General Internal Medicine

Matthew Leonard Maciejewski, PhD

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Professor in Medicine
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 Research Career Scientist and Director of the Health Economics and Policy Unit in the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care 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 research interests in four areas:

1) evaluation of surgical and behavioral interventions for the management of obesity and cardiometabolic conditions
2) evaluation of cost-sharing changes on demand for medications and health services
3) analysis of health care utilization and expenditures in experimental and quasi-experimental studies
4) methods for addressing unobserved confounding in observational studies.

Matt has received funding from NIDA, CMS, AHRQ, VA HSR&D, and the RWJ Foundation. He has published over 190 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

Sloan, Caroline, Karen M. Stechuchak, Maren K. Olsen, Eugene Z. Oddone, Laura J. Damschroder, and Matthew L. Maciejewski. “Short-Term VA Health Care Expenditures Following a Health Risk Assessment and Coaching Trial.” J Gen Intern Med, January 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05455-z.

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31898118
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Sloan, Caroline E., Cynthia J. Coffman, Linda L. Sanders, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Richard A. Hirth, and Virginia Wang. “Trends in Peritoneal Dialysis Use in the United States after Medicare Payment Reform.” Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 14, no. 12 (December 6, 2019): 1763–72. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.05910519.

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31753816
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Chou, Chiahung, Natalie S. Hohmann, Tessa J. Hastings, Chao Li, Cassidi C. McDaniel, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Joel F. Farley, Marisa Elena Domino, and Richard A. Hansen. “How comfortable are primary care physicians and oncologists prescribing medications for comorbidities in patients with cancer?” Res Social Adm Pharm, November 9, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.11.006.

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31734101
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Yancy, William S., Matthew J. Crowley, Moahad S. Dar, Cynthia J. Coffman, Amy S. Jeffreys, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Corrine I. Voils, Anna Barton Bradley, and David Edelman. “Comparison of Group Medical Visits Combined With Intensive Weight Management vs Group Medical Visits Alone for Glycemia in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial.” Jama Intern Med, November 4, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.4802.

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31682682
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Smith, Valerie A., David E. Arterburn, Theodore S. Z. Berkowitz, Maren K. Olsen, Edward H. Livingston, William S. Yancy, Hollis J. Weidenbacher, and Matthew L. Maciejewski. “Association Between Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Health Care Expenditures Among Veterans With Severe Obesity.” Jama Surg, October 30, 2019, e193732. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2019.3732.

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31664427
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Alexopoulos, Anastasia-Stefania, William S. Yancy, David Edelman, Cynthia J. Coffman, Amy S. Jeffreys, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Corrine I. Voils, et al. “Clinical associations of an updated medication effect score for measuring diabetes treatment intensity.” Chronic Illn, October 25, 2019, 1742395319884096. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395319884096.

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31653175
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Diamantidis, Clarissa J., Sarah L. Hale, Virginia Wang, Valerie A. Smith, Sarah Hudson Scholle, and Matthew L. Maciejewski. “Lab-based and diagnosis-based chronic kidney disease recognition and staging concordance.” Bmc Nephrol 20, no. 1 (September 14, 2019): 357. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-019-1551-3.

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31521124
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Wong, Edwin S., Matthew L. Maciejewski, Paul L. Hebert, Ashok Reddy, and Chuan-Fen Liu. “Predicting Primary Care Use Among Patients in a Large Integrated Health System: The Role of Patient Experience Measures.” Med Care 57, no. 8 (August 2019): 608–14. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001155.

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31295190
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Maciejewski, Matthew L., and M Alan Brookhart. “Using Instrumental Variables to Address Bias From Unobserved Confounders.” Jama 321, no. 21 (June 4, 2019): 2124–25. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.5646.

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31046064
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