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Give and Take
Our IHPI community is built upon the shared goal of enhancing collaboration through reciprocity. Each of us has unique knowledge, skills, and perspectives to contribute, just as we can all benefit from what our colleagues can offer us. Every day, we see examples of the tremendous power of these connections in advancing our work to better understand and improve healthcare.
As a new way to facilitate these meaningful exchanges between our members, IHPI has announced the launch of
Givitas, an online collaboration platform intended to
promote knowledge sharing and harness group wisdom within organizations such as ours.
We invite all IHPI members
---- and up to three of your staff members
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register for Givitas, set up a profile, and begin using the tool to both seek and offer resources, collaboration, and information. Our hope is that this becomes yet another means to strengthen the IHPI network by enabling our members to help each other.
On the topic of giving, we are grateful to the many members who volunteer their time to make IHPI's numerous education and training programs so successful (
many of whom we honored at our Member Forum in January).
Many of these programs rely on experienced faculty volunteers to mentor program participants. The
IHPI/CHOP K Mock Study Section program, in particular, has had a clear positive impact, and we have an ongoing need for members to serve as reviewers. We typically conduct 10
--- 12 mock study sections each year, which requires 30
--- 36 volunteer reviewers.
We are deeply grateful to the 54 unique IHPI members who have supported at least one session since 2016, and invite additional faculty to help sustain this valuable program. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please contact
Wendy Lombard.
And, finally, we are grateful for the IHPI community's recognition among the
2018 Medical School Dean's Awards winners announced earlier this month; congratulations to the faculty and staff who will be honored in November (see "Noteworthy," below).
I hope you will join us in continuing to build a culture of giving and gratitude within IHPI as we pursue our mission to improve healthcare and health.
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
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The Dean's Awards Program recognizes Medical School faculty and staff who demonstrate exceptional accomplishment in the areas of teaching, research, clinical care, community service, innovation, and administration. They will be honored November 15 at the annual Dean's Awards Dinner.
Clinical and Health Services Research Award
Community Service Award
Kaiser Permanente Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education
2018 Dean's Awards for StaffAdministrator of the Year Award
Gail A. Campanella, M.B.A., managing director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
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Policy Sprints: Fall 2018 call for proposals
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Funding and/or IHPI staff support is available for select projects that undertake rapid-cycle analyses to address timely, policy-relevant questions.
Policymakers seek evidence-based solutions to real-world problems. This initiative is intended to help IHPI members present insights as nonpartisan experts, and inform emerging local, state, or federal policy. Proposals are
due by October 12, 2018, and will be reviewed by November 1, 2018, by an IHPI review panel.
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IHPI Impact Accelerator Award: Call for nominations
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Deadline: October 19, 2018, by 5:00 p.m.
The IHPI Impact Accelerator is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2018 Impact Accelerator Award. This award will be given to an IHPI faculty member, regardless of career stage, who has demonstrated a commitment to making a policy or practice impact with their work. Winner(s) will be honored at the annual IHPI member forum on January 24, 2019. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.
Award applications will be accepted from now through October 19, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. The award winner will be notified on or before January 7, 2019. For more details on the award information, nomination criteria, and to apply, please visit the
IA Awards information Web page (requires Level-1 login).
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Friese appointed to federal accountability office
GAO is an independent, nonpartisan agency that investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars. It oversees the appointment of half a dozen health care advisory committees, including PCORI's governing board. The PCORI board represents various health care stakeholders including patients, researchers, clinicians, insurance organizations, and government agencies.
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Saint named Editor-at-Large for BMJ Quality & Safety
Sanjay Saint, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine, was recently appointed as Editor-at-Large for
BMJ Quality & Safety (BMJQS).
The journal provides a rich mix of news, opinion, debate and research for academics, clinicians, healthcare managers and policy makers. It is also led by a patient-focused editorial team with a view toward helping all team members improve their knowledge with the overall goal of improving patient care.
