Studying the pathways from chronic prescription opioid use to new onset mood disorders.
The role of social networks in the physical and mental health outcomes of trauma survivors.
The acceptability of trauma screening to primary care physicians and patients.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment: Effects on health behaviors, cardiovascular
and metabolic disease.
Implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
across multidisciplinary providers.
Creation of large clinic registries for retrospective cohort designs.
Prescription opioid management and outcomes.
Health consequences of mental illness.
Chronic pain and the interplay with depression and prescription opioids.
Patient preferences for type of provider relationship in primary care.
Disparities in access to care and evidence-based treatment.
Health needs of incarcerated populations.
Reproductive health needs of justice-involved women with substance use disorders.
Disseminating the barriers to care experienced by the poor and underserved.
A big data research study on the relationship between Metformin use and dementia.
Narrative exposure therapy for PTSD in traumatically injured patients pilot.
Other Division of Research Resources:
ARCHNet (practice-based research network).
Program Evaluation Unit.
Partnership with and mentoring of faculty and residents on research projects.
Access to clinical data registries and study specific data.
Multidisciplinary Violence Research Interest Group.
Family and Community Medicine Primary Care Patient Data Registry.
Active partnership across family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics
to facilitate research productivity.
Partnerships with Washington University, University of Washington, Henry Ford Health
Center, the VA Medical Center in Columbia, Missouri, and many others.