Michael Steffes, M.D., Ph.D.

Contact Information Phone: 612-624-8164 Fax: 612-273-3489 Email: steff001@umn.edu Address: MMC 609 Mayo 8609 420 Delaware Minneapolis, MN 55455

Professor

Educational Background

• Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (1965), A.B. (Biology)
• University of Minnesota (1970), Ph.D. (Anatomy)
• University of Minnesota (1970), M.D.
• University of Minnesota (1974), Residency (Laboratory Medicine)

Professional Background

• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, 1974 - 1977
• Director, Division of Clinical Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 1976 - 1984
• Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, 1977 - 1981
• Director, Clinical Laboratories, University of Minnesota, 1984 - 1992
• Director, Laboratory Clinical Service, University of Minnesota, 1992 - 1995
• Director, Special Chemistry Service, University of Minnesota, 1995 - present
• Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, 1981 - present

Professional Honors

• Diabetes Training Fellowship, NIH, 1966 - 1967
• Life Insurance Medical Research Fund Fellow, 1967 - 1970
• Fogarty Senior International Fellowship, 1979 - 1980
• Max Miller Sugar Club Lectureship, 1989
• Kellion Lectureship (Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, Australia), Australian Diabetes Society Annual Meeting, 1990
• David Rumbough Award, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, International, 1996

Publications

• Sood A, Qualls C, Arynchyn A, Beckett WS, Gross MD, Steffes MW, Smith LJ, Holvoet P, Thyagarajan B, Jacobs DR. Obesity-Asthma Association: Is It Explained by Systemic Oxidant Stress? Chest. 2009 Jul 10.
• Jacobs DR Jr, Gross MD, Steffen L, Steffes MW, Yu X, Svetkey LP, Appel LJ, Vollmer WM, Bray GA, Moore T, Conlin PR, Sacks F. The effects of dietary patterns on urinary albumin excretion: results of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial. Am J Kidney Dis. 2009 Apr;53(4):638-46.
• Hozawa A, Jacobs DR Jr, Steffes MW, Gross MD, Steffen LM, Lee DH. Circulating carotenoid concentrations and incident hypertension: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. J Hypertens. 2009 Feb;27(2):237-42.
• Thyagarajan B, Jacobs DR Jr, Carr JJ, Alozie O, Steffes MW, Kailash P, Hayes JH, Gross MD. Factors associated with paraoxonase genotypes and activity in a diverse, young, healthy population: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Clin Chem. 2008 Apr;54(4):738-46.
• Lee DH. Lee IK. Steffes M. Jacobs DR Jr. Extended analyses of the association between serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and diabetes. Diabetes Care. 30:1596-8, 2007.
• Marcovina S, Bowsher RR, Miller WG, Staten M, Myers G, Caudill SP, Campbell SE, Steffes MW. Standardization of Insulin Immunoassays: Report of the American Diabetes Association Workgroup ClinChem 53: 711-16, 2007.
• Lee DH. Lee IK. Jin SH, Steffes M, Jacobs DR Jr. Association between Serum Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Insulin Resistance among Nondiabetic Adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2002. Diabetes Care. 30:622-8, 2007.
• De Boer IH. Sibley SD. Kestenbaum B. Sampson JN. Young B. Cleary PA. Steffes MW. Weiss NS. Brunzell JD. Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study Research Group. Central obesity, incident microalbuminuria, and change in creatinine clearance in the epidemiology of diabetes interventions and complications study. J Am Soc Neph 18:235-43, 2007.
• Lee DH. Lee IK. Song K. Steffes M. Toscano W. Baker BA. Jacobs DR Jr. A strong dose-response relation between serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and diabetes: results from the National Health and Examination Survey 1999-2002. Diabetes Care. 29:1638-44, 2006.
• Steffes MW, Gross MD, Lee D-H, Schreiner PJ, Jacobs DR. Serum Adiponectin Concentrations: Visceral Fat Modulated Correlations with Oxidative Stress and Early Macrovascular Disease: the CARDIA Study Obesity 14: 319-26, 2006.
• Steffes M, Cleary P, Goldstein D, Little R, Wiedmeyer H, Rohlfing C, England J, Bucksa J, Nowicki M, and the DCCT/EDIC Research Group. Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) Measurements over Nearly Two Decades: sustaining comparable values throughout the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study. Clinical Chemistry 51:753-58, 2005.
• Gross M, Steffes MW, Jacobs D, Yu X, Lewis L, Lewis CE, Hilner J, Loria CM. Plasma F2-Isoprostanes and Coronary Artery Calcification: The CARDIA Study. Clinical Chemistry 51: 125-31, 2005.
• DCCT/EDIC Research Group. Intensive diabetes treatment and cardiovascular disease in patients with type 1 diabetes. New England Journal of Medicine 353:2643-53, 2005.
• Selvin E, Coresh J, Shahar E , Zhang L, Steffes MW, Sharrett AR. Glycemia (Hemoglobin A1c) and Incident Ischemic Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Lancet Neurology 4: 821-6, 2005.
• Selvin E, Coresh J, Golden SH; Brancati, FL; Folsom AL; Steffes MW. Glycemic control (HbA1c), Atherosclerosis, and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Persons with Diabetes: The ARIC Study" Diabetes Care 28: 1965-73, 2005.
• Selvin E, Coresh J, Jordahl J, Boland L, Steffes M. Stability of Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Measurements from Frozen Whole Blood Samples Stored for Over a Decade. Diabetic Medicine 22:1726-30, 2005.
• Selvin E, Coresh J, Golden SH; Brancati, FL; Folsom AL; Steffes MW. Glycemic Control and Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Persons with and without Diabetes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Archives of Internal Medicine 165:1910-16, 2005.

For a complete listing of Dr. Steffes' publications, please see the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Search.

Invited Lectures

• American Association of Clinical Chemists, Arnold Beckman Conference, Invited Speaker November 2007
• American Diabetes Association Annual Meeting, Invited Speaker June 2007
• Brown University, Division of Nephrology Grand Rounds Providence RI, December 2006
• Albert Einstein Medical College Visiting Professor, New York NY, February 12-13, 2003