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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(Egede LE, Walker RJ, Campbell JA, Linde S.) Diabetes Care. 2024 Jun 01;47(6):964-969 PMID: 38387079 PMCID: PMC11116912 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85194013260 02/22/2024
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Independent Correlates of Glycemic Control among Adults with Diabetes in South Africa.
(Hamid A, Dawson AZ, Xu Y, Egede LE.) Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Apr 16;21(4) PMID: 38673397 PMCID: PMC11050191 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85191303779 04/27/2024
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(Egede LE, Walker RJ, Linde S, Williams JS.) J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Apr 02 PMID: 38565767 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85189199480 04/03/2024
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(Terrell J, Campbell JA, Thorgerson A, Bhandari S, Egede LE.) J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2024 Apr;33(4):107583 PMID: 38242184 PMCID: PMC10939811 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85186741833 01/20/2024
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(Linde S, Egede LE.) Health Econ Rev. 2024 Mar 06;14(1):18 PMID: 38446368 PMCID: PMC10916057 03/06/2024
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Relationship between delay discounting, delay aversion and psychosocial domains of diabetes care.
(Campbell JA, Egede LE.) J Affect Disord. 2024 Feb 15;347:601-607 PMID: 38070750 PMCID: PMC10872328 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85180506403 12/10/2023
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(Lopez AA, Dressel A, Luebke J, Williams J, Campbell J, Miller J, Kibicho J, Schadewald D, Abusbaitan H, Pirsch A, Gondwe KW, Schubert E, Ruiz A, Kako P, Mkandawire-Valhmu L, Egede LE.) Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2024 Feb 07 PMID: 38323681 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184670343 02/07/2024
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(Dawson AZ, Hawks L, Walker RJ, Egede LE.) J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Feb 01 PMID: 38302814 02/02/2024
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(Linde S, Egede LE.) Health Economics Review. December 2024;14(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85186927145 12/01/2024
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(Dismuke-Greer C, Esmaeili A, Ozieh MN, Gujral K, Garcia C, Del Negro A, Davis B, Egede L.) Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. April 2024;11(2):652-668 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85149129454 04/01/2024
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(Papadimitriou A, Dawson AZ, Thorgerson A, Bhandari S, Martinez M, Egede LE.) J Alzheimers Dis. 2024;98(3):1145-1155 PMID: 38489179 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85190175512 03/15/2024
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(Walker RJ, Thorgerson AM, Yan A, Williams JS, Campbell JA, Dawson AZ, Renta V, Egede LE.) BMJ Open. 2023 Oct 18;13(10):e069640 PMID: 37852767 PMCID: PMC10603485 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85174750777 10/19/2023