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| Jeff Newman |
Email: newmanjm@sutterhealth.org
Telephone: (415) 296-1820
Dr. Jeff Newman is Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging. He received his M.D. at Tufts University, and his M.P.H. (Epidemiology) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Since 2003, he has been Director of the Sutter Health Institute for Research & Education, studying clinical information systems and their alignment with medical and nursing workflows. Before that, he was a Mid-Career Fellow in Health Policy at UCSF and Project Director of the California Acute Stroke Prototype Registry.
From 1995 to 2002, Dr Newman was Vice President of Medical and Scientific Affairs at CMRI (now called Lumetra), the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for California. He has had a number of leadership roles with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and public health & managed care organizations in California.
Dr Newman previously worked at the Centers for Disease Control and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. He has authored a variety of publications on chronic disease epidemiology, quality improvement, and clinical decision support.
Title: California Acute Stroke Prototype Registry
Project Period: 9/02 - ongoing (Dr. Newman was Project Director.
Clay Johnston MD PhD is PI)
Funding Agency: Centers for Disease
Control
Description: Clinical information is collected prospectively in 10
California hospitals to assess acute treatment of strokes, and
prevention of recurrence.
Opportunities to improve stroke care and
documentation of services are identified, and the costs and benefits of
prospective versus retrospective data collection are assessed.
Title: Evaluation of the Use of Computerized Medical Records by Small
Medical Practice
Project Period: 2-12/2002 (Dr. Newman was Associate
Investigator.
Robert Miller PhD is PI)
Funding Agency: California HealthCare Foundation
Description: A qualitative study that describes the costs and
benefits of electronic medical records (EMR's) in small physician
practices, as well as factors that influence these costs and benefits.
Title: Evaluation of the Santa Barbara Community Data Exchange California
HealthCare Foundation
Project Period: 1-12/2002 (Dr. Newman was Associate Investigator.
Robert Miller PhD is PI)
Funding Agency: California HealthCare Foundation
Description: An assessment of the effect of the Santa Barbara Care
Data Exchange (CDE) on physician productivity and perceived quality of
patient care and quality of service.
2006 Ciemins EL, Stuart B, Gerber R, Newman J, and Bauman M. An evaluation of the Advanced Illness Management (AIM) Program: increasing hospice utilization in the San Francisco Bay Area. J Palliative Med 9:1401-11
2005 California Acute Stroke Pilot Registry (CASPR) Investigators. Prioritizing interventions to improve rates of thrombolysis for ischemic stroke. Neurology 22;64(4):654-9
2005 Nuckton, TJ, Holko BH, McKay SA, Newman JM. A review of the Institute for Health Policy (IHI) ventilator bundle; definitions, summary, and brief review of the evidence. J Organ Dys 2(1): 48-52
2005 Sakowski J, Leonard T, Colburn S, Michaelsen B, Schiro T, Schneider J, Newman J; “Using a Bar-Code Medication Administration System to Prevent Medication Errors in a Community Hospital Network”. American Journal of Health Systems Pharmacy 62:2619-25.
2004 Miller RH, Sim I, Newman J. Electronic medical records in solo/small groups: a qualitative study of physician user types. Proceedings of MedInfo 2004:658-662.
2004 Newman J, Sakowski J, Moreno M. Early adoption of hospital-based patient safety technologies. http://healthresearch.berkeley.edu/hcqo2/docs/Newman_abs.pdf
2004 Dong FB, Sorensen SW,…, Newman JM, et al. Cost effectiveness of ACE inhibitor treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Pharmacoeconomics 22(15):1015-27.
2004 Hemphill JC 3rd, Newman J, Zhao S, Johnston S C. Hospital Usage of Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Outcome after Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Stroke 35:1130-4
2003 Miller RH, Sim I, Newman JM. Electronic Medical Records: Lessons from Small Physician Practices. Report to the California HealthCare Foundation. http://www.chcf.org/documents/ihealth/EMRLessonsSmallPhyscianPractices.pdf
2003 Mangioni C, Brown A, and Advisory Committee. Guidelines for Improving the Care for Older Persons with Diabetes. J Am Geriatr Soc 51(5)S265-80
2001 Harrington C, Hanawi N, Ramirez T, Parker M, Giammona M, Tantaros M. Newman J. Study of Medicare Beneficiary Complaint Procedures. Quality Management in Health Care 10:65-84.
