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Deepening our understanding of healthy aging
This month marks a very successful first year for our
National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA) since it was launched one year ago. Under the leadership of
Preeti Malani, the NPHA team has produced
10 reports on timely issues related to the health of older adults, from drug costs to medical marijuana to dementia caregiving.
Along the way, we've found illuminating and sometimes unexpected answers to the questions we've asked. For example, 40 percent of older adults say they're not getting regular dental care, including 23 percent who seek care only for serious dental issues. And while most older Americans take multiple medicines each day, only one in three has talked with a healthcare provider about possible drug interactions. The poll also found that one in three older adults takes some kind of aid to help them sleep
---- but many don't bring this up with their doctors.
The poll results have attracted significant attention from policymakers, reporters, and older adults and their families. For example, findings from the May NPHA report on sexual health were featured in
USA Today, Newsweek, Time, and
The Guardian (UK), among many other prominent outlets. Results from the poll on overuse of healthcare services were presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting this month in Seattle and will be presented at the Healthy Aging Summit next month in Washington, D.C.
We've had wonderful involvement from IHPI members in developing, refining, and steering the poll, including insightful guidance from the five IHPI members who participate on the NPHA Advisory Board. Some IHPI members have served as NPHA faculty investigators, taking the lead in writing poll reports.
Jeff Kullgren contributed to the March report on overuse of services, and the next four reports involve other IHPI members. IHPI members have helped to develop survey questions, write reports, and develop academic products, including commentaries for the
Health Affairs Blog.
We look forward to a second successful year of discovering new insights about the health concerns and priorities of older adults and considering their implications for healthcare practice and policy.
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
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NCSP application for cohort 2019--- 2021 now open
The National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) is now accepting applications for the
2019
--- 2021
Cohort. Applications are due by August 1. Nurses and physicians who meet the eligibility requirements may apply online through the
national program application website.
The program offers intensive mentorship for clinicians as change agents driving policy-relevant research and partnerships to improve health and healthcare.
The program is led by
Rodney Hayward, M.D., professor of internal medicine, with co-directors
Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., professor of internal medicine,
Jack Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine,
Janet Larson, Ph.D., M.N., R.N., FAAN, professor of nursing, and
Caroline Richardson, M.D., professor of family medicine.
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Patel appointed to National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders Forum
Minal Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of public health, was appointed to a three-year term on the National Academy of Medicine's (NAM's) Emerging Leaders Forum. Each year, forum members are selected by NAM members as exceptional early- to mid-career professionals working in biomedical science, health care delivery, health policy, and related fields. This special forum provides its members with opportunities to engage, experience, learn, and develop activities addressing current topics affecting health and medicine.
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Howell named Master of the American College of Physicians
Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine, was honored by the American College of Physicians (ACP) at its annual convocation ceremony in April. Howell was named a new Master of the American College of Physicians for 2017
--- 18. Each year, a select group of these Fellows are chosen from among the nominees for Mastership by the ACP Awards Committee and approved by the ACP Board of Regents.
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Piette appointed to U-M Smoke-Free University Advisory Committee
John Piette, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of health behavior and health education, was recently appointed to U-M's Smoke-Free University Advisory Committee. The committee monitors the implementation plan to achieve a smoke-free university, advises U-M on challenges and issues that arise for the university and its neighboring communities, and also addresses policy revisions on a periodic basis.
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Tipirneni receives resident teaching award
Renu Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of internal medicine, received the H. Marvin Pollard Award for Outstanding Teaching of Residents at the Department of Internal Medicine's annual awards dinner earlier this month. The award is in honor of Dr. H. Marvin Pollard, a professor and head of the section of gastroenterology at U-M from 1940 to 1972.
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Making big data work for better heart health
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Heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) are two common chronic conditions that can be managed if recognized early, but can have deadly consequences if they go undetected.
What if the most useful information about heart function could be seized from the largely untapped volumes of data already generated through a range of healthcare encounters, mobile devices, and what patients themselves report, and synthesized together to provide vastly improved new diagnostic tools?
Two U-M projects, supported by NIH career development awards, will use data science and analytic methods to attempt just that, with the goal of improving the ability to detect these conditions earlier, more reliably, and less expensively.
Learn more about the research aims of
Michael Mathis, M.D., and
Hamid Ghanbari, M.D., M.P.H.
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New Members
- Aarti Bedi, M.D., clinical lecturer, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School
- Philippa Clarke, Ph.D., M.S., professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Shima Nassiri, Ph.D., M.S., assistant professor, Department of Technology and Operations, Ross School of Business
- Srinivasaraghavan Sriram, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Marketing, Ross School of Business
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Caroline Richardson, M.D.
The Dr. Max and Buena Lichter Research Professor of Family Medicine
Dr. Richardson's work focuses on preventing diabetes and promoting physical activity through low-cost programs and tools, including a line of research on wearable technology that well predates the advent of Fitbits, iPhones, and Apple Watches. In this Q&A, Dr. Richardson discusses how her research is informing some key policy and practice issues related to diabetes prevention on a national scale, with an eye toward the ambitious goal of one day eliminating adult onset diabetes altogether.
