General Internal Medicine

Eugene Oddone, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, the Director of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, VAMC and the Director of the Clinical Research Training Program.

Dr Oddone is a health services researcher whose primary research interests are: 1) evaluating the effectiveness of primary care with an emphasis on chronic disease, 2) assessing the reasons and testing interventions to reduce racial variation in access the health care and utilization of health services, 3) determining appropriate interventions to improve blood pressure control for hypertensive patients treated in primary care. He aso research expertise in racial variation, blood pressure control, disease management, and tele-medicine and has methodologic expertise in designing and testing health services interventions in multi-site clinical trials.