Terese A. DeFor, MS
Senior Manager, Research Informatics

About

Teri manages a Research Informatics team of 15 programmer analysts and has extensive experience working with electronic health record and administrative health plan data to create a comprehensive record for research studies. She has special interests in post-marketing drug surveillance and developing common data models for multi-site research studies.

Education: BA, Mathematics, University of St Thomas
MS, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Joined the Institute: 1997

Publications While At HealthPartners

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  • Risk of arterial and venous thrombotic events among patients with COVID-19: a multi-national collaboration of regulatory agencies from Canada, Europe, and United States. 
  • Evaluation of preferred language and timing of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and disease outcomes. 
  • Identification of cancer chemotherapy regimens and patient cohorts in administrative claims: challenges, opportunities, and a proposed algorithm. 
    Journal of Medical Economics. 2023
  • Risk of admission to hospital with arterial or venous thromboembolism among patients diagnosed in the ambulatory setting with covid-19 compared with influenza: retrospective cohort study. 
  • Understanding COVID-19 health disparities with birth country and language data. 
    • Conference Poster
  • Adolescent and young adult cancer data in the Cancer Research Network [poster]
    2017
  • Crusade for cancer data: how a non-SEER Site populated the VDW tumor table [poster]
    2017
  • A multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypass [poster]
    2013
  • Lipid patterns among foreign and U.S. born patients in a medical group [poster]
    2012
  • Prevalence of vitamin d deficiency in Minnesota immigrants and refugees [poster]
    2011
    • Abstract
  • Pilot study of sleep disturbance and lung disease in older adults [abstract]. 
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2010
  • Validation of self-reported diabetes from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trials [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010

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