George J. Isham, MD
Distinguished Scholar, HealthPartners Institute

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Other offices/titles:

  • Senior advisor, Alliance of Community Health Plans
  • Member, Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Task Force on Community Preventive Services
  • Member, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s United States Preventive Services Task Force
  • Elected member, National Academy of Medicine
  • National associate, Institute of Medicine
  • Member, National Advisory Committee, Building Healthy Places Network;
  • Member, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement Business Collaborative, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine

Year joined the Institute: 2012

Education and training: MD, University of Illinois, Chicago; internship and residency in internal medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison; fellowship in primary care policy, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.; MS in preventive medicine/administrative medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Overview/research interests: Dr. Isham i

Publications While At HealthPartners

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Journal Article
  • A proposed approach for implementing genomics-based screening programs for healthy adults [health policy]
    NAM Perspect. 2018
  • Population health as a means for health care organizations to deliver value
    Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2015
  • Moderating nine years of health literacy dialogue: a personal reflection
    Journal of health communication. 2014
  • Population health improvement: a community health business model that engages partners in all sectors
    Frontiers of Health Services Management. 2014
  • HealthPartners adopts community business model to deepen focus on nonclinical factors of health outcomes
    Health Affairs. 2013
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