July 2018 Edition
 
Summer interlude

Amid the July heat and typical mid-summer road construction, I hope everyone finds the opportunity this summer to relax with family and friends.

Activity in and around IHPI continues at its usual brisk pace. We had another robust showing at last month's AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, and congratulations to all IHPI members who presented their work or moderated discussions at this national conference.

We also welcome the newest cohorts of National Clinician Scholars, IHPI Master's Scholars, and the first group of TACTICAL Scholars who have just begun their training here at U-M.

On July 25, we were pleased to host a special event produced by NEJM Catalyst, "Essentials of High-Performing Organizations," which was live streamed around the world to more than 6,400 participants, in addition to the nearly 150 who attended in person. The event featured discussions between leaders in healthcare and other settings, including several of our own members. The videorecording of the event will be available soon.

I hope this summer finds you well and looking toward the fall with rejuvenated energy, fresh ideas, and renewed drive to continue your important work in improving healthcare.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 

Nearly a third of older adults have received a prescription for an opioid pain medicine in the past two years. But the associated dangers often go unaddressed according to new results from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.  Many patients didn't get enough counseling about the risks that come with the potent painkillers, how to reduce their use, when to switch to a non-opioid option, or what to do with leftover pills.

However, the poll also finds that nearly three-quarters of surveyed older adults would support limits on how many opioid pills a doctor could prescribe at once. Even more supported other efforts to limit exposure to these medications and potentially combat the national epidemic of opioid misuse due to medication diversion.


Older Adults' Experiences with Opioid Prescriptions: National Poll on Healthy Aging

 
 
Denton, Dimick, and Heisler recognized by MICHR for mentorship

Brian Denton, Ph.D., professor of industrial and operations engineering,  Justin Dimick, M.D., M.P.H., professor of surgery, and Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., professor of internal medicine, will be honored in November with a 2018 Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award. They will be recognized for the intellectual, creative, scholarly, and professional growth of their students, fellows, and trainees in the areas of clinical and translational health and research.

The awardees will be honored at the 2018 Mentoring Forum, which will also include an opportunity for the National Research Mentoring Network's Culturally Aware Mentorship training.

 
 
 
Kales selected to take part in update of 'The Lancet' report on Alzheimer's disease burden

Helen Kales, M.D., professor of psychiatry, has been selected to take part in an update of the international expert Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care in October in London. In addition, Amanda Leggett, Ph.D., M.S., research assistant professor of psychiatry, has been selected to take part in the commission as a promising researcher in dementia. Dr. Leggett currently has a K-award from the NIH examining a variety of caregiver well-being and stress measures toward creating profiles of "caregiver styles" (akin to parenting styles). Kales is her primary mentor.

Kales
 
 
Magee named National Kidney Foundation board chair

The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan (NKFM) has elected John C. Magee, M.D., professor of surgery, as chair of its board of directors.

Magee is the Jeremiah and Claire Turcotte Professor and Head of the Section of Transplantation in the U-M Department of Surgery as well as a professor of internal medicine and pediatrics. He serves as the director of the U-M Transplant Center and as the surgical director for Pediatric Abdominal Transplantation. He performs kidney, pancreas, and liver transplants.
Magee
 
 
Manojlovich elected American Academy of Nursing fellow

Milisa Manojlovich, Ph.D., R.N., associate professor of nursing, was selected as an American Academy of Nursing Fellow. She will be honored at a ceremony held during the Academy's annual policy conference this November for her significant contributions to nursing and health care.

The American Academy of Nursing's approximately 2,400 fellows are nursing leaders in education, management, practice, and research.
Manojlovich
 
 
Agochukwu among U-M's first Precision Health Scholars awardees

Nnenaya Agochukwu, M.D.,  an IHPI National Clinician Scholar and urologist, has won one of U-M's first Precision Health Scholars Awards. 

Her work, which aims to better predict sexual dysfunction after radical prostatectomy, will receive $80,000 in funding under the award given through the U-M Precision Health initiative. 


Agochukwu
 
 
Lisabeth named SPH senior associate dean for administration

Lynda Lisabeth, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of public health, was appointed to senior associate dean for Administration at the School of Public Health. This position works closely with the Dean and the school's leadership team to oversee general administration of the school with an emphasis on faculty matters including the annual merit process, recruitment and retention, and mentoring.
Lisabeth
 
Membership
 
 
Amy Kilbourne, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Psychiatry

Over her career, Amy Kilbourne, Ph.D., M.P.H., has developed nationally recognized expertise in a growing field known as implementation science, which studies the most effective methods or strategies to help healthcare providers adapt and adopt best practices, and, even more importantly, how to sustain them. Here she discusses how implementation scientists partner with providers and other researchers to integrate new evidence throughout routine healthcare practice and more rapidly respond to current health policy challenges.

