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Several IHPI members received
prestigious awards at the AcademyHealth meeting (see "Noteworthy," below). Another highlight was our IHPI reception, which drew more than 100 members, trainees, and U-M alumni for some Big Easy networking.
Twitter has a lively record of the meeting activity for those who were not able to attend the AcademyHealth meeting this year, and the
AcademyHealth blog offers insightful summary perspectives on each day of the proceedings.
We also just released the first report from our new
National Poll on Healthy Aging, which focused on older Americans' challenges with prescription drug costs. The report findings have already made a significant impression with the news media and policymakers, earning coverage on
CBS News, the
AARP blog, and
Healthday Newswire, to name a few major outlets. Look for future reports in the coming months.
Another IHPI strategic initiative, the
Michigan Program on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE), has just announced the launch of
a new program that will provide planning funds to encourage the development of interdisciplinary research projects focused on optimizing value in healthcare. The
Kick-Off Event on September 27 will help match collaborators and jumpstart proposals for this exciting opportunity.
For the third straight summer, IHPI is hosting weekly "lunch & learn" sessions for undergraduate and graduate students working with IHPI faculty to learn more about the career experiences of health services researchers. We have also expanded our popular "academic skills" seminar series to include skills such as developing and writing research papers, creating visual abstracts, professional use of social media, and professional behavior in clinical settings. Approximately 70 students have participated in one or more of these sessions, and we are grateful to the 19 IHPI members who are sharing their insights with the students this summer.
Another new IHPI cross-disciplinary initiative has helped match and fund 12 master-level and doctoral-level students this summer for 10-week research projects with IHPI members across six different U-M schools (all different from the students' academic homes).
Finally, please welcome the new cohort beginning their coursework in research methods through the IHPI Clinician Scholars Program this month!
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
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Members win awards from AcademyHealth
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The nation's leading national organization for health services and policy research has chosen four IHPI members as winners of its 2017 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) awards. Each award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the field:
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IHPI names new Early Career Faculty Advisory Council members
The
Early Career Faculty Advisory Council's mission is to represent the interests of early career faculty and advise IHPI leadership on how to best leverage its resources to accelerate the impact of their research and promote their success. These individuals have accepted the challenge to help shape the council's work in its first year by offering their service during what is already an incredibly busy time in their own professional development.
The council welcomes new members
Holly Jarman. Ph.D., M.Res., and
Mary Janevic, Ph.D., M.P.H. and also welcomes
Deena Costa, Ph.D., R.N., assistant professor of nursing, as the new chair, and
Donovan Maust, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of psychiatry, as the new chair-elect.
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New paper shows prescription tracking tackles misuse of opioids and other drugs---- but results vary
Haffajee and a representative of the agency that runs Michigan's system recently spoke on the topic at an IHPI Michigan-OPEN/Injury Center event.
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Markel receives Rockefeller Foundation award
The Rockefeller Foundation awarded
Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and the history of medicine, with a prestigious academic writing residency at its Bellagio Center in Italy. For more than 50 years, the center has hosted Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, leading academics, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners in residence for their bold thinking and promise to further change the world for the better to promote the well-being of humanity. Markel will be in residence at the Bellagio Center in October 2017.
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National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality: Request for nominations for public members due late August
Nominations for the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality are now through late August 2017. Seven people will be selected by the HHS Secretary, beginning with the Spring 2018 meeting. Council members will serve 3-year terms with council members meeting three times a year in Rockville, MD to provide broad guidance to the HHS Secretary and AHRQ Director on the direction of and programs undertaken by AHRQ.
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New member offering: IHPI grant development office hours
Dates: August 2 and 17
IHPI members have access to a variety of resources to support their research development and grant writing/editing efforts. IHPI recently hired a
Grant Development Specialist, Wendy Lombard, to increase our capacity to support our members with their health services research development efforts. Wendy will be holding 20-minute introductory meeting to discuss your research interests, grant needs, and potential collaborative opportunities.
Wendy has extensive experience with successful health-related grant submissions and is available to IHPI members on a first-come, first-served basis for pre-submission planning consultations, non-technical writing support, editing, and facilitating access to grant resources. Her primary focus is on supporting multi-investigator center or program grants pertaining to IHPI's strategic priorities, which include health care reform, Medicaid policy, opioid policy, healthy aging, health equity, enhancing value in health care, and precision health.
