John Westfall, MD, MPH/MSPH

Clinical Professor, Family Medicine

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Languages
English
Department
Family Medicine

Publications

  • Westfall JM. Methods for handling interhospital transfer in health service research. Clinical Medicine – Cardiology. Libertas Academica.
  • Young WF. McGloin J. Zittleman L. West DR. Westfall JM. Predictors of colorectal screening in rural Colorado: testing to prevent colon cancer in the high plains research network. [Controlled Clinical Trial. Journal Article. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.] Journal of Rural Health. 23(3):238-45, 2007.
  • Van Vorst RF. Araya-Guerra R. Felzien M. Fernald D. Elder N. Duclos C. Westfall JM. Rural community members' perceptions of harm from medical mistakes: a High Plains Research Network (HPRN) Study. [Journal Article. Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural] Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: JABFM. 20(2):135-43, 2007 Mar-Apr. UI: 17341749
  • John Westfall and Julie Stevenson A GUIDED TOUR OF COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Ann. Fam. Med, Mar 2007; 5: 185 - 186.
  • Telemedicine and COPD. Patricia B. Koff, MEd, RRT and John M. Westfall, MD. MPH. In COPD by...?
  • Westfall JM, Kiefe CI, Weissman NW, Goudie A, Centor RM, Williams OD, Allison JJ. Does Interhospital Transfer Improve Outcome of Acute Myocardial Infarction? A Propensity Score Analysis from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Study. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2008, 8:22.
  • Parnes B, Smith PC, Gilroy C, Quintela J, Emsermann CB, Dickinson LM, Westfall JM. Lack of impact of direct-to-consumer advertising on the physician-patient encounter in primary care: a SNOCAP report. Ann Fam Med. 2009;7(1):41–46.
  • Voorhees K, Fernald DH, Emsermann C, Zittleman L, Smith PC, Parnes B, Winkelman K, Westfall JM. Underinsurance in Primary Care: A report from the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP). Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2008;21:309-316.
  • Rim SH, Zittleman L, Coughlin S, Westfall JM. Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Personal Practices among Healthcare Professionals: A Pilot Survey in the High Plains Research Network. Journal of Rural Health. in press
  • Westfall JM. Methods for handling interhospital transfer in health service research. Libertas Academica. Clinical Medicine Cardiology 2008:2; 1-12.
  • Koff PB, Westfall JM. Telemedicine and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Chapter 31. In, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. Eds. Voelkel N, MacNee W. BC Decker Inc. Lewiston NY. 2008.
  • Westfall JM. Methods for handling interhospital transfer in health service research. In xxx ed. NovaScience. In press
  • Zittleman L, Emsermann C, Dickinson M, Norman N, Winkleman K, Linn G, Westfall JM. Exposure to a Colon Cancer Screening Program in Rural Colorado. BMC Public Health 2009, 9:288.
  • Rim SH, Zittleman L, Coughlin S, Westfall JM. Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Personal Practices Regarding Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Healthcare Professionals in Rural Colorado: A Pilot Survey in the High Plains Research Network. Journal of Rural Health 2009; 25(3):303-308.
  • Overholser L, Zittleman L, Kempe A, Emsermann CB, Froshaug DB, Main DS, Araya-Guerra R, Felzien M, Westfall JM. Use of Colon Cancer Testing in Rural Colorado Primary Care Practices. Journal of General Internal Medicine, Volume 24, Number 10 / October, 2009
  • Parnes B, Smith PC, Gilroy C, Quintela J, Emsermann CB, Dickinson LM, Westfall JM. Lack of impact of direct-to-consumer advertising on the physician-patient encounter in primary care: a SNOCAP report. Ann Fam Med. 2009;7(1):41–46.
  • Bender BG, Apter A, Bogen DK, Dickinson P, Fisher L, Wamboldt FS, Westfall JM. Controlled test of an interactive voice response intervention to improve adherence to controller medications in adults with asthma. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, in press
  • Hicks PC, Emsermann CB, Westfall JM, Parnes B. A comparison of HTN management in patients with diabetes between rural and urban primary care clinics- A Report from SNOCAP. In press
  • Westfall JM, Fagnan LJ, Handley M, Salsberg J, McGinnis P, Zittleman LK, Macaulay AC. Practice-based Research is Community Engagement. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2009:22(4):423-427.
