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We are excited to launch the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness e-newsletter. As CPCE grows and advances, we are providing this newsletter to team members, collaborators, and other stakeholders to share research highlights and news about the Center! P
lease feel free to share with your colleagues. To submit a request for announcements or additions to the e-newsletter, please reply to this email.
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e appreciate your support!
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Spotlight on:
Adolescent Reproductive Health Research
CPCE recently added Adolescent Reproductive Health to our Community Health research portfolio. Led by Aletha Akers, MD, MPH, this research area focuses on increasing adolescent utilization of preventive health services, such as HPV vaccination, annual gynecology assessments, screening for sexually transmitted infection (STI), and contraception services, as well as developing innovative interventions for clinical care settings to meet this priority.
Highlights of the research include a study that has been accepted for publication by Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, which found that females who perceived themselves to be overweight were more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors. This work was featured in a Huffington Post article about Dr. Akers’ and other scientists’ efforts to defend federal government funding of their research.
Read about other highlights and next steps for Adolescent Reproductive Health Research
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CPCE Quarterly Faculty Meeting
Date: Thursday September 8, 2016
Time: 4-5 pm
Location: To be determined.
Please stay tuned for further details.
Save the Date: Philadelphia Research Community Conference
Date: Wednesday September 21, 2016
Time: 2-6 pm
Location: To be determined.
The conference is an opportunity to engage and network with the research community around the topic of engaging with the public. It is a free event that is hosted by the Recruitment Enhancement Core in partnership with the Prosper Planning committee and PENN.
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Viewpoint published by CPCE’s Christopher Bonafide and colleagues proposes a set of recommendations for a research agenda aimed at optimizing the identification of deteriorating children to prevent in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest.
The aim of this study, published by CPCE’s Susan Coffin and Theo Zaoutis in the August issue of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve adherence to antimicrobial prophylaxis guidelines in pediatric patients.
New study published by CPCE’s Deepak Palakshappa, Alex Fiks, and Chris Feudtner tested two theories: (1) differences in child health care utilization can predict household food insecurity (FI), and (2) FI is associated with subsequent increased acute health care use.
Social media, no stranger to health care environments, is increasingly used by patients, families, clinicians, and institutions to interact and engage in new ways. CPCE’s Chris Feudtner and colleagues explore how social media can affect how patients interact with doctors and what type of care they expect.
Few eligible children participate in early intervention (EI) programs. The objective of this study, published by CPCE’s James Guevara, was to determine feasibility and outcomes of a novel patient navigation program on EI referrals among a diverse group of at-risk children.
See more...
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William Penn Foundation: State Policy Grant (LOI due Aug 28)
Research, analysis, and public education related to the importance of early childhood education and equitable and adequate school funding
Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (due Oct 3)
The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over five years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. Candidates must have received their most recent earned clinical doctorate degree within the last 11 calendar years; Candidates holding K awards are eligible.
American Cancer Society: The Role of Health Policy and Health Insurance in Improving Access to and Performance of Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Services (due Oct 15)
Supports research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. 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.
OnPAR Program for Unfunded NIH Proposals
Last year, the NIH received approximately $30 billion in federal support. In spite of this amount, about 42,500 grants were not funded. To address these unfunded proposals, the NIH has a new Pilot Program that is designed to match researchers with nonprofit disease Foundations or with investments from private companies. Through a new collaboration between the NIH and the private contractor Leidos, researchers can now upload their unfunded NIH Proposals into an online portal at the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR). Foundations and other potential funders can review the NIH scores, and decide whether they might be interested in funding the Projects. Currently, this Pilot Program allows researchers with priority scores better than the 30th percentile to submit their abstracts. Interested Foundations might ask that a researcher send their full NIH Application along with its scores. The consensus opinion is that there are a lot of worthy grants being submitted to the NIH, but there is only so much funding available. OnPAR is one way of trying to match researchers with private Foundations.
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About CPCE
We are a pediatric research center dedicated to discovering and sharing knowledge about best practices in pediatric care by facilitating, organizing and centralizing the performance of clinical effectiveness research -- research aimed at understanding the best ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases in children. CPCE’s multidisciplinary team conducts research on a diverse range of clinical effectiveness topics grouped within four areas of research:
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