Mark Troyer, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Internal Medicine

Mark Troyer

Academic contact

543 Taylor Ave
Columbus, OH 43203

Phone: 614-688-6470
Fax: 614-688-6471

Mark.Troyer@osumc.edu

Academic information

  • Department: Internal Medicine
  • Division: General Medicine

Research interests

  • Refugee Medicine
  • Diabetes

About

Biography

I am a primary care physician who provides patients with individualized care based on the best scientific information available. I specialize in global health and have a particular interest in refugee medicine.

My current research interests include comparison of diabetes and diabetes risk factors in Nepali and Caucasian patients. While South Asian descent confers risk of diabetes, this risk is not evenly distributed across South Asian countries and little is understood about diabetes in South Asian ethnic groups other than Asian Indians. I believe that it is important to widen our knowledge and education of health needs in vulnerable populations, such as ethnically-Nepali Bhutanese refugees in the U.S. I hope to continue this research and develop awareness of the effects of migration within health and community studies.

In collaboration with colleagues within General Internal Medicine, I am also a course director for community health education where students collaborate with community organizations performing health promotion projects, engaging both residents and medical students, the next generation of physicians. I seek to use a scholarly approach toward development of curricula in community engaged service-learning, social determinants of health, and global health topics.

Credentials

Education

Residency - Internal Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
7/1/2012 - 6/30/2015
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States
8/14/2006 - 5/20/2012
Masters of Public Health (MPH)
Ohio State University at Columbus, Columbus, OH
9/19/2001 - 3/21/2010

Certification

  • American Board of Internal Medicine
    8/3/2015

Research

Research interests

  • Refugee Medicine
  • Diabetes

Publications and presentations

  • Social support, health, and health care access among Latino immigrant men in an emerging community. Documet PI, Troyer M, Macia L. Health Education & Behavior. 2019 Feb;46(1):137-145.
  • Characteristics of rural Appalachian women who enroll in a tobacco dependence treatment clinical trial. Troyer MB, Ferketich AK, Murray DM, Paskett ED, Wewers ME. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2011 Sep;13(9):880-5.
  • Accepted abstract: Comparison of diabetes and diabetes risk factors in Nepali and Caucasian patients. Troyer MB. North American Refugee Health Conference. 2020.
  • Workshop: Enhancing innovative approaches to community health education. Fitzgerald EA, Klakos K, Brogan-Habash DL, Troyer M, Sullivan D, Bruce E. CABSVII, American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. 2019.
  • Workshop: Resident driven societal determinants of health lecture series. Kearns L, McAllister M, Troyer M. APDIM, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. 2019.
  • Poster: Assessment and management of social determinants of health in the primary care setting, an internal medicine resident curriculum. McAllister M, Kearns L, Troyer M. Society of General Internal Medicine. 2019.
  • Poster: Schistosomiasis in a patient without recent travel history and multiple negative stool ova and parasites. Kyrouac D, Zheng C, Troyer M. Society of General Internal Medicine. 2018.

More about my research