2001 Harrington C, Merrill S, Newman J. Factors Associated with Medicare Beneficiary Complaints about Quality. J for Healthcare Qual 23:4-14.
2000 Smith-Bindman R, Kerlikowske K, Newman J, Gebretsadik T. "Is screening mammography effective in older women?" Amer J of Med 108:112-9
2000 Ford E, Newman J, Deosaransingh K. Racial and ethnic differences in the use of cardiovascular procedures: Findings from the California Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. Am J Public Health 90:1128-34.
2000 Harrington, C, Weinberg J, Merrill S, Newman J. Medicare beneficiary complaints about quality. Amer J of Med Qual 15:241-50.
2000 White RH, Gettner S, Newman JM, Trauner KB, Romano PS. Predictors of rehospitalization for symptomatic venous thromboembolism after elective total hip arthroplasty. N Eng J Med 343:1758-64.
1999 Francis CD, Go AS, Dauternman KW, Deosaransingh K, Jung DL, Newman JM, et al. Outcome following acute myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med 159:1429-36.
1998 Stotts NA, Deosaransingh K, Roll FJ, Newman J. Underutilization of pressure ulcer risk assessment in hip fracture patients. Adv Wound Care 1998;11:32-8. 1998 Parker JD, Gebretsadik T, Sabogal F, Newman J, Lawson H. Mammography screening among California Medicare beneficiaries: 1993-4. Amer J of Prev Med 15(3):198-205.
1997 Roll J, Weng A, Newman J. Diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection among California Medicare patients. Archives of Internal Medicine 157:994-8.
1997 The Large State Peer Review Organization Consortium. Congestive heart failure treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in hospitalized Medicare patients in 10 large states. Archives of Internal Medicine 157:1103-8.
1993 DeStefano F, Ford ES, Newman J, et al. Risk factors for coronary heart disease mortality among persons with diabetes. Annals of Epi 3:27-34
1993 Muneta B., Newman J, Stevenson J, Eggers P. Diabetic end-stage renal disease among Native Americans. Diabetes Care 18:346-8.
1993 Newman J, DeStefano F, Valway S, Muneta B, German R. Diabetes-associated mortality in Native Americans. Diabetes Care, 18:297-9.
1993 DeStefano F and Newman J. Comparison of coronary heart disease mortality risk between black and white persons with diabetes. Ethnicity Dis, 1993;3:145-51.
1993 Geiss LS, Herman, WH, Goldschmid MG, DeStefano F, Newman JM. Surveillance for diabetes mellitus--US, 1980-89. MMWR CDC Surveillance Summary, 42:1-20.
1993 Newman JM, Herman WH, Vinicor F. Alternative approaches to public health surveillance of IDDM. Diabetes Care, 16:812-4.
1993 Muneta B, Newman J, Wetterall S, Stevenson J. Diabetes and associated risk factors among Native Americans. Diabetes Care, 16:1619-20
1993 Kenny SJ, Smith PJ, Goldschmid MG, Newman JM, Herman WH. Survey of physician practice behaviors related to diabetes mellitus in the U.S. Physician adherence to consensus recommendations. Diabetes Care, 16:1507-10.
1992 Wetterhall SF, Olson DR, DeStefano F, Stevenson JM, Newman JM. Trends in diabetes and diabetic complications, 1980-1987. Diabetes Care 15:960-7.
1991 Ford ES, Newman JM. Smoking and diabetes mellitus: findings from the 1988 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Diabetes Care 14:871-4.
1990 Newman J, Marfin T, Eggers P, Helgerson S. End stage renal disease in Native Americans. Am J Public Health 80:318-319
1990 Selby JV, FitzSimmons SC, Newman JM, Katz PP, Sepe S, Showstack J. The natural history and epidemiology of diabetic nephropathy. JAMA 263:1954-1960
1990 Newman J, Ford ES, Wetterhall S. Regional variation in diabetes mellitus prevalence - United States, 1988 and 1989. MMWR 39:805-9.
