Rate My Professor Therese Zink

Dr. Zink's research specializations encompass intimate partner violence with emphasis on its impacts on older women and children, rural medical education, global family medicine, health disparities in sexual assault, and medical professionalism. She has produced numerous peer-reviewed publications, including 'Barriers to medicaid enrollment in Minnesota: Some implications for health system reform' (JAMA, 1994), 'Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Do Female Victims Cost Health Plans More?' (Journal of Family Practice, 1999), 'Cohort, Period and Aging Effects: A Qualitative Study of Older Women’s Reasons for Remaining in Abusive Relationships' (Violence Against Women, 2003), 'Intimate Partner Violence: Physicians’ Experiences with Women over 55' (Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 2004), 'Older Women’s Descriptions and Understandings of Their Abusers' (Violence Against Women, 2006), and 'A Lifetime of Intimate Partner Violence: Coping Strategies of Older Women' (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006). Dr. Zink was awarded the US Fulbright Scholar Flex Award from 2019 to 2022 for faculty development in Family Medicine at An-Najah National University in Palestine. She has edited collections of medical narratives, published COVID Chronicles on essential workers during the pandemic, and mentored students in research and writing.