  • Westfall JM. Methods for Handling Inter-Hospital Transfer in Acute Myocardial Infarction Research. In Handbook of Cardiovascular Research, Brataas J, Nanstveit V. eds. NovaScience. 2009.
  • Westfall JM, Zittleman L, Staton E, Parnes B, Smith PC, Niebauer L, Fernald D, Quintela J, Van Vorst R, Dickinson LM, Pace W. “Card Studies” - Observational Research in Practice-Based Research Networks. Annals of Family Medicine. Ann. Fam. Med, Jan 2011; 9: 63 - 68.
  • Bender BG, Apter A, Bogen DK, Dickinson P, Fisher L, Wamboldt FS, Westfall JM. Test of an Interactive Voice Response Intervention to Improve Adherence to Controller Medications in Adults with Asthma J Am Board Fam Med, March-April 2010; 23: 159 - 165.
  • Hicks PC, Bublitz Emsermann C, Westfall JM, Parnes B. Comparison of HTN management in patients with diabetes between rural and urban primary care clinics in Northeastern Colorado - a report from SNOCAP. Rural and Remote Health 10, 2010: 1279. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au.
  • Helland LC, Westfall JM, Camarga C, Rogers J, Ginde A,. Motivations and Barriers for Recruitment of New Emergency Medicine Residency Graduates to Rural Emergency Departments. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2010. Vol. 56, Issue 6, pages 668-673.
  • Norman N, Bennett C, Cowart S, Felzien M, Flores M, Flores R, Haynes C, Hernandez M, Petra-Rodriquez M, Sanchez N, Sanchez S, Winkelman K, Winkelman S, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. Boot Camp Translation: Building a Community of Solution. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. In press.
  • Westfall JM, Cold-Spotting: Linking primary care and public health to create Communities of Solution. JABFM In press.
  • Westfall JM, Fernald DH. Stop the Escalators: Using the Built Environment to Increase Usual Daily Activity. Pragmatic and Observational Research. September 2010, Volume 2010:1 Pages 7 – 9.
  • Griswold K, Lesko S, Westfall JM. Communities of Solution – Partnerships for Population Health. Commentary for Communities of Solutions theme issue. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. In press.
  • Renner DM, Westfall JM, Wilroy LA, Ginde AA. The influence of loan repayment on rural healthcare provider recruitment and retention in Colorado Rural and Remote Health 10: 1605. (Online), 2010. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au
  • Wright MA, Parsons JA,Yang M,Westfall JM,Yee, AS. Consider Muscle Disease in Children with Elevated Transaminase. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2012; 25:403-405.
  • Walker T, Deutchman M, Ingram B, Walker E, Westfall JM. Endoscopy Training in Primary Care: Innovative Training Program to Increase Access to Endoscopy in Primary Care. Family Medicine 2012;44(3):171-7.
  • Westfall JM, Ingram B, Navarro D, Magee D, Niebauer L, Zittleman L, Fernald D, Pace W. Engaging Communities in Education and Research: PBRN’s, AHEC, and CTSA. Clinical and Translational Science Clinical and Translational Science. 2012; Volume 5: 250–258.
  • WestRasmus EK, Pineda-Reyes F, Tamez M, Westfall JM. Promotores de Salud and Community Health Workers: An Annotated Bibliography. Family and Community Health. April/June 2012 - Volume 35 - Issue 2 - p 172–182.
  • Deutchman ME, Nearing K, Baumgarten B, Westfall JM. Interdisciplinary rural immersion week. Rural and Remote Health 12: 2045. 2012. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au
  • Westfall JM, Mold J, Fagnan L. Practice-Based Research – “Blue Highways” on the NIH Roadmap. In The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader, Ed. Therese Zink. The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 2010.
  • How many pickups in your parking lot – cowboy poets and rural behavioral health. Keynote address for National Rural Mental Health Association Denver, CO June, 2010
  • Folsom Revisited. Health is still a community affair. NAPCRG November 2010
  • Show Me the Money – AHEC Survival in a Tough Economy 2010 Indiana State AHEC Conference 2010
  • Westfall JM, Zittleman L, Sutter C, Emsermann C, Staton E, VanVorst R, Dickinson LM, Community Advisory Council of the High Plains Research Network. Testing to Prevent Colon Cancer: Results from a Rural Community Intervention. Annals of Family Medicine. In press.
