
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.
Publications
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(Jue MD, Hawks LC, Walker RJ, Akinboboye O, Thorgerson A, Egede LE.) J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Aug 30 PMID: 37648953 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85169159641 08/31/2023
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Community Social Capital and Population Health Outcomes.
(Linde S, Egede LE.) JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Aug 01;6(8):e2331087 PMID: 37624595 PMCID: PMC10457711 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85168747960 08/25/2023
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(Walker SL, Walker RJ, Palatnik A, Dawson AZ, Williams JS, Egede LE.) Am J Perinatol. 2023 Jul 21 PMID: 37494588 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85167733117 07/26/2023
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Interventions to address global inequity in diabetes: international progress.
(Walker AF, Graham S, Maple-Brown L, Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Wade AN, Mbanya JC, Long JA, Yajnik C, Thomas N, Ebekozien O, Odugbesan O, DiMeglio LA, Agarwal S.) Lancet. 2023 Jul 15;402(10397):250-264 PMID: 37356448 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85163480569 06/26/2023
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The role of structural racism and geographical inequity in diabetes outcomes.
(Agarwal S, Wade AN, Mbanya JC, Yajnik C, Thomas N, Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Maple-Brown L, Graham S.) Lancet. 2023 Jul 15;402(10397):235-249 PMID: 37356447 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85163478033 06/26/2023
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(Linde S, Walker RJ, Campbell JA, Egede LE.) J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jun 09:1-8 PMID: 37296361 PMCID: PMC10255945 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85161415830 06/10/2023
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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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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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Relationship between Satisfaction Scores and Racial/Ethnic and Sex Concordance in Primary Care
(Walker RJ, Dawson AZ, Thorgerson A, Campbell JA, Engel S, Kastner M, Egede LE.) Healthcare (Switzerland). August 2023;11(16) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85168939982 08/01/2023
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Gender invariance in the relationship between social support and glycemic control.
(Williams JS, Walker RJ, Egede LE.) PLoS One. 2023;18(5):e0285373 PMID: 37155683 PMCID: PMC10166517 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85158130153 05/08/2023
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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