Our faculty members’ research interests are diverse, including areas such as healthcare quality and safety, ethics, delivery of healthcare, medical education, healthcare outcomes, cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, care of the disadvantaged and other vulnerable populations, history of medicine, and special issues in the care of patients with multiple diseases. They have published numerous papers on their research in a broad spectrum of publications.

Research Highlights
March 5, 2021
Women Experience Faster Cognitive Decline with Age
New research, led by Deborah Levine, MD, MPH, finds higher baseline cognition scores for aging women, but a more rapid drop once cognitive decline begins.
February 18, 2021
Diabetes Shared Medical Appointments and Lower A1c
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA finds that short-term shared medical appointments within routine clinical care demonstrated improved A1c in veterans with type-2 diabetes.
February 5, 2021
Some Michigan Counties Were More at Risk for COVID-19 Infections, Deaths, Study Shows
Renuka Tipirneni, MD, MSc discusses her study that finds that the more socially vulnerable the county is, the higher the likelihood of COVID cases and deaths.
Presentations & Posters
View our division's participation in the Society of General Internal Medicine Conference.
Faculty Publications
- Lawrence C. An, MD
- John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
- Steven J. Bernstein, MD, MPH
- John E. Billi, MD
- Hwajung Choi, PhD
- A. Mark Fendrick, MD
- Susan Goold, MD, MHSA, MA
- Michele Gornick, PhD, MA
- Rodney A. Hayward, MD
- Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
- Timothy P. Hofer, MD, MSc
- Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD
- Steven J. Katz, MD, MPH
- Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH
- Catherine Kim, MD, MPH
- Sarah Krein, PhD, RN
- Jeffrey T. Kullgren, MD, MS, MPH
- Pooja Aggarwal Lagisetty, MD
- Kenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD
- Deborah A. Levine, MD, MPH
- Laurence F. McMahon, Jr., MD, MPH
- Jennifer A. Meddings, MD, MSc
- Ann-Marie Rosland, MD
- Renuka Tipirneni, MD, MSc
- Sandeep Vijan, MD, MS
- Lauren P. Wallner, PhD, MPH
- Melissa Yun-sun Wei, MD
- Brent C. Williams, MD, MPH
- James O. Woolliscroft, MD