Tai Mendenhall, PhD

Assistant Professor
612-624-3138
mend0009@umn.edu 

Primary Research Themes: Community engagement, collaborative family healthcare, diabetes and psychosocial stressors, provider self-care

Education Activities: Director of Behavioral Health Education

Current Grants

ClearWay Minnesota “Community-based Participatory Research to Decrease Smoking Prevalence in a High Risk Young Adult Population: A Collaboration between Job Corps and Family Medicine”
To develop and pilot test an innovative, sustainable intervention to reduce smoking in a high risk young adult population (Minnesota Job Corps). 8/06-1/08.

NIH “The electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN)”
To develop an electronic infrastructure that facilitates the performance of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in primary care practices anywhere in the United States, while at the same time promoting rapid integration of new research findings back into practice. 12/04-12/07.

Selected Publications

Mendenhall, T., & Doherty, W. (in press). Partners in Diabetes: A community-based participatory research project in a family practice context. Action Research.

Mendenhall, T. (in press). A week in the life of a medical family therapist. Psychotherapy Networker.

Mendenhall, T., & Doherty, W. (in press). The ANGELS (A Neighbor Giving Encouragement, Love and Support): A collaborative project for teens with diabetes. In D. Linville and K. Hertlein (Eds.), The Therapist’s Notebook for Family Healthcare. New York: Hayworth Press.

Mendenhall, T., Kelleher, M., Baird, M., Doherty, W. (in press). Overcoming depression in a strange land: A Hmong woman’s journey through the world of western medicine. In R. Kessler (Ed.), Collaborative Medicine Case Studies. New York: Springer.

Doherty, W., & Mendenhall, T. (2006). Citizen health care: A model for engaging patients, families, and communities as co-producers of health. Families, Systems & Health, 24, 251-263.

Mendenhall, T. (2006). Trauma-response teams: Inherent challenges and practical strategies in interdisciplinary fieldwork. Families, Systems & Health, 24, 357-362.

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Family Social Science, 2003

Selected Community Outreach Activities

Family Education / Diabetes Series (collaboration with St. Paul Area Council of Churches Dept. of Indian Work)

Hmong Women United Against Depression (collaboration with St. Paul Hmong community)

Students Against Nicotine & Tobacco Abuse (collaboration with HHH Job Corps Center)

Partners in Diabetes (collaboration between HealthPartners and St. Paul Midway community)

A Neighbor Giving Encouragement, Love, and Support (ANGELS) (collaboration between Wake Forest University School of Medicine and local Winston-Salem, NC, community)

Selected Professional Activities

Rising Star Award, University of Minnesota College of Human Ecology, 2005

University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Family Medicine Best Behavioral Medicine Presentation Regarding Innovative Strategies for Providing Care to Over-serviced/Underserved Patients, 2004

Recognition of Excellence in Teaching, Ramsey Family Physicians Clinic, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2002

Editor, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association online newsletter, The CFHA Gazette, 1999-present