April 2016 Edition
 
Supporting our early career faculty

Our junior faculty comprise one of the most dynamic and creative segments of our membership, contributing a breadth and depth of expertise across a range of HSR-related disciplines and specialties. These faculty members hold an impressive array of leadership positions within U-M and outside organizations, and, as a group, have developed remarkable HSR skills and policy experience for individuals in the early stages of their careers. With 168 early career faculty members in IHPI - up from 59 when IHPI was launched - they represent more than one-third of our membership, drawn from 11 schools and colleges.

The high caliber of our junior faculty members in many ways reflects the university's commitment to developing the newest generation of health services researchers through our graduate programs and post-doctoral fellowships, and by recruiting top junior faculty to the University of Michigan across all of our schools and departments.

As part of IHPI's commitment to fostering the academic and health services research careers of our junior faculty members, we are excited to announce the launch of our inaugural Junior Faculty Advisory Council (JFAC). You can read more about the individuals selected to serve on this council in the "Noteworthy" section below.

The JFAC's mission is to help us better understand the needs of our junior faculty members, and to advise our Institute Leadership Team (ILT) on matters of importance to the Institute, with emphasis on representing professional development needs. I congratulate those who have accepted the challenge to help shape the council's work in its first year, and thank them for serving in this role. Through this council, we will seek to engage a wider set of our junior faculty members in a variety of roles and initiatives within IHPI.

And finally, many of you have had the pleasure of working with Jessica Stanichuk Patterson, who has done a superb job on IHPI's staff over the past two years in welcoming new members to IHPI and orienting them to our resources, as well as coordinating our seminars, special guest visits, and many other events. In May, she will be taking an educational leave to pursue her Master of Social Work degree from Michigan State - please join me in wishing her success!

John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
 
Building on innovations in kidney disease research and policy

 
Kidney disease significantly alters the quality of life of millions of people worldwide who live with this illness, as well as the family and friends who may provide care for them. It exacerbates a host of other chronic conditions, contributing both to shortened lifespan and a huge cost burden on the healthcare system. Despite some recent promising trends, the disease remains highly prevalent in the U.S. and around the world.

Learn how work by the Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (U-M KECC) and Arbor Research, an IHPI local partner, is contributing to evidence-based practice and policy changes in the U.S. and around the world that have likely helped save countless lives and hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars.
 
 
Inaugural IHPI Junior Faculty Advisory Council takes shape

Twelve IHPI junior faculty members have been selected to serve on the Junior Faculty Advisory Council (JFAC) to advocate for junior faculty professional development programs and activities within IHPI, and to provide perspective and feedback on issues and opportunities identified and brought to the JFAC by the Institute Leadership Team:

Amy Bohnert, Ph.D. (Chair-elect)

The JFAC is working to schedule its first meeting soon, and initiatives launched on the council's advice will be announced in future issues of this newsletter.
 
 
New: IHPI Collaborative Doctoral Scholars Program
Deadline Extended (see below)


IHPI is pleased to announce the new IHPI Collaborative Doctoral Scholars Program for the 2016/2017 academic year. This new program is designed to introduce doctoral students interested in health policy and health services research to IHPI members who are not from the student's unit within U-M, and will provide partial graduate student research assistant funding for doctoral students to work with an IHPI member on a research project. Students and faculty interested in this program should submit a joint application and project proposal on the UMMS Competition Space website. Applications are now being accepted on a rolling basis; however, applications received by May 1, 2016 will have the best chance of receiving support ---- click here for full details (requires Level-1 login).

For additional information, please contact Jason Wolfe, IHPI Project Manager.
 
 
Broglio earns early career investigator award

School of Kinesiology Associate Professor  Steven Broglio, Ph.D.,  was announced as the winner of the Early Career Investigator Award by the  International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) .

The award was presented at the opening session of the  11th IBIA World Congress at the Hague, Netherlands last month. Broglio was recognized for making a significant contribution to the field of brain injury because of his scholarly publications, therapeutic innovations, and educational/teaching contributions.
 
 
 
Wiens receives NSF Career Award

College of Engineering Assistant Professor Jenna Wiens, Ph.D., has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for her research project, "CAREER: Adaptable, Intelligible, and Actionable Models: Increasing the Utility of Machine Learning in Clinical Care." In recent years, the availability of clinically relevant medical datasets has grown enormously. However, there have been relatively few successes regarding translation to practice, and clinicians still base the bulk of their daily decisions on relatively small amounts of patient-specific data.
 
 
 
Chang receives K23 award focused on improving the health of adolescent moms through social media and technology

Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., assistant professor of family medicine, received a five-year NIH K23 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award titled "Speaking Their Language: Using Social Media and Texting to Create an Adolescent-Centered Approach to Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy."

