Katherine Imborek, MD
Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Primary Office
Clinic
Current Positions
- Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine
- Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Family and Community Medicine
- Co-Director UI Health Care Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clinic
Education
- BA in Kinesiology and Sports Medicine, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
- MD in Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
- Family Medicine Residency Program, Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Research Interests
- LGBTQ Health
- Transgender Health
- Telemedicine
- COVID-19
- Transgender Patient Outcomes
Licenses & Certifications
- Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa
- Basic Life Support, American Heart Association, Iowa
- Family Medicine Board Certification, American Board of Family Medicine, Iowa
Selected Publications
- Kobayashi T, Alsuhaibani M, Ortiz M, Imborek K, Holley S, Trannel A, Marra A, Etienne W, Jenn K, Abosi O, Meacham H, Sheeler L, Dains A, Kukla M, McCray P, Perlman S, Ford B, Diekema D, Wellington M, Pezzulo A, Salinas J., Suspected COVID-19 Reinfections at a Tertiary Care Center, Iowa 2020. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 29;1(Suppl 1):s19. doi: 10.1017/ash.2021.34. PMCID: PMC9551594.
- Nicole G. Hines1, Dina N. Greene 2,3, Katherine L. Imborek4, and Matthew D. Krasowski 5, * Patterns of gender identity data within electronic health record databases can be used as a tool for identifying and estimating the prevalence of gender-expansive people. 2023 June, JAMIA, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooad042
- Robert M. Humble, Dina N. Greene, Robert L. Schmidt, Gabrielle Winston McPherson, Jessica Rongitsch, Katherine L. Imborek, Nicole Nisly, Nancy J. Dole, Susan K. Dane, Janice Frerichs, and Matthew D. Krasowski, Reference Intervals for Clinical Chemistry Analytes for Transgender Men and Women on Stable Hormone Therapy, 2022 May 18, https://doi.org/10.1093/jalm/jfac025
- Dina N. Greene, PhD; Robert L. Schmidt, MD, PhD; Robert H. Christenson, PhD; Jessica Rongitsch, MD; Katherine L. Imborek, MD; Heather Rebuck, BS; Thomas S. Lorey, MD; Amy K. Saenger, PhD; Matthew D. Krasowski, MD, PhD. Distribution of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin and N-Terminal Pro–Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Healthy Transgender People, 2022 October 5, JAMA Cardiology. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2022.3299
- Andrew D Bryant, Tommy J Robinson, Jeydith T Gutierrez-Perez, Bradley L Manning, Kevin Glenn, Katherine L Imborek, Ethan F Kuperman Outcomes of a home telemonitoring program for SARS-CoV-2 viral infection at a large academic medical center. Sage Journals. March 11, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1357633X221086067
- David A, Imborek K, Wilbur J. Is Extended-Release Metformin Superior to Immediate-Release Metformin? [FPIN’s GEMs of the Week]. In Family Physicians Inquiries Network. Columbia (MO): FPIN; 2022. In press.
- Lauren R Cirrincione, Bridgit O Crews, Jane A Dickerson, Matthew D Krasowski, Jessica Rongitsch, Katherine L Imborek, Zil Goldstein and Dina N Greene, Oral estrogen leads to falsely low concentrations of estradiol in a common immunoassay. Endocrine Connections 2022 Vol. 11, issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1530/EC-21-0550
- Lauren R. Cirrincione, Bridgit O. Crews, Jane A. Dickerson, Matthew D. Krasowski, Jessica Rongitsch, Katherine L. Imborek, Zil Goldstein, Dina N. Greene, Cirrincione LR, Crews BO, Dickerson JA, et al. Oral estrogen leads to falsely low concentrations of estradiol in a common immunoassay [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jan 1]. Endocr Connect. 2022;EC-21-0550.R1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EC-21-0550
- Miguel E. Ortiz, MD; Takaaki Kobayashi, MD; Katherine Imborek, MD; Mohammed Alsuhaibani, MBBS; Stephanie Holley, MBA; Alexandra Trannel, MS; Alexandre R. Marra, MD, PhD,; William Etienne, MD; Kyle E. Jenn, BSN; Oluchi J. Abosi, MBChB, MPH; Holly Meacham, MSN; Lorinda Sheeler, PhD; Angelique Dains, BSN; Mary E. Kukla, BSN; Paul B. McCray Jr., MD; Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD; Bradley Ford, MD, PhD; Daniel J. Diekema, MD; Melanie Wellington, MD, PhD; Alejandro A. Pezzulo, MD; Jorge L. Salinas, MD, Molecular Epidemiology of Large COVID-19 Clusters before and after the Implementation of Routine Serial Testing at an Academic Medical Center — Iowa, 2021 Cambridge University Press, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2021.301
- Imborek, K. L., Krasowski, M. D., Natvig, P., Merrill, A. E., Diekema, D. J. & Ford, B. A. (2021). Experience With PreTravel Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at an Academic Medical Center. (Vols. 8). Thousand Oaks, CA: Association of Pathology Sage Publishing. DOI: 10.1177%2F23742895211010247.