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Deborah Porterfield

Expertise

Health Care Quality
Public Health Program Evaluation
Diabetes Prevention and Control
Health Communication

Biography

Deborah Porterfield, MD, MPH, is a trained internist and preventive medicine physician with clinical experience in primary care practice in community health centers and six years of public health practice at a state health department. While in public health practice, she led or participated in a number of research and evaluation projects, including evaluation of a community-based diabetes prevention and control project, evaluation of a quality improvement initiative for primary care practices, assessment of local public health department performance in diabetes prevention and control, and a study of quality of care for uninsured patients with diabetes. Key areas of expertise include chronic disease control, particularly diabetes and cancer; chronic disease epidemiology; quality improvement; and performance measurement in public health practice.

Education

MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MD, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco; BA (magna cum laude), Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges.

Selected Publications

Kim, J., Porterfield, D., & Gizlice, Z. (2005 Nov-Dec). Trends in up-to-date status in colorectal cancer screening, North Carolina, 1998-2002. North Carolina Medical Journal, 66 (6):420-426.

Patrick-Wubben, D., & Porterfield, D. (May/June 2005). Health-related quality of life among North Carolina adults with diabetes mellitus. North Carolina Medical Journal, 66 (3):179-185.

Wang, A., Wolf, M., Carlyle, R., Wilkerson, J., Porterfield, D., & Reaves, J. (July 2004). The North Carolina experience with the diabetes health disparities collaboratives. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 30 (7):396-404.

Hoyo, C., Reid, L., Hatch, J., Sellers, D.B., Ellison, A., Hackney, T., Porterfield, D., Page, J., & Parrish, T. (2004 April). Program prioritization to control chronic diseases in African-American faith-based communities. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96 (4):524-532.

Din-Dzietham, R., Porterfield, D.S., Cohen, S.J., Reaves, J., Burrus, B., & Lamb, B.M. (2004). Quality care improvement program in a community-based participatory research project: Example of project DIRECT. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96 (10):1310-1321.

Porterfield, D.S., Din, R., Burroughs, A., Burrus, B., Petteway, R., Treiber, L., Lamb, B., & Engelgau, M. (2004). Screening for diabetes in an African-American community: The project DIRECT experience. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96 (10):1325-1331.

Randall-David, E., Wright, J., Porterfield, D.S., & Lesser, G. (2003 Oct). Barriers to cancer pain management: home-health and hospice nurses and patients. Supportive care in cancer , 11 (10):660-665.

Porterfield, D.S., Konrad, T.R., Porter, C.Q., Leyseiffer, K., Martinez, R.M., Niska, R., & Potter, F. (2003 May). Caring for the underserved: current practice of alumni of the National Health Service Corps. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 14 (2):256-271.

Donahue, K., Porterfield, D., Reaves, J., & Gizlice, Z. (March/April 2003). Diabetes care in North Carolina. Are we on track for Healthy People 2010? North Carolina Medical Journal, 64 (2):66-67.

Porterfield, D.S., Reaves, J., & Patrick-Wubben, D. (2003 Mar-Apr). Waging battle against the epidemic. Improving diabetes care in North Carolina. North Carolina Medical Journal, 64 (2):73-79.

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