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A time of milestones and transitions
As we enter the summer months, this is a good time to reflect on a number of meaningful milestones and transitions around the institute.
First, please join me in offering congratulations to the
lengthy list of IHPI members who were recently promoted or appointed to named professorships by the U-M Board of Regents. For this accomplished group of faculty, these recognitions of their merits reflect the valuable contributions they are making to health services scholarship. We look forward to their continuing and new collaborations across IHPI, and the many ways in which their work will continue to impact health policy and practice through their research.
- Tanima Banerjee, statistician
- Erin Beathard, Medicaid policy analyst
- Trish Meyer, manager of the Strategic Initiatives Catalyst
- Jodie Moore, assistant to the Managing Director
- Stacy Trosell, events & member engagement specialist
Our IHPI staff team continues to grow in response to IHPI's increasing membership and expanding portfolio of initiatives and core services related to data and methods, communications, government and external relations, and strategic initiatives. These resources are vital in supporting the comprehensive needs of our members. With more than 50 new members in the last year bringing IHPI's membership to more than 470 faculty members, the benefits of our growth, collective diversity, and multidisciplinary expertise are providing many opportunities for added resources to help address the most pressing healthcare challenges.
And finally, this month we bid a warm and appreciative farewell to IHPI's deputy director, Matt Davis, as he moves to his new role at Northwestern University and the Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Throughout his career at Michigan, Matt has sought to answer important and timely questions in healthcare and health policy. As Michigan's Chief Medical Executive from 2013 to 2015, he also served as an essential advisor to the state's key health decision-makers. Most importantly, he has been a devoted and insightful mentor to many colleagues early in their careers as researchers, clinicians, and educators. Matt's wise counsel will be deeply missed on many levels. Please join me in wishing him success in his new endeavors, knowing he will remain a close friend and colleague to many at IHPI.
John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
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Hayward receives the VA Roger Grekin Research Award
Rodney Hayward, M.D., professor of internal medicine, Medical School, and senior investigator, VA HSR&D Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, was awarded the inaugural Roger J. Grekin Research Award (Grekin Award) from the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Research Service (VAAAHS). The award is the highest honor for achievement in leadership in research, education and clinical care. The Grekin Award was established in 2016 to honor the late Roger Grekin, M.D., a distinguished leader, educator, physician-scientist, and VAAAHS's Associate Chief of Staff for Research (ACOS-R) for his 40 years of service. For more information about the award, please visit the
VERAM Grekin Award webpage.
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From L to R: Dr. Eric Young, Linda Grekin, wife of Dr. Grekin,
Dr. Rodney Hayward, and Dr. William Weitzel
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IHPI at AcademyHealth 2016
Download a quick guide to all presentations and posters by IHPI members and their teams at the 2016 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting.
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Hopp named Distinguished University Professor
Wallace J. Hopp, Ph.D., M.S., M.S., associate dean for Learning Design, Ross School of Business, and the Alessi Professor of Business Administration, Industrial & Operations Engineering, College of Engineering, was one of nine faculty members to have received one of the University of Michigan's top honors as Distinguished University Professors. Wallace will become the C.K. Prahalad Distinguished University Professor of Business and Engineering on September 1.
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Prescott: Does Sepsis Keep Killing Months Later?
A research team led by
Hallie Prescott, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of internal medicine at the Medical School, set out to discover if the risk of death from sepsis continues even after the acute infection has been cured. It's known that many patients die in the months and years after sepsis. But no one has known if this increased risk of death (in the 30 days to two years after sepsis) is because of sepsis itself, or because of the pre-existing health conditions the patient had before acquiring the complication.
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Montie wins lifetime achievement award
James Montie, M.D., professor emeritus of urology, Medical School, was awarded the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Urological Association (AUA). The award is in recognition of an individual, at least 25 years following completion of residency, who has made outstanding contributions to advance the mission and goals of the AUA. Montie was recognized for his dedicated leadership in the field of urologic oncology and a lifelong commitment to help advance urological education.
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Lok earns top gastroenterology honor
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Buis R01 grant focuses on blood pressure control
Lorraine Buis, Ph.D., assistant professor of family medicine, Medical School, was recently awarded an R01 grant for "MI-BP: mHealth to Improve Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive African Americans." She credits part of the successful submission of the award to her participation in the
IHPI R01 Boot Camp (Level-1 login required).