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  EVENTS
Replay: June IHPI Seminar, "Development of the System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (S.O.S.)"

Watch the June IHPI Seminar Series featuring Mahshid Abir, M.D., M.Sc., director, Acute Care Research Unit (ACRU), and assistant professor, Emergency Medicine.


In 2017, the U-M Injury Prevention Center, the Acute Care Research Unit (ACRU), and Michigan HIDTA partnered to develop a near real-time surveillance system for fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses in Washtenaw County by linking data from emergency medical services (EMS), emergency departments (ED), and the Washtenaw County Medical Examiner's (ME) office. This information is available in a timely manner to public health and public safety officials, allowing for increased interventions aimed at preventing fatal and non-fatal overdoses.
 
 
Replay: IHPI special seminar---- The State of the Healthcare Debate with Jonathan Cohn


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. Jonathan worked previously at the New Republic and American Prospect, and has written for the Atlantic, 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.
 
 
Michigan Medicine to co-host maternal and infant health town hall

Date: August 16, 2018
Time: 6:00 --- 7:30 p.m.
In Person Location: Henry Ford Health System, 1 Ford Place, Detroit
Register here for the in-person meeting
Webcast Location: U-M North Campus Research Complex, Building 10, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor


The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the Maternal Infant Strategy Group (MISG) are hosting four regional town hall meetings to collect community input on the state's 2019 --- 2022 Mother Infant Health Improvement Plan.

Interdisciplinary representation across a variety of physician, nursing, social work, and community partners caring for moms at Michigan Medicine are all welcome.
 
 
2018 Symposium on Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety

Date: September 17, 2018
Time: 5:00 --- 7:30 p.m.
Location: 3rd and 4th Floors, Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center, 1221 Beal Ave

Learn more about how the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) is improving the safety and quality of healthcare delivery by identifying, fostering, and promoting collaborative projects across the university. Come enjoy refreshments, networking with colleagues and potential collaborators, poster presentations on cutting-edge healthcare research, and the opportunity to learn about current activities at CHEPS.
 

You're invited to attend the 2018 Ann Arbor Health Services Research Symposium, where nationally renowned speakers will give powerful TED-style talks on translating research into real world impact.

The symposium will be held at the U-M Power Center and CME credit will be available.
 

Rick Iedema, Ph.D., FASSA, professor and director for the Centre for Team Based Practice & Learning in Health Care, King's College London, will be on campus September 24-25 for three workshops/lectures. The School of Nursing and IHPI are sponsoring:

Novel video techniques for improving patient safety
September 24: 4 --- 5 p.m. | Level 1 Research Auditorium | NCRC Building 10 
Reception to follow

Mini workshop on video reflexive ethnography
September 25: 8 a.m. --- noon | Room 1000 | School of Nursing Building, 426 N. Ingalls

If healthcare is a complex adaptive system, what approaches do we need to engage with such a system?
September 25: 2 --- 3 p.m. | Room 1000 | School of Nursing Building, 426 N. Ingalls
 
 
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
 
 
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.
 
 


This one-day workshop will provide participants with an introductory overview of qualitative research methods. What to expect: Instructors will cover key features of qualitative research, study design, sampling, data collection, data analysis, and proposal and manuscript preparation. The workshop will include interactive exercises (e.g., designing a study, developing a sampling strategy, writing an interview guide, developing a codebook, coding data) to help participants apply their learning to real research questions.
 
 


This workshop targets researchers, faculty, staff, and students motivated to design a mixed methods research project using both qualitative and quantitative methods. What to expect:
  • Work on your mixed methods proposal, research study, or manuscript
  • Improve your project with rigorous methodology using an interactive-participatory format
  • Refine your project through group consultation with leading methodologists and group feedback
 
 
Women in Big Data at Michigan Symposium

Date: November 12, 2018
Time: 8:30 a.m. --- 4:30 p.m.
Location: Michigan League
Keynote Speaker: Xihong Lin, Ph.D., Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics, and chair, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

This day-long symposium will highlight women data science researchers at U-M, provide resources and support for women pursuing careers in data science, a poster session, lunchtime round table discussions, a faculty panel, and ample time for networking.

