Greater Plains PCORI Consortium Obesity Working Group Quick Reference List
Name/Degree
Alex Adams,
MD, PhD
Alfredo
Tirado-Ramos
Ann
Davis, PhD,
MPH, ABPP
Daniel
Hale, MD
Larry
Hanrahan,PhD,
MS
Linda
Snetselaar
Olga
Gupta, MD
Paul
Knudson
Email
Alex.Adams@f
ammed.wisc.e
du
tiradoramos@
uthscsa.edu
Adavis6@kum
c.edu
hale@uthscsa.
edu
Preferred Phone
608-263-6982
210-567-0836
(Margie)
210-268-9721(c)
210-567-0921(f)
913-588-5928
913-226-1758(c)
913-588-2253 (f)
Institution(s)
UW School of
Medicine and Public
Health
UT Health Science
Center at San Antonio
University of Kansas
Medical Center, Dept
of Pediatrics
Title/Role
Associate Professor;
Director of Collaborative
Center for Health Equity
Chief, Clinical Informatics
Research Division at
University of Texas Health
Science Center
Professor, Pediatrics;
Director, Healthy Hawks;
Co-Director, Center for
Children’s Healthy
Lifestyles & Nutrition
Professor of Pediatrics;
Chief, Division of Pediatric
Endocrinology
210-567-5283
(Nora)
210-215-2569(c)
210-567-0492 (f)
608-263-5846(o)
608-263-5813(f)
UT Health Science
Center at San
Antonio; University
Health System
UW School of
Medicine and Public
Health
Lindasnetselaar@ui
owa.edu
319-384-1553
University of Iowa
Professor of Epidemiology,
College of Public Health
Olga.gupta@u
tsouthwestern
.edu
PKnudson@m
cw.edu
215-203-2757
215-203-2757(c)
UT Southwestern
Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics, Endocrinology
and Diabetes
Associate Professor of
Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology,
Metabolism, and Clinical
Nutrition
Larry.Hanraha
n@fammed.w
isc.edu
214-648-9772(f)
414-995-6724
Medical College of
Wisconsin
Research Director, Dept.
Family Medicine
Expertise/Areas of Interests
Clinical research informatics, bioinformatics,
public health informatics, system
architectures, distributed computing, highperformance computing
Pediatric obesity intervention and behavioral
issues related to health; school and
community based interventions
Pediatrics; obesity; diabetes; growth
disorders; clinical and observational studies;
school-based interventions; communitybased interventions
Epidemiology, informatics, clinical-public
health data exchange, population health,
obesity, diabetes, observational studies,
community engagement
Behavioral change interventions,
Intervention studies involving diet (written
and developed interventions for WHI, WINS,
DCCT, DISC and DISC2006, MDRD). Obesity in
children and families (Co-I in a PCORI using
smart phones as simple intervention for
persons with congestive heart failure)
Pediatrics, T1DM, T2DM, Community-based
interventions, Pediatric weight management
clinic, incentive to improve clinic retention
Diabetes mellitus. Informatics
Ram
Pathak, MD
Sarah H.
Hampl, MD
Sarah S.
Schlachter,
M.Ed.
Terry
Huang, PhD,
MPH, CPH
Tracy
Flood, MD, PhD
Pathak.ram@
marshfieldclini
c.org
shampl@cmh.
edu
715-387-5481
Marshfield Clinic,
Marshfield Wisconsin
816-983-6764
816-536-7388(c)
816-234-9295(f)
Children’s Mercy
Hospital; Ctr for
Children’s Healthy
Lifestyles & Nutrition
sschlachter@k
umc.edu
913-945-9137
615-423-2660(c)
913-588-0978 (f)
University of Kansas;
Clinical Research
Center
tthuang@unm
c.edu
402-552-6837
402-559-3773 (f)
University of
Nebraska Medical
Center
Tflood131@g
mail.com
(271) 419-6645 (c)
Office of Clinical
Informatics
Director, Diabetes
Education Department;
Chair, Dept Endocrinology
Medical Director, Weight
Management
Children's Mercy Hospitals
and Clinics
Associate Professor of
Pediatrics
University of MO-Kansas
City School of Medicine
Assistant Program Director
(CTSA)
Pediatric obesity clinical treatment; Groupbased interventions; Primary care
interventions for pediatric obesity
prevention; Community collaboratives
Liaison to CDRN main office/project
management group out of KUMC
PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
Department of Health
Promotion, Social, and
Behavioral Health
University of Nebraska
Medical Center
College of Public Health
UW
School
of Population Health Fellow
Epidemiological evaluation of obesity and
Medicine and Public
cardiovascular risk using electronic health
Health
record data, community obesity prevention