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A time to give thanks, recharge, and...refresh
Dear IHPI community,
I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving and came away refreshed for the remaining weeks of the fall semester.
At IHPI, our communications team has been busy refreshing our "virtual front door" with a new primary website, which has the same internet address
www.ihpi.umich.edu. The website connects our nearly 600 members and showcases your areas of expertise and collaborations to the outside world. Our revamped site, launched earlier this week, offers cleaner navigation and more intuitive links to member resources, enhanced member profiles, and new feature areas highlighting our institute's priorities and key programs.
Please check out the new website, review your own profile page, and
let us know what you think. As always, we welcome your input and ideas.
With thanks for our remarkably collaborative community,
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
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Half of women over 50 experience incontinence, but most haven't talked to a doctor, U-M/AARP poll finds
Nearly half of women over 50 say they sometimes leak urine
---- a problem that can range from a minor nuisance to a major issue
---- according to a new national poll. Of more than 1,000 women between the ages of 50 and 80 who answered the poll, 43 percent of women in their 50s and early 60s said they had experienced urinary incontinence, as had 51 percent of those age 65 and over. IHPI member
Carolyn Swensen, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, describes the key findings of this poll in the following video.
The new findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging suggest that more physicians should routinely ask their older female patients about incontinence issues they might be experiencing.
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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.
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Q&A with Rebecca Cunningham: The importance of research on firearm safety
On November 16, 2018, researchers from the University of Michigan and partner institutions announced a new website,
www.childfirearmsafety.org, that aims to share what's known
---- and what experts still need to find out
---- about guns and people under age 19. The site offers free access to data on the issue, as well as training for health care providers and others.
The site is first product of Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS), a federally funded national effort that aims to fill the knowledge gap about firearms and young people, and make up for a 'lost generation' of research on the issue. The effort is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., co-leader of FACTS and an emergency physician and associate vice president for research at U-M, discussed the announcement.
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Meddings provides expertise on patient safety at Health Affairs event
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Jennifer Meddings
---- Photo courtesy of
Health Affairs
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New Biosciences Initiative awards include kinesiology and nursing members
Steve Broglio, Ph.D., professor, School of Kinesiology, is the new principal investigator of the "Michigan Concussion Center," one of five Biosciences Initiative awards.
Broglio is co-director of one of the largest concussion studies in the nation, jointly funded by the NCAA and the Department of Defense. This proposal calls for the creation of a comprehensive U-M concussion research center through the recruitment of an additional epidemiologist, a neuroscientist, and a clinical interventionist. The researchers will use a multidisciplinary approach to answer fundamental questions about concussion prevention, identification, diagnosis, management, and outcomes.
Chris Friese, Ph.D., R.N., professor, School of Nursing, was awarded an Exploratory Funding grant for "Applying an innovation framework to improve health in rural populations" and will be the principal investigator.
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- Salim Hayek, M.D., assistant professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School
- Shanna Kattari, Ph.D., M.Ed., assistant professor, School of Social Work
- Prasad Shankar, M.D., clinical assistant professor, Department of Radiology, Medical School
- Craig Williamson, M.D., M.S., clinical assistant professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School
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Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Lecturer in Gastroenterology & Hepatology
I am interested in identifying the barriers to delivering high-value care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease, with a focus on transitions and access to care. Though inflammatory bowel disease is less prevalent than other chronic conditions, its management is costly to our healthcare system and imposes significant burdens on quality of life for patients.
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December IHPI Seminar
Understanding healthcare care for the elderly: separating the impact of the patient and the providers
Date: December 13, 2018
Time: 4:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Presenter: Beth A. Virnig, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor and senior associate dean for Academic Affairs and Research, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Reception to immediately follow
Dr. Virnig is a widely published author of studies examining access to health care and use and outcomes of that care. She examines how health care is influenced by patients, providers, and markets. Her research on the elderly in the Medicare program focuses on cancer surveillance and care, Medicare managed care, and end-of-life care.
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CHEPS Seminar: Does Surgical Training Need to be
Re-Engineered?
Date: December 3, 2018
Time: 4:30 p.m.
--- 6:30 p.m.
Location: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (LBME), Room 1123,
1101 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Speaker:
Brian George, M.D., M.A., assistant professor, Department of Surgery, Medical School
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Moving the Needle: Promoting Culture Change to Prevent Sexual Harassment
Date: December 7 , 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m.
--- 12:00 p.m.
