Gretchen Sieger

Gretchen Sieger
[email protected]
612-626-7495

8-132 Phillips-Wangensteen Building
516 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

Gretchen Sieger is the Director of Operations for Clinical Informatics in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Health Informatics Program. She leads the Best Practices Integrated Informatics Consulting Core (BPIC), overseeing a team of data analysts and partnering with data architects, developers, and application programmers to deliver the data ecosystems and services that support hundreds of investigators and research projects annually.

With more than two decades of experience in clinical research, data analytics, and health information technology, Gretchen drives the strategic and operational execution of CTSI’s informatics services to accelerate clinical and translational science across the institution. She is a champion of team-science approaches grounded in interoperability, open access, and cross-functional collaboration and serves as a key institutional resource for data governance, regulatory compliance, and the responsible use of clinical and multimodal data in research.

Education

BA, University of Minnesota

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Research

Publications

  1. Zhang L, Tholkes AJ, Jones KC, Yang LJ, Sieger GK, Cullen KR, Gunlicks-Stoessel ML, Mroz P, Farley JF, Johnson SG, Bishop JR. Real-World Characterization of Psychiatric Pharmacogenomic Test Ordering and Clinical Relevance in Adults and Children. Clin Transl Sci. 2025 Oct;18(10):e70297. doi: 10.1111/cts.70297. PubMed PMID: 41074275; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12513856.
  2. Volkov B, Pulley C, Sieger G, Johnson S. 183 Translational Health Informatics Support Service Practices, Challenges, and Facilitators. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2024; 8(s1):55-55.
  3. Kaplan A, Young JH, Kandaswamy R, Berglund D, Knoll BM, Sieger G, Cavert W, Matas A, Obeid KM. Long-Term Infectious and Noninfectious Outcomes of Monthly Alemtuzumab as a Calcineurin Inhibitor- and Steroid-Free Regimen for Pancreas Transplant Recipients. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2020;2020:8883183. doi: 10.1155/2020/8883183. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 33101558; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7569440.
  4. Wirth KM, Sheka AC, Kizy S, Irey R, Benner A, Sieger G, Simon G, Ma S, Lake J, Aliferis C, Leslie D, Marmor S, Ikramuddin S. Bariatric Surgery is Associated With Decreased Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease to Cirrhosis: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Ann Surg. 2020 Jul;272(1):32-39. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003871. PubMed PMID: 32224733; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12243115.
  5. Jordan VA, Cohen S, Lunos S, Horvath KJ, Sieger G, Misono S. Mental Health and Dysphonia: Which Comes First, and Does That Change Care Utilization?. Laryngoscope. 2020 May;130(5):1243-1248. doi: 10.1002/lary.28203. Epub 2020 Feb 8. PubMed PMID: 32034963; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7269068.
  6. Jordan VA, Lunos S, Sieger G, Horvath KJ, Cohen S, Misono S. Association of voice and mental health diagnoses with differences in voice-related care utilization. Laryngoscope. 2020 Jun;130(6):1496-1502. doi: 10.1002/lary.28277. Epub 2019 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 31508825; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7269063.
  7. Blaes A, Simon G, Ugurbil M, Sieger G, Ikramuddin S. Impact of bariatric surgery on breast cancer disease burden in the obese breast cancer survivor. J Clin Oncol. 2018/05; 36(15_suppl):e13072-e13072. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.e13072.
  8. Cotter KJ, Fan Y, Sieger GK, Weight CJ, Konety BR. Prevalence of Clostridium Difficile Infection in Patients After Radical Cystectomy and Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy. Bladder Cancer. 2017 Oct 27;3(4):305-310. doi: 10.3233/BLC-170132. PubMed PMID: 29152554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5676759.
  9. Nelson S, Boeser K, Sieger G, Zhang L, Dittes S, Ferrieri P, Sahni N, Medcraft E, Borchart M, Greenberg R, Kline S. Optimal Use of Procalcitonin for Antimicrobial Stewardship. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2016 October; 3(suppl_1):1868. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw172.1416.
  10. Ibrahim HN, Foley RN, Reule SA, Spong R, Kukla A, Issa N, Berglund DM, Sieger GK, Matas AJ. Renal Function Profile in White Kidney Donors: The First 4 Decades. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Sep;27(9):2885-93. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2015091018. Epub 2016 Feb 17. PubMed PMID: 26888476; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5004661.
  11. Issa N, Askandarani S, Gillingham K, Kukla A, Sieger G, Ibrahim H, Matas A. Fate of Living Kidney Donors Who Lost Weight to Become Donors.: Abstract# A331. 2014; 98.
  12. Oetting WS, Zhu Y, Brott MJ, Matas AJ, Cordner GK, Pan W. Validation of genetic variants associated with early acute rejection in kidney allograft transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2012 May-Jun;26(3):418-23. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01522.x. Epub 2011 Sep 15. PubMed PMID: 21919968; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3374041.
  13. Ibrahim HN, Kukla A, Cordner G, Bailey R, Gillingham K, Matas AJ. Diabetes after kidney donation. Am J Transplant. 2010 Feb;10(2):331-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02944.x. Epub 2009 Dec 23. PubMed PMID: 20041863; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3565834.
  14. Ibrahim HN, Akkina SK, Leister E, Gillingham K, Cordner G, Guo H, Bailey R, Rogers T, Matas AJ. Pregnancy outcomes after kidney donation. Am J Transplant. 2009 Apr;9(4):825-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02548.x. PubMed PMID: 19353771; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2747242.