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Friese selected for RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program
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Piatt's $3.2M R01 to focus on diabetes self-management
Under a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a U-M team led by
Gretchen Piatt, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of learning health sciences, will partner with a network of 21 churches in Detroit, Flint, and Toledo to help develop sustainable, responsive diabetes support programs that offer a new approach to addressing diabetes-related disparities in underserved communities.
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Taking control of healthcare costs while optimizing care
In an era of ever-rising healthcare costs, high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) continue to grow in popularity in both group and individual markets. A growing body of evidence points to these plans' success in reducing both healthcare use and medical spending, but some studies have indicated they often reduce necessary as well as unnecessary care. Through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, a team of IHPI researchers led by
Jeff Kullgren, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., an assistant professor of internal medicine and research scientist with the VA Center for Clinical Management Research, will conduct a nationally representative survey to examine the extent to which consumers enrolled in HDHPs engage in certain behaviors to help optimize the value of their current coverage.
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Speak up! Recommend speakers for the IHPI Seminar Series
The IHPI Education and Training Workgroup would like help in identifying potential speakers for the upcoming academic year. The IHPI Research Seminar series is a lecture-based program designed to share innovative health services research topics, studies, and programs with IHPI members, staff, and students. If you know of a U-M faculty member or external researcher that you would like to suggest as a presenter for an upcoming seminar, email your suggestion to
IHPI Project Specialist, Jason Wolfe.
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Membership Criteria
Membership in the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is available to University of Michigan faculty who have an active appointment in a U-M department, a track record of independent, first-authored research in health services or healthcare policy, and a record of extramural research support and productivity in health services and health policy research. IHPI member status is also available to early career health services researchers.
How to Apply
Submit your CV along with a brief description of your specific health services / health policy areas of interest and engagement in IHPI to
Stacy Trosell. Your application will be reviewed by IHPI leadership on a rolling basis and a determination of membership based upon the criteria stated above. Notification of your application status is typically made within 30-45 days of application.
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Mark Ilgen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical School
Individuals with mental health problems in general, and individuals with drug and alcohol issues in particular, have a hard time interacting with the healthcare system and getting high-quality care. One of the things I have been interested in is how can we design the system to be more inclusive and to fit more directly and realistically with the needs people have.
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Deborah Levine, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Too many individuals are unable to access or receive high-quality healthcare because of lack of insurance, high out-of-pocket expenses, poverty, or reduced access to excellent health facilities, and clinicians. As a result, too many individuals do not receive the right care, at the right time, with the right outcome.
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Twitter 101
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Time: 12:00
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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, mobile device, and your lunch for this informal session. If you need help setting up a Twitter account, please arrive a bit early.
And coming up on Thursday, July 14: Twitter 101 at 12 p.m., and LinkedIn101 at 1 p.m., both in the Collaboratory. Mark your calendars!
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Using EMERSE to search the 100+ million documents in the medical record at Michigan
Date: Monday, June 20, 2016
Time: 3:00
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Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Join IHPI members
David Hanauer, M.D., M.S., clinical assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases, and
Melissa Pynnonen, M.D., clinical associate professor, Department of Otolaryngology, for the last IHPI Seminar Series before the summer break.
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Want to move disease prevention forward? Ann Arbor Health Hacks needs you!
Date: June 24
--- June 26
Location: Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Register: Apply by June 10 to be a Round 2 applicant. Round 2 applicants will hear back by June 13.
On June 24
--- 26, Ann Arbor's first-ever hackathon focused on health will take place, with a specific goal of spurring innovation in any area of disease prevention. Organized by a new non-profit group,
A2 Health Hacks, and co-sponsored by IHPI, the event is seeking participants at several levels. Especially needed from U-M are students, trainees, faculty members, staff members and alumni in health and engineering/programming/design fields who have an interest in moving things forward on any area of disease prevention.
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Missed the 2016 Director's Lecture with Jeremy N. Smith? Watch online
On May 16, 2016, IHPI held its second annual Director's Lecture, featuring
Jeremy N. Smith, author of the book, "Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients." The book recounts the dramatic true story behind the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors Study. Smith, an experienced journalist, went inside this 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot attempt to track and quantify every illness, injury, and death for everyone on Earth.
His talk, introduced by
IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., explains the power of this "big data" project, which demonstrates which health issues pose the greatest health burden to our world, and how those burdens are disproportionately borne by country, state, and community.
