Family Medicine

Barcey T. Levy, MD, PhD

Vice Chair for Research
Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-7000
Email: barcey-levy@uiowa.edu

• Colorectal cancer screening
• Women's health
• Osteoporosis
• Health promotion 

Rick Axelson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-4291
Email: rick-axelson@uiowa.edu

• Learning evaluation (theory, methods, practice)
• Learning outcomes assessment
• Learning communities
• Role of social and psychological factors in learning environments   

George R. Bergus, MD, MA-Ed

Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-7566
Email: george-bergus@uiowa.edu

• Psychiatry in a primary care setting
• Medical decision making  

Barry L. Carter, PharmD

Professor of Pharmacy
Phone: (319) 335-8456
Email: barry-carter@uiowa.edu

• Hypertension
• Pharmacy/physician collaboration 

Jeanette M. Daly, RN, PhD

Associate Research Scientist
Phone: (319) 384-8995
Email: jeanette-daly@uiowa.edu

• Elder abuse
• Legislation related to elder abuse
• Colorectal cancer screening
• Fecal immunochemical testing 

Jeffrey Dawson, ScD

Professor of Biostatistics
Phone: (319) 384-1510
Email: jeffrey-dawson@uiowa.edu

• Statistical consultant for family medicine
• Biostatistics 

John W. Ely, MD, MPH

Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-7533
Email: john-ely@uiowa.edu

• Physicians' Information Needs
• Diagnostic Errors
• Checklists 

Mike E. Ernst, PharmD

Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-7756
Email: michael-ernst@uiowa.edu

• Geriatrics
• Drug-related problems
• Appropriate medication use
• Ambulatory blood pressure management 

Anne Gaglioti, MD

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 356-2076
Email: anne-gaglioti@uiowa.edu

• Health care of incarcerated people
• Health disparities
• Health Geography 

Mark A. Graber, MD

Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Phone: (319) 353-6360
Email: mark-graber@uiowa.edu

• Medical ethics
• Medical informatics 

Paul A. James, MD

Professor and Head, Department of Family Medicine
Donald J. and Anna M. Ottilie Chair in Family Medicine 
Phone: (319) 384-7500
Email: paul-james@uiowa.edu

• Quality of primary care measures
• Rural health service delivery
• Medical education and measures of instructional quality 

Gerald Jogerst, MD

Senior Vice Chair
Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-7704
Email: gerald-jogerst@uiowa.edu

• Elder abuse
• International family medicine training
• Methods of teaching geriatric medicine 

Clarence D. Kreiter, PhD

Professor, Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education
Phone: (319) 335-8906
Email: clarence-kreiter@uiowa.edu

• Statistics
• Performance assessment
• Psychological measurement
• Item response theory
• Generalization theory
• Experimental design
• Social implications of testing and test design
• Clinical reasoning assessment
• OSCE assessment 

Marcy E. Rosenbaum, PhD

Associate Professor, Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education
Phone: (319) 335-8612
Email: marcy-rosenbaum@uiowa.edu

• Medical education
• Physician-patient communications
• Qualitative research 

Michelle Weckmann, MD

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Phone: (319) 384-7538
Email: michelle-weckman@uiowa.edu

• Delirium (identification, treatment and prevention)
• Palliative Care 

Julie Mock, B.S., M.A. 

Research Secretary
Office: 01290-6 PFP
Address: 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Work Phone: 319-384-8544
Email: julie-mock@uiowa.edu

Mary Merchant, RN, PhD

Research Associate
Office: 01102-B PFP
Address: 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Work Phone: 319-384-8993
Email: mary-merchant@uiowa.edu  

Carol Moss, BS

Research Associate
Office: 01102-B PFP
Address: 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Work Phone: 319-356-4486
Email: carol-moss@uiowa.edu

Yinghui Xu, MS

Statistician/Biostatistician
Office: 01290-C PFP
Address: 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Work Phone: 319-384-5078
Email: yinghui-xu@uiowa.edu