Douglas B. Kamerow

Expertise

Health Policy
Preventive Medicine
Primary Health Care

Biography

Douglas Kamerow, MD, is a chief scientist at RTI, which he joined in 2001. He leads research on health-related behaviors, preventive medicine, evidence-based care, and improving the quality of health care. Before RTI, Dr. Kamerow spent 20 years in the U.S. Public Health Service, initiating and leading key federal research, health policy, public health, and clinical programs. As director of the Center for Practice and Technology Assessment at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, he developed and led a multi-program national initiative to improve health care quality using evidence-based tools and research. He conceived and supervised creation of the Evidence-based Practice Centers program and the National Guideline Clearinghouse, and he directed the staff of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Kamerow is also a professor of Clinical Family Medicine at Georgetown University, a regular health policy columnist for the international medical journal BMJ, and a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Education

MD, University of Rochester; MPH, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; AB, Government, Harvard College

Selected Publications

Evans, W.D., Renaud, J.M., Finkelstein, E., Kamerow, D.B., & Brown, D.S. (Mar 2006). Changing perceptions of the childhood obesity epidemic. American Journal of Health Behavior, 30 (2):167-176.

Evans, W.D., Finkelstein, E.A., Kamerow, D.B., & Renaud, J.M. (2005). Public perceptions of childhood obesity. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28 (1):26-32.

Coffield, A.B., Omenn, G.S., Fielding, J.E., Long, P.V., & Kamerow, D.B. (2004 May). The camel's nose is under the tent: Opportunities for prevention associated with the 2003 Medicare Act. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 26 (4):375-376.

Kamerow, D.B. (2003). How Should Medicare Cover Preventive Services? A Policy Analysis. In A Better Medicare For Healthier Seniors: Recommendations to Modernize Medicare's Prevention Policies. Washington, DC: Partnership for Prevention.

Kamerow, D.B. (2000). Evidence-based preventive care: A timely matter. American Family Physician, 61 (7):1984-1987.

Clancy, C.M., & Kamerow, D.B. (1996). Evidence-based medicine meets cost-effectiveness analysis. JAMA, 276 (4):329-330.

Kamerow, D.B., DiGuiseppi, C., Atkins, D., & Woolf, S.H. (Ed.). (1996). U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Kamerow, D.B. (Ed.). (1994). Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services: Put Prevention Into Practice. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human ServicesPublic Health Service, Office of Disease Prevention & Health.

Kamerow, D.B., Pincus, H.A., & Macdonald, D.I. (1986). Alcohol-Abuse, Other Drug-Abuse, and Mental-Disorders in Medical-Practice - Prevalence, Costs, Recognition, and Treatment. JAMA, 255 (15):2054-2057.

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