Amy Huebschmann MD, MSc

Amy Huebschmann, MD, MSc, received her BS in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, her MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and a master's in clinical sciences from the University of Colorado. Her interest in women’s health is motivated by a passion for health equity and the potential for tailoring interventions to individual needs and the context of health systems and communities, which she explores by embracing implementation science methods.

In 2008, Dr. Huebschmann began the project “Exercise-related Perceived Rate of Exertion at Steady-State workloads (ExPRESS) in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus,” funded by the Ludeman Center. This research focused on developing and testing effective programs to lower the risk of heart attack or stroke for people with type 2 diabetes by increasing physical activity, which is a powerful tool for preventing cardiovascular disease. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with high levels of disability and mortality – in addition, people with T2DM are less physically active than their peers without diabetes, for reasons that are not fully established.

Dr. Huebschmann currently sees primary care patients at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Internal Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. Her priority is to promote health equity by leveraging implementation science methods to prevent and treat chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and asthma.  Her goal is to deliver evidence-based programs that will improve the health of both men and women, and that overcome individual, interpersonal, health system, and societal barriers.  As it relates to physical activity research, she began with the Ludeman Center, which includes continuing to refine and test programs in primary care and communities to increase physical activity, diet and other healthy lifestyle behaviors to improve patients’ functional health and quality of life.