February 2018 Edition
 
2018 Member Forum Highlights

IHPI's Annual Member Forum provides an occasion to celebrate the successes of the previous year and look toward the year ahead with renewed momentum.


Nearly 150 of our members came together at NCRC in late January for my annual State of the Institute presentation and a lively discussion of opportunities for engagement in our strategic initiatives and educational programs.

At the forum, we honored our colleague Lisa Prosser with IHPI's annual  Impact Accelerator Award, recognizing her nearly two decades of work in evaluating the health and economic outcomes of public health interventions. This research brief explains how Lisa's analyses have had a direct impact on national policy decisions that shape the health and healthcare of millions of Americans.

We also recognized two dozen IHPI members for their stellar records of volunteer service to IHPI's numerous education and training programs. We are grateful to all who give their time and expertise to mentor and educate students, trainees, and early-career faculty colleagues who are engaging with IHPI as they learn and develop their careers.

Immediately before the forum, we piloted a successful half-day career development workshop for 25 early-career faculty members with very engaging sessions led by experienced IHPI mentors.

For me and many others, the forum is one of IHPI's most energizing gatherings, a demonstration of the remarkable collaborations we have accomplished as a community, and a reminder of the urgent need to address emerging and persistent challenges in healthcare.

Those who were unable to attend the Forum can view the presentation slides and read this collection of Forum-related tweets. I will also be reprising the State of the Institute address on March 6 from 2:00 --- 3:30 PM in the NCRC Research Auditorium ---- this event is open to faculty, staff, and students, with a reception immediately following.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 

Disease outbreaks. Medical discoveries. Natural disasters. The hope ---- and hype ---- that can come with new treatment options.

Sanjay Gupta, M.D., has covered them all in his years as medical correspondent for CNN. He's seen over and over the crucial role of communication in responding to the health effects of every kind of crisis. He's also seen the delays, missed opportunities and even tragedy that can come from poor communication of health information. That's why he and his wife Rebecca have teamed up with his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to support an effort to bring new ideas and tools to health communication.

The new effort will kick off with an all-weekend "hackathon" of rapid innovation on March 23 --- 25. The marathon event will bring together bright minds from the worlds of health, digital technology, design, communication, and information science on the U-M campus ---- including students from U-M and other universities.

Both students and professionals are welcome to participate in the hackathon, though an application is required (applications are due by March 1). Faculty are also encouraged to consider contributing to the Hackathon as an expert/mentor, facilitator, or challenge contributor. Please email Elyse Aurbach for more details.

 
 
Medicare patients nationwide will get a chance to try U-M-developed insurance idea

A health insurance concept born from U-M research may soon reach millions of people covered by Medicare across the United States, and allow them to keep more dollars in their wallets while getting treated for chronic diseases such as diabetes, depression, and heart failure.

The new national budget signed by President Trump last week instructs the agency that runs Medicare to allow Medicare Advantage plans in all 50 states to test "value based insurance design" for people with chronic health conditions. And a bipartisan bill just introduced in the House and Senate could allow private insurers to do the same for anyone with a high-deductible health plan.


The V-BID concept was developed by the  Center for Value-Based Insurance Design led by  Mark Fendrick, M.D., professor of internal medicine and public health.

 
 
Mendez member of committee that released new report "Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes"

David Mendez, Ph.D., M.S., M.S., associate professor of health management and policy, was a member of the Committee on the Review of the Health Effects of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems which released the new report, "Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes."

The report, which was congressionally mandated from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine takes a comprehensive look at evidence on the human health effects of e-cigarettes. Although the research base is limited given the relatively short time e-cigarettes have been used, the committee that conducted the study identified and examined over 800 peer-reviewed scientific studies, reaching dozens of conclusions about a range of health impacts.

 
Mendez
 
 
Caverly and Sears receive VA Career Development Awards

Tanner Caverly, M.D., M.P.H., clinical lecturer of internal medicine, and Erika Sears, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of surgery, are recent recipients of VA HSR&D Career Development Awards.

