Minneapolis VA Health Care System Research Service
Research Topic Areas
Researchers by Topic Area
Researchers below are grouped by key research focus areas identified by VA. Investigators who have main interests in more than one focus area are listed multiple times. You can use the list below to find investigators who have related research interests. To find investigators by name, refer to the alphabetical list of Research Investigators.
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Aging | Alcoholism | Alzheimer's Disease | Arthritis | Audiology & Speech Pathology | Basic Sciences | Behavioral Sciences | Biomechanics | Cancer | Cardiovascular Disorders | Caregivers | Clinical Epidemiology | Clinical Pharmacology | Complementary and Integrative Health | Depression | Dermatology | Drug Dependence | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Epidemiology | Gastroenterology | Geriatrics | Gulf War Veterans | Health Care | Health Care Delivery | Health Services | Hematology | Immunology | Infectious Diseases | Informatics | Kidney Disease | Medical Education | Mental Health | Molecular Biology | Nephrology | Neurology & Neurobiology | Neuropsychology | Nutrition | Obesity | Oncology | Ophthalmology | Orthopedic Surgery | Pain | Parkinson's Disease | Pathology | Pharmacy | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Preventive Medicine | Prostatic Disease | Prosthetics | Psychiatry | Radiology | Rehabilitative Medicine | Respiration & Pulmonary Disease | Respiratory Health | Rheumatology | Rural Health | Spinal Cord Injury | Suicide Prevention | Surgery | Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Urology | Vascular Surgery | Veterinary Medicine | Women's Health
Aging
Alcoholism
Alzheimer's Disease
Arthritis
Audiology & Speech Pathology
Basic Sciences
Behavioral Sciences
Biomechanics
Cancer
- Khalil Ahmed, PhD
- Emiro Caicedo-Granados, MD
- Markus Gapany, MD
- Mark Klein, MD
- Betsy Kren, PhD
- Christopher Larocca, MD
- Anne Melzer, MD, MS
- Gloria Niehans, MD
- Michael Risk, MD, PhD
- Joaquin Silva, MD
- Janeen Trembley, PhD
- Christine Wendt, MD
- Erin Wetherbee, MD
Cardiovascular Disorders
- Selcuk Adabag, MD, MS
- Bradley Bart, MD
- Stefan Bertog, MD
- Hanna Bloomfield, MD, MPH
- Rebecca Brown, PhD, MEd, RN
- Selma Carlson, MD
- Yellapragada Chandrashekhar, MD
- Viorel Florea, MD, PhD
- Alok Sharma, MD
- Venkat Tholakanahalli, MD, FHRS
- Orly Vardeny, PharmD, MS
Caregivers
Clinical Epidemiology
- Aaron DeVries, MD, MPH
- Tyler Drake, MD
- Howard Fink, MD, MPH
- Areef Ishani, MD, MS
- Andrew Reinink, MD
- Scott Reule, MD
- Brent Taylor, PhD, MPH
Clinical Pharmacology
Complementary and Integrative Health
Depression
Dermatology
Diabetes
Drug Dependence
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Epidemiology
- Kristine Ensrud, MD, MPH
- Steven Fu, MD
- Elizabeth Goldsmith, MD, PhD
- Adrienne Landsteiner, PhD, MPH
- Siamak Noorbaloochi, PhD
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
Gulf War Veterans
Health Care
Health Care Delivery
Health Services
- Bradley Bart, MD
- Diana Burgess, PhD
- Elisheva Danan, MD, MPH
- Susan Diem, MD, MPH
