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Desai, Jay R., PhD, MPH
Former Research Investigator
About

Joined the Institute: 2011

Education and training: PhD and MPH (epidemiology), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Overview/research interests: Chronic disease epidemiology, prevention and quality improvement in adults and children, including diabetes, diabetes prevention, cardiovascular disease, and cancer prevention; health equity research; clinical decision support for primary care providers and patients; dissemination and implementation research; large electronic health record studies; and mHealth interventions.

Current research activities and funding:

  • Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in Prediabetes Patients Using EHR-Based Decision Support Cardiovascular Benefits and Safety of Glucose-Lowering Therapies in Adults with Diabetes
  • Minnesota Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Diabetes
  • Prioritized Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
  • The Patient Outcomes Research to Advance Learning (PORTAL) Network Adult Overweight and Obesity Cohort
  • NIH Health Delivery Syste
Publications While At HealthPartners
selected publications
Journal Article
  • Preoperative depression status and 5 year metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes in the PCORnet Bariatric Study cohort. 
  • "We will do whatever it takes": understanding socioecological level influences on Hmong-American adolescents and parents' perceptions of the human papillomavirus vaccine. 
  • Assessing the implementation of a clinical decision support tool in primary care for diabetes prevention: a qualitative interview study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Science. 
  • Clinician perceptions of a clinical decision support system to reduce cardiovascular risk among prediabetes patients in a predominantly rural healthcare system. 
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2022
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Implementing a prediabetes clinical decision support system in a large primary care system: design, methods, and pre-implementation results. 
    • Editorial Article
  • Comparative safety and effectiveness of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy for weight loss and type 2 diabetes across race and ethnicity in the PCORnet Bariatric Study cohort [editorial]. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes by BMI: Patient Outcomes Research To Advance Learning (PORTAL) multisite cohort of adults in the U.S [editorial]. 
  • Personalized and prioritized diabetes treatment recommendations to reduce cardiovascular risk [editorial]
    2014
  • Patient preferences in diabetes care: overcoming barriers using new strategies [editorial]. 
    • Chapter
  • Diabetes. 
    Chronic disease epidemiology and control. 2010
    • Conference Poster
  • Factors associated with Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compliance and weight loss among low-income participants [poster]
    2019
  • Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: challenges to appropriate use [poster]
    2017
  • What factors facilitate weight loss among Medicaid beneficiaries participating in the diabetes prevention program [poster]?
    2017
  • Timing and impact of transition from pediatric to adult care on glycemic control among adolescents and young adults with diabetes: results from the SUPREME-DM pilot study [poster]
    2014
  • We can prevent diabetes in Minnesota [poster]
    2012
    • Review
  • Priorities Wizard: multisite web-based primary care clinical decision support improved chronic care outcomes with high use rates and high clinician satisfaction rates [review]. 
    • Abstract
  • A web-based clinical decision support system (Wizard) increases appropriate cardiometabolic diagnostic coding at primary care visits [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Dissemination and sustained use of an outpatient clinical decision system with high use rates, high clinician satisfaction, and positive impact on quality of care [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Variation in care improvement opportunities suggests need for tailored clinician-specific improvement interventions [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • A comparison of the impact of the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines on primary care populations with and without diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2018
  • Impact of human versus analog insulins on occurrence of myocardial infarction [abstract]. 
    Diabetologia. 2017
    • Document
  • Prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand
    2007
    • presentations
    Presentation
  • Addressing missing data and clinical relapse can improve composite diabetes quality of care measure [presentation], HMO Research Network 20th Annual Conference: Embedded Research to Improve Health
  • Benefits of early versus later hypertension treatment and control on cardiovascular outcomes in those with diabetes: clinical and research implications [presentation], HMO Research Network (HMORN) 18th Annual Conference--Learning Health Care Systems: Leading Through Research
  • Chronic diseases in Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand [presentation], HealthPartners Celebration of Research Annual Conference
  • Comparative cardiovascular safety of human versus analog insulins [presentation], EDEG (European Diabetes Epidemiology Group) 2017 Meeting
  • Declining rates of major cardiovascular events in adults with and without diabetes: 2005-2011 [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research 18th Annual Conference
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    Publications
    Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at HealthPartners. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
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