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New signs of IHPI's success
As we complete another very productive academic year at IHPI, it's worth pausing to highlight a number of recent notable milestones:
5 years ago in June 2012, the first IHPI members began moving into our then brand-new space within the North Campus Research Complex. IHPI continues to seek new ways to bridge connections between our communities of researchers across physical and virtual space.
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Members of the Institute Leadership Team with the recently-installed sign identifying Building 16 as IHPI's headquarters, another milestone that recognizes IHPI's prominence as a University-wide institute.
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IHPI grew to exceed
500 members this spring, up from our original membership of 318 individuals. In the last year, we welcomed our first members with primary appointments in the School of Art & Design, the Department of Pathology, and the Department of Women's Studies. We continue to look to expand the diversity of perspectives, experience, and focus of our collective membership. IHPI now includes members who hail from 17 U-M schools, colleges, and institutes.
Last month,
41 of our members had their promotions to associate or full professor or a named professorship approved by the U-M Regents. Please join me in congratulating everyone on this
impressive list!
And of course, we join the entire university in celebrating the University of Michigan's
200th anniversary this year, as we continue striving to build on its traditions of excellence in education, research, and impact.
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
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Kerr receives top Veterans Affairs award for research
Eve A. Kerr, M.D., M.P.H., U-M professor of internal medicine and director of the VA Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR), has earned the 2016 Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research
---- the highest honor for a VA health services researcher. The award recognizes her expertise in improving understanding of factors that affect the health of Veterans and the quality of their care.
Kerr also directs
M-PROVE, an IHPI strategic initiative focused on value and quality of care.
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Malani named University's chief health officer
Preeti Malani, M.D., M.SC., M.S.J., professor of internal medicine, has been named chief health officer for the University of Michigan. Her appointment was effective June 1 and runs through May 31, 2020. She replaces Robert Winfield, who served as the university's first chief health officer until his death in October 2016.
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Cunningham serves as expert panelist on State of Michigan opioid misuse and abuse round table
Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and director of the U-M Injury Research Center, was an invited panelist at a May 9 State of Michigan round table on opioid misuse and abuse. The meeting included Sec. Tom Price, Kellyanne Conway, Gov. Snyder, Lieutenant Gov. Calley, law enforcement, and citizens directly impacted by the opioid epidemic.
Cunningham shared current surveillance efforts that include emergency department interventions, an overview of U-M's
Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (M-OPEN), and the problems seen with gaps in insurance for people struggling with addiction or in recovery. She was appointed by Governor Snyder to serve on the Michigan Prescription Drug & Opioid Abuse Commission.
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Best practices in EMS oversight needed to improve pre-hospital care
Emergency medical services are often the first to provide acute care to critically ill patients. These services can include private, government or publicly owned paramedic and ambulance services, as well as fire departments with EMS personnel. But delivery of that care isn't always seamless. Nor are the quality levels universal.
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Four hours. Six locations. 15,000 opioids out of circulation.
Six locations across the state of Michigan participated in drug take-back events on May 20, 2017. The free, no questions asked chance to get rid of opioids and other unneeded medicines out of the house took place in Ann Arbor, Jackson, Saginaw, Traverse City, Escanaba, and Pontiac and was sponsored by IHPI,
Michigan-OPEN, and the
Department of Anesthesiology.
The results of the combined events were significant, bringing in close to 600 people dropping off 421 pounds of pills.
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This new collaborative is harnessing national, regional and local healthcare data to develop medical prediction models that address complex clinical problems. Through rich interactions with data science methodologists, informaticians, and clinical researchers, investigative teams aim to transform patient care to improve quality and decrease healthcare costs. MiCHAMP is led by
Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., professor of internal medicine.
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Patel recognized by the American Thoracic Society for early career achievement
Minal Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of health behavior & health education at the School of Public Health, has been recognized by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) with the 2017 ATS Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Research Early Career Achievement Award.
The award is given annually to an individual who has made the most outstanding scientific contributions relevant to behavioral and social science regarding lung diseases, critical illness or sleep disorders early in his or her career.
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Haymart receives award for research excellence
Megan Haymart, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, received the Jerome W. Conn Award for Excellence in Research by a Junior Faculty Member at the Department of Internal Medicine Annual Awards Dinner.
The award recognizes early career faculty for their developing body of research and research trajectory, and research excellence.
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Sunset, sunrise: The rebirth of clinical scholars program
Michigan has been a training site for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Clinical Scholars program for 22 years, and has trained 126 clinicians in statistical methods, study design principles, policy concepts, economics, leadership and more. But in 2015, the unthinkable happened. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced it was heading in a new direction and would sunset the Clinical Scholars Program's funding.
U-M and the other three institutions knew the program was too good to let it end. U-M became one of four sites to create the
National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The program educates nurses, pharmacists, and physicians together to serve as leaders, researchers, and change agents in healthcare, community health, and public policy.
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CSCAR and IHPI Data/Methods Hub partner to add additional summer statistical consulting
James Henderson, Ph.D., statistician,Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) will have open hours each Thursday at NCRC for statistical consulting for IHPI members and their associated staff.
Topics of consultation include health services research using claims data such as Truven, to software support for: R, C/C++, Shell scripting, formulation of research aims and development of plans for data collection and analysis, data visualization, data mining, and more.
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- Anna Kirkland, Ph.D., J.D., M.A., associate professor, Women's Studies Department, College of Literature, Science & Arts
- Thomas Klumpner, M.D., clinical lecturer, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical School
- Lee Schroeder, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Pathology, Medical School
- Andrew Shuman, M.D., assistant professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Medical School
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Jamie Mitchell, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
"I want to provide opportunities through my research for older African American men to express their difficulties in communicating with their health care providers, to feel heard and understood, and get the patient and family centered care and communication they deserve."
