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Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Center for Practice Management & Outcomes Research
Ann Arbor, MI
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Dr. Heisler received her medical training at Harvard Medical School (MD, 1997) and the University of Michigan (Internal Medicine, 2000), and then completed a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholarship (2002). She joined the Ann Arbor VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research in 2002. Her VA CDA (2004) has enabled her to develop her research interests centering on patient, clinician, and health systems factors that influence patients' chronic disease self-management. She has conducted observational research, publishing over 20 papers since 2004 in journals such as JAMA, the American Journal of Public Health, and Archives of Internal Medicine, to build an empirical base to enable her to fulfill her principal research aims of designing and evaluating health system interventions to better support patients' chronic disease management and improve outcomes.
She completed three pilot studies, each of which have informed larger randomized controlled implementation studies.
She recently received an NHLBI RO1 grant as Principal Investigator for an RCT testing an intervention mobilizing peer support and enhanced case management among patients with heart failure. In addition, she is co-PI on a VA-funded randomized controlled trial testing a similar intervention among diabetes patients. She is PI on a VA Merit grant recently approved for funding for an RCT for a clinical pharmacist intervention addressing adherence problems and lack of medication intensification among hypertensive diabetes patients. Dr. Heisler is also co-PI of the Health System Intervention of a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) multi-faceted intervention to improve diabetes self-management and outcomes among African Americans and Latinos in Detroit (REACH 2010) and PI on a grant from the Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation exploring how patients' participation in a self-management intervention (REACH-Detroit) affects their interactions with their health care providers. In the next few years, she hopes to continue developing skills and experience to empirically test the application of advances in behavioral psychology to inform individual provider practices and broader health system interventions to support patients' chronic disease management. In addition to her research, she is a primary care provider at the Ann Arbor VA and actively involved in medical student and resident teaching, helping develop and conduct training in effective care for patients with chronic diseases.
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