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Martinson, Brian C., PhD
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<p><strong>Academic appointment: </strong>Associate professor of medicine, University of Minnesota</p>
<strong>Other offices:</strong> Core Investigator at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research from 2013-present<br />
<p><strong>Joined the Institute: </strong>1998</p>
<ul>
<li>Senior Research Investigator – 2006-present</li>
<li>Research Investigator – 2000-2006</li>
<li>Research Associate – 1998-2000</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Education and training: </strong>PhD, sociology and demography, University of Wisconsin at Madison; postdoctoral training in cardiovascular behavioral health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.</p>
<p><strong>Overview/research interests:</strong> Since 1996, Brian has conducted health behavior-related research (both interventional and observational), serving on federally funded projects as PI of a large behavioral intervention trial of physical activity maintenance (RO1-AG023410), site PI on studies of stroke epidemiology (RO1-NS39028), the etiology of childhood obesity (RO1-HL085978), work-family balance, diet and physical activity (RO1-HD056360), smoking cession (RO3-CA78183) and as a coinvestigator on multiple other studies.</p>
<p>Since 2001, Brian has led a series of federally funded research projects on research integrity (RO1-NR08090; RO1-NS052885). As co-PI with Dr. Carol Thrush (R21-RR025279), he co-led a study developing and assessing the validity and reliability of a survey instrument to evaluate research integrity climates in academic research organizations. That work resulted in a tool called the Survey of Organizational Climate (SOuRCe). As PI, he recently completed a 3-year project with funding from the VA HSR&D (l01-HX001120), conducting a randomized controlled trial using the SOuRCe to test the efficacy of a reporting and feedback intervention to improve research integrity climates in VA research settings.</p>
<p>In 2009-2010, he served on an invited expert panel on research integrity convened by the Council of Canadian Academies at the request of Industry Canada, leading to the report, <em>Honesty, Accountability and Trust: Fostering Research Integrity in Canada. </em>From 2012 to 2017, Brian served as a member of a U.S. National Academies ad hoc panel chartered by COSEMPUP, which published <em>Fostering Integrity in Research</em> in April 2017.</p>
<p>His research interests and expertise include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Health-related behavior and social determinants of health</li>
<li>Research integrity and its relationship to the structural and institutional organization of science</li>
<li>Psychosocial issues and bounded rationality in human decision-making as it relates to health and health-related behavior, as well as to research ethics and integrity.</li>
<li>Systems science and simulation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Research activities and funding</strong></p>
<p>As a coinvestigator to Bjorn Westgard, Brian recently completed an NHLBI-funded study (RO1-HL118282, PI: Dr. Bjorn Westgard) employing systems science methods (including respondent-driven sampling, social network analysis and agent-based modeling) to study cardiometabolic risks in the Somali Community in Minneapolis and St. Paul.</p>
<p>With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, he is collaborating with colleagues at the American Geophysical Union and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in extending the SOURCE survey instrument to include assessments of organizational health, sexual harassment and assault and bullying.</p>
<p>With funding from the NIH Common Fund, as one of 11 projects funded by the NIH National Mentoring Research Network, he is collaborating with a team of researchers based at Brandeis University, led by Dr. Linda Pololi, in testing the efficacy of the group-peer-mentoring intervention she has developed for retaining women and under-represented minorities in medical research careers.</p>
<p>As a Co-Investigator with a team at the University of Minnesota, he is collaborating with PI, Dr. Rachel Isaksson-Vogel, conducting a trial to test the efficacy of a wearable device intervention to improve sun-exposure behaviors and reduce sun-burn in melanoma survivors. This work is funded by the American Cancer Society.</p>
<p><strong>Mentoring activities</strong></p>
<p>For the past several years, Brian has served in a somewhat more formal mentoring capacity to Dr. Bjorn Westgard, an emergency medicine physician and medical anthropologist. He is currently serving as a mentor to Dr. Pritika Kumar, a Research Investigator at 开云体育 Institute, to Ifrah Biyoow, a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, and previously served as a mentor to Dr. Farhiya Farah, who completed her doctorate in Environmental Health at the University of Minnesota in 2017.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/40150409/?sort=date&direction=descending"><strong>Publications</strong></a></p>
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