
Leonard E. Egede, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine; Inaugural Milwaukee Community Chair in Health Equity Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine; Director, Center for Advancing Population Science (CAPS)
Locations
- Center for Advancing Population Science (CAPS)
Contact Information
Biography
Leonard Egede, MD, MS is general internist, tenured Professor of Medicine, and Inaugural Milwaukee Community Chair in Health Equity Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Director of the Center for Advancing Population Science (CAPS).
As a nationally recognized health disparities researcher, Dr. Egede's research has focused on developing and testing innovative interventions to reduce and/or eliminate health disparities related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location for chronic medical and mental health conditions. His career started with diabetes as a template disease, but he has since worked with other physical and mental illnesses. Dr. Egede has published over 450 manuscripts documenting the existence of disparities and showing that factors at the individual, provider, and system level have an influence on health outcomes. His work has led to recognition that disparities exist and moved the field towards focusing on what can be done to address inequities. His work has also focused on understanding the impact of structural racism, social determinants of health and social risk on health outcomes, advancing research on effectiveness and safety of telehealth and telemedicine as a modality for delivering effective clinical care, and understanding the role of behavioral economics on health and health outcomes for individuals with chronic disease.
Dr. Egede's work, funded by the NIH National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department of Defense (DOD), and Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development (VA HSR&D), developed and tested innovative interventions to improve health outcomes for high risk racial and ethnic minorities. Dr. Egede is extremely committed to mentorship, providing mentorship opportunities to students, general internal medicine fellows, interns, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty members. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Program and was the Principal Investigator of a K24 career development award from NIH/NIDDK focused on mentoring women and minority investigators. In addition, he is a strong supporter of pathway programs and works to involve individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine and women in research during high school and early undergraduate school.
Finally, Dr. Egede has expanded the work he has done in the United States globally through efforts to provide care and empowerment of indigenous communities and promote collaborative research projects with investigators. Dr. Egede’s global health research has focused on understanding the role of social determinants of health and social risk on health outcomes for vulnerable populations with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and the Middle East.
Research Experience
- Community Engagement
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Global Health
- Health Disparities
- Health Services Research
- Mental Health Services
- Minority Health
- Social Determinants of Health
Clinical Expertise
- Chronic Disease
- Depression
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Global Health
- Healthcare Disparities
- Internal Medicine
- Mental Health Services
- Poverty
- Self-Management
- Social Determinants of Health
- Urban Population
Methodologies and Techniques
- Cohort Studies
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Databases, Factual
- Factor Analysis, Statistical
- Longitudinal Studies
- Mentoring
- Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
- Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
- Regression Analysis
- Research Design
- Retrospective Studies
Leadership Positions
- Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
- Director, Center for Advancing Population Science (CAPS)
MCW Program / Core Facilities
- CAPS - Global Health Unit
- CAPS - Health Systems Research Unit
Educational Expertise
- African Americans
- Delivery of Health Care
- Depression
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Health Behavior
- Healthcare Disparities
- Primary Health Care
- Social Determinants of Health
- Telemedicine
- Treatment Outcome
Publications
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Modern Day Consequences of Historic Redlining: Finding a Path Forward.
(Egede LE, Walker RJ, Campbell JA, Linde S, Hawks LC, Burgess KM.) J Gen Intern Med. 2023 May;38(6):1534-1537 PMID: 36746831 PMCID: PMC9901820 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85147581768 02/07/2023
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Structural Racism as an Upstream Social Determinant of Diabetes Outcomes: A Scoping Review.
(Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Linde S.) Diabetes Care. 2023 Apr 01;46(4):667-677 PMID: 36952609 PMCID: PMC10090912 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85150902866 03/24/2023
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(Hawks LC, Walker RJ, Egede LE.) J Natl Med Assoc. 2023 Apr;115(2):244-253 PMID: 36803852 PMCID: PMC10121761 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85148365891 02/22/2023
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(Bhandari S, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Thorgerson A, Dawson AZ, Egede LE.) Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2023 Mar 08;21(1):21 PMID: 36890499 PMCID: PMC9997014 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85149677093 03/09/2023
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(Dismuke-Greer C, Esmaeili A, Ozieh MN, Gujral K, Garcia C, Del Negro A, Davis B, Egede L.) J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2023 Mar 02 PMID: 36864369 03/03/2023
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(Monroe P, Campbell JA, Harris M, Egede LE.) BMC Public Health. 2023 Mar 01;23(1):410 PMID: 36855084 PMCID: PMC9976510 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85149153109 03/02/2023
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(Sukkarieh O, Egede LE, Bassil M.) Postgrad Med. 2023 Mar;135(2):169-178 PMID: 36714928 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85147691709 01/31/2023
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Mentoring strategies to support diversity in research-focused junior faculty: A scoping review
(Williams JS, Walker RJ, Burgess KM, Shay LA, Schmidt S, Tsevat J, Campbell JA, Dawson AZ, Ozieh MN, Phillips SA, Egede LE.) Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 6 October 2023;7(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85140236470 10/06/2023
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(Egede LE, Ruiz R, Mosley-Johnson E, Aguilar-Gaxiola SA, Corbie GM, Wilkins CH, Vitale A, Boulware LE.) J Clin Transl Sci. 2023;7(1):e95 PMID: 37125065 PMCID: PMC10130834 05/01/2023
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(Hawks LC, Walker RJ, Egede LE.) Journal of the National Medical Association. April 2023;115(2):244-253 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85148365891 04/01/2023
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Mentoring strategies to support diversity in research-focused junior faculty: A scoping review.
(Williams JS, Walker RJ, Burgess KM, Shay LA, Schmidt S, Tsevat J, Campbell JA, Dawson AZ, Ozieh MN, Phillips SA, Egede LE.) J Clin Transl Sci. 2023;7(1):e21 PMID: 36755542 PMCID: PMC9879913 02/10/2023
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(Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Dawson AZ, Ozieh MN, Schmidt S, Shay LA, Williams JS, Phillips SA, Egede LE.) J Clin Transl Sci. 2023;7(1):e16 PMID: 36721402 PMCID: PMC9884544 02/02/2023