placeholder image

Leif I. Solberg, MD
Retired Senior Research Investigator, MD

"My career has focused on caring for patients and learning how to measure and improve the quality of care that they receive."

About

Dr. Solberg is a family physician who is a Senior Advisor for HealthPartners Medical Group (a 1600 physician multi-specialty group practice) and HealthPartners Health Plan (1.3 million members), and Senior Investigator for HealthPartners Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Solberg is also a clinical professor at the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and served as an associate medical director for HealthPartners Medical Group for 16 years. During much of his career at HealthPartners, he was also a Board member and active participant in the work of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a regional cooperative that has greatly influenced care delivery here.

Dr. Solberg is internationally known for his research on quality improvement of medical care, especially for work on clinical preventive services, chronic disease care, depression, patient-reported outcomes, and the medical home. Dr. Solberg has published over 300 sci

Affiliation

positions

  • Sr. Research Investigator, MD, Primary care, pediatrics
  • Senior Investigator, Behavioral health
  • Senior Investigator, Center for Chronic Care Innovation 1992 -
  • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • 'Do they care?': a qualitative examination of patient perspectives on primary care clinician communication related to opioids in the USA
    BMJ open. 2025
  • Care coordination in primary care: views of clinicians and clinic leaders
    Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2025
  • Care coordination: how is it implemented and is it different if a social worker is on the team?
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2025
  • Barriers and facilitators to using a clinical decision support tool for opioid use disorder in primary care
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2024
  • Patient experiences and perceptions of care coordination in primary care
    Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2024
  • Chapter

    presentations

    Presentation
  • A microsimulation model of the natural history of smoking in the U.S. [presentation], HMO Research Network 16th Annual Conference: Emerging Frontiers in Healthcare Research and Delivery
  • A partnership approach to evaluation of the implementation of a natural experiment [presentation], Seattle Implementation Research Conference (SIRC)
  • Accelerating PCOR (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research) through the PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) Pilot Projects Learning Network: experiences with shared learning and collaboration [presentation], PCORI Annual Meeting
  • Adolescent and adult immunizations: health impact and cost-effectiveness [presentation], HMO Research Network (HMORN) 18th Annual Conference--Learning Health Care Systems: Leading Through Research
  • Barriers to improving primary care of depression: a qualitative study [presentation], HMO Research Network 14th Annual Conference: Partnerships in Translation: Advancing Research and Clinical Care
  • Contact

    full name

  • Leif I. Solberg, MD
  • Quick Info

    Publications

    Collaboration