General Internal Medicine

Matthew Leonard Maciejewski, PhD

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Professor in Medicine
Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Campus mail 215 Morris Street (Imperial), Second Floor, Durham, NC 27701
Phone (919) 286-6936
Email address mlm34@duke.edu

Matt Maciejewski, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist and Director of the Non-randomized Design Lab in the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation at the Durham VA Medical Center. Matt also holds Adjunct Professor appointments in the Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He has received funding from NIDA, CMS, AHRQ, VA HSR&D, and the RWJ Foundation to conduct evaluation of long-term clinical and economic outcomes of surgical interventions, behavioral interventions and Medicare program or policy changes on patients with obesity and cardiometabolic conditions.  He is also interested in methods for addressing unobserved confounding in observational studies.  Matt evaluated the first-ever population-based implementation of value-based insurance design and led the first-ever linkage of lab results and Medicare FFS claims.  He has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Surgery, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Economics, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Diabetes Care.

Areas of expertise: Health Services Research, Health Economics, Health Policy, Multimorbidity

Education and Training

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1998

Grants

Publications

Blalock, Dan V., Matthew L. Maciejewski, Donna M. Zulman, Valerie A. Smith, Janet Grubber, Ann-Marie Rosland, Hollis J. Weidenbacher, et al. “Subgroups of High-Risk Veterans Affairs Patients Based on Social Determinants of Health Predict Risk of Future Hospitalization.” Med Care 59, no. 5 (May 1, 2021): 410–17. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001526.

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Wang, Virginia, Cynthia J. Coffman, Linda L. Sanders, Abby Hoffman, Caroline E. Sloan, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Richard A. Hirth, and Matthew L. Maciejewski. “Comparing Mortality of Peritoneal and Hemodialysis Patients in an Era of Medicare Payment Reform.” Med Care 59, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 155–62. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001457.

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Maciejewski, Matthew L., Lindsay Zepel, Sarah L. Hale, Virginia Wang, Clarissa J. Diamantidis, Jacquelyn W. Blaz, Serene Olin, Shondelle M. Wilson-Frederick, Cara V. James, and Valerie A. Smith. “Opioid Prescribing in the 2016 Medicare Fee-for-Service Population.” J Am Geriatr Soc 69, no. 2 (February 2021): 485–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16911.

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Min, Lillian, Jin-Kyung Ha, Carole E. Aubert, Timothy P. Hofer, Jeremy B. Sussman, Kenneth M. Langa, Mary Tinetti, et al. “A Method to Quantify Mean Hypertension Treatment Daily Dose Intensity Using Health Care System Data.” Jama Netw Open 4, no. 1 (January 4, 2021): e2034059. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34059.

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Olsen, M. K., K. M. Stechuchak, E. Z. Oddone, L. J. Damschroder, and M. L. Maciejewski. “Which patients benefit most from completing health risk assessments: comparing methods to identify heterogeneity of treatment effects.” Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, January 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10742-021-00243-x.

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Parikh, Ravi B., Kristin A. Linn, Jiali Yan, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Ann-Marie Rosland, Kevin G. Volpp, Peter W. Groeneveld, and Amol S. Navathe. “A machine learning approach to identify distinct subgroups of veterans at risk for hospitalization or death using administrative and electronic health record data.” Plos One 16, no. 2 (2021): e0247203. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247203.

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Green, Ariel R., Cynthia M. Boyd, Kathy S. Gleason, Leslie Wright, Courtney R. Kraus, Ruth Bedoy, Bianca Sanchez, et al. “Designing a Primary Care-Based Deprescribing Intervention for Patients with Dementia and Multiple Chronic Conditions: a Qualitative Study.” J Gen Intern Med 35, no. 12 (December 2020): 3556–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06063-y.

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Maciejewski, Matthew L., Valerie A. Smith, Theodore S. Z. Berkowitz, David E. Arterburn, James E. Mitchell, Maren K. Olsen, Chuan-Fen Liu, et al. “Association of Bariatric Surgical Procedures With Changes in Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among US Veterans.” Jama Netw Open 3, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): e2028117. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28117.

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Wang, Virginia, Shailender Swaminathan, Emily A. Corneau, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Amal N. Trivedi, Ann M. O’Hare, and Vincent Mor. “Association of VA Payment Reform for Dialysis with Spending, Access to Care, and Outcomes for Veterans with ESKD.” Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 15, no. 11 (November 6, 2020): 1631–39. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.02100220.

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Kobe, Elizabeth A., David Edelman, Phillip E. Tarkington, Hayden B. Bosworth, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Karen Steinhauser, Amy S. Jeffreys, et al. “Practical telehealth to improve control and engagement for patients with clinic-refractory diabetes mellitus (PRACTICE-DM): Protocol and baseline data for a randomized trial.” Contemp Clin Trials 98 (November 2020): 106157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2020.106157.

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