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Ghaferi named new JAMA Surgery Editorial Board Member
JAMA Surgery recently announced the appointment of
Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S., associate professor of surgery, as a member of their Editorial Board. The journal promotes the art and science of surgery by publishing relevant peer-reviewed research to assist surgeons in optimizing patient care.
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Caram named 2018 PCF Young Investigator
Megan Caram, M.D., clinical lecturer of internal medicine, was recently named to the 2018 Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award program. Recipients of the award demonstrate significant promise for having a long-term and impactful career in the prostate cancer research field.
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- Kristin Chrouser, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor, Department of Urology, Medical School
- Brendan Nyhan, Ph.D., professor, Ford School of Public Policy
- Courtney Polenick, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical School
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Minal Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H.
John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education
A new website called
Insuring Good Health, developed through a collaboration between U-M and Detroit-area community organizations and health centers, is helping to break through some of the common barriers to accessing healthcare coverage, particularly among communities that have historically been marginalized when it comes to insurance.
IHPI member
Minal Patel, one of the leads on the project, discusses the new website and how it is being used to build awareness, knowledge, and confidence about health insurance options, and encourage new connections to healthcare resources.
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October IHPI Seminar Series: Medicating Distress---- Benzodiazepine Use in the U.S.
Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 4:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Presenter::
Donovan Maust, M.D., M.S., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Benzodiazepines have been considered potentially inappropriate for older adults for years but are receiving additional attention in light of the prescription opioid epidemic. We will review the epidemiology of prescribing, evidence of associated harms, and the challenges to reducing prescribing.
Watch the September Seminar with Dr. Kullgren
: Helping Patients in High-Deductible Health Plans Get the Care They Need
at a Price They Can Afford"
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Learning Health Sciences Inaugural Roland "Red" Hiss Lectureship
Date: October 4, 2018
Time: 3:30
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: MCHC Auditorium, Floor 2 of UH South
Speaker: David G. Marrero, Ph.D., director, University of Arizona Center for Health
Disparities Research, professor of health promotion science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and professor of endocrinology, College of Medicine
----Tucson, University of Arizona Health Sciences
Reception to follow.
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Date: October 4, 2018
Time: 12:00
--- 1:00 p.m.
This webinar will be hosted by the
V-BID Center in cooperation with the
Center for Workforce Health and Performance. This interactive program will address the growing problem of cost-related non-adherence for patients with diabetes and explore the potential role of value-based insurance design in enhancing access to evidence-based care and improving patient centered outcomes.
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Orientation for Clinical Investigators
Date: October 5, 2018
Time: 8:00
--- 11:30 a.m.
Location: University Hospital Room UH 2C224 (near the cashier's office)
Orientation for Clinical Investigators is designed for early career faculty or experienced researchers new to clinical research at U-M. This 3.5-hour session will provide participants with:
- An orientation to information, resources, and tools necessary to navigate the university's research enterprise
- A basic understanding of what is needed to comply with regulations related to clinical research
Participants will learn information about IRBMED, regulatory affairs, conflict of interest, audits and monitoring,
ClinicalTrials.gov, and U-M resources for clinical trials research.
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Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal
Date: October 16, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m.
--- 12:30 p.m.
Location: BSRB Seminar Rooms
This workshop covers writing grant proposals for all types of grants, including NIH, NSF, and foundations. It is co-sponsored by the Office of Research and is presented by Jill Jividen, PhD. During the last 30 minutes of the presentation, a panel of successful researchers will discuss navigating the competitive grant landscape and the review process.
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Join Fast Forward Medical Innovation for an exclusive health IT symposium to learn about the growing and inevitable intersection of technology and healthcare, along with research/innovation/commercialization opportunities in the arena of digital health and "big data."
This half-day event is designed to educate faculty, staff, students, and community on how digital tools, precision health, and machine learning algorithms will change the future of medicine, as well as highlight compelling examples of technology-based health innovations both inside and outside of the U-M ecosystem.
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Preventing Firearm Injuries Among Children and Teens: A Public Health Approach
Date: October 23, 2018
Time: 4:00
--- 5:15 p.m.
Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS) Consortium presents an interdisciplinary panel exploring a public health approach to preventing child firearm accidents and injuries. Expert panelists from across the U.S. will provide an overview and historical perspective on child firearm violence and explore promising policy and primary prevention approaches at the individual and community levels. IHPI expert members will include:
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Learning Health Science Collaboratory: Learning Innovations: Oregon's Health Reform Policy to Practice
Date: October 23, 2018
Time: 12:00
--- 1:30 p.m.
Location: Michigan League, Henderson Room, 3rd Floor
Speaker: Ron Stock, M.D., M.A., Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
This talk will highlight the statewide learning networks to support Oregon's Coordinated Care Model for Medicaid and beyond, including the Clinical Innovation Fellows Program. The presentation will then be followed by breakout group discussions which will serve to surface key questions and comments for Dr. Stock.
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Michigan Health Policy Forum: Searching for Sustainable Funding to Prevent Future Health Care Costs
Date: October 29, 2018
Time: 1:00
--- 4:00 p.m.
Location: Radisson Hotel Lansing at the Capitol, 111 N. Grand Ave., Lansing, MI 48933
This forum will explore the role that social determinants of health and adverse childhood events (ACEs) play in the healthcare status of our state and examine the health status of Michigan's children today. A panel discussion will address how the health financing system is or could be supporting efforts to provide Michigan's children with the "resilience" required to stave off negative health consequences and raise the question of how best to structure financing for non-clinical interventions.
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MLibrary @NCRC
Maintaining your digital research persona using tools like ORCID and database author profiles can help to ensure that your online presence is strong, and that you receive proper attribution for your publications. A clear presence makes your work more discoverable, and therefore helps maximize your impact. The tools in the research impact guide will help you begin to manage your online research presence.
Interested in learning more?
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
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Learn How to Think Like a Grant Reviewer
MICHR will offer a
Mock Study Section Workshop on Thursday, September 27 from 5:30
--- 8:00 p.m. at NCRC. This mock study section, which is ideal for fellows and early career investigators writing career development and R01 grant proposals, helps participants understand how NIH grant reviewers think. Participants will discuss actual twelve-page K and R grants (already submitted in some version to the NIH), learning what happens behind the closed doors in a real K or R grant review.
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2019 IHPI R01 Boot Camp: Application available now---- apply by October 15
IHPI is sponsoring a health services research-focused R01 Boot Camp program in conjunction with the Medical School's
Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp. The IHPI Boot Camp will accommodate up to eight early career faculty and is open to all assistant professors who are IHPI members, regardless of the school or college in which they are appointed.
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NOTE: IHPI early career faculty with appointments in the Medical School may choose to apply to either the Medical School or IHPI Boot Camp based on their primary research interests. For those who wish to apply to the Medical School Boot Camp, that application and program details are available
here
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IHPI and MICHR team up to help early career faculty with K-award writing workshops
Date: Tuesdays, November 13, 27, and December 11, 2018
Time: 5:30
--- 8:00 p.m.
Register by October 26
Visit the MICHR website
This structured, three-part workshop is designed to assist early career faculty and fellows who are preparing competitive career development grant applications (NIH K and VA CDA) for a 2019 submission. As a participant, you will exchange drafts of sections of your proposal and receive peer critique and feedback from senior faculty experienced in NIH study section thinking. IHPI faculty will lead health services-focused breakout sessions. Space is limited, please sign up by October 26.
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Low-income Michigan residents who enrolled in a new state health insurance plan didn't just get coverage for their health needs
---- many also got a boost in their financial health, according to a new study led by
Sarah Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor of business at the Ross School of Business.
People who gained coverage under the state's expanded Medicaid program have experienced fewer debt problems and other financial issues than they had before enrollment, the analysis of thousands of individuals shows.
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With STDs at an all-time high, why aren't more people getting a proven treatment? U-M team examines reasons
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Nearly 2.3 million times last year, Americans learned they had a sexually transmitted disease. But despite these record-high infection rates for chlamydia and gonorrhea, most patients only receive treatment for their own infection
---- when they probably could get antibiotics or a prescription for their partner at the same time.