"My mission is to improve the health of adolescent moms and their children," Chang says. "This grant will provide me the training and resources to use state-of-the-art techniques like social media mining to get at the heart of the challenges they face and empower them to make healthy choices during pregnancy and beyond."
 
 
 
Katz lends expertise at National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship roundtable

Steven Katz, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine, joined a panel of experts at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Cancer Policy Roundtable held in Washington, D.C. last month to discuss doctor-patient communication that is appropriate in an age of targeted therapies and immunotherapies, long-term survivorship, and financial toxicities for patients. The panel also discussed strategies for encouraging patient demand for and participation in treatment planning, physician commitment to doctor-patient communication, and options for evaluating the impact of doctor-patient communication.
 
 
 
Lok named assistant dean for clinical research

Anna Lok, M.D., the Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor in Hepatology, was recently named Assistant Dean for Clinical Research.

She is now the principal in the Medical School Office of Research responsible for leading and implementing the processes of Fast Forward Clinical Trials across the entire UMHS. She will be responsible for the overall leadership, management, and oversight of the newly created network of clinical trials nodes and key aspects of supporting the central administrative structure.

 
 
Richardson to lead family medicine researchers

Caroline Richardson, M.D., associate professor of family medicine, has been named the Department of Family Medicine's newest associate chair of research. Richardson has been a member of the Department of Family Medicine since 1998.  Her extensive research on physical activity, web-based health interventions, diabetes and veterans' health has been published in nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications and earned numerous major grants. She was also recently named the Dr. Max and Buena Lichter Research Professor of Family Medicine, Medical School.

 
 
Medical Education Scholars Program now accepting applications

The Medical Education Scholars Program (MESP) is an internationally acclaimed annual program established in 1998 by the University of Michigan Medical School. MESP provides an opportunity for competitively selected faculty to study principles of medical education in depth, with the support and direction of department faculty. Skills emphasized include educational leadership, teaching, and scholarship. The New 2016 --- 17 session is from September 13, 2016 --- June 13, 2017.

 
 
 
Request for Applications---- Fast Forward Medical Innovation Faculty Champions

The programs of Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI) are led by U-M Medical School Faculty Champions who guide the strategies for its four vertical market focus areas of therapeutics, devices, diagnostics and healthcare IT.

FFMI is currently accepting applications for the next two-year term of Faculty Champions. Interested faculty can learn more and apply by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 6, 2016 by visiting the FFMI website.
 
 
 
 
Justine Wu, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical School

I am constantly thinking about the best ways to deliver compassionate and evidence-based family planning services, with the ultimate goal of reducing the rate of unintended pregnancy and improving the health of women and their families. I am particularly interested in leveraging technology to give women the knowledge necessary to have an informed discussion with their healthcare providers about which birth control method(s) may be best for them.

READ MORE
 
 
Yue Maggie Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business 

Understanding how physicians behave differently and how hospitals manage coordination under different types of organizational structure and design will not only provide current and future hospital administrators with the opportunity to enhance management practices, but also help policymakers encourage better organization forms to bring healthcare costs under control, while simultaneously improving the quality of care.
 
  EVENTS
 
 

Date: Monday, May 16, 2016
Time: 3:00 --- 4:00 p.m. Book signing to follow.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium

RSVP is required to Mark Lubin, [email protected]. Seating is limited. The first 100 IHPI members who RSVP and attend will receive a complimentary copy of Smith's book.
 
 
IHPI April Seminar Series featuring Stanford University Professor Arnold Milstein

Date: Monday, April 18, 2016
Time: 1:00 --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Arnold Milstein, M.D., M.P.H., director, Clinical Excellence Research Center and professor of medicine, Stanford University
Title: Positive Clinical Responses to Policies to Slow National Healthcare Spending Growth

 
 
Health News Review: Trying to Improve the Public Dialogue About Health Care

Date: April 26, 2016
Time: 12:00 p.m. --- 1:30 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex, Building 10, Research Auditorium
RSVP Required---- Lunch will be provided.

Health News Review seeks to improve the public dialogue about healthcare by helping consumers critically analyze claims about healthcare interventions and by promoting the principles of shared decision-making reinforced by accurate, balanced and complete information about the tradeoffs involved in healthcare decisions. The site's reviewers evaluate healthcare journalism, advertising, marketing, public relations and other messages that may influence consumers and provides criteria that consumers can use to evaluate these messages themselves.

Gary Schwitzer, who directs the site's work, will discuss how health researchers can engage with the site, and how they can help journalists and public relations professionals "get it right" when communicating about any topic in healthcare and health research.
 
