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Jeffrey Whittle, MD, MPH

Professor

Locations

  • Zablocki VA Medical Center
  • Zablocki VA Medical Center

Specialties

  • Internal Medicine

Languages

  • English

Education

  • MD - Doctor of Medicine
  • MPH - Masters in Public Health

Biography

Jeffrey C. Whittle, MD, MPH, is a Staff Physician at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He attended the ӰԺ 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 ӰԺ in March of 2005.

Research Interests

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 CAPS, 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.

Publications

  • (Ganshert C, Thompson M, Whittle J, Davis-Maxwell A, Demchuk C, Jackson JL.) J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Oct;39(13):2612-2614 PMID: 38844746 PMCID: PMC11436609 06/07/2024

  • (Bollaert RE, Bennett MM, Davis KE, Hillard CJ, Whittle J, Franco Z, Broadwell S, Fitzgerald J.) Int J Yoga Therap. 2024 Sep 01;34(2024) PMID: 39232247 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85203397471 09/05/2024

  • (Rymer JA, Mulder H, Wruck LM, Muñoz D, Kripalani S, Effron MB, Gupta K, Handberg E, Jain S, Girotra S, Whittle J, Hess R, Benziger CP, Knowlton KU, Curtis LH, Roe MT, Hammill BG, Rothman RL, Harrington R, Hernandez A, Jones WS.) JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Sep 01;9(9):852-857 PMID: 39046724 PMCID: PMC11270247 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85200629034 07/24/2024

  • (Benziger CP, Stebbins A, Wruck LM, Effron MB, Marquis-Gravel G, Farrehi PM, Girotra S, Gupta K, Kripalani S, Munoz D, Polonsky TS, Sharlow A, Whittle J, Harrington RA, Rothman RL, Hernandez AF, Jones WS.) JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Sep 01;9(9):808-816 PMID: 38985488 PMCID: PMC11238071 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85199384684 07/10/2024

  • (Farkas AH, Bopp K, Ndakuya-Fitzgerald F, Lopez AA, Haeger KO, Whittle J, Mu Q.) Mil Med. 2024 Aug 30 PMID: 39212953 08/31/2024

  • (Marquis-Gravel G, Mulder H, Wruck LM, Benziger CP, Effron MB, Farrehi PM, Girotra S, Gupta K, Kripalani S, Muñoz D, Polonsky TS, Whittle J, Harrington R, Rothman R, Hernandez AF, Jones WS.) BMJ Open. 2024 Aug 07;14(8):e078197 PMID: 39117415 PMCID: PMC11407226 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85201041104 08/09/2024

  • (Franco Z, Ruffalo L, Curry B, Gollin-Graves M, Ahamed SI, Winstead O, Hooyer K, Pazdera M, Rein L, Lizarraga Mazaba J, Hossain MF, Stoffel V, Flower M, Madiraju P, Melka S, Berte K, Whittle J.) J Trauma Stress. 2024 Aug;37(4):617-630 PMID: 38635149 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85191014615 04/18/2024

  • (Neale ZE, Fonda JR, Miller MW, Wolf EJ, Zhang R, Sherva R, Harrington KM, Merritt V, Panizzon MS, Hauger RL, Gaziano JM, VA Million Veteran Program, Logue MW.) Alzheimers Res Ther. 2024 Jun 29;16(1):143 PMID: 38951900 PMCID: PMC11218206 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85197731797 07/02/2024

  • (Yuan AY, Atanasov V, Barreto N, Franchi L, Whittle J, Weston B, Meurer J, Luo QE, Black B.) Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jun 03;193(6):853-862 PMID: 38375671 PMCID: PMC11145910 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85195227154 02/20/2024

  • (Marquis-Gravel G, Stebbins A, Wruck LM, Roe MT, Effron MB, Hammill BG, Whittle J, VanWormer JJ, Robertson HR, Alikhaani JD, Kripalani S, Farrehi PM, Girotra S, Benziger CP, Polonsky TS, Merritt JG, Gupta K, McCormick TE 3rd, Knowlton KU, Jain SK, Kochar A, Rothman RL, Harrington RA, Hernandez AF, Jones WS.) J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Feb 20;13(4):e026921 PMID: 38348779 PMCID: PMC11010083 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85185614769 02/13/2024

  • (Venner E, Patterson K, Kalra D, Wheeler MM, Chen YJ, Kalla SE, Yuan B, Karnes JH, Walker K, Smith JD, McGee S, Radhakrishnan A, Haddad A, Empey PE, Wang Q, Lichtenstein L, Toledo D, Jarvik G, Musick A, Gibbs RA, All of Us Research Program Investigators.) Commun Biol. 2024 Feb 19;7(1):174 PMID: 38374434 PMCID: PMC10876563 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85185702226 02/20/2024

  • (Davis KE, Bennett MM, Hillard CJ, Whittle J, Franco Z, Bollaert RE, Fitzgerald JM.) Trauma (United Kingdom). 2024 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85186393424 01/01/2024