Dr. Gregory Ruhnke

Associate Professor

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Biography

Gregory Ruhnke's career focuses on health outcomes research, didactic teaching in health policy, clinical research study design, health data interpretation, and the peer-reviewed publication process. He has served as the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director in Sapporo, Japan. His academic portfolio includes the measurement of outcomes, quality, resource utilization, and risk adjustment for pneumonia patients. He has studied the impact of patient characteristics and patient-centered attributes on care decision-making and the utilization of patient-reported outcomes. Dr. Ruhnke is a track leader for the Clinical Research Scholarship Track within the School of Medicine’s Scholarship & Discovery program. He is a collaborative researcher and a founding member of the multicenter Hospital Medicine ReEngineering Network (HOMERuN), which examines hospital readmissions and diagnostic errors. Additionally, Dr. Ruhnke is the Senior Deputy Editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine. His research includes funding from NIH F32HS016948, focusing on the trends in health care expenditures related to pneumonia. His selected publications can be accessed via the Networks section on his profile.

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Department of Philosophy