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
  • Use of sequential hot-deck imputation for missing health care systems data for population health research
    Medical Care. 2024
  • Minnesota data sharing may be model for near-real-time tracking of drug overdose hospital and ED trends
    Health Affairs. 2023
  • A structural competency framework for emergency medicine research: results from a scoping review and consensus conference review]
    Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2022
  • Case series of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for central retinal artery occlusion
    Retinal Cases & Brief Reports. 2021
  • Editorial Article
    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
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