Bjorn C. Westgard, MD, MA
Emergency Medicine Physician and Research Investigator

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HealthPartners Medical Group title: Emergency medicine physician

Education: MD, University of Illinois- Urbana; residency in emergency medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center; fellowship in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center.
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  • Research Investigator, Community and population health
    • Publications While At HealthPartners
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Notes from the field: human parvovirus B19 infections among pregnant persons - Minnesota, January-September 2024. 
    MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 13
  • Use of sequential hot-deck imputation for missing health care systems data for population health research. 
    Medical Care. 2024
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Minnesota data sharing may be model for near-real-time tracking of drug overdose hospital and ED trends. 
    Health Affairs. 2023
    Article has an altmetric score of 56
  • A structural competency framework for emergency medicine research: results from a scoping review and consensus conference review]. 
  • Case series of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for central retinal artery occlusion. 
    • Editorial Article
  • Power in the study of mortality and necrotizing soft tissue infections [editorial]. 
    • Conference Poster
  • A randomized controlled trial of emergency department dental care vouchers to improve care and reduce return visits [poster]
    2017
  • How should we evaluate cardiac risk in the older asymptomatic scuba diver [poster]?
    2017
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the prevention of arterial gas embolism in food grade hydrogen peroxide ingestion [poster]
    2017
  • Iatrogenic arterial gas embolism case series treated with hyperbaric oxygen [poster]
    2017
  • Improvements in teamwork, care quality and patient safety through the implementation of an emergent hyperbaric treatment checklist [poster]
    2017
    • Report
  • Identifying patient-centered outcomes for digital care for chronic conditions - final Engagement report
    2024
    • Abstract
  • Rethinking the standard of care for patients with central retinal artery occlusion [abstract]. 
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2017
  • Association of missed outpatient appointments and emergency department visits and inpatient admissions [abstract]. 
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2014
  • Healthy food availability is associated with neighborhood incidence of emergency department visits for diet-related illnesses [abstract]. 
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2014
  • Spatial information, geographic information systems (GIS), and geo-spatial methods in public health and emergency care research [abstract]. 
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2012
  • Increasing rate of patients who are homeless and have unstable living situations presenting to the emergency department at an urban county hospital between 2007 and 2009 [abstract]. 
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2010
    • presentations
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