Ethan Halm, MD

Professor
Endowed Title: Walter Family Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine in Honor of Albert D. Roberts, M.D.
William T. and Gay F. Solomon Division of General Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

ethan.halm@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH is Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Halm is a practicing academic general internist who is actively involved in clinical epidemiology, outcomes and health services research. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, and M.P.H. from Harvard University. Following his residency at the University of California, San Francisco, he completed a general medicine/clinical research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Halm’s research focuses on: understanding the patient, provider, and system factors that influence the quality and outcomes of care, improving chronic disease management, assessing the impact of patient health beliefs on medication adherence and self-management, changing physician, patient and organizational behavior, and developing evidence-based approaches to the management of common conditions. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others.

Education

Graduate SchoolHarvard School of Public Health (1997)
FellowshipMassachusetts General Hospital, Internal Medicine (1997)
InternshipUniversity of California at San Francisco, Internal Medicine (1995)
Medical SchoolYale University School of Medicine (1991)

Research Interests

Assessing the impact of patient health beliefs on medication adherence and self-management
Changing physician, patient, and organizational behavior
Developing evidence-based approaches to the management of common conditions
Improving chronic disease management
Outcomes, health services and comparative effectiveness research
Understanding the patient, provider, and system factors that influence the quality and outcomes of care

Publications

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An automated model to identify heart failure patients at risk for 30-day readmission or death using electronic medical record data.

Amarasingham R, Moore BJ, Tabak YP, Drazner MH, Clark CA, Zhang S, Reed WG, Swanson TS, Ma Y, Halm EA, Medical care, 2010 Nov; 48 (11):981-8

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Has evidence changed practice?: appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy after the clinical trials

Halm EA, Tuhrim S, Wang JJ, Rojas M, Hannan EL, Chassin MR , Neurology , January 2007; (68(3)):187-194

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No symptoms, no asthma: the acute episodic disease belief is associated with poor self-management among inner-city adults with persistent asthma

Halm EA, Mora P, Leventhal H , Chest , March 2006; (129(3)):573-580

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Is volume related to outcome in health care? A systematic review and methodologic critique of the literature

Halm EA, Lee C, Chassin MR , Ann Intern Med , September 2002; (137(6)):511-520

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Time to clinical stability in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: implications for practice guidelines

Halm EA, Fine MJ, Marrie TJ, et al. , JAMA , May 1998; (279(18)):1452-1457

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Revisiting the appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy

Halm EA, Chassin MR, Tuhrim S, Hollier LH, Faust G, Popp JA, AScher E, Dardik H, Riles TS , Stroke , June 2003; (34(6)):1464-1471

Carotid stenting at the crossroads: practice makes perfect, but some may be practicing too much (and not enough).

Halm EA, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 2011 Sep; 306 (12):1378-80

Survival and risk of adverse events in older patients receiving postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for resected stages II-IIIA lung cancer: observational cohort study.

Wisnivesky JP, Smith CB, Packer S, Strauss GM, Lurslurchachai L, Federman A, Halm EA, BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2011 ; 343:d4013

Predicting risk of perioperative death and stroke after carotid endarterectomy in asymptomatic patients: derivation and validation of a clinical risk score.

Calvillo-King L, Xuan L, Zhang S, Tuhrim S, Halm EA, Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation, 2010 Dec; 41 (12):2786-94

The good, the bad, and the about-to-get ugly: national trends in carotid revascularization: comment on "Geographic variation in carotid revascularization among Medicare beneficiaries, 2003-2006".

Halm EA, Archives of internal medicine, 2010 Jul; 170 (14):1225-7

Honors/Awards

Health Care Hero

Dallas Business Journal (2009)

Outstanding Research Abstract Award

Academy Health National Meeting (2003)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award

(2000)

Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Research Award

Society of General Internal Medicine Award (1998)

Outstanding Junior Faculty Abstract Award

American Federation for Medical Research Award (1998)

Phi Beta Kappa

(1985)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

AcademyHealth

(1997)

American College of Physicians

Society of General Internal Medicine