- Wei Duan-Porter, MD, PhD
- R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA
- Steven Fu, MD
- Allison Gustavson, PT, DPT, PhD
- Patrick Hammett, PhD, MA
- Shannon Kehle-Forbes, PhD
- Erin Krebs, MPH, MD
- Adrienne Landsteiner, PhD, MPH
- Maureen Murdoch, MD, MPH
- David Nelson, PhD
- Nina Sayer, PhD
- Michele Spoont, PhD
- Shahnaz Sultan, MD
- Brent Taylor, PhD, MPH
Hematology
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
- Aaron DeVries, MD, MPH
- Dimitri Drekonja, MD
- Thomas Griffith, PhD
- James R. Johnson, MD
- Anjum Kaka, MD
- Ken Kunisaki, MD
- Muthu Narayan, DO, MPH
- Kristin Nichol, MD
- Alexa Pragman, MD, PhD
- Orly Vardeny, PharmD, MS
Informatics
Kidney Disease
Medical Education
Mental Health
- C. Sophia Albott, MD, MA
- Paul Arbisi, PhD (Retired)
- Nicholas Davenport, PhD
- Jacob Finn, PhD
- Casey Gilmore, PhD
- Hildi Hagedorn, PhD
- Lisa James, PhD
- Kelvin Lim, MD
- Craig Marquardt, PhD
- Tasha Nienow, PhD
- Elizabeth Possis, PhD
- Nina Sayer, PhD
- Scott Sponheim, PhD
- Michele Spoont, PhD
- Snežana Urošević, PhD
- Brittany Stevenson, PhD
- Joseph Westermeyer, MD, MA, MPH, PhD
Molecular Biology
Nephrology
Neurology & Neurobiology
- James Ashe, MD
- Khalafalla Bushara, MD
- Adam Carpenter, MD
- Apostolos Georgopoulos, MD, PhD
- Laura Hemmy, PhD
- Hollis Krug, MD (Retired)
- Cornelius Lam, MD, PhD
- Scott Lewis, MD, PhD
- Vijaya Mavanji, PhD
- Robert McGovern III, MD
- Jose Pardo, MD, PhD
- Giuseppe Pellizzer, PhD
- Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD
- Ezgi Tiryaki, MD
- Carol Chu Yu, PhD
- Shauna Yuan, MD
Neuropsychology
Nutrition
Obesity
- Charles Billington, MD
- Patricia Bunney, PhD
- Catherine Kotz, PhD
- Vijaya Mavanji, PhD
- Shalamar Sibley, MD, MPH
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopedic Surgery
Pain
- Elizabeth Goldsmith, MD, PhD
- Patrick Hammett, PhD
- Erin Krebs, MPH, MD
- Brian Martinson, PhD
- Casey Okamoto, DC
- Tonya Rich, PhD
Parkinson's Disease
Pathology
Pharmacy
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Princess Ackland, PhD, MSPH
- C. Sophia Albott, MD, MA
- Peka Christova Savayan, PhD
- Seth Disner, PhD
- Shannon Kehle-Forbes, PhD
- Craig Marquardt, PhD
- Laura Meis, PhD
- Maureen Murdoch, MD, MPH
- Melissa Polusny, PhD
- Paul Thuras, PhD
Preventive Medicine
Prostatic Disease
Prosthetics
Psychiatry
Radiology
Rehabilitative Medicine
- Melanie Blahnik, PsyD
- Casey Gilmore, PhD
- Allison Gustavson, PT, DPT, PhD
- Andrew Hansen, PhD
- Sara Koehler-McNicholas, PhD
- Larisa Kusar, MD
- Gregory Lamberty, PhD
- John Looft, PhD
- Christine Olney, PhD
- Tonya Rich, PhD
- Ann St. Jacque, MA, CCC-SLP
- Brionn Tonkin, MD
Respiration & Pulmonary Disease
- Benjamin Henkle, MD, MPH
- Ken Kunisaki, MD
- Anne Melzer, MD, MS
- Alexa Pragman, MD, PhD
- Christine Wendt, MD
- Erin Wetherbee, MD
Respiratory Health
Rheumatology
- David Ewart, MD
- Hollis Krug, MD (Retired)
Rural Health
Spinal Cord Injury
Suicide Prevention
Surgery
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Nicholas Davenport, PhD
- Seth Disner, PhD
- Jacob Finn, PhD
- Anita Sim, PhD
- Scott Sponheim, PhD
- Brionn Tonkin, MD