Health.

 Research Weblinks:

http://www.hip.wisc.edu/
https://ictr.wisc.edu/CAPResearch

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