Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School
Family Medicine
Dr. Dwenda K. Gjerdingen, MD
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Dwenda K. Gjerdingen, MD practices Family Medicine. He went to University of Minnesota Medical School. University of Minnesota Medical School is ranked 40 in research and 10 in primary care medicine Dr. Dwenda K. Gjerdingen is a published doctor as well. He has 62 publications published. The latest was: Shorter ultrasonic femur lengths in Hmong fetuses. He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Use of nonmedical methods of labor induction and pain management among u.s. Women.
- The Impact of Prenatal Employment on Breastfeeding Intentions and Breastfeeding Status at 1 Week Postpartum.
- Reevaluating the Relationship between Prenatal Employment and Birth Outcomes: A Policy-Relevant Application of Propensity Score Matching.
- Postpartum depression screening: importance, methods, barriers, and recommendations for practice.
- Effectiveness of targeted anticipatory guidance during well-child visits: a pilot trial.
- Parents' health and demographic characteristics predict noncompliance with well-child visits.
- The relationship of postpartum partner satisfaction to parents' work, health, and social characteristics.
- First-time parents' prenatal to postpartum changes in health, and the relation of postpartum health to work and partner characteristics.
- A randomized controlled trial testing the impact of a support/work-planning intervention on first-time parents' health, partner relationship, and work responsibilities.
- The physician's appearance and professionalism.
- The determinants of time off work after childbirth.
- Older persons' opinions about life-sustaining procedures in the face of dementia.
- Hepatitis B status of Hmong patients.
- Shorter ultrasonic femur lengths in Hmong fetuses.
- Family physicians' and internists' consideration of psychosocial hypotheses during the diagnostic process.
- Patients' responses to short obstetrical hospital stays during a nurses' strike.
- Postpartum mental and physical problems. How common are they?
- Patients' and physicians' attitudes regarding the physician's professional appearance.
- Emergency room use and abuse. How it varies with payment mechanism.
- Premature labor, Part I: Risk assessment, etiologic factors, and diagnosis.
- Premature labor, Part II: Management.
- The parental leave debate: implications for policy relevant research.
- Predictors of health in new mothers.
- The measure of health in new mothers: a factor analysis of physical and mental health variables.
- The effects of social support on women's health during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the postpartum period.
- Preconception health care: a critical task for family physicians.
- Changes in women's mental and physical health from pregnancy through six months postpartum.
- The fourth stage of labor: the health of birth mothers and adoptive mothers at six-weeks postpartum.
- Family-centered postpartum care.
- A causal model describing the relationship of women's postpartum health to social support, length of leave, and complications of childbirth.
- Physicians' attitudes about their professional appearance.
- Obesity: a move from traditional to more patient-oriented management.
- Mothers' experience with household roles and social support during the first postpartum year.
- The relationship of women's postpartum mental health to employment, childbirth, and social support.
- Follow-up of abnormal Papanicolaou smears among women of different races.
- Changes in women's physical health during the first postpartum year.
- Family practice residents' maternity leave experiences and benefits.
- Women's postpartum maternity benefits and work experience.
- Growth of Hmong children.
- Women's work roles and their impact on health, well-being, and career: comparisons between the United States, Sweden, and The Netherlands.
- Predictors of mothers'' postpartum body dissatisfaction.
- A longitudinal analysis of total workload and women's health after childbirth.
- The diagnostic process in primary care: a comparison of general internists and family physicians.
- Recruiting for a randomized controlled trial from an ethnically diverse population: lessons from the Maternal Infection and Preterm Labor Study.
- Stepped care treatment of postpartum depression: impact on treatment, health, and work outcomes.
- Problems with a diagnostic depression interview in a postpartum depression trial.
- Mothers' health and work-related factors at 11 weeks postpartum.
- Postpartum health of employed mothers 5 weeks after childbirth.
- Changes in depressive symptoms over 0-9 months postpartum.
- Time off work and the postpartum health of employed women.
- Expectant parents' anticipated changes in workload after the birth of their first child.
- Postpartum depression screening at well-child visits: validity of a 2-question screen and the PHQ-9.
- Multiple roles and women's mental and physical health: what have we learned?
- The effectiveness of various postpartum depression treatments and the impact of antidepressant drugs on nursing infants.
- The impact of regular vaginal pH screening on the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy.
- Prevalence of depressive symptoms in the immediate postpartum period.
- Stepped care treatment of postpartum depression: a primary care-based management model.
- The interpretation of office radiographs by family physicians.
- Potential benefits of increased access to doula support during childbirth.
- Maternal depressive symptoms, employment, and social support.
- Employment during pregnancy and obstetric intervention without medical reason: labor induction and cesarean delivery.
Schools
University Of Minnesota Medical School
Bethesda Hospital University Minn
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Blue Cross Accord
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- HealthPartners
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Ucare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Education
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University of Minnesota at Fairview -
University of Minnesota Medical School
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1699707315 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | GJERDINGEN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DWENDA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 55103 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MN | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 2646.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 68.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 2.57 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1699707315 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | GJERDINGEN |
| First Name Of The Provider | DWENDA |
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