  • Bender BG, Dickinson P, Rankin A, Wamboldt FS, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. The Colorado Asthma Toolkit Program: A Practice Coaching Intervention from the High Plains Research Network. J Am Board Fam Med 2011;24:240-248.
  • Wright MA, Parsons JA,Yang M,Westfall JM,Yee, AS. Consider Muscle Disease in Children with Elevated Transaminase. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. In press.
  • Walker T, Deutchman M, Ingram B, Walker E, Westfall JM. Endoscopy Training in Primary Care: Innovative Training Program to Increase Access to Endoscopy in Primary Care. Family Medicine 2012;44(3):171-7.
  • Westfall JM, Ingram B, Navarro D, Magee D, Niebauer L, Zittleman L, Fernald D, Pace W. Engaging Communities in Education and Research: PBRN’s, AHEC, and CTSA. Clinical and Translational Science. In press.
  • WestRasmus EK, Pineda-Reyes F, Tamez M, Westfall JM. Promotores de Salud and Community Health Workers: An Annotated Bibliography. Family and Community Health. April/June 2012 - Volume 35 - Issue 2 - p 172–182.
  • Westfall JM, Battaglia CB, Mills M. Critical Access Hospitals provide quality care. Letter. JAMA. 2011;306(15):1653-1654.
  • Robinson K, Westfall J, NAPCRG puts the increase of primary care research funding at the top of the priority list. From the North American Primary Primary Care Research Group. Ann Fam Med 2011 9: 468-469.
  • Lesko S, Griswold K, David SP, Bazemore A, Duane M, Morgan T, Westfall JM, Koop CE, Garrett B, Puffer J, Green L. Communities of Solution: The Folsom Report Revisited. Annals of Family Medicine. In press.
  • Westfall JM. Text Lament: A Haiku Triptych. In The Human Touch. Literary Journal of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Volume 4, May 2011.
  • Mystery of the Blue Highway: PBRNs and Community Engagement December 3, 2011 Keynote address. PBRN Festival. Case Western University Cleveland CTSA.
  • The Patient-Centered Emergency Home: Welcome to the Neighborhood Keynote address. Colorado Emergency Nurse Association Annual meeting. Denver, CO May 18, 2011
  • Norman N, Cowart S, Felzien M, Haynes C, Hernandez M, Rodriquez MP, Sanchez N, Sanchez S, Winkelman K, Winkelman S, VanVorst R, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. Testing to Prevent Colon Cancer: How rural community members took on a community-based intervention. Annals of Family Medicine. In press.
  • Yee AS, Parsons J, Wright M, Yang M. Westfall JM. Consider Muscle Disease in Children with Elevated Transaminase Reply. JABFM.
  • Westfall JM, James K, Guy M, Zittleman L, West DR. Needs Assessment and Recommended Approach for Nurse Managed Clinic in Southeastern Colorado. Conducted for Dr. Nancy Smith, Dean and Professor Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
  • Patient-Centered Research: What Does It Look Like? With Maret Felzien Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Regional Event March 9, 2013 Wichita Kansas.
  • Westfall JM, Nearing K, Felzien M, Green L, Calonge N, Pineda-Reyes F, Jones G, Tamez M, Miller S, Kramer A. Researching Together: A CTSA Partnership of Academicians and Communities for Translation. Clinical and Translational Science. In press.