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Introduction to OptumInsight Insurance Claims Data
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Time: 10:00
--- 11:00 a.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Join the IHPI Data & Methods Hub team as they provide an introduction to the OptumInsight claims database. This data resource, available to all IHPI members, provides access to insurance claims data from 61 million unique patients spanning the years 2001 through June 2015. Optum is part of the research arm of UnitedHealthcare insurance. This discussion will cover the data structure and file layout, advantages and limitations of these data, an example study, and the access process.
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Time: 8:00 a.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex
Improve your mixed methods manuscript in this engaging, interactive participatory mixed methods workshop! Bring to the workshop a manuscript in progress or a completed project ready to write up for publication.
- Learn about latest advances in mixed methods to incorporate into your manuscript
- Review potential publication outlets for mixed methods studies
- Engage in hands-on activities to develop and write your manuscript
- Share your written manuscript with peers and receive faculty review
Organized by the Michigan Mixed Methods Research and Scholarship Program (M3RSP)
Sponsored by: M3RSP, IHPI, Department of Family Medicine, U-M Medical School, and
VA-CCMR
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Upcoming Partnership in Implementation and Evaluation Lab
Date: Second Tuesday of each month
Time: 11:00 a.m.
--- 12:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 16, Conference Room 368C
Interested in learning more about implementation research? The second Tuesday of each month, the VA Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR) conducts the Partnerships in Implementation and Evaluation (PIE) Lab to provide expert and peer support in implementation and evaluation research. This is an informal opportunity to discuss and brainstorm ideas around partnerships, implementation, and evaluation, both within and outside the VA. If you are interested in attending or if you have something you'd like to present, please contact
Claire Robinson.
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MLibrary@NCRC
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) Guide
ORCID aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications through provision of a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher. Your ORCID ID can be integrated in key research workflows, such as manuscript and grant submission. The
ORCID guide explains
how to quickly and easily register for an ORCID id, and explains ORCID's benefits.
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ACA boosts coverage for blacks, Hispanics
The Affordable Care Act has reduced racial and ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage, although substantial disparities remain, a new study shows.
Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D., professor of business economics and public policy at the U-M Ross School of Business, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin say that while coverage disparities declined somewhat, uninsured rates are still much higher for blacks and Hispanics than they are for whites.
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What will it take to protect hospital patients from UTIs? National effort shows promise
Both catheter use and UTI rates have stayed high despite years of national attention on the issue. The results of a new national effort to reduce catheter use and UTIs at the same time, led by
Sanjay Saint, M.D., M.P.H.,
George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the Medical School and chief of medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Bagley in NEJM: a legal setback for the Affordable Care Act
In a new Perspective piece for the
New England Journal of Medicine, Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, at the U-M Law School, reviews the 2014 lawsuit challenging one of the major struts of the Affordable Care Act. Bagley writes," At first glance, the court's decision might seem persnickety. The ACA says that the federal government 'shall make periodic and timely payments' to health plans to reimburse them for the cost-sharing reductions. Why doesn't that count as an appropriation?"
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Russell Sage Foundation Grants Available
Deadline: June 15, 2016 (2 PM)
Research Award Amount: $35,000 to $150,000 (15% IDC)
Presidential Award Amount: Less than $35,000 (Quicker Turn Around, Fewer Reviewers, No IDC)
Initial Application: 4-Page LOI
Focus Area: Faculty research aimed at high-caliber journals
Visiting Scholars Program
Deadline: June 30, 2016
Amount: Up to $125,000 for salary + a subsidized NYC apartment
Initial Application: 5-page letter describing a project to be undertaken while in residence
Focus Area: Residential fellowship in the foundation's NYC headquarters to pursue research and writing in social, economic, and behavioral sciences
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NIHCM Foundation: Investigator-Initiated Research Grant Program
Deadline: July 11, 2016
NIHCM Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for the 2015-2016 funding cycle of our investigator-
initiated research grant program. We are making a total of up to $250,000 available to be divided among four to five studies in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy. The program seeks timely, significant, high impact projects with potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system.
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Health Services Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Deadline: August 9, 2016
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has announced two new companion funding opportunities geared towards health services research on minority health and health disparities. The purpose of these Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) is to encourage innovative exploratory and developmental health services research to improve minority health and/or reduce health disparities at the health care system-level as well as within clinical settings.
The open date for each grant begins July 9, 2016. Applications are due by August 9, 2016; April 11, 2017; April 11, 2018; April 11, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of each applicant organization.
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ABOUT IHPI
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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.
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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
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Kara Gavin
IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
Lauren Hutchens
IHPI Communications Specialist
Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Coordinator
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