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Name CARLOS ALBERTO ESTRADA
  
Campus Address FOT 720D Zip 3407
Phone  (205) 934-7997
E-mail  cestrada@uabmc.edu
Other websites Division of General Internal Medicine
Google Scholar Profile
VAQS Fellowship
UAB Medicine Provider Page
     

Education
Graduate  Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.    1987  MD 
Residency  Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.    1991  Internal Medicine 
Fellowship  Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.    1993  Gen Int Med fellow 
Graduate  University of Michigan    1993  MS Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis 
Residency  Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.    1994  Chief Medical Resident 

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)  2011 


Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Primary  Med - Preventive Medicine  Med - Preventive Medicine Professor
Center  Center for Outcomes & Effectiveness Res & Educ  Center for Outcomes & Effectiveness Res & Educ Professor
Center  Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci  Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci Professor
Center  Ctr for Interprof Educ and Simulation  Ctr for Interprof Educ and Simulation Professor
Center  Minority Health & Research Center  Minority Health & Research Center Professor

Biographical Sketch 
Carlos A. Estrada, MD, MS, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, Birmingham VAMC, Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Birmingham Veterans Administration Quality Scholar Fellowship Program (VAQS), and Scientist at the Health Services Research and Development Programs, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. As a general internal medicine physician working at three large academic medical centers for the past 25 years, he had the privilege of serving as Division Director in two of them. As such, over the years he has acquired and applied a variety of skills in administration, leadership, medical education, mentoring, research, and patient care. His research interests have evolved over time and now include quality improvement, implementation research, clinical reasoning, medical education, faculty development, inter-professional education, clinical prediction rules, and decision analysis. He has designed, conducted, analyzed, and published studies using the spectrum of research design (case reports, case-series, cross-sectional, cohort, clustered randomized trials, decision analysis, clinical reasoning). He co-edited a Joint Commission book with two nurse leaders and a physician from the VAQS program. Splaine, M. E., Dolansky, M. A., Patrician, P. A., Estrada, C. A. Editors. Oakbrook: Joint Commission Resources; Practice-based Learning and Improvement: A Clinical Improvement Action Guide, 3rd Edition. 2012. Dr. Estrada is a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), USMLE Gross Anatomy & Embryology Test Material Development Committee (TMDC), United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). He served as member of the Editorial Board and Deputy Editor for The Journal of General Internal Medicine, CME Editor for ACP Medicine Chapter self-assessment program (American College of Physicians), and Editor of the Leadership Forum (Newsletter; Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine, ACLGIM). He Chaired the 2009 National Program and served as Council member at the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr Estrada received his medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru. He then completed his internship, residency in internal medicine and Chief Medical Residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. While completing his fellowship in general internal medicine, also at Henry Ford Hospital, Dr Estrada received a Master of Science degree in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is married to Jennie Andresen, pediatrician at UAB, and has two daughters.

Society Memberships
Organization Name Position Held Org Link
American College of Physicians  Member. FACP.  http://www.acponline.org/ 
Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine  Editor, The Leadership Forum (2009-2013)  http://www.acgim.org/Publications.htm 
Journal of General Internal Medicine  Member, Editorial Board (2013-2016)  http://www.sgim.org/jgim 
Society of General Internal Medicine  Council (2009-2012). Chair, National Meeting (Miami, 2009). Southern SGIM: President (2002-2003).  http://www.sgim.org/ 
 



Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Description
The experiences and collaboration with educators and clinicians from nursing, pediatrics, psychiatry, physical medicine, and hospital medicine have broadened his academic horizon. Dr Estrada has authored over 90 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Funded by the NHLBI, he conducted studies on the evaluation of cultural competency education (Improving Cultural Competency: An Online Case-Based Curriculum - K07 HL081373-01. At East Carolina University, he conducted research on low-literacy among elderly patients receiving anticoagulants, developed low-literacy brochures, and implemented a nurse-led anticoagulation management service.

