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Therese Zink, MD, MPH
 Professor
Director, Global Family Medicine Pathway
Associate Director, Medical School Rural Physician Associate Program
Expertise Family violence, sexual assault, women’s health, rural health care delivery and education, international health, creative writing, medical professionalism Education MD, Ohio State University
MPH, University of Minnesota
St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center Family Medicine Residency (now Regions) Bio In 2011, Zink became director of the Global Family Medicine Pathway, drawing from years of international medical experience in Chechnya and Ingushetia, Brazil, and Central America. She has written numerous stories about doctoring and recently edited and contributed to The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader. Zink also serves as an associate director of the Rural Physician Associate Program and teaches residents at the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency. She was appointed to Governor Mark Dayton’s Health Care Reform Task Force in fall 2011. Contact Information 717 Delaware St SE, Ste. 454
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-625-9197
zink0003@umn.edu Current Grants2010-15, NIH Institute of Nursing Research, co-investigator, “Injury from Sexual Assault: Addressing Health Disparity in Latina Women” 2011- 13, AHRQ, principal investigator, “Leveraging Practice-Based Research Networks to Accelerate Implementation and Diffusion of Chronic Kidney Disease Guidelines in Primary Care Practices” 2011-12, STFM, principal investigator, “Rural Health Pre-Doc Book Discussion Groups” Recent Publications Kralewski JE, Zink T, Boyle R. Factors influencing electronic clinical information exchange in small medical group practices. J Rural Health. 2012;28(1):28-33. Longenecker R, Zink T, Florence J. Teaching and learning resilience: Building adaptive capacity for rural practice. A report and subsequent analysis of a workshop conducted at the Rural Medical Educators Conference, Savannah, Georgia, May 18, 2010. The Journal of Rural Health. 2012;28:122-127. Zink T, ed. Becoming a Doctor: Reflections by Minnesota Medical Students. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press; 2011. Fisher B, Zink T, Regan SL. Abuses against older women: Prevalence and health effects. J Interpers Violence. 2011;26(2)254-268. Zink T, ed. The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press; 2010.
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