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Replay: May IHPI Seminar and Frontier Seminar Series
Watch the May IHPI Seminar Series featuring Lynda Zeller, senior deputy director, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Zeller gives updates on complex policy and strategic initiatives around the opioid epidemic, access to psychiatric inpatient challenges, and the prevalence of mental illness in jails.
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Altarum Center for Value in Health Care Symposium: "Sustainable U.S. Health Spending: Serious Issues---- Sound Policy Solutions"
Date: July 12, 2018
Time: 8:30 a.m.
--- 1:30 p.m.
Location: Kaiser Family Foundation Barbara Jordan Conference Center, 1330 G St. NW, Washington, D.C.
A distinguished panel of presenters will discuss fiscal stresses from Medicare and Medicaid, peer into future health spending trends, directly confront the central question of sustainable spending, and examine essential health policy trade-offs.
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Special Seminar: The State of the Health Care Debate
Date: July 19, 2018
Time: 3:00
--- 4:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Jonathan Cohn, senior national correspondent, Huffington Post
Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost, writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare. He is also the author of
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---- and the People Who Pay the Price. Cohn worked previously at
The New Republic and
American Prospect, and has written for
The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and
Self. His journalism has won awards from the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Association of Health Care Journalists, World Hunger Year, and the National Women's Political Caucus.
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July 25 special NEJM Catalyst event hosted by IHPI
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The symposium will be held at the U-M Power Center and CME credit will be available.
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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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MLibrary @NCRC
This newly created Health Services Research guide organizes content into the broad categories of health care access, cost, quality, disparities, and policy. Currently in beta mode, the guide provides access to a range of content needed for health services research, ranging from peer-reviewed databases to grey literature.
Let us know how you would like to see this guide improved through our
very brief survey.
Interested in learning more?
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
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University of Michigan Training Program in ELSI Research
The University of Michigan Training Program in ELSI Research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, seeks to prepare the next generation of ELSI scholars for success as innovative, impactful investigators. The program offers an integrated program of advanced coursework, research mentoring, and professional development, led by an interdisciplinary team of approximately 20 U-M faculty mentors with expertise and resources in medicine, public health, public policy, and social and behavioral disciplines.
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Front-line medical providers say Michigan's Medicaid expansion helped patients' health and ability to work
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Extending medical insurance to low-income Michigan residents meant they had better access to health care, earlier detection of serious illnesses, better care for existing health problems, and improved ability to work, attend school, and live independently, according to a newly published survey of primary care providers.
Published in the
Journal of General Internal Medicine by lead author
Susan Goold, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., professor of internal medicine, the results come from 2,104 primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who care for 12 or more people insured by the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan's expansion of the Medicaid insurance program to low-income adults.
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What doctors wear really does matter, study finds
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Physicians may want to dig a little deeper into their closets, or grab their white coats on the way out of the operating room, if they want patients to view them favorably, according to the largest-ever study of patient preferences for doctors' attire.
In fact, what medical doctors wear may matter more than most doctors
---- or even patients
---- might think, say the researchers behind the new paper in
BMJ Open led by
Christopher Petrilli, M.D., assistant professor of hospital medicine.
Based on their findings, they call for more hospitals, health systems, and practice groups to look at their dress standards for physicians, or create them if they don't already have one. Just over half of the 4,062 patients surveyed in the clinics and hospitals of ten major medical centers said that what physicians wear is important to them
---- and more than one-third said that what a doctor wears influences their satisfaction with their care.
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Understanding and Addressing Violence in Health Disparity Populations
The
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) has announced its interest in receiving grant applications studying the causes and consequences of violence in health disparity populations, as well as policy, health services, and intervention studies to understand how best to prevent or mitigate the impact of violence in these populations.
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National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation Investigator-Initiated Research Grants
Deadline: July 9, 2018
Award Amount: $400,000 among 8 studies
NIHCM Foundation is now accepting letters of inquiry for the 2018
--- 2019 funding cycle of its investigator-initiated research grant program. A total of approximately $400,000 is available to be divided among seven to eight 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. Interested researchers must submit a brief letter of inquiry (LOI) outlining their study idea by 5:00 PM EDT on July 9, 2018.
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Michigan Diabetes Research Center Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program
Deadline: August 6, 2018
Award Amount: $100,000/2 years
The purpose of this Pilot/Feasibility grant is to foster new interdisciplinary collaboration between two or more University of Michigan faculty from distinct disciplines to focus their combined research strengths on cutting-edge areas in diabetes research.
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MDRC and MCDTR Pilot/Feasibility grant program
Deadline: August 6, 2018
Award Amount: up to $50,000
The purpose of Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC) and Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research (MCDTR) Pilot/Feasibility grant is to promote research in diabetes by new and established investigators at the University of Michigan for basic, clinical and type 2 translational diabetes research.
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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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U-M Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) KL2
Deadline: September 11, 2018
The Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) is requesting applications for the MICHR K
--- Mentored Clinical Scientists Career Development Award. Awards will be for two years, and begin March 1, 2019.
Eligible applicants are health professional faculty with a doctoral degree (M.D. or Ph.D.) with a clinical focus. University of Michigan early-career faculty and mid-career health care professionals interested in initiating careers in clinical research are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be permanent residents or U.S. citizens.
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IHPI Senior Communications Specialist
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