February 2017 Edition
 
New Year, New Momentum

I am pleased to announce our first Profiles in Innovation magazine, which offers compelling stories about the work of many of our members and how they are making an impact in healthcare practice and policy. Explore the magazine to learn how IHPI's collaborative community is transforming today's healthcare challenges into opportunities to improve health and well-being through innovations in research, practice, and policy.


As the Institute works to meet the needs of our still-growing membership, we have added several new staff members in recent months to support our developing strategic initiatives and our data and analytic resources and services. Please join me in welcoming:

Patrick Cliff, M.S.
Associate Director of Development

Barb Hamann
Administrative Assistant, Data & Methods Hub


Wendy Lombard, M.P.H.
Grant Development Specialist

Emma Steppe, M.P.H.
Associate Project Manager

As a reminder, we offer opportunities for both new and established members to learn about IHPI's many services and resources, including the next IHPI member orientation breakfast on February 21 from 8:30 to 9:30 AM at NCRC. This event is open to all IHPI faculty members who have not previously attended an orientation ---- please be sure to RVSP if you would like to attend.

With the addition of Patrick Cliff, IHPI's first full-time development officer, we are grateful to the Michigan Medicine Office of Development for supporting our momentum as we enter our next five years. By seeking additional sources of support for IHPI, we can continue to enhance and expand our members' impact. Patrick will be working to develop a fundraising strategy for the Institute as he learns more about the work of our members, including their research and policy goals.

I look forward to an exciting year ahead at IHPI and working together with all of you to achieve our shared mission to improve healthcare and health.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 
Unpaid bills & charity care dropped by nearly half at Michigan hospitals soon after Medicaid expanded

A new study led by Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D., shows that soon after the Medicaid expansion happened in Michigan, many hospitals saw a major drop in uncompensated care ---- a measure that includes unpaid bills and charity care. The analysis of uncompensated care, also co-authored by John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., Helen Levy, Ph.D., and Kyle Grazier, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., M.S., was mentioned by Governor Snyder in his State-of-the-State address on January 17.

 
 
 
Professorships recognize 7 IHPI members for global health work

Fourteen faculty members who work across the world to improve public health are the first to be named U-M Professors of Global Public Health, a group which includes seven IHPI members. The professorships, approved by the Board of Regents in December, recognize work currently led by faculty at the School of Public Health and conducted by multidisciplinary teams of faculty and students in more than 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Europe.

The professorships began Jan. 1 and are held for three years. IHPI members in the inaugural group include:
 
 
 
Daskin elected to National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering has elected Mark Daskin, Ph.D., professor and chair of industrial and operations engineering, among its newest members. Induction into the NAE is one of the highest honors bestowed on engineers in the U.S.

Daskin, the Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professor, was recognized for leadership and creative contributions to location optimization and its application to industrial, service and medical systems. His current research focuses on supply chain design under uncertainty, humanitarian logistics and drug shortages.

 
 
 
Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation releases one-page fact sheet on ACA repeal and replacement

Beginning last month, both President Trump and Congress began taking steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). However, a single replacement strategy has not yet emerged.

In a new one-page fact sheet, the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) summarizes the most developed ACA repeal and replacement proposals offered to date and outlines the tentative replacement process.

 
 
 

As Congress debates the next steps in national health policy, a briefing organized by two U.S. representatives on Tuesday gave elected officials and their staff a chance to learn about an idea born at U-M that has gained bipartisan support.

The event, organized by Representatives Diane Black (R-TN) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), featured Mark Fendrick, M.D., internal medicine professor with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health, and Michael Chernew, Ph.D., a former SPH faculty member now at Harvard University.

Michael Chernew, Ph.D., Mark Fendrick, M.D., and Reps. Blumenauer and Black at the briefing

At the Feb. 7 event, Fendrick and Chernew discussed how V-BID could be used by high-deductible health plans and health savings accounts ---- two aspects of health insurance that are receiving wide attention since the new Congress began. They described how V-BID could be a bipartisan, multi-stakeholder solution to improve quality, enhance consumer experience, and lower costs.

 
 
Harlow and Merajver to receive 2017 Sarah Goddard Power Award

Sioban Harlow, Ph.D., and Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., both professors in the Medical School and the School of Public Health, will receive the 2017 Sarah Goddard Power Award. The Academic Women's Caucus presents the award to faculty members who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the betterment of women, and who have shown success and achievement in research and scholarship, distinguished leadership and mentoring women.

Harlow's scholarly work focuses on reproductive epidemiology, and "a major thrust" of it has been understanding patterns of menstrual function and gynecological morbidity across the lifespan. Merajver has contributed to a variety of research areas, including basic studies in the genetics of breast cancer and the development of a novel treatment for breast cancer.

