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 my clinical practice, I see patients with complicated return-to-work situations, including pain-related work disability and questions about fitness for duty.

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. I teach a novel 100-hour elective in Occupational and Environmental Medicine to preclinical medical students. I am also part of a UMB team developing an interprofessional climate change course in collaboration with UMD (College Park).

My research interests include the challenges facing individuals with opioid use disorder. In 2018 I mobilized an interdisciplinary team of researchers, which has received several grants focusing on issues related to opioids and employment.

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. This found that this very brief online module increased use of the PDMP among study participants less familiar with it at baseline.

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.

Ringen K, Dement J, Cloeren M, Almashat S, Hines S, Grier W, Quinn P, Chen A, Haas S. Mortality of older construction and craft workers employed at Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear sites: Follow-up through 2021. Am J Ind Med 2024 Jan 25. Published online first. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23567

Howard J, Cloeren M, Vanichkachorn G. Long COVID and Occupational Medicine Practice. J Occup Environ Med. 2024 Jan 1;66(1):1-5.

Dooley C, Saif NT, Hodorowicz MT, Doyle ML, Gucer PW, Edwards LA, Cloeren M. Occupational Health Providers’ Perceptions of Employee Vaccine Hesitancy. J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Oct 4:10-97. DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000003006

Cloeren M, Dement J, Gaitens J, Hines S, Diaz L, Tembunde Y, Cranford K, Shorter J, Mosier T, Ringen K. Beryllium disease among construction trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites: A follow-up. Am J Ind Med. 2022 Sep;65(9):708-720. doi: 10.1002/ajim.23411. Epub 2022 Jul 14. PMID: 35833586.

Adenaiye O, Zirpoli JB, Tan M, Day B, Bolaji O, Mitchell CS, Cloeren M (2022). Impact evaluation of a brief online training module on physician use of the maryland, usa, prescription drug monitoring program. Plos One, 17(8), e0272217. (Accessed 9/2/23: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272217)

Zheng S, Rivera Margarin A, Connaughton P, Spanjaard H, Crispen R, Ording J, Cloeren M. The Occupational Medicine Pipeline: Report on the Results of a Survey of International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (IOMSC) Member Countries. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 64(3):p e165-e171, March 2022. | DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002433  (Accessed 9/2/23: https://journals.lww.com/joem/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2022&issue=03000&article=00022&type=Fulltext) 

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 9/2/23: 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 9/2/23: 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 9/2/23:  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.