Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine Penn State College of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Christopher N. Sciamanna, MD
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Dr. Christopher N. Sciamanna works in the field of Internal Medicine. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College. He over the years received 2 awards: "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program" and "Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program". Christopher N. Sciamanna is a published physician. He published 75 publications, including: 'Nutritional counseling in community office practices.' Doctor Christopher N. Sciamanna, MD accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Comparative effectiveness of diagnostic testing strategies in emergency department patients with chest pain: an analysis of downstream testing, interventions, and outc...
- Is exercise used as medicine? Association of meeting strength training guidelines and functional limitations among older US adults.
- Once bitten, twice shy: concern about gaining weight after smoking cessation and its association with seeking treatment.
- Feasibility of using a compact elliptical device to increase energy expenditure during sedentary activities.
- The epidemiology of weight counseling for adults in the United States: a case of positive deviance.
- A Silent Response to the Obesity Epidemic: Decline in US Physician Weight Counseling.
- Website usage and weight loss in a free commercial online weight loss program: retrospective cohort study.
- Structural social support predicts functional social support in an online weight loss programme.
- Using positive deviance for determining successful weight-control practices.
- Chronic health conditions and internet behavioral interventions: a review of factors to enhance user engagement.
- Accelerometer use in a physical activity intervention trial.
- The effects of a computer-tailored message on secondary prevention in type 2 diabetes: a randomized trial.
- Patient-provider communication about sexual health among unmarried middle-aged and older women.
- Evaluating online continuing medical education seminars: evidence for improving clinical practices.
- Clinician-patient communication about physical activity in an underserved population.
- Ethnic/racial disparities in hospital procedure volume for lung resection for lung cancer.
- A comparison of Internet and print-based physical activity interventions.
- Patient access to U.S. physicians who conduct internet or e-mail consults.
- A website to improve asthma care by suggesting patient questions for physicians: qualitative analysis of user experiences.
- Attitudes toward nurse practitioner-led chronic disease management to improve outpatient quality of care.
- Empowering patients to improve safety.
- Effects of a Website designed to improve the management of migraines.
- Health care provider use of private sector internal error-reporting systems.
- The effect of web-based, personalized, osteoarthritis quality improvement feedback on patient satisfaction with osteoarthritis care.
- Will high-quality care be the norm by the time I need it?
- Accuracy of recall of exercise counseling among primary care patients.
- Impact of interpretation method on clinic visit length.
- User attitudes toward a physical activity promotion website.
- Unmet needs of primary care patients in using the Internet for health-related activities.
- Comparison of sun protection behaviors among physicians and patients.
- Reducing Unintended Pregnancies Through Web-Based Reproductive Life Planning and Contraceptive Action Planning among Privately Insured Women: Study Protocol for the My...
- A Growing Opportunity: Community Gardens Affiliated with US Hospitals and Academic Health Centers.
- Feasibility of utilising an all-volunteer workforce as a disruptive innovation for the US obesity epidemic.
- A strength training program for primary care patients, central pennsylvania, 2012.
- Clinician-targeted intervention and patient-reported counseling on physical activity.
- The impact of physician weight discussion on weight loss in US adults.
- Effects of a web-based patient activation intervention to overcome clinical inertia on blood pressure control: cluster randomized controlled trial.
- Nutritional counseling in community office practices.
- Dissemination of the AHCPR clinical practice guideline in community health centres.
- Physician-delivered nutrition counseling: why and how?
- Evaluation of an internet-based physical activity intervention: a preliminary investigation.
- Inadequate physician knowledge of the effects of diet on blood lipids and lipoproteins.
- Smoking cessation treatment on the Internet: content, quality, and usability.
- Outcomes from the women's wellness project: a community-focused physical activity trial for women.
- Telephone versus print delivery of an individualized motivationally tailored physical activity intervention: Project STRIDE.
- Numeracy and medicine: key family physician attitudes about communicating probability with patients.
- Reliability of a point-based VTE risk assessment tool in the hands of medical residents.
- User attitudes towards physical activity websites in a randomized controlled trial.
- Long-term weight loss maintenance in the United States.
- Using electronic/computer interventions to promote physical activity.
- Design and acceptability of patient-oriented computerized diabetes care reminders for use at the point of care.
- Who reports receiving advice to lose weight? Results from a multistate survey.
- Opportunities for improving inpatient smoking cessation programs: a community hospital experience.
- Comparison of five measures of motivation to quit smoking among a sample of hospitalized smokers.
- An evidence-based interactive computer program to assist physicians in counseling smokers to quit.
- Nutrition counseling in the promoting cancer prevention in primary care study.
- Patient attitudes toward using computers to improve health services delivery.
- Visit satisfaction and tailored health behavior communications in primary care.
- Feasibility of incorporating computer-tailored health behaviour communications in primary care settings.
- Filling the gaps in physician communication. The role of the Internet among primary care patients.
- Assessing multiple risk behaviors in primary care. Screening issues and related concepts.
- Cardiovascular comorbidities among public health clinic patients with diabetes: the Urban Diabetics Study.
- Effects of using a computer in a doctor''s office on patient attitudes toward using computerized prompts in routine care.
- Primary care providers'' perspectives on online weight-loss programs: a big wish list.
- Effects of a fingerprint reader on survey responses of primary care patients.
- Efficacy of a weight-loss website based on positive deviance. A randomized trial.
- Practices associated with weight loss versus weight-loss maintenance results of a national survey.
- Computerized tailored physical activity reports. A randomized controlled trial.
- Commit to Quit in the YMCAs: translating an evidence-based quit smoking program for women into a community setting.
- Patient-provider communication and cancer screening among unmarried women.
- Randomized controlled trial of physical activity counseling for older primary care patients.
- Brief report: What types of Internet guidance do patients want from their physicians?
- Are those who use specific complementary and alternative medicine therapies less likely to be immunized?
- A web-based patient activation intervention to improve hypertension care: study design and baseline characteristics in the web hypertension study.
Schools
Thomas Jefferson University
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
- Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Jefferson Medical College
Hospital
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Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
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