Diabetes

About

We conduct clinical trials and observational studies focusing on diabetes identification, management and treatment, including diet and medications. We have specific expertise in new diabetes technologies such as continuous glucose monitoring and the artificial pancreas. 

Affiliation

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Faculty Position
  • Bergenstal, Richard M., MD, Sr. Research Investigator
  • Carlson, Anders L., MD, Sr. Research Investigator
  • Criego, Amy B., MD, MS, Research Investigator
  • Margolis, Karen L., MD, MPH, Sr. Research Investigator
  • Martens, Thomas W., MD, FACP, Sr. Research Investigator

    • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • A call-to-action to eliminate barriers to accessing automated insulin delivery systems for people with type 1 diabetes. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 7  
  • A randomized controlled trial using continuous glucose monitoring to guide food choices and diabetes self-care in people with type 2 diabetes not taking insulin. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 1  
  • Automated insulin delivery in adults with type 2 diabetes: a nonrandomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 48  
  • Cardiometabolic risk in pediatric patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 2  
  • Clinical decision support and cardiometabolic medication adherence: a randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 10  
    • Editorial Article
  • Insulin management in patients with diabetes receiving hemodialysis: unanswered questions and way forward [editorial]. 
    American Journal of Kidney Diseases.  83. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 12  
  • The Glucose Management Indicator: time to change course [editorial]?. 
    Diabetes care.  47. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 3  
  • Continuous glucose monitoring for type 2 diabetes: how does it compare with type 1 diabetes [editorial]?. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.  24. 2022
  • More green, less red: how color standardization may facilitate effective use of CGM data [editorial]. 
    Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology.  16. 2022
  • Overcoming therapeutic inertia in type 2 diabetes care-timing, context, and appropriateness of treatment intensification [editorial]. 
    JAMA network open.  4. 2021
    Article has an altmetric score of 91  
    • Chapter
  • Comparative effectiveness of adaptive treatment strategies. 
    Targeted learning in data science: causal inference for complex longitudinal studies (Springer series in statistics). 2018
  • Diabetes. 
    Chronic disease epidemiology and control. 2010
  • Advances in Patient Safety Clinical Inertia and Outpatient Medical Errors. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Volume 2: Concepts and Methodology). 2005
  • Advances in Patient Safety Identification, Classification, and Frequency of Medical Errors in Outpatient Diabetes Care. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Volume 1: Research Findings). 2005
  • Advances in Patient Safety SimCare: A Model for Studying Physician Decisionmaking Activity. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Volume 4: Programs, Tools, and Products). 2005
    • Conference Paper
  • Diabetes "smart" registries: context, complexity, and impact
    2019
  • Diabetes technology in 2019 [invited speaker]
    2019
  • Diabetes technology in clinical practice [invited speaker]
    2018
  • The connection between dementia and diabetes [invited speaker]
    2017
  • Diabetes technology: beyond insulin pumps [invited speaker]
    2016
    • Conference Poster
  • Autonomic neuropathy in type 1 diabetes (T1D): findings from the T1D Exchange [poster]
    2019
  • Effect of professional CGM (pCGM) on glucose management in type 2 diabetes patients in primary care [poster]
    2019
  • Factors associated with Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compliance and weight loss among low-income participants [poster]
    2019
  • Hybrid closed-loop in adults with type 1 diabetes: impact of baseline A1c on glucose outcomes and insulin delivery [poster]
    2019
  • Low level of agreement in evaluation of continuous glucose monitoring profiles [poster]
    2019
    • Report
  • Comparing telehealth and clinic-based care for lowering uncontrolled high blood pressure
    2021
  • Leveraging health communication, data, and innovative approaches for sustainable systems-wide changes to reduce the prevalence of obesity: proceedings of a workshop in brief
    2021
    Article has an altmetric score of 4
  • Stakeholder-driven action plan for improving pain management, opioid use, and opioid use disorder treatment through patient-centered clinical decision support
    2019
  • Screening for high blood pressure in adults: a systematic evidence review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [Internet]
    2014
  • Healthy lifestyles [health care guideline]
    2011
    • Review
  • Effective strategies for the prevention and mitigation of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase inhibitor-associated hyperglycemia: optimizing patient care [review]. 
    Clinical Breast Cancer. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Decreasing the burden of carbohydrate counting and meal announcement with automated insulin delivery, meal recognition, and autocorrection doses: a case study [review]. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 29
  • Is it time to move beyond TIR to TITR? Real-world data from over 20,000 users of continuous glucose monitoring in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes [review]. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Once-weekly insulin efsitora alfa: design and rationale for the QWINT phase 3 clinical development programme [review]. 
    Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 18
  • Primary care and diabetes technologies and treatments [review]. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
    • Abstract
  • Evaluation of race and ethnicity and pharmacy dispensing of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes [abstract]. 
    Circulation. 2024
  • Comparing change in systolic blood pressure with clinic-based care versus telehealth care in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Hyperlink 3) [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
    Article has an altmetric score of 199
  • Maximizing use of chronic disease clinical decision support in primary care clinics: lessons learned from randomized trials [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
    Article has an altmetric score of 199
  • Medication adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary data from the patient perspective [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
    Article has an altmetric score of 199
  • Patients deciding on cancer screening and prevention using clinical decision support: "I wouldn't have thought about getting screened without it" [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
    Article has an altmetric score of 199
    • Audio Document
  • CGM use in type 2 diabetes
    2018
    • Audio-Visual Document
  • Practice vs accountability in diabetes care
    2011
    • Patent
  • Methods for treating patients with impaired awareness of hypoglycemia
    2021
  • Treatment of hypoglycemia unawareness with intranasal insulin
    2017
    • Webpage
  • Will the surge in new diabetes devices improve patient outcomes?
    2020

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