 
2016 CBSSM Research Colloquium and Bishop Lecture

Date: April 27, 2016
Time: 8:30 am (Colloquium begins), and 10:30 am (Keynote address)
Location: Founders Room, Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor, MI

The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Research Colloquium will feature the Bishop Lecture in Bioethics as the keynote address. This year William Dale, M.D., Ph.D., will present the Bishop Lecture with a talk entitled: "Why Do We So Often Overtreat, Undertreat, and Mistreat Older Adults with Cancer?"

Dale is associate professor of medicine, chief, Section of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, and director, SOCARE Clinic at the University of Chicago. A geriatrician with a doctorate in health policy and extensive experience in oncology, he has devoted his career to the care of older adults with cancer ---- particularly prostate cancer. 
 
 
Twitter 101

Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 12:00 p.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, The IHPI Collaboratory (Room G079)

Join IHPI communicator Kara Gavin for the next monthly Twitter 101 sessions for new and lapsed tweeters.

Bring a laptop and mobile device, and your lunch, for this informal session. If you need help setting up a Twitter account, please arrive a bit early.
 
 
LinkedIn 101

Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 1:00 p.m. --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, The IHPI Collaboratory (Room G079)

Join IHPI communicator Kara Gavin for the next monthly LinkedIn 101 session.  Bring a laptop and mobile device, and your lunch, for this informal session. If you need help setting up a LinkedIn account, please arrive a bit early.
 
 
Save the Date: Michigan Health Policy Spring Forum

Date: May 2, 2016
Location: The Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan

The Michigan Health Policy Forum was established in 1986 by a bipartisan group of healthcare stakeholders from state government, health organizations, the community and academia. The purpose of the Forum is to provide policymakers with an opportunity to learn about and discuss health policy issues in an atmosphere free from partisan demands.

The topic of this year's forum will be "Integrating Behavioral Health and Physical Health." The keynote speaker will be Ms. Laura Galbreath, director, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, and formerly with the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions.

 
Laura Galbreath
 
 
CCMR Annual Point-Counter Point Presentation
"Are Current IRB Regulations Doing More Harm than Good?"
Co-sponsored by IHPI

Date: May 3, 2016
Time: 11:00 a.m. --- 12:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex, Building 10, Research Auditorium
RSVP is required; lunch immediately following presentation

Featuring:

Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Health Management and Policy; Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program; and Senior Investigator, VA HSR&D CCMR, Ann Arbor Healthcare System
 

Professor, Division of Learning and Knowledge Systems; Professor of Nursing, Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership; Director of the Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems (HILS) program; and Research Scientist, VA HSR&D CCMR, Ann Arbor Healthcare System
 
 
VA CCMR Partnerships in Implementation and Evaluation (PIE) Core Lab

Date: May 10, 2016
Time: 11:00 a.m. --- 12:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 16, Room 368C
Presenters: Bill Herman, M.D., M.P.H., and Laura McEwen
Topic: DPP evaluation
 
 
Save the Date: Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research Annual Symposium

Date: May 18, 2016
Time: 9:00 a.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium for Presentations); NCRC Building 18, Dining Hall for Poster Session and Lunch
RSVP Required: Contact Pam Campbell

The Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research (MCDTR) will be holding its annual symposium in May with the feature keynote presentation by Dr. Tom Elasy, M.D., M.P.H., director, Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University. The MCDTR is a multidisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan, and one of seven centers funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Institutes of Health to focus on type 2 translational research in diabetes. Additional speakers include:
  • Minal Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of health behavior and health education, U-M School of Public Health
  • Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., assistant professor of family medicine, U-M Medical School
  • Kenneth Resnicow, Ph.D., Irwin M. Rosenstock Collegiate Professor of Public Health, U-M School of Public Health, and professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, U-M Medical School
The center also invites faculty to submit research poster presentations in the area of diabetes, its complications and related endocrine and metabolic disorders at this symposium.
 
 
 
 
CCMR Partnerships in Implementation and Evaluation Core offering Implementation Boot Camp

The Partnerships in Implementation and Evaluation (PIE) Core of CCMR will be offering a four-session boot camp in implementation research for CCMR investigators in April and May of this year. The goal of this boot camp is to provide compressed information and training in principles of implementation science and their application to projects and proposals. Topics to be covered include an overview of the current state of implementation science; approaches to theory-based implementation intervention design; current thinking in evaluation of implementation efforts; and emerging areas of research and development in implementation science. The first two sessions will be offered on two separate days, four hours each day, and will provide didactic content and discussion. The second two sessions, on two separate days, will consist of two hour sessions each day in which specific proposals will be workshopped.

The sessions will be held at NCRC, Building 16, B001 and B003.  Contact Caitlin Kelley for more information.