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IHPI Research Seminar Series: Navigating the New and Improved MAPS---- How and why to use it when prescribing opioids
Date:
July 18, 2017
Time: 4:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location: U-M Frankel Cardiovascular Center Danto Auditorium,1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor
Speakers: Kim Gaedeke, director, Bureau of Professional Licensing, Michigan Department of Licensing Affairs, and
Rebecca Haffajee, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of health management and policy, School of Public Health
The Michigan Automated Prescription System or "MAPS" enables practitioners to determine if patients are receiving controlled substances from other providers and to assist in the prevention of prescription drug abuse. This seminar will walk participants through recent changes in the MAPS system, how best to use it, and why it is important.
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Special Topics Seminar: The State of the Health Care Debate
Date:
July 13, 2017
Time: 4:00 p.m.
--- 5:00 p.m.
Location:
North Campus Research Complex,
Research Auditorium, Building 10
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.
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Watch: Third Annual IHPI Director's Lecture
Last this month, IHPI was pleased to welcome Andrew Bindman, M.D. as the key speaker for our third annual IHPI Director's Lecture. Dr. Bindman, a professor at UCSF and former director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), provided his insightful perspective on the role of evidence in federal health policymaking.
Click on the photo below to watch the IHPI Third Annual Director's Lecture.
You can also read the tweets from the lecture
here.
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10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Date: December 4
--- 6, 2017
The Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I), co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth will take place December 4
--- 6, 2017 in Arlington, VA. This year's theme, A Decade of Progress and the Path Forward, will reflect on the accomplishments of and challenges to the field, and will focus on opportunities ahead.
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TIDIRH 2017: Training Institute in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health now accepting applications
Deadline: June 21, 2017
The National Cancer Institute, in coordination with additional National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, are hosting this training institute to provide participants with a thorough grounding in conducting D&I research in health across all areas of health and health care. In 2017, the institute will utilize a combination of a 4-month online course (six modules with related assignments) between August 14 and November 17, 2017, and a 2-day in-person training to be held November 30 and December 1, 2017, in Bethesda, MD.
Geoff Barnes, M.D., M.Sc., clinical lecturer of internal medicine, participated last year and IHPI members may contact him for additional information.
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Make Medicare Advantage more flexible to allow value-based care, Fendrick tells Congressional panel
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More than 19 million Americans receive their health insurance through Medicare Advantage plans offered by private insurance companies
---- a program aimed at increasing choice and flexibility. But those plans don't have enough flexibility to customize a key factor for the people they serve: how much they have to pay out of their own pockets when they see a doctor, fill a prescription or have a procedure. And that gets in the way of truly getting the most value out of the federal Medicare dollars that pay for their care.
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What happens if you replace every social program with a universal basic income
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Basic income is still pretty far from being adopted in the US. As two big new reports on the impact of basic income show, "how would we fund it" is a massively important question.
In an absolute must-read paper for anyone interested in the basic income debate, the University of Michigan's Jessica Wiederspan, Elizabeth Rhodes, and IHPI member,
Luke Shaefer, Ph.D., estimated the cost of the US adopting a negative income tax large enough to wipe out poverty. To be conservative and get a high-end cost estimate, they assume that such a program would discourage work substantially.
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Congo Ebola outbreak: Health care providers should review response plans
With an Ebola outbreak underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo, experts, including
Patricia Abbott, Ph.D., R.N. associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, say health care providers should review their Ebola response plans now to avoid repeating past mistakes.
Abbot served on a national panel that reviewed Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's management of Ebola cases from the 2014 outbreak in Liberia. Complacency
---- or specifically what Abbott calls lack of "situational awareness"
---- and poor communication were the biggest shortfalls, the panel's report found.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding opportunity
Deadline: June 23, 2017
For members with research interests in the areas of health reform/Affordable Care Act, Medicaid/safety net, and HSA/value-based insurance design, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems (RTHS) call for proposals seeks empirical and policy-relevant analyses that can inform strategies to ensure access to high-quality, affordable health care insurance coverage. Priority will be given to research proposals that are timely and that will directly inform the policy process. Up to six studies of six to twelve months duration will be funded, with project funding ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. Preference may be given for rapid-turnaround projects that can be completed within six months.
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Investigator-initiated research grant program
Deadline: July 10, 2017
NIHCM Foundation is now accepting letters of inquiry for the 2017
--- 2018 funding cycle of our investigator initiated research grant program. The foundation is making a total of approximately $300,000 available to be divided among five to six 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.
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Michigan Health Endowment Fund
Deadline: July 18, 2017
Since its inception in 2013, the Michigan Health Endowment Fund has granted more than $50 million to organizations committed to Michigan's children and seniors. Grant monies awarded to date are supporting programs aimed at:
- Providing access to regular health screenings,
- Reducing risk of falls for seniors,
- Reducing obesity and health risks for diabetes through smart food choices, and
- Providing fitness programs for youth.
Projects can be for pilot programs or ongoing programs, but the grants are not intended to replace lost government funding. The total budget should not exceed $100,000.
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U-M IRWG Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability
Deadline: July 31, 2017
The Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability, established in 2015 through the U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), supports projects investigating how living with a physical challenge influences access to and participation in sport and physical activity. Projects that have real world application are a top funding priority. This grant supports both theoretical as well as intervention research, including challenges and solutions related to transitioning to civilian life from military service.
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Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program (DISP)
Deadline: August 7, 2017
Anticipated Funding Date: January 2018
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. Proposals should be for two years of support, with total requested funding up to $100,000 direct costs
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