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Dr. Samantha Solimeo

Assistant Professor,
Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine,
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

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University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, IA

Dr. Samantha Solimeo


Assistant Professor,
Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine,
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Bio

Dr. Solimeo is the Director of the Ethnographic Methods and Implementation Core (EMIC); an investigator with CADRE and the Veteran’s Rural Health Resource Center; and Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. A medical anthropologist, she conducts ethnographic research pertaining to the role of gender in chronic disease management during later life, teams, and healthcare delivery systems. Dr. Solimeo is author of With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson’s disease in America’s Heartland (2009 Rutgers University Press) and articles examining masculinity, osteoporosis, anthropology of aging, and healthcare teams.

Research Interests: Geriatric chronic conditions, risk perception, qualitative methodology, mixed methods research, pragmatic clinical trials, information visualization, patient-centered medical home and health care delivery systems, organizational change, primary care, rural health, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s disease, gerontology, men’s health, partnered research.

Education

University of Iowa
Iowa City
PhD, MPH
Anthropology
1998 To 2005

Fort Lewis College
BA
1993 To 1997

Plymouth Whitemarsh Senior High
HS
1989 To 1992

Job History

University of Iowa College of Medicine
Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine
Iowa City
July 2015 - present

Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation
Medical Anthropologist
January 2010 - present

North Carolina State University
Senior Lecturer
January 2007 - May 2009

Duke University
Lecturer,Human Development Program
January 2008 - May 2008

Peace College
Lecturer, Division of Sciences
August 2007 - December 2007

Duke University Medical Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
August 2005 - August 2007

Cornell College
Instructor, Department of Anthropology & Sociology
September 2003 - October 2003

The University of Iowa
Instructor, Aging Studies Program
May 2003 - June 2003

The University of Iowa
Instructor, Department of Anthropology
May 2003 - June 2003

Discipline

  • Anthropology