Elizabeth Rogers

Elizabeth Rogers, MD, MAS serves as Associate Professor and Division Director of General Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, holding dual faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics. Her leadership spans clinical, research, and educational domains within academic medicine.

Research centers on health disparities and treatment burden in chronic conditions, with expertise in gender/racial equity, diabetes care, and social determinants of health. She pioneers patient-centered tools like the PETS-Now point-of-care instrument to quantify treatment burden, emphasizing vulnerable populations including homeless individuals and safety-net clinic patients. Her work integrates qualitative, mixed-methods, and evidence-mapping approaches to address systemic healthcare gaps.

Recent publications (2022-2025) reveal three dominant trends: 1) Disparities research mapping racial/gender inequities in chronic disease management; 2) Development/validation of burden-assessment tools across languages and care settings; 3) Pandemic-era analyses of clinician wellbeing and intersectional impacts on academic medicine. Key subfields include treatment burden measurement, evidence synthesis for health disparities, and social vulnerability in diabetes care.

Her scholarly impact spans methodology development (systematic reviews, evidence mapping), clinical tool implementation, and equity-focused intervention design. Current work emphasizes reducing treatment burden through "less is more" approaches and addressing structural barriers in chronic disease management.