1989 Herman W, Hawthorne V, Hamman R, Keen H, DeFronzo R, Newman J, et al. Consensus Statement [preventing kidney disease of diabetes mellitus]. Am J of Kid Dis 13:2-6.
1989 Teutsch S, Newman J, Eggers P. The problem of diabetic renal failure in the United States: an overview. Amer J of Kidney Diseases 13:11-13.
1988 Young J, Newman J, Stallings F. A survey of immunization services in community health centers in response to a measles outbreak. Health Res & Services Studies 6:63-68.
1988 Nelson R, Newman J, Knowler W, et al. End stage renal disease in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia 31:730-736.
1985 Siscovick D, LaPorte R, Newman J. The disease-specific benefits and risks of physical activity and exercise. Public Health Reports 100:180-188
1984 Schwartz I, Chin W, Newman J, et al. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Southeast Asian refugees entering the US. Amer J Trop Med & Hyg 33:182-184
1981 Borchardt K, Ortega H, Mahood J, Newman J, et al. Intestinal parasites in Southeast Asian refugees. Western Journal of Medicine 135:93-96.
1980 Sacks J, Krushat W, Newman J. Reliability of health hazard appraisal. Am J Public Health 70:730-732.
1977 U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals Cooperative Study Group. Treatment of mild hypertension. Circulation Research (Suppl) 40(I):98-105
2004 Sakowski J, . . . Newman J. Bar Code Point of Care Medication Administration Systems and the Detection of Medication Errors. Presentation at 2004 Academy Health.
1998 Allbright A, Newman J, Stenehjem J. Opportunities for collaboration between Diabetes Control Programs and Peer Review Organizations: California's Experience. 1998 CDC Diabetes Conference.
1984 Katz L., Byers T, Newman J. Health risk appraisal in medical education: impact on behavior change. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prospective Medicine.
1983 Newman, J. Summary of CDC's New Methodology and Implications /or the Future. Proceedings of the Health Risk Appraisal Conference, CDC 33.
1978 Newman J. Hypertension and health beliefs. Society for Advanced Medical Systems, 9:229-232
1986 Newman J. Community resources for COPC. In Nutting PA (ed): Community-Oriented Primary Care: From Principle to Practice. DHHS HRS-A-PE 86-1.
1984 Newman J (recorder). Health Care Settings Workgroup. Prospects for a Healthier America: Achieving the Nation's Health Promotion Objectives, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 1984:9-10.
1983 Newman J (contributing author). The Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease. A Report of the Surgeon General.
1990 Newman J. End-stage renal disease and type of diabetes. N Eng J Med 322:1008
1982 Newman J, Gong Y. Should mild hypertension be treated? N Eng J Med 307:15
1992 Newman J. Summary & Comment on "The incidence of gross proteinuria in people with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus." Diabetes Spectrum 5:112-3.
1999 Newman JM, Jung D, Kotler P, and Valera P. Preventable Hospitalizations Among California Medicare Health Plan Enrollees. Report to Health Care Financing Administration.
1995 Newman JM. Identifying opportunities to improve care. California Medical Review, Inc: Health Care Quality Improvement Report 1(2):2.
1995 Newman JM, Martin C, Bermudez R. Evaluation of the San Francisco Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. SF DPH Epidemiology Report 11:1-7.
1994 Newman JM, Bermudez R. Mortality among San Francisco residents, 1991-2. San Francisco Department of Public Health Epidemiology Report 10.
1990 Newman JM, Stevenson JM, Wetterhall SF, DeStefano F. End-stage renal disease. In Diabetes Surveillance. Centers for Disease Control 1990:33-36.
1989 Bild D, Geiss L, Newman J. Evaluation of hypertension control programs for persons with diabetes. Diabetes Control Program Update 8:2-7.
1985 Powell K, Newman J. Preface for Risk Factor Update Project Final Report, CDC
1984 Jones J, Newman J, Moyer R. Health education for Indochinese refugees, CDC.
1984 Newman J (recorder). Health Care Settings Workgroup. Prospects for a Healthier America: Achieving the Nation's Health Promotion Objectives, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 9-10.
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