Selected Publications 
Publication PUBMEDID
Payne-Foster P, Williams JH, Estrada CA, Higginbotham JC, Voltz ML, Safford MM, Allison J. Recruitment of Rural Physicians in a Diabetes Internet Intervention Study: Overcoming Challenges and Barriers. J Natl Med Assoc. 2010;102:101-107.  20191922 
Schoen MJ, Tipton EF, Houston TK, Funkhouser E, Levine DA, Estrada CA, Williams OD, Kiefe CI. Characteristics that predict physician participation in a Web-based CME activity: The MI-Plus study. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009; 29:246-253.  19998447 
Splaine ME, Ogrinc G, Gilman SC, Aron DC, Estrada CA, Rosenthal GE, Lee S, Dittus RS, Batalden PB. The Department of Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program: Experience From 10 Years of Training Quality Scholars. Acad Med. 2009;84:1741-1748.  19940583 
Sridhar AR, Willett LL, Castiglioni A, Heudebert G, Landry M, Centor RM, Estrada CA. Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24(3):398-401.  19104902 
Willett LL, Paranjape A, Estrada C. Identifying key components for an effective case report poster: an observational study. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24(3):393-7.  19089510 
Ogrinc G, Mooney SE, Estrada CA, Foster T, Goldmann D, Hall LW, Huizinga MM, Liu SK, Mills PP, Neily J, Nelson W, Pronovost PJ, Provost L, Rubenstein LV, Speroff T, Splaine M, Thomson R, Tomollo A, Watts B. The SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines for Quality Improvement Reporting: Explanation and Elaboration. Qual Saf Health Care 2008;17(Supp 1):13-32.  18836062 
Safford MM, Shewchuk R, Qu H, Williams JH, Estrada CA, Ovalle F, Allison JJ. Reasons for not intensifying medications: differentiating "clinical inertia" from appropriate care. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:1648-55.  17957346 
Staton LJ, Kraemer SM, Talente G, Patel S, Estrada CA. Peer Chart Audits: A Tool to Meet Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Competency in Practice-Based Learning and Improvement. Implementation Science 2007, 2:24 (27 July 2007). URL: http://www.implementationscience.com/articles/  17662124 
Estrada CA, Scher E, Zachariah J, Kaul R. Antineutrophil cytoplasmatic antibody associated pulmonary hemorrhage:Wegener granulomatosis?. South Med J 1992; 85:181-183.  1738885 
Willett LL, Estrada CA, Castiglioni A, Massie FS, Heudebert GR, Jennings MS, Centor RM. Does Residency Training Improve Performance of Physical Examination Skills? Am J Med Sci 2007;333:74-77.  17301584 
Mathews Jr RE, McGuire BM, Estrada CA. Outpatient Management of Cirrhosis: A Narrative Review. South Med J 2006;99:600-606.  16800415 
Estrada CA, Patel S, Talente G, Kraemer M. The 10-Minute Oral Presentation: What Should I Focus on?. Am J Med Sci 2005; 329:306-309.  15958872 
Estrada CA, Martin-Hryniewicz M, Peek BT, Collins C, Byrd JC. Literacy and numeracy skills and anticoagulation control. Am J Med Sci 2004; 328:88-93.  15311167 
Estrada CA, Young JA, Nifong LW, Chitwood Jr. WR. Outcomes and perioperative hyperglycemia in patients with or without diabetes mellitus undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Thorac Surg 2003 75: 1392-1399.  12735552 
Price J, Estrada CA, Thompson D. Administrative data versus corrected administrative data. Am J Med Quality 2003; 18:38-45.  12583643 
McNeill L, Allen M, Estrada CA, Cook P. Tolerability and safety of a two-month regimen of pyrazinamide and rifampin compared to a six-month regimen of isoniazid for treatment of patients with latent tuberculosis infection Chest 2003; 123:102-106.  12527609 
Patel SR, Wiese W, Patel SC, Ohl C, Byrd JC, Estrada CA. Systematic review of diagnostic tests for vaginal trichomoniasis. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2000;8(5-6):248-57.  11220487 
Estrada CA, Unterborn JN, Price J, Thompson D, Gibson L. Judging the effectiveness of clinical pathways for pneumonia: the role of risk adjustment. Eff Clin Pract. 2000;3(5):221-8. http://www.acponline.org/clinical_information/journals_publications/ecp/sepoct00/pneumonia.htm  11185327 
Wiese W, Patel SR, Patel SC, Ohl CA, Estrada CA. A meta-analysis of the wet mount and Papanicolaou smear for the diagnosis of vaginal trichomoniasis. Am J Med 2000; 108: 301-308. ACP Journal Club 2000; 133: 113. http://ebm.bmj.com/content/5/6/186.full. University of York.NHS Centre for Reviewers and Dissemination, URL: http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/online/dare/20000810.htm  11014723 
Estrada CA, Bloch RM, Antonacci D, Basnight LL, Patel S, Patel S, Wiese W. Reporting and concordance of methodologic criteria between abstracts and articles in diagnostic test studies. J Gen Intern Med 2000; 15: 183-187.  10718899 
Estrada CA, Mansfield C, Heudebert G. Low-molecular-weight heparin in the treatment of venous thromboembolism: A cost-effectiveness analysis J Gen Intern Med 2000; 15; 109-15. University of York. NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, URL http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/online/nhseed/20000394.htm   10672114 
Estrada CA, Rosman HS, Prasad NK, Battilana G, Alexander M. Held AC, Young MJ. Evaluation of guidelines for the use of telemetry in the non-intensive care setting. J Gen Intern Med 2000; 15:51-55.  10632834 
Estrada CA, McElligott J, Dolezal J, Cunningham P. Asymptomatic patients at high risk for deep venous thrombosis who receive inadequate prophylaxis should be screened. South Med J 1999; 92: 1145-1150.  10624903 
Petitta A, Kaatz S, Estrada CA, Effendi A, Anandan JV. The transition to medication system performance indicators. Top Hosp Pharm Manage 1995; 14: 20-26.  10140425 
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Keywords
Medical education, cultural competence, quality of care, safety, quality improvement, physical exam, physical diagnosis, clinical reasoning, decision analsyis/ cost-effectiveness analysis, primary care, internal medicine.