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Dr. Ronald Ackermann
Field:
Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine
Focus Areas:
Community Health, Diabetes, Obesity
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Kristin Samuelson
Marla Paul
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Public Health
Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM)
Director, Center for Community Health
Co-Director, Center for Diabetes and Metabolism
Professor of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Medical Social Sciences and Endocrinology
About
Areas of Focus
- Diabetes prevention and control
- Obesity and weight management
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion
- Community health
- Healthcare-community partnerships
- Natural experimental study designs
Work/Research
- Working with local and national community organizations to implement and evaluate diabetes prevention programs to be cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable
- Engaging health payers and providing research findings in ways that help inform insurance companies, Medicare and other organizational leaders to pay for diabetes prevention programs
- Designing and evaluating population health management and care coordination programs, particularly primary care-community partnerships and other cost-effective strategies to incorporate primary prevention of chronic conditions and management of obesity
- Natural experiments and use of quasi-experimental study designs to evaluate treatment alternatives and systems-level approaches for chronic disease prevention and care
- Evaluating how behavioral interventions can positively impact weight management for older adults and for Veterans