ProfessorMedicine Adjunct Associate ProfessorHealth Services Related Links: Research ActivitiesFaculty Information Biography Education & Training: MDUniversity of Minnesota Medical SchoolMinneapolis, MN1991–1995 Internship and Residency in Internal MedicineHennepin County Medical CenterMinneapolis, MN1995–1998 MSHSUCLA, School of Public HealthLos Angeles, CA1998–2000 Honors: Sigma Xi1989 Best Trainee Paper Award1993 Cardiology Book Award1996, 97 Primary Care Resident Award1998 NRSA Research Fellowship1998–2000 Department of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, Hennepin County Medical Center2013 Mentoring Award nominee, University of Washington2015 VHA HSR&D’s Best Research Paper of the Year Award for Nelson, et al. Implementation of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)2015 Society for General Internal Medicine Northwest Region Award for Excellence in Clinician Investigation2015 Contact Email: nelsonkm@uw.edu Research & Clinical Interests Clinical Interests: Diabetes self-managementNutrition and hungerPatient adherencePatient-centered medical home Publications My NCBI: My NCBI BibliographyPublications: Nelson KM, Brown ME, Lurie N. Hunger in an adult patient population. JAMA. 1998 Apr 15;279(15):1211–4. PMID: 9555762. Nelson KM, Reiber G, Boyko EJ. Diet and exercise among adults with type 2 diabetes: Findings from the third national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES III). Diabetes Care. 2002 Oct;25(10):1722–8. PMID: 12351468. Nelson KM. The burden of obesity among a national probability sample of veterans. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Sep;21(9):915–9. PMID: 16918734; PMCID: PMC1831589. Nelson KM, McFarland L, Reiber G. Factors influencing disease self-management among veterans with diabetes and poor glycemic control. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Apr;22(4):442–7. PMID: 17372790; PMCID: PMC1829424. Nelson KM, Helfrich C, Sun H, Hebert PL, Liu CF, Dolan E, Taylor L, Wong E, Maynard C, Hernandez SE, Sanders W, Randall I, Curtis I, Schectman G, Stark R, Fihn SD. Implementation of the patient-centered medical home in the Veterans Health Administration: associations with patient satisfaction, quality of care, staff burnout, and hospital and emergency department use. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Aug;174(8):1350–8. PMID: 25055197.
