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March 2016 Edition |
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Accelerating Impact
Ensuring that our members' work has the greatest possible impact on health policy and healthcare delivery is one of the major goals of our institute. IHPI's role within the policy arena includes helping our members build relationships through coordinated outreach to state and federal policymakers and other stakeholders. We offer tools, training, and consultation to IHPI members who want to expand the impact of their research. By framing and sharing the policy-relevant work of our members, we work more broadly to raise the visibility of IHPI's research strengths among policymakers.
This work is done through IHPI's Impact Accelerator under the leadership of Eileen Kostanecki, our Director of Government & External Relations. Over the last year, IHPI has supported more than 30 of our members in interactions with Congressional staff members, hosting Congressional visits on campus, providing testimony before Congressional committees, and serving on state task forces. IHPI recently provided comprehensive comments from 18 of our members to a Senate workgroup focused on improving chronic care for Medicare enrollees and has met with Senate staff for a more detailed conversation. IHPI researchers are also the
lead evaluators of Michigan's Medicaid expansion, and this team's work is providing valuable information for state and national policymakers.
Our monthly
IHPI Informs newsletter, distributed to hundreds of policymakers and external stakeholders, provides an important vehicle for highlighting policy-relevant work by our members. IHPI has forged relationships with many policy organizations outside of government, including the Alliance for Health Reform, AcademyHealth, Medicaid Health Plans of America, Michigan Hospital Association, and others. The National Governors Association recently added IHPI to its short list of experts and consultants for its state Policy Academies and roundtables.
 We are also pleased to share with members our recently released
IHPI Policy Resource Handbook (U-M Level 1 login required). This handbook outlines opportunities to become involved with national-level advisory committees, task forces, commissions, or policy fellowships.
Last month six IHPI members began CHRT Policy Fellowships with the new 2016 cohort as described below. Now in its fifth year, the fellowship provides an exceptional opportunity for U-M health services researchers and state policymakers to explore connections between their work as they learn from experts in healthcare policy and practice, and research. The program boasts more than 20 IHPI members among its alumni.
John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
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Richardson joins IHPI/National Clinician Scholars leadership
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Caroline Richardson, M.D., associate professor of family medicine and IHPI Leadership Team member, is joining the leadership of the RWJ Clinical Scholars and the new
IHPI/National Clinician Scholars Program (CSP) as a co-director.
Rod Hayward, M.D., professor of internal medicine and director of the IHPI CSP, said, "Dr. Richardson is an outstanding researcher, mentor and classroom instructor, and has long been a valued member of the Clinical Scholars Program faculty. She will make a superb addition to our leadership team."
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New: IHPI Collaborative Doctoral Scholars Program
Applications Due March 31
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 school. The program will be available to students from doctoral programs across the schools and colleges represented within IHPI, and 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. The application is open and will be available through March 31
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click here for full details (requires Level-1 login).
For additional information please visit the IHPI internal website or contact
Jason Wolfe, IHPI Project Manager.
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Saint earns top national award from VA
Sanjay Saint, M.D., M.P.H., George Dock Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine, and associate chief of medicine, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, has been named the recipient of the Mark Wolcott Award for Excellence in Clinical Care Delivery by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This award is the highest honor for healthcare providers in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Saint is widely regarded as the international leader in the area of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection, one of the world's most common healthcare-associated infections.
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Grazier appointed to Health Research & Educational Trust Board of Trustees
Kyle Grazier, Dr.Ph., M.P.H., Richard Carl Jelinek professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, was one of three new appointees elected to The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) of the American Hospital Association (AHA). The new members will further HRET's vision of leveraging research and education to create a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health.
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Kales named to Lancet panel on dementia care
Helen C. Kales, M.D., professor of psychiatry, is one of 20 international dementia experts named to
The Lancet Commission on Dementia Care.
The Lancet has partnered with leading academic and charitable institutions (University College London, Alzheimer's Society, ESRC and Alzheimer's Research U.K.) to establish a Commission on Dementia Care. The Commission is reviewing the current evidence to generate evidence-based recommendations and a campaign to implement priority actions for the provision of effective and equitable dementia care, to help prevent dementia and decrease symptoms and burden for people with dementia and their families so that they can live well.
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Rosland named to National Academy of Medicine Scientific Advisory Panel
Ann-Marie Rosland, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of internal medicine, was named to the National Academy of Medicine Scientific Advisory Panel on the Evidence for Patient and Family-Centered Care. This group of researchers, healthcare professionals and administrators is tasked to NAM's Care Culture and Decision-making Innovation Collaborative (CCDmIC) on the status of the evidence-base for person-centered care. The CCDmIC catalyzes joint activities among leaders of organizations of health professionals, patient and family focused organizations, decision science practitioners, and communications professionals.
