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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.
His 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 VA, the NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Services Resource Administration and the American Heart Association.
Representative Publications
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.
Whittle J, PK Whelton, AJ Seidler, MJ Klag. Does racial variation in risk factors explain black - white differences in the incidence of hypertensive end stage renal disease. Arch Intern Med 1991;151:1359-1364.
Whittle J, Steinberg EP, Anderson GF, Herbert R: Use of Medicare claims data to evaluate outcomes in elderly patients undergoing lung resection for lung cancer. Chest 1991;100:729-734.