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Additional Titles:Director, Community Health Engagement Program, Indiana CTSIAssociate Director, Indiana University Diabetes Translational Research Center Affiliated Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute for Healthcare Associate Director, Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research
Biographical Sketch:Dr. Ackermann is a general internist with advanced training in epidemiology, public health, and health services research from the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle. He is considered a national expert in healthcare-community partnerships to address unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and improve the prevention and control of common chronic illnesses such as asthma, congestive heart failure, and diabetes. He directs a large ongoing research program at IUSM to evaluate the feasibility, costs, and effectiveness of “partnered” approaches for preventing and managing diabetes and other chronic health conditions. He has since served as a consultant to national groups at the AHRQ, Lewin Group, and Center for Health Care Strategies in a series of learning initiatives designed to improve the implementation and evaluation of disease and care management programs in 20 U.S. states.
Clinical Interests:Internal Medicine
Research Interests:Research that links existing health services with community-based resources to help promote health and prevent disease.Grant Number: 1R18DK079855-01 Funding Period: 09/24/2007 – 06/30/2012 Funding Organization: NIH/NIDDK Primary Care-Community Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes This large randomized trial will evaluate the reach, adoption, implementation, cost-effectiveness, and maintenance of a strategy to implement clinic-based services for diabetes risk-testing & brief counseling in partnership with community resources to prevent diabetes through lifestyle-based weight management programs. Role: Principal Investigator Grant Number: #57398 Funding Period: 07/01/2006 – 06/30/2009 Funding Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The major goals of this project are to compare the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance of a two implementation models for translating research into practice for diabetes prevention. Practices are randomized to a either a standard, practice-centered knowledge translation model versus the same approach PLUS explicit involvement by a leading community agency to improve linkages and information feedback about use of community physical activity and weight management resources to achieve modest weight loss. Role: Principal Investigator Grant Number: R34 DK70702-S01 Funding Period: 05/15/2005 – 10/30/2008 Funding Organization: NIH/NIDDK Translating the DPP into the community: The YMCA Model The major goals of this project are to collect essential pilot data to design a larger randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of a group-based adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle intervention in community settings. Role: Principal Investigator Grant Number: U58-CCU523526-01 Funding Period: 02/01/2004 – 1/31/2010 Funding Organization: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Translational Research Centers for Diabetes Control within Managed-Care (TRIAD II) is: (1) a continued multi-center longitudinal cohort study of the factors affecting care quality and outcomes for adults with diabetes in the U.S., and (2) a mechanism to support the evaluation of efforts to improve diabetes prevention and care for adult patients in varied managed care settings. Role: Co-Principal Investigator Grant Number: Contract AHRQ-290-02-0008 Modification #29 Funding Period: 09/16/2004 – 01/15/2009 Funding Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Practice-based Research Networks and The Provision of Primary Care to the Underserved and The Chronically Ill. Lead for efforts to develop a repository of existing preventive and health-promotion tools and resources potentially useful to PBRNs and others for enhancing the systems of care needed to improve health outcomes for patients with (or at risk of developing) diabetes, obesity and asthma. Role: Principal Investigator Grant Number: State of Indiana Funding Period: 08/01/2003 – 10/31/2008 Funding Organization: Indiana Medicaid Chronic Disease Management Program Indiana Office of Medicaid Policy & Planning, in concert with the Indiana State Department of Health, has implemented a statewide chronic disease management programs for patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, and pediatric asthma. I am part of an 8-member expert advisory panel at Indiana’s Regenstrief Institute to provide technical support for the program's design, implementation, decision support, personnel training, and patient education, and to evaluate programmatic impacts on costs and quality. Role: Co-investigator Grant Number: UL1RR025761-01 Funding Period: 05/1/2008 – 04/30/2013 Funding Organization: NCRR Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute The goal of this proposed project is to establish a statewide Institute for enhancing clinical and translational research in Indiana, proposed by Indiana University in partnership with Purdue University and several key community organizations Role: Co-investigator - Director of Community Engagement Program
Education and Training:MPH Health Policy Research: University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WAM.D. Medicine: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI B.S. Molecular Biology: University of Wisconsin School of Letters and Science, Madison, WI
Awards and Honors:Expert Advisor, Center for Health Care Strategies Medicaid Learning InitiativeExpert Advisor – CDC Division of Diabetes Translation Program for Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Member, ADA Healthcare Task Force NIH/NIDDK Grant Review Committee Member and Chair. Translational Research for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes Special Emphasis Panel Member, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Cardiovascular Risk Workgroup Expert Advisor, AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange 2006 Outstanding Young Investigator Award; Department of Medicine; IU School of Medicine Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholar, 2006-2009 2006 Investigator of the Year, Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, IU School of Medicine Expert Advisor, AHRQ Medicaid Chronic Care Management Learning Network (17 states) Elected to the International Behavioral Research in Diabetes Group Exchange (BRIDGE) Omenn Outstanding Student Award Finalist, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Recent Publications:PubMed listings |
