Professor, Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine

Preventive Medicine

Doctor Steven H. Woolf, MD is an expert in the field of Preventive Medicine. He studied medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Emory University School of Medicine is ranked 23 in research and 42 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Elected Member" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Steven Woolf is a published doctor and has 62 publications published. The lastest was: 'Translating evidence into population health improvement: strategies and barriers.'

Publications

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• Translating evidence into population health improvement: strategies and barriers.
• Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer: How Strong Is the Evidence?
• Rethinking the information priorities of patients.
• Clinical and community delivery systems for preventive care: an integration framework.
• Severing the link between coverage policy and the US Preventive Services Task Force.
• The US health disadvantage relative to other high-income countries: findings from a National Research Council/Institute of Medicine report.
• The price of false beliefs: unrealistic expectations as a contributor to the health care crisis.
• Interactive preventive health record to enhance delivery of recommended care: a randomized trial.
• Designing a patient-centered personal health record to promote preventive care.
• Where health disparities begin: the role of social and economic determinants--and why current policies may make matters worse.
• Public health implications of government spending reductions.
• A vision for patient-centered health information systems.
• Is discussion of colorectal cancer screening options associated with heightened patient confusion?
• Avertable deaths associated with household income in Virginia.
• The 2009 breast cancer screening recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
• The priority is screening, not colonoscopy.
• Shared decision making for prostate cancer screening: do patients or clinicians have a choice?
• Social policy as health policy.
• A closer look at the economic argument for disease prevention.
• Bridging primary care practices and communities to promote healthy behaviors.
• An electronic linkage system for health behavior counseling effect on delivery of the 5A's.
• Optimizing practice through research: a new perspective to solve an old problem.
• The health impact of resolving racial disparities: an analysis of US mortality data.
• The power of prevention and what it requires.
• Patient perceptions of how physicians communicate during prostate cancer screening discussions: a comparison of residents and faculty.
• The meaning of translational research and why it matters.
• Effect on cessation counseling of documenting smoking status as a routine vital sign: an ACORN study.
• Health and economic benefits of reducing the number of students per classroom in US primary schools.
• Future health consequences of the current decline in US household income.
• Inattention to the fidelity of health care delivery is costing lives.
• Giving everyone the health of the educated: an examination of whether social change would save more lives than medical advances.
• Patient education on prostate cancer screening and involvement in decision making.
• How physicians approach prostate cancer screening before and after losing a lawsuit.
• Potential health and economic consequences of misplaced priorities.
• Use of beryllium lymphocyte proliferation testing for screening of asymptomatic individuals: an evidence-based assessment.
• Weighing the evidence to formulate dietary guidelines.
• A practice-sponsored Web site to help patients pursue healthy behaviors: an ACORN study.
• The break-even point: when medical advances are less important than improving the fidelity with which they are delivered.
• Promoting informed choice: transforming health care to dispense knowledge for decision making.
• Woolf Responds.
• Putting it together: finding success in behavior change through integration of services.
• It takes a partnership: the value of collaboration in developing and promoting a Web site for primary care patients.
• The liability of giving patients a choice: shared decision making and prostate cancer.
• What if we were equal? A comparison of the black-white mortality gap in 1960 and 2000.
• Title VII funding and physician practice in rural or low-income areas.
• A smarter strategy? Reflections on fecal DNA screening for colorectal cancer.
• Informed decision making: what is its role in cancer screening?
• A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors.
• Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care.
• Simplifying the language of evidence to improve patient care: Strength of recommendation taxonomy (SORT): a patient-centered approach to grading evidence in medical li...
• Strength of recommendation taxonomy (SORT): a patient-centered approach to grading evidence in the medical literature.
• Patient safety is not enough: targeting quality improvements to optimize the health of the population.
• Making the case for a qualitative study of medical errors in primary care.
• Screening adults for type 2 diabetes: a review of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
• Treatment of systemic hypertension in patients with pulmonary disease: COPD and asthma.
• The association of hypertension and secondary cardiovascular disease with sleep-disordered breathing.
• Screening for postmenopausal osteoporosis: a review of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
• Breast cancer screening: a summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
• Chemoprevention of breast cancer: a summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
• MyPreventiveCare: implementation and dissemination of an interactive preventive health record in three practice-based research networks serving disadvantaged patients-...
• How patients want to engage with their personal health record: a qualitative study.

Schools

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• Emory University

• George Washington University

• Johns Hopkins University

• Med College Va

Doctors Specialties

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• Family Medicine
• Preventive Public Health Medicine
• Preventive Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Elected Member
• Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Education

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• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• George Washington University
• Emory University School of Medicine

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