  • Westfall, JM. East of Last Chance: Finding Research Paradise on the High Plains. Canadian Medical Association Journal Blog. November 16, 2016. http://cmajblogs.com/east-of-last-chance-finding-research-paradise-on-the-high-plains/
  • Ramsden VR, Rabbitskin N, Westfall JM, Felzien M, Braden J, Sand J. Is knowledge translation without patient or community engagement flawed?. Fam Pract. 2016 Dec 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27920121
  • Westfall JM. Rural health more than just "big data". J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2016 Oct 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27787341
  • Liaw W, Westfall JM. Primary Care Research Should Be Done in Primary Care Settings. Acad Med. 2016 Oct;91(10):1329. PubMed PMID: 27676618
  • Westfall JM. Where You Stand Is What You See: We See a Need for More Primary Care Research Funding. J Am Board Fam Med. 2016 Sep-Oct;29(5):525-7. PubMed PMID: 27613783
  • Allen ML, Salsberg J, Knot M, LeMaster JW, Felzien M, Westfall JM, Herbert CP, Vickery K, Culhane-Pera KA, Ramsden VR, Zittleman L, Martin RE, Macaulay AC. Engaging with communities, engaging with patients: amendment to the NAPCRG 1998 Policy Statement on Responsible Research With Communities. Fam Pract. 2016 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27543087
  • Westfall JM, Marvel K. Re: Over Half of Graduating Family Medicine Residents Report More Than $150,000 in Educational Debt. J Am Board Fam Med. 2016 Jul-Aug;29(4):516. PubMed PMID: 27390385
  • DeVoe JE, Barnes K, Morris C, Campbell K, Morris-Singer A, Westfall JM, Grumbach K. The Personal Doctoring Manifesto: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference. J Am Board Fam Med. 2016 Jul-Aug;29 Suppl 1:S64-8. PubMed PMID: 27387168
  • Westfall JM. Change in Medical Student Implicit Bias. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Jul;31(7):714. PubMed PMID: 27067346
  • Westfall JM, Zittleman L, Felzien M, Norman N, Tamez M, Backlund-Jarquin P, Nease D. Reinventing The Wheel Of Medical Evidence: How The Boot Camp Translation Process Is Making Gains. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Apr;35(4):613-8. PubMed PMID: 27044960
  • Felzien M, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. The Patient and Patient-Centered Medical Homes. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Apr;31(4):363. PubMed PMID: 26691312
  • Howrey BT, Thompson BL, Borkan J, Kennedy LB, Hughes LS, Johnson BH, Likumahuwa S, Westfall JM, Davis A, deGruy F. Partnering With Patients, Families, and Communities. Fam Med. 2015 Sep;47(8):604-11. PubMed PMID: 26382118
  • DeAlleaume L, Parnes B, Zittleman L, Sutter C, Chavez R, Bernstein J, LeBlanc W, Dickinson M, Westfall JM. Success in the Achieving CARdiovascular Excellence in Colorado (A CARE) Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Program: A Report from the Shared Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP). J Am Board Fam Med. 2015 Sep-Oct;28(5):548-55. PubMed PMID: 26355126
  • Felzien M, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. Farming, Ranching, Research: Patient Engagement on the High Plains. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Jan;31(1):3-4. PubMed PMID: 26259764
  • Westfall MY, Overholser L, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. Cancer Survivorship for Primary Care Annotated Bibliography. J Cancer Policy. 2015 Jun 1;4:7-12. PubMed PMID: 26114091
  • Westfall JM. East of Last Chance: Finding Research Paradise on the High Plains. Canadian Medical Association Journal Blog. November 16, 2016. http://cmajblogs.com/east-of-last-chance-finding-research-paradise-on-the-high-plains/
  • Westfall JM, Bazemore A, Miller B. No Room for Prevention: the unintended consequences of mental illness stigma reduction efforts. Health Affairs Blog. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/06/30/no-room-for-prevention-the-unintended-consequence-of-mental-health-stigma-reduction-efforts/ June 2016.
  • Zittleman L, Westfall JM, Backlund-Jarquin P, High Plains Research Network Community Advisory Council. Boot Camp Translation - Engaging Communities to Improve Health: A Guidebook. Free Range Human Press. Regents of the University of Colorado. Aurora, CO. 2015.
  • Westfall JM, Zittleman L, Felzien M, Ringel M, Lakin A, Nease D. Institutional Review Board Training when Patients and Community Members are Engaged as Researchers. Family Practice: The International Journal for Research in Primary Care.
  • Westfall N, Coors M, Taylor M, Zittleman L, Westfall JM. Biobanking for Personalized Precision Medicine: an Annotated Bibliography. The Journal of Precision Medicine 2016. May/June. pp34-47. http://www.thejournalofprecisionmedicine.com/archive-manager/biobanking-for-personalized-precision-medicine-an-annotated-bibliography/
  • Braun PA, Ling S, Ellison MC, Racich KW, Savoie K, Reiner L, Westfall, JM. Collective Impact: Expanding Access to Preventive Dental Care to Young Children through an Inter-Professional Oral Health Training. Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics 2015:6 101–109.

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  • Family Medicine, Board Certification

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