IHPI Speakers:
 
 
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC

Highlighted resource:  Data-Planet Statistical Datasets

Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations. Create maps and reports from data you select from over 640 datasets. Subjects include health, crime, population, finance, industry, and marketing. Data is available for the world as a whole or for selected countries.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
 
 
Mentored Clinical Scientists Career Development (MICHR K) award

Applications due September 11, 2018

The Mentored Clinical Scientists Career Development (MICHR K) award is a two-year award that provides protected time for a clinician scientist to focus on conducting clinical research. University of Michigan early-career faculty and mid-career health care professionals initiating careers in clinical research are encouraged to apply. Each applicant should hold an advanced professional degree (i.e. DDS, JD, MD, PharmD, or PhD) with a clinical or health focus, and must be a U.S. citizen or a U.S. permanent resident.

 
 
Study Team Workforce Development Working Group

Organized by the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR), this group brings together study team members who work on health or medicine related research to share knowledge, experience, and skills related to study team training and education at the U-M. An MICHR committee will choose 9-15 study team or research support office members to serve for a one-year term on the working group.

The deadline to apply is September 10, 2018. You will be notified of application status by the end of September for the term beginning in October.

 
 
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.

The program is accepting applications for a one predoctoral fellowship and one postdoctoral fellowship to begin September 2018.
 
State opioid monitoring programs: Not all created equal

States that have struggled with opioid abuse might want to take a look at prescription drug monitoring programs in Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee, and New York ---- states that have significantly reduced opioid dosages ---- according to a study published in Health Affairs by lead author Rebecca Haffajee, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H. assistant professor of health management policy at the U-M School of Public Health.


"For states that haven't implemented robust features and want to reduce the dosages of opioids prescribed, they might consider modeling their programs after some of these robust programs ---- particularly Kentucky's, because that's where we saw the greatest reductions," Haffajee said.

 
 
Gaps in health insurance linked to five-fold increase in hospital stays and ER visits for adults with type 1 diabetes

For a million American adults, living with type 1 diabetes means a constant need for insulin medication, blood sugar testing supplies, and specialized care, to keep them healthy and prevent a crisis that could end up in an emergency room visit, a hospital stay, or death.


But a new study finds that one in four working-age adults with type 1 diabetes had at least one gap of at least 30 days in their private health insurance, within an average of a three-year period. The study was published in Health Affairs and led by Mary Rogers, Ph.D., M.S., research associate professor of internal medicine.

 
 
Alcohol-related cirrhosis deaths skyrocket in young adults

Deaths from cirrhosis rose in all but one state between 1999 --- 2016, with increases seen most often among young adults, a new study shows. The deaths linked to the end stages of liver damage jumped by 65 percent with alcohol a major cause.

Liver specialist  Elliot B. Tapper, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, says he's witnessed the disturbing shift in demographics among the patients with liver failure he treats at Michigan Medicine. National data collected by Tapper and study co-author  Neehar Parikh, M.D., M.S., clinical lecturer of internal medicine, confirms that in communities across the country more young people are drinking themselves to death.

 
 
MORE NEWS


 
  FUNDING
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.
 
 
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 U-M faculty from distinct disciplines to focus their combined research strengths on cutting-edge areas in diabetes research.
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
 
Mi-TRAC and Mi-Kickstart funding 

The U-M Translational Research and Commercialization for Life Sciences Hub (Mi-TRAC Hub) provides resources to support translational projects in the life sciences with high commercial potential. The Mi-TRAC Award offers 1-year of funding in the range of $100K-$250K with a deadline of September 24, 2018.

Mi-Kickstart Awards are a part of the MTRAC for Life Sciences Innovation Hub ---- a statewide program that accelerates the transfer of technologies from Michigan's institutions of higher education to the private sector for commercialization. The Mi-Kickstart awards offer funding for preliminary studies or development activities that will lead to products with applications in health care with a deadline of August 1, 2018. Funding range is up to $42,500 direct costs. LEARN MORE
 
 
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. Unlike other mentored K awards, candidates for this award must have received competitively awarded research support as a PD/PI at the faculty level or have otherwise leveraged faculty-level research support to develop an independent line of research. They must show evidence of leadership in the clinical or research domain.

IHPI members and previous award recipients Donovan Maust and Julie Bynum are available as resources regarding this award.
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