Faculty

Luke Wander

Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Professor, Medicine - General Internal Medicine


Education

MD Medicine, University of Washington, 2008
Post-baccalaureate University of Washington, 2003
BFA Graphic Design and Computer Animation, Savannah College of Art and Design, 1997
MS Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2014

Research Interests

My collaborators and I combine the study of novel blood-based epigenetic biomarkers and established clinical/demographic measures to understand how diabetes develops. Our goal is to develop new biomarkers to find people at the highest risk of diabetes and its complications (prognostic biomarkers) and people likely to respond to interventions aimed at stopping disease progression (predictive biomarkers).

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Associations of age at T2D detection with hemoglobin A1c in a national inception cohort of U.S. Veterans with diabetes.
(2025 Jun 20)
Diabetes Res Clin Pract
Avramovic S, Li X, Enquobahrie DA, Schwartz MD, Korpak A, Boyko EJ, Wander PL

Association of long COVID documentation with clinical outcomes among Veterans with diabetes.
(2025)
PLoS One 20(5): e0324709
Wander PL, Lowy E, Korpak A, Beste LA, Boyko EJ

Use of Long COVID Clinics in the Veterans Health Administration: Implications for the path forward.
(2025 May)
Health Aff Sch 3(5): qxaf080
Bui DP, Bast E, Trinh H, Fox A, Berkowitz TSZ, Palacio A, Wander PL, O'Hare AM, Boyko EJ, Ioannou GN, Maciejewski ML, Hynes DM

Interventions in primary care to increase uptake of adult vaccines: a systematic review.
(2025 May 29)
J Public Health (Oxf) 47(2): 222-231
Wheeler SG, Beste LA, Overland MK, Wander PL

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with higher chance of diabetes remission among Veterans with incident diabetes.
(2025)
PLoS One 20(2): e0317348
Wander PL, Lowy E, Korpak A, Beste LA, Kahn SE, Boyko EJ

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