 
 
 
Several IHPI members receive Mi-TRAC and Mi-Kickstart awards

Mi-TRAC and MiKickstart awards are part of the University of Michigan's MTRAC for Life Sciences Innovation Hub, a statewide program that supports translational research projects in life sciences with high commercial potential.

See the full list of award winners here.
 
 
Strobbe named Fulbright Scholar

Stephen Strobbe, Ph.D., R.N., clinical associate professor, School of Nursing, has been selected for a Fulbright Flex U.S. Scholar grant from the U.S. Department of State. Screening adolescents for substance use will be the focus of the award through collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo (USP) at Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing in Brazil. Strobbe is currently leading a pilot program for UMSN students that includes a highly-advanced computer simulation for students to practice clinical interviewing with virtual adolescents.
 
Strobbe
 
 
IRWG announces Faculty Seed Grant recipients

Three members have received grant funding from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) for projects that will study women, gender and sexuality. The IRWG grants support individual research activities, as well as collaborative projects, such as pilot studies or initial research efforts, and include:
  • Lisa Kane Low, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor, School of Nursing: "The Reproductive Beliefs of Newly Resettled Syrian Refugees"
  • Vijay Singh, M.D., M.P.H, M.S., clinical lecturer, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical School: "Pilot Test and Evaluation of Violence Against Women Healthcare Training in the Ghana-Michigan Emergency Medicine Collaborative"
  • Golfo Tzilos, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical School: "Understanding Reproductive Health Vulnerabilities in Adolescent Girls: Towards a mHealth Intervention"
 
 
New IHPI resource: U.S. national board, committee and panelopportunities

IHPI now has a dedicated web page that lists several national opportunities looking for academic leaders to fill board, committee and panel seats. Current opportunities include:
  • Medicare Payment Advisory Committee
  • Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
  • Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
  • NSF Advisory Committee
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Federal Advisory Committees
  • Council on Graduate Medical Education
Contact IHPI Government & External Relations Director Eileen Kostanecki with questions.
 
 
 
 
Katherine Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and OBGYN, Medical School

"My research focuses on the downstream impact of adverse birth outcomes, such as stillbirth and infant death, and much of my work focuses on health disparities and variations in care by race and ethnicity. I'm also particularly interested in looking at mental health issues, including how physicians deal with death and how that impacts quality of psychosocial care for patients."

 VIEW PROFILE
 
 
Ryan Stidham, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School

"Modern analytic capabilities are highlighting the impact of how medications, lifestyle choices, and both physician and patient behaviors influence health outcomes. Our team's work focuses on methods for data acquisition from source text records and imaging studies to better capture and quantify an individual's health status in longitudinal datasets."

VIEW PROFILE
 
  EVENTS
 
 
People, place, and public health: Reflections from Detroit

Date: February 17, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m. --- 4:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Presenters: Abdul El-Sayed, M.D., D.Phil.

El-Sayed is a public health physician and epidemiologist, as well as a U-M alum. He serves the City of Detroit under Mayor Michael E. Duggan as Health Officer and Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department. Appointed in August of 2015, Dr. El-Sayed is responsible for rebuilding the City's Health Department after it was privatized in 2012 during Detroit's municipal bankruptcy.
 
 

Date: February 15, 2017
Time: 9:30 a.m. --- 4:00 p.m. with an optional Q&A until 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Presenters: Julie Lowery, Ph.D. and Caitlin Reardon, M.P.H.

The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) guides assessment of contextual barriers and facilitators during implementation. This hands-on training will be focused on learning how to use the CFIR to collect and analyze qualitative data. Sponsored by the VA Center for Clinical Management Research.
 
 
 

Date: February 16, 2017
Time: 1:00 p.m. --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Presenter: Elham Mahmoudi, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S., research assistant professor, Department of Surgery, Medical School
RSVP Required --- Lunch provided
 
 
 

Date: February 22, 2017
Time: 12:00 p.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Presenter: John Piette, Ph.D., M.S., professor of health behavior and health education, and internal medicine, director, Center for Managing Chronic Disease, and senior research career scientist, VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research
 
 
 
Medical School Promotions & Tenure: Strategies for Success

Date: February 28, 2017
Time: 5:00 p.m. --- 6:00 p.m.
Location: Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Speaker: Margaret R. Gyetko, M.D., senior associate dean, Faculty & Faculty Development
Reception to follow
 
 
An Introduction to R for Health Policy Researchers

Date: March 10, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. --- 12:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Speaker: James Henderson, Ph.D., CSCAR Data Science Consultant

R is an environment for statistical computing and graphics suitable for routine data analysis while retaining the flexibility and control of a programming language. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the structure of R through demonstrations of several common tasks including managing data, performing analyses, and creating graphics. Demonstrations will be illustrated with examples using public domain data from Health.gov. We will also discuss the R package system for sharing data and code while briefly touching on best practices for productive and reproducible analyses in R. Required prep work will be sent in advance.
 
