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Matthew O'Brien, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Assistant Professor, Public Health (Center for Obesity Research and Education)

Telephone:  215-707-3416

Email: mobrien@temple.edu

Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine

Undergraduate degree, BA (US History), Brown University, Providence, RI, 1999

 

MD, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2004

 

Internship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2004

 

MSc (Health Policy Research), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

 

Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2007

 

Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2010

 

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• Community-oriented primary care
• Disease prevention
• Health behavior change

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• Community-based interventions to promote health
• Cancer prevention and control
• Obesity prevention and treatment

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American Board of Internal Medicine, 2007

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• Society of General Internal Medicine
• American Public Health Association
• Community Campus Partnerships for Health
• National Physicians Alliance
• National Hispanic Medical Association

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

23542380. Parrish NF, Gao F, Li H, Giorgi EE, Barbian HJ, Parrish EH, Zajic L, Iyer SS, Decker JM, Kumar A, Hora B, Berg A, Cai F, Hopper J, Denny TN, Ding H, Ochsenbauer C, Kappes JC, Galimidi RP, West AP Jr, Bjorkman PJ, Wilen CB, Doms RW, O'Brien M, Bhardwaj N, Borrow P, Haynes BF, Muldoon M, Theiler JP, Korber B, Shaw GM, Hahn BH, Phenotypic properties of transmitted founder HIV-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:17(6626-33)2013 Apr 23

23190788. Kawai K, O'Brien MA, Conway JH, Marshall GS, Kuter BJ, Factors associated with receipt of two doses of varicella vaccine among adolescents in the United States. Pediatr Infect Dis J 32:5(538-42)2013 May

22961569. O'Brien MJ, Davey A, Alos VA, Whitaker RC, Diabetes-related behaviors in Latinas and non-Latinas in California. Diabetes Care 36:2(355-61)2013 Feb

22212128. Kawai K, O'Brien MA, Goveia MG, Mast TC, El Khoury AC, Burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis and distribution of rotavirus strains in Asia: a systematic review. Vaccine 30:7(1244-54)2012 Feb 8

21935750. O'Brien MJ, Whitaker RC, The role of community-based participatory research to inform local health policy: a case study. J Gen Intern Med 26:12(1498-501)2011 Dec

21885571. Flight PA, O'Brien MA, Schmidt PS, Rand DM, Genetic structure and the North American postglacial expansion of the barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides. J Hered 103:2(153-65)2012 Mar-Apr

20607434. O'Brien MJ, Halbert CH, Bixby R, Pimentel S, Shea JA, Community health worker intervention to decrease cervical cancer disparities in Hispanic women. J Gen Intern Med 25:11(1186-92)2010 Nov

19896028. O'Brien MJ, Squires AP, Bixby RA, Larson SC, Role development of community health workers: an examination of selection and training processes in the intervention literature. Am J Prev Med 37:6 Suppl 1(S262-9)2009 Dec

19626440. O'Brien M, Shea J, Disparities in patient satisfaction among Hispanics: the role of language preference. J Immigr Minor Health 13:2(408-12)2011 Apr

11856207. O'Brien M, Quach T, Gilbert D, Dudley MN, The antibacterial effects of ciprofloxacin and trovafloxacin against Streptococcus pneumoniae in an in vitro dynamic model. Clin Microbiol Infect 5:1(12-15)1999 Jan

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Dr. O'Brien is co-founder and co-director of Puentes de Salud, a non-profit community health center serving South Philadelphia's Latino immigrant population.  See www.puentesdesalud.org for more information about the clinic, its various programs, and how to become involved.

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