Wendy also helps to facilitate members' research development efforts through:
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Monitoring of funding opportunities, assessment for fit with IHPI member research interests, and targeted group and/or individual investigator announcements as appropriate
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Facilitation of IHPI member workshops to support successful research grant development (i.e., R01 Boot Camp and K Award Writing Workshops)
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Consultation with the U-M Library for personalized research funding searches
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New data science computing platform available to U-M researchers
Advanced Research Computing
---- Technology Services (ARC-TS) is pleased to announce an expanded data science computing platform, giving all U-M researchers new capabilities to host structured and unstructured databases, and to ingest, store, query and analyze large datasets. These tools are offered to all researchers at the University of Michigan free of charge, provided that certain usage restrictions are not exceeded.
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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.
Faculty and staff can schedule time by visiting the
CSCAR website or calling 764-7828 from 9:00 a.m.
--- 5:00 p.m. through the end of August.
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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- Ebbin Dotson, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., assistant professor, Department of Health Management & Policy, School of Public Health
- Xiaoling Xiang, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.Phil. assistant professor, School of Social Work
- Martha Bailey, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor, Department of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and Arts
- Joelle Abramowitz, Ph.D., M.A., assistant research scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
- Douglas Colquhoun, M.B.C.H.B., clinical lecturer, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical School
- Michael Thompson, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School
- Jeffrey Vlasic, M.D., M.S., clinical lecturer, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical School
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Romesh Nalliah, D.D.S., M.H.C.M.
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Dentistry
"I moved from Australia, which has a smaller population than the U.S., but enjoys a mixed healthcare system with private hospitals and insurers and public healthcare for those who cannot afford private. Initially in the U.S., my wife and I were uninsured and lived just above the poverty line in the Pilsen region of Chicago. I realized that healthcare is a basic right in Australia, whereas, it's still inaccessible for some in the U.S.. My passion is contributing to research that will inform healthcare delivery and policy. I want to improve healthcare processes in order to reduce complexity and cost and, therefore, expand access."
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Twitter 101/LinkedIn 101
Date: Friday, August 11, 2017
Time: 11:30 a.m.
--- 1:00 p.m.
Location: IHPI Collaboratory
---- Room G079, Building 10, NCRC
WEBSITE
Join IHPI communicator Kara Gavin for a double dose of social media training for those who are just starting out, or want to ask 'dumb questions' in a safe environment!
At 11:30, learn about putting your best professional face forward via LinkedIn, a powerful platform for connecting with peers, policymakers and other audiences.
At 12, go over the basics of Twitter, and learn about new features and suggestions for how new and lapsed tweeters can get the most out of this real-time global platform.
Attend both sessions, or just one, depending on what you need the most help with!
Bring a laptop and mobile device, and your lunch, for this informal session. If you need help setting up a Twitter or LinkedIn account, please arrive a bit early.
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Date: September 18
--- 20, 2017
Location: Michigan League
WEBSITE
SAVIR is a professional organization that provides leadership and fosters excellence in the science of violence and injury prevention. The 2017 conference will be devoted to the theme of Innovations in preventing injury and violence.
Who should attend: Researchers, medical and public health practitioners, policymakers, students, early professionals, research staff, and other stakeholders. The agenda will appeal to all sectors and professional levels of injury and violence prevention research and practice.
What to expect: This three-day conference (including pre-conference workshops) will cover topics ranging from the opioid epidemic to youth violence to transportation safety to older adult falls, and much more. Plenary sessions, workshops, symposia, flash science, and poster presentations...all will be designed to provide an invigorating learning experience.
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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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Video Replay
NEJM Catalyst Connect: Heisler on the power social of connectedness
Health professionals often don't consider purpose in life and social connectedness when developing care programs, but they should.
Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., professor of internal medicine, explains why mobilizing social networks for health is powerful
in this video.
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MLibrary @NCRC
Highlighted resource: BrowZine app to keep up-to-date with literature
Download
BrowZine app or use the
web version of BrowZine to browse, read and monitor thousands of journals available through the University of Michigan Library as well as a number of open access journals. Set up your customized library of journals to monitor new publications in one spot.
