Projects & Publications

UMN Global Health Pathway Projects & Publications

Ongoing and Past Projects

David Boulware: "Jellyfish sting inhibitors, field trials"

David Boulware: "Review of economic costs of frostbite in Minnesota."

Stefan Collinet-Adler (Stauffer, Boulware). “Financial implications of refugee malaria:  The Impact of Pre-Departure anti-malarial emperic treatment”.

Aaron Devries (Bill Stauffer): "Rapid diagnosis of malaria with antigen capture compared to smear and PCR in symptomatic patients in Minnesota."

Maren Eggert (Sellman).  Case series of cutaneous anthrax in Arusha, Tanzania.

Sonia Helmy & Jonathan Kirsch (Stauffer): "National Survey of IM programs on cross-cultural, international and tropical medicine training."

Brett Hendel-Patterson (Boulware, Stauffer). Maltreatment of Strongyloides infection: Case-series and worldwide physician-in-training survey.  

Brett Hendel-Patterson, Ashley Newberry: "Review of Stronglyoides hyperinfection."

Milind Junghare (Noppakun/Walker) “Tropical infectious diseases and impact on kidney disease”

David Krason, David Boulware, Bryan Rock (Bill Stauffer):  "Extra-pulmonary TB in Minnesota"

Melanie Lo (Ravdin, Stauffer).  Entameoba histolytica seroprevalance in Tanzania and epitope mapping to a novel intra-nasal mucosal vaccine in refugees on arrival to the United States.

Raj Mody and Rachel Darling: "Barriers to compliance of anti-malarials in young children."

Raj Mody, David Boulware: "Marine Dermatitis - survey of resident knowledge"

Soichiro Nagamatsu (Walker).  Impact of the 30 Baht national healthcare insurance plan on health care in Thailand.

Mrinal Patnaik (Stauffer).  Case report.  Cystercercosis.

Mrinal Patnaik (Stauffer).  “Review of visceral leishmaniasis, a physical or social disease?”

Megan Rothenberger.  Prevalence of Entameoba histolytica in Mangalore, India.

Kara Sullivan Schneider (Ricci/ Walker).  Hepatitis B in Thailand.

Brett Hendel-Patterson: "Diagnosis of headache in HIV infected individuals in Uganda"

Resident Publications

University of Minnesota
Bacaner N, Stauffer B, Boulware DR, Walker PF, Keystone JS. Travel medicine considerations for North American immigrants visiting friends and relatives.  JAMA 2004; 291 (23): 2856-2864.

Boulware DR, Beisang A. Passive Prophylaxis with permethrin treated tents reduces mosquito bites among North American campers.  Wilderness Environ Med 2005; 16(1); In press

Boulware DR, Forgey WW, Martin WJ. Medical Risks of Wilderness Hiking  American Journal of Medicine2003; 114: 288-293.

David R. Boulware MD,  William M. Stauffer MD, MSPH, DTM, Brett R. Hendel-Paterson MD,  Jaime Luís Lopes Rocha MD, Raymond Chee-Seong Seet MRCP, Andrea P. Summer MD, Linda S. Nield MD, Khuanchai Supparatpinyo MD, Romanee Chaiwarith MD,  Patricia F. Walker MD, DTM  Maltreatment of Strongyloides infection: Case-series and worldwide physician-in-training survey. Am J Med. (in press).

Stefan Collinet-Adler, William Stauffer, David Boulware, David Williams, David Boulware, Kevin Larsen, Tyson Rogers. Financial implications of refugee malaria: The Impact of Pre-Departure anti-malarial emperic treatment. Arch Int Med. (submitted)

Halvorsen T, Townsend H, Stauffer W, Belani K, Kamat D. A case of tuberculous Otits media.  Clin Pediatr 2006, 45(1):83-7.

Mody R, Neild L, Stauffer W, Kamat D.  Seizures in a 20-month-old native of Minnesota: a case of neurocysticercosis.  Pediatr Emerg Care. 2005, 21(12):860-2.

Nazarian S. Stauffer W. Kamat D. Index of Suspicion, Case Presentation and Discussion. Typhoid Fever.  Pediatrics in Review 1997;18(11): 379-380.

Newberry AM, Williams DN, Stauffer WM, Boulware DR, Hendel-Paterson BR, Walker PF.  Strongyloides hyperinfection presenting as acute respiratory failure and gram-negative sepsis.  CHEST 2005;128(5):3681-4.  

Palmer CJ, Bonilla JA, Bruckner DA, Barnett ED, Miller NS, Haseeb MA, Masci JR, Stauffer WM. Multicenter study to evaluate the OptiMAL test for rapid diagnosis of malaria in U.S. hospitals.  J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Nov;41(11):5178-82.

Rothenberger M, Neild L.  Differential diagnosis and disease complexes in immigrants and refugees.  Textbook of Immigrant and Refugee Medicine. Elsevier.  In Press.

Stauffer WM, Newberry AM, Cartwright CP, Rosenblatt JE,  Hanson K,  Sloan L, Tsukayama D,  Taylor C, Juni B. Evaluation of Malaria Screening in Newly Arrived Refugees to the United States by Microscopy and Rapid Antigen Capture Enzyme Assay (Binax-NowÔ).   Pediatr Infect Dis J.  2006;25(10).

Stauffer WM, Sellman JS, Walker PF. Biliary liver flukes (Opisthorchiasis and Clonorchiasis) in immigrants in the United States: often subtle and diagnosed years after arrival.  J Travel Med. 2004 May-Jun;11(3):157-9.

Stauffer WM, Kamat D, Walker PF. Screening of international immigrants, refugees, and adoptees.  Prim Care. 2002 Dec;29(4):879-905.

Stauffer W, Mantey K, Kamat D. Multiple Extraintestinal Manifestations of Typhoid Fever.  Infection 2002;30:113.

HCMC
Teresa Barrera-Anderson, Kevin Larsen - Health Literacy in Spanish Speaking Immigrants at HCMCs Outpatient Pharmacy

Edwin Bogonko, Ron Johanson- HIV Cardiomyopathy in Kenya and Ghana

Shulamith Bonham, Kevin Larsen- Use of Yoga and Ayurvedic Medicine by Indian Healthcare Practitioners Kempaninen R, Nelson K, Williams DN, Hedemark L. Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in Somali Immigrants in Minnesota.  Chest 2001; 119:176-180.

Brett Carlson, Ron Johanson- Access to Diabetes Care in Rural Cameroon Kirsch

JD, Cedeño MA. Informed consent for family planning for poor women in Chiapas, Mexico.  Lancet 1999; 354: 9176.