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Ayanian in NEJM Catalyst: The Cost of Racial Disparities in Health Care
In a recent
New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst article,
IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., writes, "Racial disparities in life expectancy are a key indicator of inequity in health outcomes. Racial health disparities are associated with substantial annual economic losses nationally, including an estimated $35 billion in excess health care expenditures, $10 billion in illness-related lost productivity, and nearly $200 billion in premature deaths. Concerted efforts to reduce health disparities could thus have immense economic and social value."
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Fendrick testifies before U.S. Senate Subcommittee
Last month,
Mark Fendrick, M.D., professor of internal medicine and director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID), testified before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel. Fendrick discussed how the principles of value-based insurance design and clinical nuance can contribute positively to defense health care reform.
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Click on the picture above
to watch the video testimony
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New Infographics:
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U-M researchers and local policymakers join together for 2016 CHRT Policy Fellowship
Six University of Michigan health services researchers have joined six Lansing policymakers as members of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) Policy Fellowship at the University of Michigan.Together, the twelve fellows form the CHRT Policy Fellowship's 2016 class, which is now in its fifth year.
The fellowship program builds connections between health services research and policy for more effective, evidence-based health policy decisions. Since 2012, CHRT has brought policymakers and researchers together to learn from a broad range of health policy leaders and subject matter experts, and from each other.
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New health policy opportunities web page for IHPI Members
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To enhance the policy-related professional development of IHPI members, the Institute has compiled a "Health Policy Opportunities for IHPI Members" booklet. This document provides information about key federal advisory committees/task forces/councils and health policy fellowships (usually a year in duration) that IHPI members can consider pursuing if they would like to gain hands-on experience or engage more in the nexus of health services research, policy, and politics.
Click on the image to go directly to the
web page
(requires Level-1 login).
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HIPAA-aligned HPC cluster now available
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U-M researchers who manage and analyze large volumes of data protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) now have access to a new secure computing tool: the HIPAA-aligned "Armis" high performance computing cluster.
Armis operates in tandem with the HIPAA-aligned Turbo Research Storage service (arc-ts.umich.edu/turbo), providing a comprehensive high-performance computing and storage platform.
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IHPI boilerplate content now available for research proposals
NIH and other research proposals may require a description of the research environment at IHPI and specific resources that researchers would be using in their proposed work. IHPI now has general language that describes the research environment at the Institute, as well as its facilities and institutional data. Boilerplate language should be reviewed by the principal investigator and modified, as necessary, to ensure that the language speaks to the specific aims of the given research project.
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| Michael Dorsch, Pharm.D., M.S., clinical associate professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy Joshua Ehrlich, M.D., M.P.H., clinical lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical School Michele Gornick, Ph.D., M.A., research investigator, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School Richard (Van) Harrison, Ph.D., professor, Department of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School Jeffrey (Jeff) McCullough, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health Payal Patel, M.D., clinical lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School Sarah Reeves, Ph.D., M.P.H, research investigator, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Medical School Valerie Vaughn, M.D., clinical lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School |
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Chandy (Chad) Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Lecturer, Department of Urology, Medical School
Currently, my research is focused on measuring costs associated with "episodes of care." In the context of my research and national healthcare policy, an episode of care begins when a patient is hospitalized and ends a certain number of days after discharge. Accordingly, episode costs include expenditures that are derived from hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities and other providers. The accurate measurement of episode costs is a science.
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Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical School
I am thinking about the relationship between genetics, stress and depression. We know that stress is a major contributor in the development of illnesses such as depression, and now we're discovering that high-level stress environments, such as medical internship (the first year of professional physician training), can lead to depressive episodes. Because the stress of internship does not affect all individuals in the same way, I'm also interested in learning more about the genetic factors that may make individuals more likely to experience episodes of depression.
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IHPI March Seminar Series featuring AHRQ Chief Science Officer Bob Kaplan
Date: Monday, March 21, 2016
Time: 3:00
--- 4:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Bob Kaplan, Ph.D., chief science officer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: Are the High Costs of U.S. Medical Technology Justified by Improved Health Outcomes?
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Meet the editors from The Conversation & learn how to contribute
Date: March 23, 2016
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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Location: NORTH CAMPUS
---- Room G906 Cooley Building, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd.
