Kevin A. Peterson, MD, MPH

Associate Professor
Director, Research and Center of Excellence in Primary Care
Affiliate Fellow, UMN Institute for Health Informatics

Expertise

Practice-based research networks, primary diabetes care, clinical research informatics

Education

MD, Mayo Medical School
MPH, University of Minnesota
Post-doctoral training in family medicine, surgery, and faculty development

Bio

Peterson's research focuses on diabetes, chronic disease management, and informatics in primary care. He has been PI/site-PI on many NIH-funded studies, including ACCORD, TRANSLATE, and the creation of a national electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN). He currently directs the AHRQ PBRN Resource Center. Peterson is a fellow of AAFP and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a diplomate of ABFM.

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Contact Information

717 Delaware St SE, Ste 454
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-624-3116
peter223@umn.edu

Current Grant

2011-ongoing, NHLBI, principal investigator, "ACCORDION."

Selected Publications

Peterson KA. Essential requirements of information technology for primary care. Family Practice (UK). 2012;29:119-20.

Delaney B, Peterson K, Speedie S, Taweel A, Arvanitis T, Hobbs R. Envisioning a learning healthcare system: the electronic Primary Care Research Network, a case study. Annals of Family Medicine. 2012;10(1):54-9.

Seaquist ER, Miller ME, Bonds DE, Feinglos M, Goff DC, Peterson KA, Senior P, et al. The impact of recurrent hypoglycemia and hypoglycemia unawareness on mortality in the ACCORD study. Diabetes Care. 2012:35(2):409-14.

ACCORD Study Group (Cushman WC, Evans GW, Byington RP, Goff DC, Grimm RH, Cutler JA, Simons-Morton DG, Basile JN, Corson MA, Probstfield JL, Katz L, Peterson KA, et al.) Effects of intensive blood-pressure control in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. New England Journal of Medicine. 2010;362(17):1575-85.

Leahy JL, Hirsch IB, Peterson KA, Schneider D. Targeting beta-cell function early in the course of therapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2010;95(9):4206-16.

Ambrosius WT, Danis RP, Goff DC, Greven CM, Gerstein HC, Cohen RM, Riddle MC, Miller ME, Buse JC, Bonds DE, Peterson KA, et al. Lack of association between thiazolidnediones and macular edema in Type 2 diabetes: The ACCORD eye study. Arch Opthalmol. 2010;128(3):312-8.

Speedie SM, Taweel A, Sim I, Arvanitis TN, Delaney B, Peterson KA. The Primary Care Research Object Model (PCROM): a computable information model for practice-based primary care research. Journal of the American Informatics Association. 2008;15(5):661-70.

Peterson KA, Radosevich D, O’Connor P, Nyman J, Prineas R, Smith S, et al. Improving diabetes care in practice findings from the TRANSLATE trial. Diabetes Care. 2008;31:2238-43.