Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH
Physician, Occupational Medicine and Research Investigator

Clinical Profile 

About

Affiliations/other offices held: Faculty Physician, HealthPartners Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program; Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences

Joined the Institute: 2016

Education and training: MD and Master of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota Medical School and Institute for Health Informatics; Master of Public Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; HealthPartners Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency

Overview/research interests: Dr. McKinney’s clinical research interests are in preventing work-related illness and injury, improving data-driven decision-making in clinical contexts, environmental toxicology, public safety medicine, managing complex impairment/disability and increasing the health literacy of patients and communities.

Research activities and funding:
• Co-investigator, Pragmatic Trial Comparing Telehealth Care and Optimize

Affiliation

positions

  • Research Investigator, Center for Chronic Care Innovation
  • Sr. Investigator, Vaccines
  • Research Investigator, Worksite and occupational health
  • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake among firefighters: an application of the Health Belief Model
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2025
  • Automated vs. manual coding of neuroimaging reports via natural language processing, using the international classification of diseases, tenth revision
    Heliyon. 2024
  • Leveraging employers' influence over wages as a social determinant of health
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2024
  • Retrospective quality review of Department of Transportation (DOT) commercial drivers medical examination forms
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2024
  • Health care utilization: finding the right balance [cover story]
    Minn Physician. 2023
  • Editorial Article
  • Get a doctor to avoid going to the doctor
    MinnesotaSpokesmanRecorder.  2022
  • Bearing bad news: walking with patients [editorial]
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Black MN doctors on COVID-19 vaccine: 'the benefits outweigh the risks'
    MinnesotaSpokesmanRecorder.  2021
  • Combating fear of the unknown in healthcare worker COVID vaccination [editorial]
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Invest in tobacco prevention to improve health, ease health disparities [editorial]
    MinnPost.  2021
  • Conference Poster
  • Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among firefighters: application of the Health Belief Model [poster]
    2023
  • Initial phase results of Firefighter Cardiorespiratory Fitness Pilot Study [poster]
    2019
  • Analytic evaluation of immunization overutilization rates in Minnesota [poster]
    2017
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
  • presentations

    Presentation
  • BLS-3 Medical surveillance [presentation], BSL-3 Seminar Series, Minnesota Department of Health, Eagleson Institute
  • Complex DOT case review [presentation], Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Lecture
  • Effects of taconite mining silica and respirable dust exposure on an inflammatory DNA adduct biomarker, M1dG [presentation], Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
  • Epidemiology/biostatistics [presentations], Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Lectures
  • History of occupational health, overview of occupational and environmental medicine [presentation], University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
  • Teaching

    teaching overview

  • Specialty: Occupational Medicine

    Title: Assistant Director, Occupational Medicine Residency Program

    Faculty Appointment: Core faculty, Occupational Medicine Residency Program

    Education and Training:

    Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School

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  • Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH
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