Co-Director, Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
President and CEO
American Board of Medical Specialties
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Institute for Healthcare Studies
Northwestern University
750 North Lakeshore Drive
10th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Telephone 312-503-5505
Fax          312-503-2777

Kevin.weiss@med.va.gov

Recent Journal Publications

Grant EN, Malone A, Lyttle CS, Weiss KB. Asthma morbidity and treatment in the Chicago metropolitan area: one decade after national guidelines.  Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2005;95:19-25.

Gupta RS, Carrion-Carire V, Weiss KB.  The widening black/white gap in asthma hospitalizations and mortality.  J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2006;117:351-8.

Joo MJ, Lee TA, Weiss KB. Geographic Variation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Rates.  J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Sep 15;[Epub ahead of print

Buist AS, McBurnie MA, Vollmer WM, et al.  International variation in the prevalence of COPD (the BOLD Study): a population-based prevalence study. Lancet. 2007;370:741-50.

Jordan N, Lee TA, Valenstein M, Weiss KB. Effect of care setting on evidence-based depression treatment for veterans with COPD and comorbid depression. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:1447-52. Epub 2007 Aug 9.

Shalowitz MU, Sadowski LM, Kumar R, Weiss KB, Shannon JJ.  Asthma burden in a citywide, diverse sample of elementary schoolchildren in Chicago. Ambul Pediatr. 2007;7:271-7.

Lee TA, Pickard AS, Bartle B, Weiss KB. Osteoarthritis: a comorbid marker for longer life? Ann Epidemiol. 2007;17:380-84.