Session 1: April 19, 12:00 --- 4:00 p.m. ---- Didactic content and discussion
Session 2: April 26, 12:00 --- 4:00 p.m. ---- Didactic content and discussion
Session 3: May 10, 8:00 --- 10:00 a.m. ---- Workshop specific proposals
Session 4: May 19, 8:00 --- 10:00 a.m. ---- Workshop specific proposals
 
 
2016 IHPI Summer Student Lunch-and-Learn Program

IHPI will be hosting weekly student lunch-and-learn sessions from June --- July for students working with IHPI faculty this summer. The sessions offer students opportunities to learn more about our members' professional and career experiences. Last year's program included nine lunch-and-learn sessions attended by an average of 13 students each session, with 19 faculty serving as co-hosts. We are looking forward to building on the success of this program and invite your students to participate. If you plan on having undergraduate, graduate, or medical students work with you this summer, please email Jason Wolfe their names, educational status, program affiliation, and contact information.
 
 
69th Annual Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques
June 6--- July 29, 2016

The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is a teaching program of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. The summer courses are select offerings from the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology, and can be used to pursue a doctorate, master of science and a certificate in survey methodology. The Summer Institute provides rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since.

 
 
MLibrary@NCRC

Highlighted Service: PubMed Topic Specific Searches
PubMed offers some ready-made searches through its tailored special queries. You can take these searches and edit them to meet the needs of your literature search. Topics include health care quality and cost, health disparities and more.

Contact us to learn more: [email protected]
Visit us: Building 18, Room G018, call: 647-9937.We look forward to working with you!
 
 
 
Improving primary care for patients and physicians - Ayanian editorial in NEJM
 
In an editorial titled "Transforming Primary Care - We Get What We Pay For" published in the New England Journal of Medicine, IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., and Harvard's Mary Beth Hamel, M.D., M.P.H., provide perspectives on the progress made in the first two years of the Medicare-led Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, one of the largest new efforts to transform U.S. primary care.

 
Who needs to be in an ICU? It's hard for doctors to tell

In a piece in The Conversation , Colin Cooke, M.D., M.Sc., M.S.,  assistant professor of internal medicine, and Thomas Valley, M.D., a U-M pulmonary and critical medicine fellow, discuss the results of their study of the health records of more than a million Americans age 65 and older who were hospitalized with pneumonia. They found that when it's not a straightforward decision, doctors have trouble identifying who might benefit from the ICU.

READ MORE
 
 
 
 
Insulin costs tripled in 10 years, study finds

Research published in JAMA co-authored by William Herman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine and epidemiology, examines the rise in the cost of insulin ---- and relative stability of other diabetes drugs ---- over the last decade. The increase in insulin costs was so large that since 2010, the per-person spending on insulin has been higher than per-person spending on all other diabetes drugs combined, the study finds.

READ MORE
 
 
MORE NEWS


Does CMS' Part B drug proposal usurp clinical judgment?
(Modern Healthcare   ----  Ryan)
 
  FUNDING
 
 
Multiple funding opportunities through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
 
Health Policy Research Scholars ---- Deadline April 19
Interdisciplinary Research Leaders---- Deadline April 19
Culture of Health Leaders---- Deadline April 19

 
 
W.T. Grant Foundation Opportunity

Deadline: May 5, 2016

The W.T. Grant Foundation is interested in studies that look at ways to improve the use of research to benefit youth (ages 5 --- 25). They seek proposals focused on youth outcomes that:
  • Enhance the use of research by state and local decision-makers and intermediaries.
  • Identify, create and test the structural and social conditions foster use of existing evidence.
  • Identify, create and test the incentives, structures and relationships that facilitate new research evidence to meet needs of decision makers.
  • Investigate the use of high-quality research to improve decision-making.
For details, contact Colleen Sherman from UMHS Development's Corporate and Foundation Relations Team.

 
 
NIH Common Fund High-Risk High-Reward Research Program

The NIH Common Fund announces funding opportunities for FY2017:
These award initiatives provide unique opportunities for exceptionally creative scientists to pursue highly innovative approaches to address major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.
 
 
ABOUT IHPI
The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is committed to improving the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of healthcare services

To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:
  • Evaluating the impact of healthcare reforms
  • Improving the health of communities
  • Promoting greater value in healthcare
  • Innovating in IT and healthcare delivery

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IHPI Informs is published monthly by the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation.
 
CONTACT US
U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Christina Camilli-Whisenhunt
IHPI Communications Manager
[email protected]
734-764-9782

 

Kara Gavin

IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager

[email protected] 

734-764-2220

 

Lauren Hutchens

IHPI Communications Specialist

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