Michael Jaeb, PhD

• University of Wisconsin-Madison – PhD, Nursing
• University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health – Primary Care Research Fellowship

Bio

Michael Jaeb, PhD, RN (he/him/his) joined DFMCH as a fellow in 2025. For his dissertation, Jaeb explored how specific clinician communication strategies may be implicated in patients’ emotional responses during chronic condition management visits. He also identified various interactional strategies that patients demonstrated when raising concerns during these visits.

During Jaeb’s fellowship, he aims to extend his program of research by investigating how artificial intelligence dictation and documentation software is shaping clinician-patient communication.

Clinical Interests

Jaeb is interested in improving policies and resources for ambulatory care settings to better support patients with unmet social needs, including individuals experiencing housing instability, food insecurity, and transportation issues.

Teaching Interests

Jaeb enjoys engaging clinician learners around the art of communicating during clinician-patient interactions as well as engaging in healthcare policy. He also appreciates teaching research learners about how to apply various qualitative methods.

Research Interests

Jabe’s overarching research interest is to advance adult multi-morbidity management in primary care settings through improving how clinician-patient interactions foster multi-morbidity management, incorporating social determinants of health and health-related social needs that contextualize self-management into primary care practice, and bolstering primary care-public health systems and models of care that facilitate multi-morbidity management.

His work is informed by trauma-informed care principles, shame-sensitive practice, sociolinguistic investigation of naturally occurring conversation, and individual- and family-level social needs derived from community- and population-level social determinants of health.

Publications and Presentations

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/michael.jaeb.1/bibliography/public/
• Pecanac KE, Jaeb M, Larson M, Merss K, Cox ED. Clinicians navigating moral accountability when discussing parental behaviors in the care of the child in the hospital. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Aug;125:108317. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108317.
• Jaeb MA, Pecanac KE. Shame in patient-health professional encounters: A scoping review. Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2024 Oct;33(5):1158-1169. doi: 10.1111/inm.13323.
• Jaeb MA. Concept analysis of shame in nursing. Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2022 Apr;31(2):295-304. doi: 10.1111/inm.12948.

Honors and Awards

• 2025 Class of 1964 Doctoral Student Award – University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing
• 2019 Future Nursing Leader Award – Wisconsin Nurses Association
• 2018 Inductee – Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing