April 2018 Edition
 
IHPI's role in precision health

Precision health: it's a concept that goes well beyond developing genome-directed drug therapies. Precision health encompasses a comprehensive range of biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors that contribute to better health and healthcare. The field of precision health is devoted to developing and implementing personalized solutions to help individuals, families, and communities prevent poor health outcomes and improve their well-being.

The University of Michigan's Precision Health Initiative, announced in October 2017, draws on U-M's strengths across basic, clinical, and health services research to expand and bolster partnerships in precision health from discovery through implementation ---- including evaluations of health policies and their impact. Our university's well-established strengths in interdisciplinary collaboration positions us well to drive advances in precision health across research, education, and patient care.

The IHPI community will play an important part in this U-M initiative, with a number of our members already serving in key leadership positions: Sachin Kheterpal co-directs the initiative, while Amy Bohnert, Chad Brummett, Hae Mi Choe, Amy Cohn, Lynda Lisabeth, Bhramar Mukherjee, Brahmajee Nallamothu, and Jenna Wiens are serving as workgroup leaders across different domains.

I am chairing the Faculty Advisory Committee, on which Brian Denton, Karen Farris, Bhramar Mukherjee, and Brian Zikmund-Fisher serve as regular members, and Rebecca Cunningham and Sachin Kheterpal are ex-officio members.

The Precision Health Initiative has issued an RFA for its first round of grant funding, which will support the development of precision health research, tools, and data through up to 12 Investigators Awards of $300,000 each over two years; pre-proposals are due April 30. Look for a second funding announcement in the coming weeks for the U-M Precision Health Scholars Awards, which will support post-doctoral fellows and graduate students.

Precision health aims to deliver the right treatment to the right individual at the right time ---- and the time is ripe for the University of Michigan and its partners to move forward on this important initiative.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 
Opioid Solutions promotes collaborative approach to epidemic

The new Opioid Solutions community, a resource developed by U-M's Office of Research, Injury Prevention Center, and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, is working to tackle the root causes of the national opioid crisis and identify potential solutions. It serves as a central hub for U-M research, educational activities, and community outreach related to opioids.


A wide range of U-M researchers have developed Opioid Solutions, which is working to tackle the root causes of, and potential solutions for, the national opioid crisis. It draws on nearly 100 U-M faculty and serves as a hub for research, educational activities and community outreach related to opioids.

 
 
April 28 event will help Michiganders get opioids and more out of their homes

On Saturday, April 28, Michigan residents in 16 counties will get a chance to get opioids and other unused and expired prescription medicines out of their medicine cabinets, through 27 simultaneous events.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., hospitals, pharmacies, community organizations, and police departments around the state will take unneeded medications back. The effort is made possible by local partnerships with the University of Michigan's Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan OPEN).


 
 
Ryan named the first UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management

The University of Michigan School of Public Health announced that Andrew Ryan, Ph.D., M.A., has been named the first UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management. UnitedHealthcare established this $2.5 million endowed professorship to support a selected tenured faculty member by funding both salary and a discretionary fund that enables the school to pursue innovative health policy research.

Ryan
 
 
Herrel appointed to CMS subcommittee

Lindsey Herrel, M.D., M.S., clinical lecturer of urology, was selected to serve on the CMS MACRA Episode-Based Cost Measure Clinical Subcommittee on Urologic Disease Management. Her participation will ensure that the clinical measures developed for the MIPS Cost performance category will accurately reflect urologist-specific resource use and cost for Kidney Stone Removal or Destruction, Nephrectomy, Procedure for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, Prostate Cancer Treatment, and Radical Cystectomy episodes of care.
Herrel
 
 
Haymart, Iwashyna, and Kaye elected to the ASCI

The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) welcomed 78 new members at their annual meeting last month in Chicago. The new class of members are noted for their work as physician-scientists representing a diverse range of disciplines, specialties, and institutions. IHPI members inducted into the society included Megan Haymart, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine,  Theodore Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of internal medicine, and Keith S. Kaye, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine.

 
New Members
 
 
Diane M. Harper, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Professor, Family Medicine, Medical School

The advances in medical, social, behavioral, and engineering sciences allow creative solutions for maintaining health and preventing disease that can be individualized at the community and even person level. Understanding how to leverage these advances for cost-effective population healthcare that fits into a business model for sustaining the delivery of healthcare is important to me.

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  EVENTS
IHPI Seminar Series

May Seminar: Mental Health and Opioid Policy
Date: May 24, 2018
Time: 4:00 --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Lynda Zeller, senior deputy director, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Reception and networking to immediately follow the presentation.

June Seminar: Development of the System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (S.O.S.)
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018
Time: 4:00 --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Mahshid Abir, M.D., M.Sc., director, Acute Care Research Unit (ACRU) and assistant professor of emergency medicine
Reception and networking to immediately follow the presentation.

To record CME activity, visit  www.umhscme.com using the following program ID: IHPI Research Seminar Series ---- 05182

Watch the April Seminar
Precision health, big data, and evidence-based medicine ---- contradictions or companions? Special guest speaker John P.A. Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc, professor of medicine, of health research and policy, biomedical data science, and statistics, Stanford University.

 
 
How do we know if we're delivering high quality, patient-centered care? The challenges of incorporating the patient perspective into quality measurement

Dates: May 8, 2018
Times: 10:00 --- 11:00 a.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Grace Lin, M.D., assistant professor of general internal medicine, University of California, San Francisco: IHPI's second visiting Emerging Scholar

Efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the United States have focused on the "Triple Aim:" better value, better health, and better care. But how do we quantify whether we are reaching those goals? Are current quality measures adequate? This presentation will explore the potential of crafting quality measures to capture whether high quality, patient-centered care is taking place.


Watch the April 12 Emerging Scholars presentation below given by M. Kit Delgado, M.D., M.S., FACEP, assistant professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania: "Leveraging smartphones and behavioral economics for preventing unintentional injury and overdoses"

 
 
2018 CBSSM Research Colloquium---- University of Michigan

Date: May 1, 2018
Time: 9:00 a.m. --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, Henderson Room
Speaker: Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., professor of bioethics and medical anthropology, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco

The CBSSM Research Colloquium will feature the Bishop Lecture in Bioethics as the keynote address. Koenig will present the Bishop Lecture with a talk entitled: "Does Enhancing Individual Choice and Control Promote Freedom? Challenges in Contemporary Bioethics."
 
 
Large-Scale Grants Town Hall with George A. Mashour, M.D., Ph.D.

Date: May 1, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Danto Auditorium, 425 Ann St., Ann Arbor, MI

If you are interested in tackling complex research questions using a cross-disciplinary approach, you will learn about resources that can support you in pursuing external, large-scale grant funding.

Competitive large-scale grants, particularly NIH U- and P-series awards, are characterized by integrated and strategic research team visions that leverage collaborative partnerships. Obtaining large-scale grant funding has far-reaching benefits for the awardee, the research team, and the institution. To encourage the pursuit of large-scale grants, MICHR has developed a comprehensive plan of support that is available to faculty across the university.
 
 
U-M Injury Prevention Center: Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault

Date: May 2, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. --- 5:30 p.m.
Location: Rackham Graduate School

This inclusive professional development event is for practitioners in the sexual assault field (physicians, social workers, psychologists, and other public health professionals), as well as researchers, faculty, and campus stakeholders (including students).

Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, the President of the Association of American Universities, will deliver the keynote presentation, which will be followed by outstanding presentations by leading experts in the field of campus sexual assault prevention.
 
 
Getting the Price Right: Paying for Comprehensive Primary Care

Date: May 3, 2018
Time: 11:00 a.m. --- 12:00 p.m.
Location: School of Nursing, 426 North Ingalls, Classroom 2000 SNB
Speaker:  Grant Martsolf, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., FAAN, professor of acute & tertiary care, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh

Innovative primary care delivery and payment models, most notably "comprehensive primary care," might yield meaningful improvements in the quality and efficiency of care. However, many comprehensive primary care capabilities, such as care management and coordination, are not compensated via traditional fee-for-service payment. To calculate new payments for these capabilities, policymakers require estimates of the costs that practices incur when adopting, maintaining, and using the capabilities. Dr. Martsolf will discuss a recent series of projects aimed to estimate the costs of adopting these capabilities and related issues in primary care payment policies designed to promote the adoption of comprehensive primary care.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Expanding Your Biostastics Toolkit for Biomedical Research

Date: May 7 --- 11, 2018
Time: 9:00 a.m. --- 4:00 p.m.
Location: School of Public Health, SPH I, Room 1690

This workshop will expand attendees' biostatistical toolkit and provide individuals with the knowledge to conduct preliminary biostatistical analysis and to write the methods section of a grant or paper. The topics that will be covered during the workshop include an introduction to biostatistics, clinical trials, survival analysis, and longitudinal analysis.

The registration fee is $300. This fee includes a continental breakfast for each day of the workshop. This fee cannot be refunded, but can be transferred to another individual.
The deadline to apply is April 27th, 2018.

Questions? Contact [email protected]
 
 
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. David Marrero, director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences, 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.

 
 
Precision Medicine World Conference

Date: June 6 --- 7, 2018
Location: U-M Ross Business School

The 14th Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) will take place at the U-M and coincides with the recent launch of U-M's Precision Health initiative.

To support the U-M's goal to bring together leading researchers from across the university and the country to springboard this new and exciting initiative, PMWC and U-M have agreed that the campus is an optimal location for the next conference. This forum will showcase practical content that helps close the knowledge gap among different sectors and feature innovative technologies, and analyze the success of already thriving initiatives and clinical case studies that enable the translation of precision medicine into direct improvements in health care.

