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Jeffrey Whittle, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Medicine
(General Internal Medicine)
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Jeffrey C. Whittle, MD, MPH, is a Staff Physician at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He attended the Medical College of Wisconsin then received his internal medicine residency training at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. After staying on a year as Chief Medical Resident he was a fellow in General Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, where he also received his Masters of Public Health. After ten years on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh he became Division Director at the Kansas University Medical Center in September of 2001. He moved to the Medical College of Wisconsin in March of 2005.
Dr. Whittle's research has focused on access to care issues and quality of care. He is a national authority on the reasons for racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use. He has used a variety of methods, including analysis of Medicare and VA administrative data, studies of clinically defined cohorts, surveys, and chart reviews. His work has been funded by the Veterans Administration, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Services Resource Administration and American Heart Association.
Since joining PCOR, Dr. Whittle has developed an innovative community academic partnership with veteran community organizations including Vietnam Veterans of America, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and National Association of Black Veterans. This extends his work on access and quality to community-based effort to improve the quality of hypertension care for older individuals by empowering them to take an active role in their own health care. He is currently studying the effectiveness of this approach in a large randomized trial funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service.
Representative Publications
Whittle J, Conigliaro J, Good CB, Kelley ME, Skanderson M. Understanding of the benefits of coronary revascularization procedures among patients who are offered such procedures. Am Heart J 2007;154:662-8.
Hravnak M, Whittle J, Kelley ME, Sereika S, Good CB, Ibrahim SA, Conigliaro J. Symptom expression in coronary heart disease and revascularization recommendations for black and white patients. Am J Pub Health 2007;97:1701-8.
Whittle J, Kressin NR, Peterson ED, Orner MB, Glickman M, Mazzella M, Petersen LA. Racial differences in prevalence of coronary obstructions among men with positive nuclear imaging studies. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006;47:2034-2041.
Yealy DM, Auble TE, Stone RA, Lave JR, Meehan TP, Graff LG, Fine JM, Obrosky DS, Mor MK, Whittle J, Fine MJ. Effect of increasing the intensity of implementing pneumonia guidelines: A randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med 2005;143:881-894.
Whittle J, Conigliaro JC, Good CB, Hanusa BH, Macpherson DM. Black white differences in severity of coronary artery disease among individuals with acute coronary syndromes J Gen Intern Med 2002;17:867-873.
Whittle J, Johnson P, Localio AR: Anticoagulation therapy in patients with venous thromboembolic disease. J Gen Intern Med 1998;13:373-378
Whittle J, Wickenheiser L, Venditti LN. Is warfarin underused in the treatment of elderly persons with atrial fibrillation? Arch Intern Med 1997;157:441-445.
Whittle J, Conigliaro JC, Good CB, Joswiak M. Do patient preferences contribute to racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use? J Gen Intern Med 1997;12:267-273.
Whittle J. Large administrative database analysis. In U.S.Congress Office of Technology Assessment (Ed): Tools for evaluating health technologies: Five background papers, BP-H-142. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office. 1995:27-65.
Whittle J, Conigliaro J, Good CB, Lofgren RP: Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiovascular procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system. N Engl J Med 1993;329:621-627.