Faculty and senior trainees are invited to attend an informational session with editors from
The Conversation U.S.: Ari Fertig and Emily Costello. U-M is now a founding member of this independent, non-profit media organization that publishes news analysis and commentary written by scholars. Articles written by U-M faculty and published on
The Conversation drew more than 2 million views last year.
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Twitter 101
Date: March 24, 2016
Time: 12:00 p.m.
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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.
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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
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Save the Date: Michigan Health Policy Spring Forum
Date: May 2, 2016
Location: The Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan
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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.
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Laura Galbreath
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Save the Date: Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research Annual Symposium
Date: May 18, 2016
Time: 9:00 a.m.
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Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium for Presentations); NCRC Building 18, Dining Hall for Poster Session and Lunch
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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.
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Multiple funding opportunities through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program
Applications Due April 15
The year-long Health and Aging Policy Fellows program offers fellows the opportunity to participate in a residential track or a non-residential track. The
residential track
allows fellows to participate in the policymaking process on either the Federal or state level as legislative assistants in Congress, professional staff members in executive branch agencies or policy organizations. The
non-residential track
allows fellows to remain at their home institution but work on a policy project that involves brief placement(s) throughout the year at relevant sites. Core program components focused on career development and professional enrichment are provided for fellows in both tracks.
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CCMR Partnerships in Implementation and Evaluation Core offering Implementation Boot Camp
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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.
Session 1: April 19, 12:00
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---- 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
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---- Workshop specific proposals
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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.
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MLibrary@NCRC
Highlighted Service: Heath Management Policy Guide
A jumping off point for health services research is the library's Health Management and Policy Research Guide. Whether you are looking for peer-reviewed journal articles, think tank reports, or other health policy related content, you'll find resources to get you started. Want to learn more? Contact us for a personalized information consultation.
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Abir, Cunningham, and Zimmerman:
Focus on the Long Haul in Flint
Mahshid Abir, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of emergency medicine,
Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and public health, and
Marc Zimmerman, Ph.D., professor of behavior and health education, authored the article "Focus on the Long Haul in Flint: Community resilience is key in the aftermath of Flint's lead water crisis" for
U.S. News & World Report. In it they wrote, "...But it will take much more than replacing pipes to truly support the community and give it the power to bounce back from slow-moving disasters that were already happening long before the discovery of lead in its drinking water."
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Current vision screening recommendations for older adults have merit, Lee says in JAMA
Paul Lee, M.D., J.D., F. Bruce Fralick Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, examined a recent report investigating the value of vision screening for older adults with no symptoms.
Paul Lee's editorial,
published in JAMA
, explains the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force report, also published in JAMA.
The USPSTF work states that current evidence doesn't allow for assessment of clear recommendation supporting the use of visual acuity in screening those 65 and older who have no symptoms and are not already under eye care.
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Could customer loyalty programs work in healthcare?
A viewpoint piece in
JAMA, IHPI members
Larry McMahon, M.D., M.P.H., chief and professor, Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Vineet Chopra, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.P, F.H.M., assistant professor of internal medicine, and
Renuka Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., clinical lecturer of internal medicine, lay out the case for customer loyalty programs in healthcare. The main driver, they say, should be the need for hospitals, clinics, and other providers to keep patients coming back to them so they can succeed as Accountable Care Organizations.
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Hillman Foundation's Third Round of Innovations In Care Program
Initial Applications: March 21, 2016
The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation has announced the third round of funding for the Hillman Innovations in Care Program, a multi-year effort intended to enhance and expand nursing-driven models of care that benefit vulnerable populations. The Hillman Innovations in Care program seeks bold, creative, patient- and family-centered approaches that challenge conventional strategies, improve health outcomes, lower costs, and enhance patient and family caregiver experience. The Foundation is particularly interested in the areas of maternal and child health, care of the older adult and chronic illness management. They will award two grants of up to $600,000 in late 2016.
For details, contact Colleen Sherman from UMHS Development's Corporate and Foundation Relations Team.
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American Cancer Society RFA: The role of health policy and insurance in improving access and performance of cancer prevention, early detection and treatment services
Application Deadline: April 1 and October 15, 2016
A call for research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. New health public policy initiatives such as the new federal and state marketplaces that have expanded insurance coverage, as well as Medicaid expansion in some states, create natural experiments ripe for evaluation. Research to be funded by this RFA should focus on the changes in national, state, and/or local policy and the response to these changes by healthcare systems, insurers, payers, communities, practices, and patients.
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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.
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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
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