Caverly's award will focus on how to deliver a personalized approach to lung cancer screening that ensures clinical decisions are Veteran-centered and easy to carry out in busy primary care settings. Sears will focus her efforts on Veterans' surgical care, specifically the differences in carpal tunnel syndrome-related care across VHA medical centers between the time of diagnosis and surgery.
 
Caverly and Sears
 
 
Choe appointed new chief quality officer for U-M Medical Group

Hae Mi Choe, Pharm.D., is the new chief quality officer for the University of Michigan Medical Group (UMMG). This new position will collaborate and partner with clinicians, department chairs, service chiefs, and executive and operational leadership to effectively plan, program, and execute quality initiatives within UMMG. She will promote physician engagement and support alignment of quality initiatives to meet UMMG quality goals. Dr. Choe's appointment is effective February 2018.
 
Choe
 
 
Richardson and Wolfson part of Interprofessional Exchange Health Care Implementation Grant Team

A nursing, pharmacy, public health, and family medicine team will focus on interprofessional diet and lifestyle approaches for patients with co-occurring obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. This effort is a result of an award from the U-M Interprofessional Exchange Research Stimulus grant program.

The team, which includes Julia Wolfson, Ph.D., M.P.P., assistant professor of public health, and Caroline Richardson, M.D., professor of family medicine, will conduct the first-ever comparative effectiveness trial of the two most potentially effective dietary recommendations for adults with the triple burden of overweight or obesity, hypertension, and prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes.

 
Wolfson and Richardson
 
 
Markel's book on national award shortlist

Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., is one of 30 finalists named for 2017's National Book Critics Circle Awards. His book, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek, is one of five up for the 2017 Biography award category.

In the book, Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness. The awards will be presented on March 15, 2018, at the New School in New York City.
 
Markel
 
 
Inaugural IHPI Emerging Scholars named



IHPI's Emerging Scholars Exchange Program is designed to provide career development opportunities for early career faculty via invited presentations at prestigious peer universities. Through the Exchange Program, early career faculty will have the opportunity to develop relationships with potential research collaborators, mentors, and sponsors; hone their oral presentation skills; and bolster their CVs as they prepare for promotion.
 
 
IHPI members named new 2018 Poverty Solutions awardees

Forming new partnerships, implementing programs to boost job opportunities, and raising the public's awareness about low-income families highlight the University of Michigan's first-year initiative to prevent and alleviate poverty.  This effort included funding more grant awards in 2018 that included IHPI members:
Many of the projects are co-sponsored by the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, and researchers and community representatives work as equal partners to pursue action-oriented research questions and interventions strategies that will benefit the communities involved.

 
 
Call for abstracts: U-M Injury Prevention Center Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault

Deadline: March 2, 2018

Join fellow researchers on May 2, 2018, for the Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault hosted by the U-M Injury Prevention Center. Poster abstracts should identify innovative strategies to expand and enhance future campus sexual assault research and prevention, contribute to the adoption of new evidence-based practices, highlight the translation and communication of injury prevention science and information as it relates to campus sexual assault, or that describe effective partnerships among and between organizations in developing new collaborative prevention approaches. Submissions highlighting research or practice are welcome.

 
 
Call for nominations for two AcademyHealth councils

AcademyHealth councils are seeking nominations for the Methods & Data Council and the Education Council. Nominators and nominees must be individual members of AcademyHealth, or must become individual members during the nomination process. Self-nominations are welcome.

The Methods and Data Council assists AcademyHealth in developing strategies for professional development in health services research and provides guidance on multiple topics such as themes for the Annual Research Meeting.

The Education Council advises the AcademyHealth Board and leadership on the priorities and trends in educational needs of our members and the field of health services research.
 
New Members
For all members: Please consider attending the upcoming IHPI member orientation breakfast to learn more about the resources and support offered to our members.  RSVP to Stacy Trosell required
 
 
Brian George, M.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor, General Surgery, Medical School

Many graduating general surgery residents are not competent to perform procedures deemed core to the practice of general surgery. The underlying cause is likely multi-factorial and includes inadequate methods to assess trainee performance. Existing methods of credentialing surgeons for independent practice lack validity evidence and do not necessarily ensure competent surgeons. I worry for future surgical patients who will, without substantial changes, increasingly be operated on by inadequately trained surgeons.

