Incoming Medical Students' Political Orientation Affects Outcomes Related to Care of Marginalized Groups: Results from the Medical Student CHANGES Study

Diana J. Burgess is professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota and an investigator at the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System. She conducts research on health care disparities, focusing on the provider contribution to disparities and disparities in chronic pain. Currently she is principal investigator on two studies testing nonpharmacological approaches to reducing chronic pain, focused on populations that experience disparities in pain.

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Rachel R. Hardeman is assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. As a health equity researcher, her research applies the tools of health services research and critical race theory to the field of health equity to examine, understand, and intervene on structural racism's contemporary influence on health at the clinician, health care delivery, and sociopolitical and/or structural levels. Her work has been published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health.

Sara E. Burke is assistant professor of psychology at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on variations in the way prejudice operates when it targets different groups, including such underexamined groups as biracial people and bisexual people.

Brooke A. Cunningham is a general internist, sociologist, and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. She uses mixed methods to examine factors at both the provider and organizational levels that impede or facilitate efforts to address health equity, including how health care workers make sense of race and frame the causes of and solutions to racial disparities in health and health care.

John F. Dovidio is currently Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Yale University, where he has also served as dean of academic affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and stigma, health, and health disparities.

David B. Nelson is a statistician and investigator in the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System's Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, as well as associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. He has extensive experience in planning, conducting, and analyzing clinical, epidemiological, health services, social science, and survey research studies. In addition, he conducts research developing statistical theory and methodology in regression model diagnostics, dimensionality reduction, causal inference, and finite population sampling.

Sylvia P. Perry is assistant professor of psychology and medical social sciences and an Institute for Policy research associate at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on stereotyping, prejudice, and health disparities. Her current research is investigating how people communicate bias through nonverbal behavior. She has recently published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Science and Medicine, and Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

Sean M. Phelan is associate professor of health services research at Mayo Clinic. His research focuses on stigma and its impact on patient-provider interactions and health care outcomes. He is principal investigator of studies examining the implications of lower socioeconomic status, minority race, obesity, and other stigmatized identities or conditions on the quality of interpersonal or technical care.

Mark W. Yeazel is professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. He is involved in medical education at all levels from medical student to faculty development. His research interests include health disparities and medical education, and cancer screening and survivorship issues.

Jeph Herrin is assistant professor of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is a methodologist and researcher; his research focuses on the impact of community factors on health care quality and outcomes, and patterns and role sociodemographic disparities in health quality.