Conference co-hosts include Duke University, Duke Health, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford Health Care, and University of California San Francisco.
 
 
4th Annual U-M Leadership Summit for Women in Academic Medicine and Healthcare

Date: June 8, 2018
Time: 7:30 a.m. --- 5:30 p.m.

This summit is a rare opportunity for women across the nation to focus on their professional development. The only event of its kind, the summit focuses specifically on advancing women leaders in their careers in healthcare and academic medicine. Join 400+ women for a day of learning, growth, and inspiration.
 
 
Date: June 13, 2018
Time: 4:00 p.m. --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: Ford Auditorium, University Hospital

You are invited to the Frontier Seminar covering Medicaid Expansion, featuring  Renu Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., clinical lecturer of internal medicine and Sarah Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor of business. This seminar will be moderated by John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., professor of internal medicine and director of IHPI.

 
 

Attend the 2018 Annual Research Meeting: The Largest Meeting of Health Services Researchers and Policy Analysts


AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting (ARM), the premier forum for health services research (HSR), convenes the foremost experts at the intersection of health, health care, and policy to share important findings and showcase the latest research on how the health system works, what it costs, and how to improve it.
 
 
 
Coming Soon: IHPI Summer Student Lunch-and-Learn

IHPI will be hosting weekly student lunch-and-learn sessions, June through July, for students working with IHPI faculty this summer. The sessions offer students opportunities to learn more about our members' professional and career experiences. Last year's program included seven lunch-and-learn sessions attended by an average of 12 students each session, with 19 faculty serving as co-hosts. We are looking forward to building on the success of this program and invite your students to participate.

If you plan on having undergraduate, graduate, or medical students work with you this summer, or if you are interested in co-hosting a lunch, please email Emma Steppe.
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC


Create custom reports using single or multiple states using hundreds of indicators from KFF's State Health Facts. This new interactive tool allows you to select categories ranging from health coverage to economic measures, pick subcategories of data, and download and share needed data.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
 
Rate of dementia on the decline: but beware of growing numbers

The good news? The rate of older Americans with dementia is on the decline. The bad news? The number of Americans 85 and older will roughly double in the next 20 years, so even with a decline in the rate of dementia among older adults, the number of people with dementia will likely increase substantially. The impact on both those with dementia and the people who care for them is significant. More than 45 million people worldwide have dementia.


Robert Schoeni, Ph.D., research professor at the Institute for Social Research, Ken Langa, M.D., Ph.D., research professor of internal medicine, and colleagues have led a special supplement to the Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences that examines trends in dementia across the United States. The nine studies provide new evidence on whether dementia trends have been more favorable, and reasons for those trends.

 
New medical devices help doctors with disabilities

A third-year medical student at U-M is determined to become a doctor despite the physical limitations of her disability. A new device developed with funding from Third Century Initiative Global Challenges and the Technology Increasing Knowledge: Technology Optimizing Choice (TIKTOC RERC) program is helping her overcome the challenges of performing standard patient examinations with limited mobility.


Michelle Meade, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, and director of TIKTOC RERC, says that many doctors with disabilities bring diverse skills and viewpoints to the medical world.

 
 
Op ed : Beware of unintended consequences of Michigan Medicaid work demand

Luke Shaefer, Ph.D., associate professor of public policy and director of  Poverty Solutions, Renu Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc. , assistant professor of internal medicine, and  Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A., executive director of the Center for Health Care Research and Transformation, recently wrote an opinion piece for Bridge Magazine centered around adding work requirements to all public assistant programs. 
 
 
 
MORE NEWS


Michigan falls short in frontline treatment for opioid crisis ( Bridge Magazine --- Lagisetty, A. Bohnert)
 
  FUNDING
Donaghue Foundation 'Greater Value' Research Grants

Deadline: May 3, 2018
Award Amount: Up to $400,000
WEBSITE

The Donaghue Foundation announces its   2018 Greater Value Portfolio Grant Program that will fund research projects for the purpose of advancing promising approaches to achieve a higher value healthcare system. The goal of this program is to test approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the healthcare they provide to their patients and communities.
 
 
W.T. Grant seeks work on reducing inequality

Deadline: May 18, 2018
Award Amount: $100,000 -- $600,000 over 2 -- 3 years for grants on reducing inequality and $100,000 -- $1,000,000 over 2 -- 4 years for grants on improving research evidence
WEBSITE

The foundation seeks research on reducing inequality in youth ages 5 -- 25, focusing on barriers to success in academic, social (including mental health), behavioral, and economic realms. Strong proposals will clearly demonstrate the link between a form of inequality and youth outcomes. The foundation also seeks projects that will help to improve the use of evidence in policy and practice.

 
 
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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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
[email protected]
202-554-0578

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