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Northwestern University

 Feinberg School of Medicine

Michael Wolf, PhD
Director, Health Literacy and Learning Program (HeLP)
Institute for Healthcare Studies
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Lee A. Lindquist

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

Telephone 312-503-5592
Fax          312-503-2777

mswolf@northwestern.edu



Recent Journal Publications

Davis TC and Wolf MS. Health Literacy: Implications for Family Medicine. Fam Med  2004; 36(8): 595-598.

Dolan NC, Ferreira MR, Davis TC, Fitzgibbon ML, Rademaker A, Liu D, Gorby N, Wolf MS, Bennett CL.  Colorectal cancer screening knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among persons of lower socioeconomic status: does literacy make a difference? J Clin Oncol 2004; 22(12): 2617-22.

Arozullah AM, Calhoun EA, Wolf MS, Finley D, Fitzner KA, Heckinger EA, Gorby NS, Schumock GT, Bennett CL. The financial burden of cancer: estimates from a study of insured women with breast cancer. J Support Oncol 2004; 2(3): 1-8.

Wolf MS, Linsk NL, Mitchell CG, Schechtman, B.  HIV prevention in practice: an assessment of the public health response of physicians and nurses in the Midwest. J Comm Health 2004; 29:1; 63-73.

Knight SJ, Nathan DP, Siston AK, Kattan MW, Elstein AS, Wolf MS, Bennett CL, Golub RM. Pilot study of a utilities-based treatment decision intervention for prostate cancer patients. Clin Prostate Ca  2002; 1: 12-18.

Wolf MS. and Mitchell CG. The role of community-based social work in HIV/AIDS detection and disease prevention:  implications for training and professional intervention. J Comm Health 2002; 27: 165-180.

Linsk NL, Mitchell CG, Despotes J, Grey D, Cook J, Razzano L, Wolf M. An evaluation of an HIV mental health training intervention: practice patterns and knowledge changes for social workers and case managers.  Health and Social Work  2002; 27: 67-70.

Wolf MS. Ethics in phase II trials of cancer therapies. Perspectives Prof 2000; 20: 3-5.

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