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.