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Katrina Cannon, MD
VA Quality Scholar
MD University of Iowa, 2002
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Dr. Cannon is a VA Quality Scholar with CRIISP. Katrina received her B.S. in 1998 and M.D. in 2002 from The University of Iowa. She then completed her Internal Medicine residency at Texas A&M University in Temple, TX in 2005. During residency, her research focused on polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly home healthcare patients. Her final project was presented at the American Geriatric Society 2005 Annual Meeting and published in The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy in June 2006. Following residency, she returned to Iowa to complete a geriatric fellowship and pursue further training in the Masters of Clinical Investigation and Research in conjunction with the VA Quality Scholars fellowship program.
Research Interests
Advance planning and goals of care in end-of-life
Patient, surrogate and physician communication
Use of life-sustaining treatments in end-of-life care
Selected Publications
Cannon KT, Sarrazin MV, Kaldjian LC, Curtis AE and Rosenthal GE. Racial Differences in Treatment of COPD Exacerbation in Older Veterans, abstract and poster presentation, American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 2007.
Cannon KT, Sarrazin MV, Kaldjian LC, Curtis AE and Rosenthal GE. Racial Differences in Treatment of COPD Exacerbation within the VA Health Care System, abstract and poster presentation, VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, February 2007.
Cannon KT, Choi MM and Zuniga MA. Potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly patients receiving home health care: A retrospective data analysis. The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 134-143
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Contact Information
VA Iowa City Health Care System
CRIISP (152)
601 Highway 6 West
Iowa City, IA 52246-2208
Phone: 319-338-0581
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