Marianne D. Cloeren, MD, MPH

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Biology and German and received my M.D. at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. I trained in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview when it was still called Francis Scott Key Hospital, and then earned a Master of Public Health as part of my Occupational Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. I also have a certificate in Instructional Design from the University of Wisconsin. I am board certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. 

I joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty in 2017 as an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. In this role, I participate in clinical surveillance of a cohort of Veterans exposed to depleted uranium and serve as Medical Director for the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program, which serves a cohort of 28,000 former construction workers at Department of Energy sites. I also provide employee health related services to the University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc., University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, College Park. I coordinate the educational rotations for residents from University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and serve as the Faculty Advisor for the UMSOM medical student special interest group for Preventive, Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

My research interests focus on preventing avoidable work disability, which led me to study the challenges facing individuals with opioid use disorder. In 2018 I mobilized an interdisciplinary team of researchers, which received two grants in 2019 (the Institute for Clinical Translational Research (ICTR) Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) grant and the Center for Addiction Research, Education and Services (CARES) Science to Systems grant) to study the work status and barriers to work in patients receiving Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in UMB clinical centers. This is the first phase of a planned multiphase project to develop and research interventions to increase work participation in this vulnerable population.

Other research interests are risk factors for prolonged work disability, the content and quality of physician/patient communication, return-to-work and workers’ compensation policy and clinical education. A recent research project for the Maryland Department of Health evaluated the effectiveness of a short online educational module in modifying physician use of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.

I am a member of the UMMS Opioid Stewardship Task Force and the Maryland MedChi Opioid Task Force. I am an elected Fellow in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the American College of Physicians (ACP). I served two terms on the ACOEM Board of Directors and am the former chair and current member of ACOEM’s Council on Occupational and Environmental Medicine Practice. I am also a member of ACOEM’s Council on Education and Academic Affairs. I am the Course Director and creator of an eight-hour continuing medical education online course for ACOEM, entitled Getting Your Patients Back to Work. I serve as chair of the Johns Hopkins Occupational Medicine Residency Advisory Committee/Program Evaluation Committee. I led the ACOEM committee that developed the 2014 recommendations for clinical competencies in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Disability, workers’ compensation, motivational interviewing, vocational rehabilitation, disability risk factors, perceived injustice, pain catastrophizing, opioids, work, occupation, physician communication, return-to-work, online education, e-learning, instructional design.

Cloeren M. The More You Know … PDMP Impact on Prescription Decision Making. iSpringLearn. Multimedia Communication. June 2018. (Accessed 7/26/19: https://ispri.ng/KWDXN )

Cloeren M. Educational Training Modules for Implementing Screening Brief
Interventions and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Patient Care. Maryland MedChi. Multimedia Communication. June 2019. (Accessed 7/26/19: https://beacon360.content.online/xbcs/S1511/catalog/product.xhtml?eid=14229 )

Cloeren M, Colameco S. Chapter 22. Preventing Avoidable Work Disability. In: Weaver M (ed.): American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook on Pain and Addiction. Section IV: Treating Substance Use Disorders and Addiction in Patients with Co-Occurring Pain.  American Society of Addiction Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Jurisic M, Christian J, Cloeren M, et al. ACOEM Position Statement: The Personal Physician's Role in Helping Patients with Medical Conditions Stay at Work or Return to Work. J Occup Environ Med 2017 59(6): e125-e131. (accessed 7/26/19: https://acoem.org/Guidance-and-Position-Statements/Guidance-and-Position-Statements/The-Personal-Physician-s-Role-in-Helping-Patients-with-Medical-Conditions-Stay-at-Work-or-Return-to )

Drury DL, Adamo P, Cloeren M, et al. Patient Satisfaction Measurement in Occupational and Environmental Medicine Practice. J Occup Environ Med 2018 60(5): e227-e231.

Cloeren M, Adamo P, Blink R, Burress J, Galloway L, Glass L, Martin D, Mueller K, Papanek P, Peplowski B. Defining Documentation Requirements for Coding Quality Care in Workers’ Compensation. J Occup Environ Med December 2016 58(12): 1270-1275. (Accessed 7/26/19:  http://www.acoem.org/uploadedFiles/Public_Affairs/Policies_And_Position_Statements/Guidelines/Guidelines/Defining_Documentation_Requirements_for_Coding.19.pdf)

Cloeren M, Gean C, Kesler D, Green-McKenzie J, Taylor M, Upfal M, Hodgson M, Adamo P, Harber P, McLellan R. American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s Occupational and Environmental Medicine Competencies – 2014. J Occup Environ MedMay2014; 6 (5): e22-40.