Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
LORI L BAKKEN
Contact Information
1300 UNIVERSITY AVENUE
MADISON, WI 53706
Biography
Dr. Bakken is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine and affiliate faculty in the Education Leadership and Policy Analysis program in the School of Education. She is the Co-Director of the Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program.Other affiliations for Dr. Bakken include the: General Clinical Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Hospital; UW School of Education; Center for Women's Health Research; Association of Clinical Research Training Program Directors.
EDUCATION
PhD, 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Continuing and Vocational Education (distributed with a minor in the medical sciences)
MS, 1991, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
BS, 1980, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Medical Technology
RESEARCH
My research focus is on understanding the learning process and barriers to learning in diverse populations, especially those influenced by gender. Specifically, I am interested in self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is found to be one of the most important factors in career selection and persistence, especially among underrepresented minorities and women, yet it has been only recently recognized as an important variable in the career development of physicians pursing biomedical careers.
PROJECTS
Gender and Race in Biomedical Research Self-efficacy
The goal of the proposed work is to expand our previous studies on gender differences in biomedical research self-efficacy and extend them to an African American population of biomedical researchers. Furthermore, we wish to test an intervention aimed at increasing biomedical research self-efficacy in women. Role: Principal Investigator
Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program
This program provides a didadic curriculum combined with mentoring and research experiences to train physicians and other health care professionals to be clinical researchers. Role: Program Administrator.
Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program Award
The purpose of the Clinical Research Scholar (CRS) Program is to provide financial support for junior faculty who wish to participate in the UW-Madison Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program (K30) and assure them protected time to conduct mentored clinical research. Role: Co-Investigator and Co-Director
Training & Education to Advance Multidisciplinary Clinical Research
The goal of this program is to establish and validate methods for training a workforce to carry out the nation's clinical agenda as put forth in the NIH Roadmap. Role: Director of Evaluation
General Clinical Research Center
The goal of the General Clinical Research Center is to provide clinical research infrastructure for medical scientists who conduct patient-oriented research. Role: Assistant Program Director Educational program
PROJECT AFFLIATIATIONS
Academic Clinical Oncologist Training Program
This program is linked with the Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program to train physician investigators for academic careers in clinical oncology research. Role: Advisor
Initiating Airway Remodeling in Asthma by Allergen
This award provides an excellent opportunity for training of junior clinical investigators in the principals of patient-oriented research and prepares them for an independent, successful research career. Role: Consultant
Clinical Translational Research in Transplant Nephrology
The purpose of this program is to expand training and mentoring opportunities in the UW Nephrology Section through patient-oriented clinical translational and mechanistic studies. Role: Consultant
Women's Health and Aging: Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award
The intent of this Program is to develop a cadre of researchers in the area of women's health and aging who are excellent scientists imbued with an interdisciplinary perspective, effective communicators, and managers of independent research programs. Role: Curriculum Coordinator & Member of the Advisory Committee
ACRN - Clinical Research Skills Development Core
The goal of the Clinical Research Skills Development Core is to provide junior clinical investigators with limited research experience the opportunity to acquire and develop research skills that will enable them to progress into independently funded investigators. This training core augments an ACRN proposal entitled, "Treatment of Severe Persistent Asthma" Role: Training Director
Search for Lori Bakken's literature abstracts on PubMed
- Bakken, L.L. and Reichel, P.A. Designing Educational Workshops for Clinical Research Study Support Staff. Society of Research Administrator's Journal. 28(1&2): 11-20, Spring/Fall 1996.
- Bakken, L.L. The Interactions of Experience, Implicit Knowledge and Reflection in Learning to Diagnose Lyme Disease. PhD Dissertation: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 1998.
- New Program at UW-Madison Trains Clinical Investigators. SoCRA Source. 27:10, 2001. (invited article).
- Bakken, L.L. An Evaluation Plan to Assess the Process and Outcomes of a Learner-centered Training Program for Clinical Research. Medical Teacher. 24(2): 163-169, 2002.
- Bakken, L.L. The Role of Experience and Context in Learning to Diagnose Lyme Disease. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 22(3): 131-141, 2002.
- Carnes, M., McQuirter, M. and Bakken, L.L. The Alternative Tracks to Leadership in Academic Science (ATLAS) initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 102(3):17-19, 2003.
- Bakken, L.L., Sheridan, J., Carnes, M.L. Gender Differences Among Physician-Scientists in Self-Assessed Abilities to Perform Clinical Research. Academic Medicine. 78(12): 1281-1286, 2003.
- Wang, Min-fen and Bakken, L.L. An Academic Writing Needs Assessment of English-as-a-Second-Language Clinical Investigators. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 24(3): 181-189, 2004.
- Bakken, L.L. Who are Physician-Scientists' Role Models? Gender Makes a Difference. Academic Medicine. In press.
- Bakken, L.L., Lichtenstein, M and the Association for Clinical Research Training Program Directors' Evaluation and Accreditation Committee. A Survey of the Impact of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Research Curriculum Awards (K30) Between 1999 and 2004. Journal of Investigative Medicine. In press.