Deepak Palakshappa, MD, MSHP
- Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
Deepak Palakshappa, MD, MSHP
Research Interests
- Food Insecurity
- Social Determinants of Health
- Chronic Disease Management
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Education
- MD, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 2007
- Residency
- Pediatrics/Int Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 2011
- Fellowship
- General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2017
- Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
- American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
- Positions
- Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Prevention
- Departments and Affiliations
- General Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Epidemiology and Prevention
- Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
- Center for Biomedical Informatics
- Center for Healthcare Innovation
Research
- Association between food insecurity and access to a mental health professional: cross-sectional analysis of NHANES 2007-2014. Burruss NC, Girgis M, Green KE, Lu L, Palakshappa D. BMC Public Health. 2021 04; 21(1):754.
- Food Insecurity Is an Independent Risk Factor for Depressive Symptoms in Survivors of Digestive Cancers. Madigan KE, Leiman DA, Palakshappa D. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 Jun; 30(6):1122-1128.
- Association of a Health Equity Curriculum With Medical Students' Knowledge of Social Determinants of Health and Confidence in Working With Underserved Populations. Denizard-Thompson N, Palakshappa D, Vallevand A, Kundu D, Brooks A, DiGiacobbe G, Griffith D, Joyner J, Snavely AC, Miller DP. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 03; 4(3):e210297.
- Examining the bidirectional relationship between food insecurity and healthcare spending. Johnson KT, Palakshappa D, Basu S, Seligman H, Berkowitz SA. Health Serv Res. 2021 Feb;
- What a city eats: Examining the dietary preferences of families living in communities at high risk for food insecurity. Cummer E, Loyola Amador C, Montez K, Skelton JA, Ramirez B, Best S, Zimmer R, Palakshappa D. J Clin Transl Sci. 2020 Oct; 5(1):e55.