Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine; Head, Epidemiology and Statistics Section Division of Health Behavior Research

• Health Behavior Research

Education

• Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1993
• M.S., Health science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1990

Clinical and Research Interests

• Geographic variation in health-related behavior and disease (spatial epidemiology), in particular breast cancer, asthma, diabetes, and injuries.
• Identification of community-based risk factors for disease occurrence and mortality.
• Social epidemiology, including the effect of sociodemographic variation in behavior and disease.

Selected Publications

1. Schootman M, Fuortes L: Breast and cervical carcinoma. The correlation of activity limitations and rurality with screening, disease incidence, and mortality. Cancer 1999; 86: 1087-1094.

2. Schootman M, Fuortes L: Ambulatory care for traumatic brain injuries in the United States, 1995-1997. Brain Injury 2000; 14: 373-381.

3. Schootman M, Harlan M, Fuortes L: Epidemiology of severe traumatic brain injuries in Iowa: The use of the capture-recapture method. J Trauma 2000; 48: 70-75.

4. Schootman M, Myers-Geadelmann J, Fuortes L: Factors associated with adequacy of diagnostic work-up following abnormal breast cancer screening. J Am Board Fam Practice 2000; 13: 94-100.

5. Schootman M, Fuortes L: Early indicators of the effect of a breast cancer screening program for low income women. Cancer Detection and Prevention 2001; 25: 138-146.

6. Schootman M, Aft R: Rural-urban differences in radiation therapy for ductal carcinoma in-situ of the breast. Breast Cancer Research Treatment 2001; 68: 117-125.