 
Advancing Healthcare Transformation through Policy Efforts

Date: March 20, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m. --- 4:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Presenters: Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., M.S., senior vice president, Community Health & Equity, and chief wellness & diversity officer, Henry Ford Health System

Dr. Wisdom provides strong leadership in community benefit/population health, and improving the health of those disproportionately affected by poor health outcomes. She founded the award-winning African American Initiative for Male Health Improvement (AIM -HI) and most recently, the Women Inspired Neighborhood (WIN) Network which aims to improve access to healthcare and reduce infant mortality in neighborhoods in Detroit. Since 2008, she has chaired the Detroit Infant Mortality Reduction Task Force.
 
 
Integrative Design for Better Healthcare

Date: March 22, 2017
Time: 2:00 p.m. --- 3:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Rooms G063 and G064

The Stamps Master of Design in Integrative Design (MDes) graduate program is unique with its combination of a focus on integrative design with collective, team-based, studio work along with collaboration across a broader community of professionals and stakeholders. This presentation will give an overview of the MDes program to date. The graduating MDes students will present each of the projects from the I-MPACT collaboration. The second cohort of MDes students have been working with Patient & Family Centered Care at University of Michigan Health System. The incoming cohort will work with Michigan Program on Value Enhancement (M-Prove) on Appropriate Care.
 
 
Health Professions Education (HPE) Day 2017

Date: April 13, 2017
Time: 8:00 a.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: Michigan League Ballroom
Speaker: Jeanette Mladenovic, MD, MBA, MACP, former executive vice president and provost, Oregon Health & Science University
Registration Required --- Lunch will be provided

This annual event aims to spark interprofessional collaboration, networking, and inspiration for future research and practice for educational efforts across the health professions schools at University of Michigan.
 
 
 
 
Speakers needed for MICHR Translation Research Symposium

Date: October 4, 2017

The Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) is accepting speaking proposals for the 2017 Translational Research Symposium, scheduled for October 4. The audience will consist of principal investigators, research staff, trainees, and community partners. MICHR is seeking dynamic speakers who offer innovative contributions to health research anywhere along the translational spectrum. If you would like to suggest someone (or yourself) as a speaker, please feel free to do so.
 
 
 
CBSSM Research Colloquium--- Call for abstracts

Colloquium Date: April 25, 2017
Abstract Deadline: March 10, 2017
Location: Palmer Commons, Great Lakes Room
Keynote Speaker: Norman Daniels, Ph.D., Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and, professor of ethics and population health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Daniels will present the Bishop Lecture with a talk entitled: "Universal Access vs. Universal Coverage: Two models of what we should aim for." The lecture is jointly presented by CBSSM and the Ronald C. and Nancy V. Bishop Lectureship in Bioethics fund.

Abstract submissions are welcome from all disciplines both within U-M, as well as other institutions. The CBSSM Research Colloquium brings together presenters highlighting research related to bioethics, health communication, and medical decision making.

For more details, please contact Kerry Ryan. Deadline for abstract submission is Friday, March 10, 2017.
 
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC


A new site from the World Health Organization (WHO) tracks essential health services globally. Search by country --- or search by a variety of coverage indicators.

Contact MLibrary to learn more.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
View Health Management and Policy Guide
 
 
Call for Applications: NCI/AcademyHealth Healthcare Delivery Research Visiting Scholars Program

Application Deadline:  April 7 at 5:00 p.m.

The Healthcare Delivery Research Program, in collaboration with AcademyHealth, has launched a new Scholars Program for mid-career scientists.  This year-long, part-time, funded program offers scholars the opportunity to collaborate closely with National Cancer Institute staff and pursue a project of their own design. This project should advance the Scholars' own career and improve healthcare delivery in at least one area of the cancer continuum (i.e. prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, or end-of-life care). Scholars are expected to devote between 20% --- 50% full time equivalent to the program over a one year period.
 
 
 
To make Medicare better for all, take social risk factors into account, experts recommend

 
Every day, the Medicare system pays certain doctors and hospitals a bit more, or judges them a bit differently, because their patients are sicker than national averages.

It's time for the Medicare system to start taking these non-medical, "social" risk factors into account when it decides how to pay or grade hospitals and other health care providers, IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., and Vanderbuilt colleague Melinda Buntin, Ph.D., on the topic say in a new piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine

 
Post-ACA: Shifts in work, health, insurance

Given the link between health insurance and the labor market, proposals to dismantle some provisions of the Affordable Care Acthave important consequences for the labor market, says  Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D., professor of business economics and public policy.

His work on this topic was recently  published in Health Affairs as well as featured at a  Health Affairs briefing at the  National Press Club on February 7 .


