Heather Rose, M.D.

Office address: 295 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC 29425 Telephone/Fax: (843) 92-1983 / (843) 792-3598 (Fax) Email address: liszkah@musc.edu Departmental and administrative position(s): Assistant Professor, Research Section

Education / Training:

College: Penn State University
MD/PhD: University of Pittsburgh
Residency: University of Rochester
Fellowship: Medical University of South Carolina

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Clinical Reasoning/Evidence-Based Medicine
Patient Interviewing

Positions in academic / professional groups:

South Carolina Medical Assn, Subcommittee on Rural Affairs

Research / academic / clinical interests:

Mental health
Women’s health and obstetrics

Selected or recent publications:

King, DE, Liszka, HL, Everett, CE, Mainous, AG. Long-term prognostic value of resting heart rate in people with prehypertension. American Journal of Hypertension, accepted for publication 1/06.

Miller, PM, Stockdell, R, Nemeth, LS, Feifer C, Jenkins, RG, Nietert, PJ, Wessell, A, Liszka, H, Ornstein SM. Initial Steps Taken by Nine Primary Care Practices to Implement Alcohol Screening Guidelines with Hypertensive Patients: The AA-TRIP Project. Substance Abuse, accepted for publication 2/06.

Feifer C, Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Wessell AM, Corley ST, Nemeth LS, Roylance L, Nietert PJ, & Liszka, H. The logic behind a multi-method intervention to improve adherence to clinical practice guidelines in a nationwide network of primary care practices. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2006; 29(1), in press.

Liszka, HA, Hueston, WJ, Steyer, TE. Virtual Medical Care: How are patients using online health information? Journal of Community Health, accepted for publication 2/06.

Liszka, HA, Steyer, TA, Hueston, WJ. How to Guide Patients for Online Information: Focus on Chronic Disease. Journal of the South Carolina Medical Assn 2005; 101: 378-380.

Liszka, HA, Mainous, AG, King, DE, Everett, CJ, Egan, BM. Prehypertension and Cardiovascular Morbidity. Annals of Family Medicine 2005; 3: 294-299.

Mainous AG 3rd. Everett CJ. Liszka H. King DE. Egan BM. Prehypertension and mortality in a nationally representative cohort. American Journal of Cardiology 2004; 94(12):1496-5000