Location: 1010 Weiser Hall
This workshop is centered around the presentation of three short monologues that depict members of academic communities disclosing their concerns about sexual harassment: a graduate student experiencing unwanted attention from her advisor, a staff member encountering explicit inappropriate comments around gender and sexual orientation from a co-worker, and a faculty member talking about his role in reporting on incidents of gender bias that have been shared with him. Facilitated dialogue paired with a presentation of research on the incidence and experience of sexual harassment invite participants to consider what is happening in their spaces and to reflect on what they can do to anticipate, respond, and create cultures resistant to sexual harassment
Host: Fiona Lee, Associate Dean for DEI and Professional Development
Presented by: The CRLT Players
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MLibrary @NCRC
LegisScan OneVote provides the ability to conduct a national legislative search and to develop a topic-related or bill specific e-mail alert to track legislation. You can also create and share basic reports. Use the
free registration to get started.
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NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Scholars Program
Applications Deadline: January 1, 2019
Apply today for a unique, professional opportunity to address important issues in health policy by conducting studies and research at your institution using restricted data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data systems and programs.
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CBSSM Post-Doctoral Fellowship Openings
Applications Deadline: January 11, 2019
The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM), a multidisciplinary research unit sponsored by the University of Michigan Medical School Dean's Office, the Office of Clinical Affairs, and the Department of Internal Medicine, has an active program for Postdoctoral Research Fellows:
- Bioethics Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Decision Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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MICHR: Responsible Conduct of Research for K Awardees 2019
Sessions: January 8, 16, 28 and February 11, 25
In Winter 2019, MICHR will offer the popular Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) for K Awardees, a seminar that is designed to meet the requirements of the NIH K-23, or any federal or non-federal career development grant.
The 5-session (10 hour) seminar is mostly interactive, practice-based, and focused on addressing RCR issues (ethics, integrity, and regulatory matters) that have arisen in the course of your own funded research. It's relevant, hands-on, and includes mentoring from experienced faculty.
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AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellowship
Application Deadline: January 14, 2019
AcademyHealth's Delivery System Science Fellowship (DSSF), now in its eighth year, offers a paid, year-long learning opportunity for highly qualified, post-doctoral researchers to gain more applied experience in a delivery system setting. As part of this unique fellowship experience, individuals with a background in health services research or related fields are placed within one of 10 leading delivery systems to apply and enhance their analytic skills and obtain hands-on training and professional development opportunities.
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U-M Coulter Program is Announcing the 2019 Call for Proposals
Application Deadline: February 4, 2019
The Coulter Program funds collaborative translational research projects between Engineering and Clinical faculty co-investigators. The goal of the program is to accelerate development and commercialization of new medical devices, diagnostics, and other medical product concepts that address unmet clinical needs and lead to improvements in healthcare. Projects are actively supported and mentored by Coulter Program Management and a team of industry-experienced experts who proactively work to accelerate Coulter Program objectives.
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The Future of Health Services Research: Advancing Health Systems Research and Practice in the United States
A Special Publication from the National Academy of Medicine
A new National Academy of Medicine special publication captures the insights, opportunities, and obligations identified in a recent meeting about the future of health services research. Health services research can contribute to increased effectiveness, efficiency, and safety across the health care system if properly funded and supported, the publication concludes, while the path forward for the field will require sustained and deliberate conversations involving stakeholders from throughout the nation.
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Opioid consumption after surgery: Numbers matter
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Many surgeons write prescriptions for opioid pain medications four times larger than what their patients will actually use after common operations, a new study shows.
And the size of that prescription may be the most important factor in how many opioid pills the patient will take
---- outweighing their pain scores, the intensity of their operation and personal factors, the research suggests.
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Progress in prevention of hospital-acquired bed sores varies
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A new study shows important differences between two sources of data used to track the rates and progress of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs). The hospital billing data used to calculate Medicare payment rates and penalties for hospitals may miss many of the HAPUs that patients are actually getting, the study finds.
In a
new paper in the November issue of Health Affairs,
Jennifer Meddings, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine, and her research team recommend better ways of tracking HAPUs for value-based purchasing policies. The program should use the same approach hospitals already use to track infections that patients develop during their stay, and adjust rates and penalties based on patients' underlying risk.
READ MORE
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IHPI Grant Development Resources
IHPI can provide pre-submission proposal planning consultations, non-technical writing support and editing, and facilitates access to research and funding resources for grant and grant development. Learn more and also find helpful links and tools on our
new grant development resource page. For more information or questions, please contact IHPI grant development specialist, Wendy Lombard at
wlombard@umich.edu.
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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
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202-554-0578
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IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
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IHPI Senior Communications Specialist
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IHPI Communications Specialist
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