Dr. James Eugene Cheek M.D., M.P.H.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
Msc09 5040 1 University Of New Albuquerque NM, 87131About
James Cheek is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Albuquerque, NM. Cheek specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Cheek participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Univ of Nm Sch of Med, Albuquerque Nm 1987
Board Certification
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Racial misclassification of American Indians in Oklahoma State surveillance data for sexually transmitted diseases.
- Experimental evaluation of rodent exclusion methods to reduce hantavirus transmission to residents in a Native American community in New Mexico.
- Effect of a national vaccine shortage on vaccine coverage for American Indian/Alaska Native children.
- Rocky mountain spotted fever hospitalizations among American Indians.
- Infectious disease hospitalizations among older American Indian and Alaska Native adults.
- Within the hidden epidemic: sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
- An ongoing burden: chlamydial infections among young American Indian women.
- Diarrhea-associated hospitalizations and outpatient visits among American Indian and Alaska Native children younger than five years of age, 2000-2004.
- Epidemiology of hospitalizations associated with ulcers, gastric cancers, and Helicobacter pylori infection among American Indian and Alaska Native persons.
- Pertussis-associated hospitalizations in American Indian and Alaska Native infants.
- Trends in otitis media and myringtomy with tube placement among American Indian/Alaska native children and the US general population of children.
- Increasing incidence of Rocky Mountain spotted fever among the American Indian population in the United States.
- The Incidence of Molluscum contagiosum among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-associated hospitalizations among the
- Trends in hospitalization for empyema in Alaska Native children younger than 10 years of age.
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Practice At Msc09 5040 1 University Of New Mexico
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