Dr. McKee's research focuses on health literacy among linguistic minority populations and its effects on health care including cardiovascular risk factors. He also works closely with health care issues for Deaf populations, including communication barriers.
Dr. McKee also received a K01 Career Development Award (2010-2015) through the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study the effects of health literacy on cardiovascular risk factors for Deaf American Sign Language users. As part of this research, he is developing a new health literacy instrument that is accessible for this population. Dr. McKee also works closely the National Center for Deaf Health Research, a Center for Disease Control (CDC) funded Rochester Prevention Research Center. The NCDHR's mission is health promotion and disease prevention with deaf and hard-of-hearing people and their families through community-based participatory research (CBPR). He is involved with the Deaf Health Community Committee and the Task Force on Health Care Careers for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community.
Dr. McKee is also involved in the competitive Grant Generating Project, sponsored by the sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the North American Primary Care Research Group, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

• McKee MM, Winters PC, Fiscella K. Low education as a risk factor for undiagnosed angina. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012 Jul; 25(4):416-21.
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• McKee MM, Paasche-Orlow MK. Health literacy and the disenfranchised: the importance of collaboration between limited english proficiency and health literacy researchers. J Health Commun. 2012; 17 Suppl 3:7-12.
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• McKee MM, Barnett SL, Block RC, Pearson TA. Impact of communication on preventive services among deaf American Sign Language users. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Jul; 41(1):75-9.
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• McKee M, Schlehofer D, Cuculick J, Starr M, Smith S, Chin NP. Perceptions of cardiovascular health in an underserved community of deaf adults using American Sign Language. Disabil Health J. 2011 Jul; 4(3):192-7.
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• Barnett S, McKee M, Smith SR, Pearson TA. Deaf sign language users, health inequities, and public health: opportunity for social justice. Prev Chronic Dis. 2011 Mar; 8(2):A45.
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• Hauser PC, O'Hearn A, McKee M, Steider A, Thew D. Deaf epistemology: Deafhood and Deafness. Am Ann Deaf. 2010; 154(5):486-92; discussion 493-6.
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• Mann JR, Zhou L, McKee M, McDermott S. Children with hearing loss and increased risk of injury. Ann Fam Med. 2007 Nov-Dec; 5(6):528-33.
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