Leadership Staff
CUH Senior Medical Director
scott.davies@co.hennepin.mn.us
The Department of Medicine is responsible for inpatient medical services and outpatient clinics, both in general medicine and in 14 subspecialties. Dr. Davies is committed to HCMC’s remaining a world-class public teaching hospital that provides a high quality safety net for the community based on an unyielding commitment to provide the best possible care for each patient.
Dr. Davies current interest revolves around identifying and addressing health disparities. He has been the driving force in the development of the Center for Urban Health.
CUH Medical Director
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, HCMC
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, U of MN
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, HCMC
kevin.larsen@hcmed.org
Kevin L. Larsen, MD is Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Larsen graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School and was a resident and chief medical resident at Hennepin County Medical Center. He subsequently became a hospitalist at Hennepin County Medical Center on the cardiology teaching service. In this position he received “teacher of the year” by the internal medicine residents in 2002 and twice was voted “teacher of the year” by the transitional residents. His research includes inpatient glycemic control, education around medical procedures, and health literacy in immigrant populations.
He has given workshops at a number of Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) regional and national meetings, national APDIM, and local ACP meetings, many involving immigrant health, health literacy, and international medical education. In 2007 he was presented with an International Health Award for his work with the OSDJ Healthcare Initiatives in Jamaica in collaboration with the Medical Association of Jamaica, the Ministry of Health, the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the Organization of Strategic Development in Jamaica, and the International Leadership Institute.
CUH Research Director
ybracha@CenterForUrbanHealth.org
Yiscah Bracha is a health services researcher with more than 15 years of experience in public health research. A statistician by training, she began her academic health research career by analyzing data and preparing manuscripts from the world-renowned Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). At Hennepin County Medical Center, she was the Project Director for a study that used administrative claims data to examine patient use of alternative medicine, and through this project and others, became increasingly interested in health services research as a tool to investigate contextual determinants of population health. Electronic medical records provide an opportunity to assess patient behavior in the health system, delivered clinical care, and patient outcomes, in ways that cannot be addressed using administrative claims alone, and she looks forward to leading the effort to exploit this tool to its fullest. Her current research interests include the process and rationale social agencies use to make coverage and reimbursement decisions, how those decisions affect adoption and diffusion of medical goods and services, and how the adoption and diffusion of particular medical goods and services differentially affect the health and well-being of diverse populations throughout all stages of life, how health and well-being during the life course affects individual decisions about use of medical goods and services at the end of life.