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Samantha L. Solimeo, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-General Internal Medicine

Current Positions

  • Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-General Internal Medicine
  • Associate Director, Primary Care Analytic Team - Iowa City (PCAT)
  • Co-Director, Veterans Rural Health Resource Center- Iowa City (VRHRC-IC)
  • Investigator and Health Science Research Specialist, Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE)

Education

  • MPH, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa
  • PhD, Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Aging and Medical Anthropology, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Selected Publications

  • Omonyêlé, A., Shin, M. H., Steffen, M. J., Moye, J., Solimeo, S. L. & Sullivan, J. L. (2021). Factors Affecting Primary Care Implementation for Older Veterans with Multimorbidity in VA. Health Services Research 56 (Suppl1) 1057-1068. PMCID: PMC8515219.
  • Seaman, A. T., Steffen, M. J., Van Tiem, J. M., Wardyn, S., Santana, X., Miller, K. L. & Solimeo, S. L. (2021). Cultivating across "pockets of excellence": challenges to sustaining efforts to improve osteoporosis care. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. PMID: 34414462.
  • Van Tiem, J. M., Steffen, M. J., Seaman, A. T., Miller, K., Wardyn, S. E., Richards, C. C. & Solimeo, S. L. (2021). Attitudes towards bone health among rural‐dwelling Veterans identified as at risk of fracture: a qualitative analysis. The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 5 (6) e10501. DOI: 10.1002/jbm4.10501.
  • Abraham, T. H., Stewart, G. L. & Solimeo, S. L. (2021). The importance of soft skills development in a hard data world: learning from interviews with healthcare leaders. BMC Medical Education 21 (1) 147. PMCID: PMC7937235.
  • Lampman, M. A., Steffensmeier, K. R., Reisinger, H. S., Sarrazin, M. V., Steffen, M. J., Solimeo, S. L., Stewart, G. L. & Mueller, K. J. (2021). Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Performance in Urban and Rural VHA Primary Care Clinics: A Mixed Methods Study. The Journal of Rural Health 37 (2) 426-436. PMID: 32632998.
  • Miller, K. L., Steffen, M. J., McCoy, K. D., Cannon, G., Seaman, A. T., Anderson, Z. L., Patel, S., Green, J., Wardyn, S. & Solimeo, S. L. (2021). Correction to: Delivering fracture prevention services to rural US veterans through telemedicine: a process evaluation. (Vols. 16). (1), pp. 61. Archives of Osteoporosis. PMCID: PMC8182872.
  • Solimeo, S. L., Lund, B. C., McCoy, K. D., Sarrazin, M. V. & Hoffman, R. (2021). Factors Associated with Osteoporosis Management Among Veterans Who Received Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer. (Vols. 36). (10), pp. 3270-3272. Journal of General Internal Medicine. PMCID: PMC8481523.
  • Solimeo, S. L., Steffen, M. J., Gardner, E. E., Adjognon, O., Shin, M. H., Moye, J. & Sullivan, J. L. (2020). Using the PACT Resources Framework to Understand the Needs of Geriatric Primary Care Teams. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68 (9) 2006-2014. PMCID: PMC10262174
  • Van Tiem, J. M., Friberg, J. E., Cunningham Goedken, C., Pineles, L., Schacht Reisinger, H., Morgan, D. J. & Solimeo, S. L. (2020). Environmental service workers as potential designers of infection control policy in long-term care settings. American Journal of Infection Control 48 (4) 398-402. PMID: 32087975.
  • Solimeo, S. L., Adler, B., McCoy, K., Reisinger, H. S. & Vaughan-Sarrazin, M. (2019). Factors Associated With Osteoporosis Care of Men Hospitalized for Hip Fracture: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Plus 3 (9) e10198. PMCID: PMC6808329.