Micah Prochaska, MD
Micah Prochaska, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Specialties
- Hospital Medicine
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
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- Specialties & Areas of Expertise
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- Education & Research
- Accepted Insurance
Micah Prochaska, MD, is a hospitalist clinician and health outcomes researcher with a focus on how hospital based interventions for chronic diseases affect patient reported outcomes after hospital discharge. Dr. Prochaska is supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to study how red blood cell transfusion for hospitalized patients with anemia affects their fatigue, activity, and fatigability levels after they have been discharged from the hospital.
Dr. Prochaska is also interested in the development, utilization, and sustainability of longitudinal clinical data research networks. He helps direct the University of Chicago Hospitalist Project research infrastructure as well as he has been involved in the implementation and integration of the Chicago Area Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN) into clinical research at the University of Chicago. He is Director of the University of Chicago Translational Medicine Program (CTMP), and a Co-Director of the Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine, & Aging (CHARISMA) Program, both of which train undergraduate students in clinical research. Dr. Prochaska is a member of the AABB National Transfusion Medicine Committee. He is also a faculty member in the MacLean center for Clinical and Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Specialties
- Hospital Medicine
Areas of Expertise
- Fatigue
- Red Blood Cell Transfusion
- Anemias
- Fatigability
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Internship
- University of Chicago Medicine
Residency
- University of Chicago Medicine
Other Grad Education
- University of Chicago,MSc
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
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- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
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- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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