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  EVENTS
February Seminar Video Replay: Michigan Medicine at the Bicentennial---- Some lessons of history for health policy

Speaker: Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D., Victor Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine, and professor of internal medicine, history, and health management & policy

 
 
National health data webinar series hosted by the School of Nursing

Dates: March 6 and March 22, 2018
Times: 10:00 --- 11:00 a.m.

March 6: The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Location: School of Nursing Building 1250
Presenter: Kelly L. Myrick, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control National Center for Health Statistics

March 22: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Location: School of Nursing Building 1250
Presenter: Anita Soni, Ph.D., M.B.A., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

These webinars introduce participants to a variety of publicly available health and healthcare data sources. The webinars are free and open to all U-M faculty and trainees (can attend either in-person or via the webinar link).  Each data source is introduced by a representative at the agency responsible for it and are ideal for individuals relatively new to large observational research and looking to identify new sources of data.
 
 
Making Life Science Research More Discoverable

Date: March 7, 2018
Time: 12:00 --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: Room B004E, NCRC Building 16, North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
Speaker: Patricia Anderson, emerging technologies informationist, Taubman Health Sciences Library

Websites work hard to incorporate elements that raise the likelihood of their page turning up at the top of search results for certain topics. Researchers work hard to choose a journal that will maximize the impact of their article. In this session, presenters will discuss how to apply similar strategies to do the same thing for articles more broadly, by redesigning the research abstract.
 
 
Screening of the film "Bridge" March 7 & 8: Sponsored by IHPI and the SPH Office of Global Public Health 


 
 
MCIRCC Seminar Series: "Thou Shalt Not Touch---- Nonobtrusive and Noncontact Monitoring Techniques for Medical Applications"

Date: March 9, 2018
Time: 3:00 --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Speaker: Steffen Leonhardt, M.D., Ph.D., Philips endowed Chair of Medical Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
 
Leonhardt
 
 
The Google of Healthcare: Making Big Data Work for---- As Opposed to Against---- Our Patients' Best Interest

Date: March 14, 2018
Time: 2:00--- 3:30 p.m. 
Location: Hatcher Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library
Sponsor: Emergent Research Working Group, U-M Library

Our data are collected at every turn: where we drive, who we email, what we google, what we buy. Perhaps a last bastion of expected privacy protections surrounds our health data ---- but while some systems (like healthcare providers) have stringent governance, others (like wellness apps) do not. Ready access and linkage of medical information can help us provide better care to our patients, but it can also serve to harm, alienate, and erode trust. This talk will explore how health data are currently being collected and by whom, as well as ways we can both serve and protect our patients in the future.
 
 
CBSSM Symposium: Does Enhancing Individual Choice and Control Promote Freedom? Challenges in Contemporary Bioethics

Date: May 1, 2018
Time: 8:30 a.m. --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: Henderson Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor
Speaker: Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., professor of bioethics and medical anthropology, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco

Prof. Koenig's current focus is emerging genomic technologies, including biobanking policy and using deliberative democracy to engage communities about research governance. Her work has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1991.

The lecture is jointly presented by the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) and the Ronald C. and Nancy V. Bishop Lectureship in Bioethics fund.
 
 
Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research Symposium

Date: May 10, 2018
Time: 9:00 a.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 18, Dining Hall

Dr. Siham Sikander, director, Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan, will deliver the keynote presentation at MCDTR's annual symposium.

Participants are also encouraged to present posters in the area of diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic disorders at this symposium.

 
 
 
Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR)

Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) provides consulting services and training opportunities in statistics, data science, and advanced research computation to researchers in all fields, regardless of skill level.

Free consulting is available to all U-M researchers; workshops are open to all members of the U-M community. Visit the CSCAR website for additional information, and to schedule individual consultation sessions. Questions can be directed to [email protected].
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC

Highlighted resource: Politico Pro

Politico Pro is a current news resource covering the U.S. government and politics. Content consists of articles, calendars of upcoming Congressional activities, documents (including Congressional Dear Colleague letters) and infographics. The menu on the top, left-hand side of the screen provides easy access to Federal news in health care, state, and federal policy documents, the ProReport of top policy news ---- and more!

