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Joined the Institute: 2022

Education and training:

• MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
• MS, Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
• Certificate in Clinical Research, Mayo Graduate School and Certificate in Media and Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Affiliations/other offices held: Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention; Deputy Editor, American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Overview/research interests: Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Nolan has a background in Family Medicine, social epidemiology, and General Preventive Medicine/Public Health. Prior to coming to ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý Institute, Dr. Nolan was a Physician Scientist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, where she had a particular interest in clinical tobacco dependence treatment in cancer patients and traditionally hard-to-reach populations. She was also Associate Director of the University of Wisconsin Preventive Medicine Residency Program. During her post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, her clinical research focused on tobacco dependence treatment in surgical patients and medically complex populations. Other areas of interest include chronic disease epidemiology, risk management, and behavioral or pharmaceutical interventions for chronic disease prevention. With a long-standing interest in medical humanities, Dr. Nolan also leads narrative health workshops for scientists and staff at ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý.

Current research activities and funding: Dr. Nolan is currently working on several projects related to chronic disease risk management, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She is overseeing several epidemiologic studies and vaccine-related pharmacovigilance studies as part of a nation-wide collaboration, and serves as the principle investigator for cancer care delivery research through the Metro-Minnesota Community Oncology Research Consortium (MMCORC). She sees patients in occupational medicine weekly at the Minneapolis Blaisdell Clinic.