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Dr. Ronald Ackermann
Field:
Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine
Focus Areas:
Community Health, Diabetes, Obesity
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Kristin Samuelson
Northwestern Media Relations
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