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
 
A grass-roots effort succeeds in making colon surgery safer

A new study published by a team from the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative and IHPI members Greta Krapohl, Ph.D., R.N.,  Darrell Campbell, M.D.,  Samantha Hendren, M.D., M.P.H., and  Michael Englesbe, M.D., points to a way to reduce the risk of infections after colectomies for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have such operations each year because of cancer, polyps, diverticulitis, or inflammatory bowel disease.


The findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, document an approach that was associated with a nearly 50 percent reduction in surgical site infections over four years among 5,742 patients who had colectomies at 52 Michigan hospitals. The effort used a collaborative, voluntary, evidence-driven approach to encourage hospitals to change three steps taken by patients and providers before, during and after colectomy.

 
Progress, but far from perfection, on avoiding risky sedatives in older adults

They help many people sleep, or feel calmer or less anxious. But in older people, they also double the risk of car crashes, falls and broken hips. That's why the medications known as benzodiazepines show up on international guidelines as drugs that very few people over the age of 65 should take.

Yet a sizable percentage of adults in that age group still have an active prescription for one, according to new research from three countries that have made a special effort to reduce their use.
Currently, about seven percent of older veterans in the U.S. have a benzodiazepine prescription, and the numbers are even higher in Canada and Australia, according to the study published in the  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society by Donovan Maust, M.D., M.S., and Eve Kerr, M.D., M.P.H.

 
 
 
MORE NEWS


Women physicians may be at higher risk of burnout (Modern Medicine Network --- Gold)
Women fare worse than men after a stroke ( Healthday --- Lisabeth)
1 in 7 lung surgery patients at risk for opioid dependence
( Society of Thoracic Surgeons --- Lagisetty, Brummett, Waljee)
U-M Poverty Solutions releases Annual Report, announces new investments to fight poverty (U-M News--- Shaefer, Israel)
 
  FUNDING
Funding Available: National Service Engagement Faculty Travel Support

The Office of the President will award funds to support faculty travel for public engagement activities. This funding is intended for any faculty member who has been invited to share expertise and capacity in a high level policy engagement at the national level and where travel funding is not otherwise provided. Such activities might include expert testimony to Congress, leadership service on national boards of professional societies, or involvement in other high-level national leadership and advisory positions.

For more information on the travel awards or to apply, please visit the  National Service Engagement Faculty Travel Support page.
 
 
Community Health Services Funding Opportunity

Deadline: February 27, 2018

Community Health Services is offering funding opportunities for community-based proposals to improve health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) in Washtenaw County.

Selected projects will accomplish the following:
  • Apply principles of community engagement in the planning and implementation process;
  • Benefit communities in Washtenaw County by addressing health equity and/or key SDOH (education, poverty, housing, transportation, etc.) which specifically influence mental health, substance use disorder, obesity & related illnesses and/or preconceptual & perinatal health;
  • Promote efforts that are culturally aware and responsive.
 
 
Special Funding Event: American Cancer Society Updates and Funding Opportunities

Date: March 8, 2018
Time: 3:00 --- 4:30 p.m.
Location: Ford Auditorium, University Hospital
Speaker: Lynne Elmore, Ph.D., director, Translational Cancer Research and Extramural Research, American Cancer Society

Dr. Elmore will provide an overview of the ACS and its research divisions, a detailed description of its extramural research programs, its peer review and funding processes, and grantsmanship advice. She will also be sharing new funding opportunities for early-stage investigators and previously funded ACS researchers. A question-and-answer session will follow.
 
 
Russell Sage Foundation: The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Deadline: August 20, 2018
Award Amount: $150,000

This Russell Sage Foundation initiative will support innovative social science research on the social, economic and political effects of the Affordable Care Act. They are especially interested in funding analyses that address important questions about the effects of the reform on outcomes such as financial security and family economic well-being, labor supply and demand, participation in other public programs, family and children's outcomes, and differential effects by age, race, ethnicity, nativity, or disability status. They are also interested in research that examines the political effects of the implementation of the new law, including changes in views about government, support for future government policy changes, or the impact on policy development outside of health care.
 
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