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Apply for undergraduate research assistants through UROP
Clinical and research faculty, research investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars who will be on campus from September 2017 through April 2018 are eligible to apply for student assistance through the
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.
The UROP office provides a list of approved projects and interested students contact the researcher directly. As the researcher, you decide whom you want to interview and to whom you want to offer a position. There is no financial cost to you, and supplemental funding of $500
--- $800 per project is available for student-related research costs.
Project applications will be accepted through August 10 for distribution to the entire cohort of UROP students.
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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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IHPI and MICHR team up to help early career faculty with K-award writing workshops
Date: November 14, 28, and December 12
Time:: 5:30 p.m.
--- 8:00 p.m.
Registration required by October 20
WEBSITE
This three-part workshop is designed to assist junior faculty and fellows who are preparing competitive career development grant applications (NIH K and VA CDA) for 2018 submission. IHPI faculty will lead health services-focused breakout sessions.
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2018 IHPI R01 Boot Camp: Apply Soon
IHPI is once again sponsoring an R01 Boot Camp program in conjunction with the Medical School's
Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp. The IHPI Boot Camp will accommodate 8
--- 10 early career faculty and will be open to all assistant professors who are IHPI members, regardless of the school or college in which they are appointed. The application will be available in mid-August and will be open through mid-October.
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Improving cardiac care through innovative diagnostic systems
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Coronary angiograms are x-ray pictures that reveal how blood flows through the heart's arteries and can highlight obstructions. They provide essential information for diagnosing, treating, and managing coronary heart disease, the single largest cause of death in the U.S.
Yet when cardiologists assess these images, they have only their own eyes to visually evaluate the severity of potential blockages---- estimations which drive critical decisions about whether a patient will need additional testing, surgery, or other major interventions. Research suggests that without standard tools to make these measurements, cardiologists interpret angiograms incorrectly in up to one out of five cases---- meaning that some patients do not receive potentially life-saving treatments, while others undergo unnecessary invasive (and costly) procedures.
Now, a team led by
Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.H., professor of interventional cardiology, and Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D., associate professor of computational medicine and bioinformatics, is developing a fully automated, computer-based tool to rapidly analyze angiogram videos and generate standardized assessments in real-time.
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Reducing overtreatment in cancer patients: when is active surveillance appropriate?
For certain slow-growing or low-risk cancers, surgery and other treatments might not be the best course of action.
In a new perspective piece in the
New England Journal of Medicine
, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center examine whether active surveillance could be a strategy to reduce overtreatment in certain patients.
Each of the perspective's authors research overtreatment within his or her respective specialty.
Megan Haymart, M.D.
,
associate
professor of internal medicine, treats patients with thyroid cancer.
David C. Miller, M.D., M.P.H.
, professor of urology, sees patients with prostate cancer.
Sarah T. Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H.
, professor of internal medicine, researches patient and provider preferences around breast cancer treatment.
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How to pick the right PICC for a patient? There's an app for that
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More than a million times a year, doctors and nurses insert tiny tubes into the veins of American hospital patients to deliver lifesaving medicines, give fluids and nutrition and monitor key vital signs.
Yet despite the widespread and rapidly growing use of such devices, doctors and nurses have only recently had an evidence-based guide for choosing which kind of device to use, in which patient, for the best and safest result---- and which to avoid at all costs.
A team led by
Vineet Chopra, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of hospital medicine, created the guide, called the Michigan Appropriateness Guide for Intravenous Catheters (MAGIC). Now, it's available as a
free smartphone app for both Apple iOS and Android devices, helping clinicians at the point of care choose among intravenous or vascular access devices of all kinds.
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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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Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC)
Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research (MCDTR)
Pilot/Feasibility Grant Program
Deadline: August 7, 2017
Anticipated Funding Date: January 2018
The purpose of this Pilot/Feasibility grant is to promote research in diabetes by new and established investigators at the University of Michigan with funding up to $50,000.
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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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ABOUT IHPI
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To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:
- Evaluating the impact of healthcare reforms
- Improving the health of communities
- Promoting greater value in healthcare
- Innovating in IT and healthcare delivery
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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 Government & External Relations Director
[email protected]
202-554-0578
Kara Gavin
IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
Lauren Hutchens
IHPI Communications Specialist
Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Coordinator
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