In a new paper in the
American Journal of Public Health,
Cornelius Jamison , M.D., M.S.P.H., M.Sc., clinical lecturer of family medicine,
Tammy Chang , M.D., M.P.H., M.S., assistant professor of family medicine, and
Okeoma Mmeje , M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, describe the barriers that stand in the way of getting expedited partner therapy to more people.
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NIH Loan Repayment Program
The NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) application cycle opened this year on September 1 and closes on November 15. LRP awardees can receive up to $70,000 of qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year contract.
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Call for Pilot Proposals: Michigan Implementation Science Cancer Control Center to Improve Symptom Management
Deadline: October 12, 2018
In June, the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Advisors approved a new concept: Implementation Science Centers for Cancer Control (IS-C3). Between four and five centers are planned. IS-C3 will include a pilot projects core to support between 5 and 8 innovative projects that use implementation science methods to improve cancer symptom management. (R03/R21 scale). With the support of Rogel Cancer Center leadership, a team has been formed to prepare the application.
This call for pilot proposals is for U-M faculty across all ranks, tracks, and disciplines and seeks to advance the science of implementation and also focus on improving symptom management for patients with cancer and their loved ones. The planning committee will review submitted proposals and select projects for inclusion in the P50 application. Pilot proposal PIs will be notified by October 17, 2018. Full proposals, including budgets, will be due by December 14, 2018.
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Deadline: October 15, 2018
Hosted in partnership with the Medical School Office of Research and the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation, we are pleased to offer three Accelerating Synergy Award mechanisms: 1) Basic Research, 2) Translational Research and 3) Health Services Research. Awardees will receive up to $100,000 to tackle significant and complex research questions. This funding, coupled with tailored MICHR support, will provide the foundation for future large-scale grant submissions.
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American Cancer Society RFA---- The Role of Health Policy and Health Insurance in Improving Access to and Performance of Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Services
Deadline: October 15, 2018
Award Amount: $825,000 (up to $165,000 per year)
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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Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging: K76 Emerging Leaders Career Development Award
Deadline: October 24, 2018
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites early-stage physician and other health professional investigators with a commitment to aging and/or aging-related diseases to apply for this award to advance their research and leadership skills in their specialty and in the broader field of aging and geriatrics research
The National Institute on Aging is pursuing this initiative to recruit early-stage investigators who have begun to establish research programs and who, through this award, will be ready to assume leadership roles in their field of expertise and will be poised to change theory, practice, and health outcomes related to the health of older individuals.
IHPI members and previous award recipients Donovan Maust and Julie Bynum are available as resources regarding this award.
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Exploratory Projects in Palliative Care Competition
Deadline: October 29, 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
In an effort to support clinician investigators conducting patient-oriented research in palliative care, the University of Michigan's Program in Symptom and Supportive Care Sciences is soliciting applications for pilot/exploratory research grants in palliative care of patients with serious illness and their families. These grants will generate the pilot data necessary to maximize an investigator's chances of competing successfully for larger grants.
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Michigan Mental Health Integration Partnership (MIP) Scholars Award
Deadline: October 31, 2018
The University of Michigan Depression Center is requesting proposals for the Michigan Mental Health Integration Partnership (MIP) Scholars program. The purpose of this program is to support U-M faculty who are interested in implementing and evaluating mental health services or clinical interventions that promote integrated care and seek to improve access to evidence-based practices for lower income and Medicaid eligible populations with behavioral health care needs in the state of Michigan. The
MIP program aims to improve the lives of Michigan residents by enhancing access to care for consumers with behavioral health care needs.
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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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CONTACT US
U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Eileen Kostanecki
IHPI
Director, Policy Engagement and External Relations
ekostan@umich.edu
202-554-0578
Kara Gavin
IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
Lauren Hutchens
IHPI Senior Communications Specialist
Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Specialist
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