Deborah Porterfield
Public Health Researcher
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.
Publications
Porterfield, D.S., Hinnant, L.W., Kane, H., Horne, J., McAleer, K., & Roussel, A. (Jun 2012)
Porterfield, D.S., Hinnant, L.W., Kane, H., Horne, J., McAleer, K., & Roussel, A. (Jun 2012)
Rochester, P., Adams, E., Porterfield, D.S., Holden, D., McAleer, K., & Steele, C.B. (Nov 2011)
Rochester, P., Porterfield, D.S., Richardson, L.C., McAleer, K., Adams, E., & Holden, D. (May 2011)
Porterfield, D.S., Hinnant, L., Stevens, D.M., & Moy, E. (Sep 2010)