READ MORE
 
Buchmueller
 
 
Doctor communication key to managing breast cancer patient risk worries

Nearly one-third of early stage breast cancer patients overestimate their risk of cancer recurrence --- believing it to be more than double their actual risk. And that overestimation is affecting their quality of life, according to two recent studies.

The good news? A more nuanced approach to doctor-patient communication may help improve patients' understanding, according to r esearchers from the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, led by Sarah Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine. 

 
 
MORE NEWS


Sharp Rise Reported in Older Americans' Use of Multiple Psychotropic Drugs
(The New York Times---- Maust)
Many high-risk patients with breast cancer aren't getting genetic testing. Here's why (The Washington Post---- Jagsi)
Four Republican gripes about Obamacare analyzed (CNN----Ayanian)
Getting specific about dizziness (The New York Times--- Kerber)
The heavier the person, the lower the chance of getting hospice care or dying at home, study finds (Michigan Medicine----Griggs)
Deportation fears tied to poor birth outcomes for Hispanics (U.S. News & World Reports--- Geronimus)
Medicare patients had slightly better survival rate with foreign-educated doctors, study finds (The Wall Street Journal----Ryan)
Innovations in hospital payment models: the pros and cons of bundled payments (Michigan Health Labs----Ellimoottil)
 
  FUNDING
 
 
NIHCM Foundation 23rd Annual Health Care Research Award

Deadline: February 15, 2017

The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award recognizes outstanding published work from researchers furthering innovation in health care financing, delivery and organization or the implementation of health care policy. The 23-year-old award carries a $10,000 prize and is judged by an independent panel of experts.
 
 
RWJF Policies for Action

Deadline: March 10, 2017
Amount: Up to $250,000 over 24 months

Policies for Action: Policy and Law Research to Build a Culture of Health (P4A) is a research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). For more than 40 years RWJF has worked with others to address the major health and health care issues of our time. From its inception, RWJF's work has been driven by a continuous cycle of research, evaluation, and learning. RWJF's commitment to advance a bold research agenda helps to bring evidence to bear on some of the most complex health and policy issues facing America.
 
 
AcademyHealth scholarships available for #ARM17 in New Orleans

Deadline: March 17, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

With health care policy and research now squarely center stage, AcademyHealth is committed to providing professional development and support for individuals looking to enhance their health care careers and education. We are excited to announce the following scholarships for researchers to attend the 2017 Annual Research Meeting (ARM), June 25-27 in New Orleans:
 
 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research and Leadership Awards

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a handful of calls for applications to programs that support both clinical health research and leadership work that builds a culture of health. Deadlines range from mid-February to the end of March. They include:

Interdisciplinary Research Leaders ---- Deadline March 8, 2017 at 3 PM EST
Health Policy Research Scholars ---- Deadline March 29, 2017 at 3 PM EST

Note from Foundation Relations: The first three programs encourage applications from diverse organizations and seek team applications. From U-M, we anticipate greater success when applications are made with partners outside of U-M: the VA and the Corner Health Clinic. For full details, go to http://www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/grants/funding-opportunities.html

For more information, contact Colleen Sherman in Michigan Medicine Foundation Relations at [email protected].
 
 
BUILD HEALTH Challenge: 18 grants to communities across the country

Deadline: February 21, 2017

The BUILD HEALTH Challenge seeks applications to fund partnerships that team a hospital or health system with a local health department and a nonprofit community organization.

These awards, funded by a collective group of professional foundations, are designed to support the advancement of community collaborations ready to put upstream, integrated, local and data-driven plans in place. The grants award $250K over a two-year period.

For more information, contact Colleen Sherman in Michigan Medicine Foundation Relations at [email protected].
 
 
Cancer Control & Population Sciences: C-Cubed (Cancer Care and Control)

Deadline: March 2, 2017

The purpose of this RFP (in the spirit of M-Cubed) is to build collaborations across departments and units to address scientific problems relevant to cancer control and population sciences that require innovative multidisciplinary approaches. Priority will be given to projects believed to have a high probability of external funding in the future, and that foster collaboration between investigators who have never worked together as a team and in particular collaborations between the two UMCCC Population Science Programs, namely the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program and the Health Behavior and Outcomes Program. Priority will also be given to proposals that leverage collaboration of investigators across various schools and institutes on campus and collaboration of Cancer Population Sciences with other programs in the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center.
 
 
RFA: The Role of Healthcare and Insurance in Improving Outcomes in Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment

Deadline: April 1 and October 15

The American Cancer Society is seeking proposals that evaluate 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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U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Eileen Kostanecki
IHPI Government & External Relations Director
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IHPI Communications Manager
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IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
 
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IHPI Communications Specialist

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IHPI Communications Coordinator