December 2018 Edition
 
 
Inaugural Opioid Solutions networking event


Forty-six researchers from across the University of Michigan campus came together to discuss their current research, challenges they may be facing, resources they may need to further their work or in turn be able to offer their colleagues. Attendees also shared goals and motivation for work and research in addressing the opioid epidemic. This event was a collaboration between IHPI and the Injury Prevention Center.

 

IHPI researchers offer potential solutions for scaling-up increasingly popular remote healthcare services

For many patients, a doctor's visit can mean weeks long waits for an appointment, transportation issues, and other inconveniences ---- even for brief encounters that don't require a physical exam.


Increasingly, major health systems throughout the country are implementing telehealth programs in an effort to increase access and improve patient experiences. This move is made possible by more support from insurance payers, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which recently announced a proposal to expand telehealth access for Medicare recipients.

Michigan Medicine's Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of urology, and a team of experts describe some of the most common issues that large health systems encounter when implementing telehealth programs and approaches to overcoming them.

 

NAM Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine opportunities

Applications Due: February 1, 2019

The National Academy of Medicine's Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Program began in 2016 to increase the NAM's engagement with exceptional early- and mid-career professionals working in biomedical science, health care delivery, health policy, and related fields. The Emerging Leaders Program facilitates opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, and innovation between the emerging leaders, NAM members, and experts across sectors.

NAM Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars: Early- and mid-career professionals with demonstrated leadership in biomedical science, population health, health care, and related fields are selected to serve 3-year terms as ELHM Scholars.

NAM Emerging Leaders Forum: An annual assembly of outstanding early- and mid-career professionals with leadership in biomedical science, health, health care, and related fields. Invited attendees will explore some of the most pressing challenges in health and medicine on April 11 --- 12, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
 
 
Markel talks history, breakfast cereal, and the Kelloggs in new interview with PBS NewsHour

Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, describes how the Kellogg brothers transformed the American breakfast at a heavy personal cost. William Brangham of PBS NewsHour talks to Markel about his new book, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek.

 
 
 
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Harper
 
Diane M. Harper, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Professor of Family Medicine
Diane Harper is internationally recognized for her work in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated diseases, which include many types of cancer. Her health services research and policy work has focused on guideline development and publication, particularly around cancer screening. In an IHPI exclusive, she talks about recent changes to cervical cancer screening recommendations, the need to balance the potential benefits of early detection with the potential harms of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and the importance of continually revisiting preventive recommendations to consider new evidence, attitudes, behaviors, and the ever-changing health policy landscape.
 
  EVENTS
 

Research Seminar Series
IHPI Seminar: Sabotaging the Affordable Care Act
 
NOVEMBER SEMINAR
Sabotaging the
Affordable Care Act

U-M Law School Professor
Nicholas Bagley

IHPI Seminar: Understanding healthcare care for the elderly: impact of patient and providers
 
 

U-M MLK Health Sciences Lecture: Using genomic and environmental methods to unravel hypertension health disparities in African American women

Date: January 21, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m. --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: Dow Auditorium at Towsley Center, University Hospital, 1500 E. Medical Center
Speaker: Jacquelyn Taylor, Ph.D., RN, PNP-BC, FAHA, FAAN, Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University

Dr. Taylor's work focuses on the genomics of chronic disease among African-American populations. The lecture will examine the gene-environment and DNAm-environment interactions of perceived racism and discrimination, parenting stress, and maternal mental health on blood pressure in African American mothers and their young children.
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC

Highlighted resource: Tracking Alternative Metrics in Altmetrics Explorer

Looking to see the attention your work is receiving in social media and policy papers? Altmetrics Explorer provides a dashboard to browse, search, and query data about "mentions" on the web for your publications and other research outputs, including policy papers.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
View Health Management and Policy Guide.
 
 
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.

 
 
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
 
 
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.

 
 
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.

 
 
U-M Coulter Program announcing 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.

 
 
 
How children and teens die in America: Study reveals the widespread and persistent role of firearms

America lost 20,360 children and teens in 2016 ---- 60 percent of them to preventable injuries, a new study shows. More than 4,000 of them died in motor vehicle crashes, though prevention efforts and better trauma care have cut the death rate of young people from such crashes in half in less than two decades.

Meanwhile, firearms ---- the number two cause of death in youth ---- claimed the lives of
more than 3,140 children and teens in 2016, according to the new findings by members of the U-M Injury Prevention Center and led by Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., professor of emergency medicine.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, used publicly available data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database of information from death certificates.


 
 
What does expanded Medicaid mean for the health and work lives of enrollees?

Five states will expand Medicaid in 2019. Fourteen may start requiring Medicaid enrollees to work in return for their health coverage. And a new study could help all of these states understand what might be in store under these policies.

Conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, the study finds that nearly half of people covered by Michigan's expanded Medicaid program felt their physical health improved in the first year or two after they enrolled in the program. More than a third said their mental or dental health had improved.

These self-reported improvements in health occurred earlier than had been seen in studies in other states. The study, led by Renuka Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of internal medicine, was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine


 
 
Missing the sweet spot: Millions of low-risk people with diabetes may be testing their blood sugar too often

For people with Type 2 diabetes, the task of testing their blood sugar with a fingertip prick and a drop of blood on a special strip of paper becomes part of everyday life.

But a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine by a team from the University of Michigan including Mark Fendrick, M.D., professor of internal medicine, suggests some of them test more often than they need to.

In fact, the research shows, 14 percent of people with Type 2 diabetes who don't require insulin are buying enough test strips to test their blood sugar two or more times a day ---- when they don't need to test nearly that frequently according to medical guidelines.

 

Study finds increasing use, and misuse, of benzodiazepines

More than one in eight U.S. adults (12.6 percent) used benzodiazepines in the past year, up from previous reports. Misuse of the prescription drugs accounted for more than 17 percent of overall use, according to a study published online in Psychiatric Services in Advance. The researchers defined misuse as any way a doctor did not direct, including using the drug without a prescription or more often or longer than prescribed. Misuse was highest among young adults 18 to 25 (5.6 percent) and was as common as prescribed use.

The authors, led by Donovan Maust, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of psychiatry, suggest that patients prescribed stimulants or opioids should also be monitored for benzodiazepine misuse. The study was originally issued by the A merican Psychiatric Association, publisher of Psychiatric Services

 
  FUNDING
Pilot Project in Tobacco Regulatory Science

Deadline: January 15, 2019.
Amount: 6 applications; Doctoral student awards will be up to $20,000,
and all other awards will be up to $40,000

This RFA is being issued by the Center for the Assessment of the Public Health  Impact of Tobacco Regulations ( https://bit.ly/2EiEq6t , https://bit.ly/2PoOiN5 ), a multiinstitutional center headquartered at the University of Michigan. The purpose of this RFA is to support pilot tobacco regulatory science research activities that inform the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) ( https://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/default.htm ) in its
execution of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA). The act gives
the federal government authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and
distribution of tobacco products for the protection of the public's health.
 

PCORI announces three awards for healthcare research support

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adults
Amount: Up to $5,000,000 over 3.5 years
Deadline: January 31, 2019 5:00 PM EST (Letters of Intent); invited full proposals
due April 24 at 5 PM EST, award announced in September 2019
Focus: Can compare psychological interventions, pharmacological interventions,
or a combination of the two.

Treatment Options for Age-Related Hearing Loss
WEBSITE
Amount: Up to $2,000,000 over 3 years
Deadline: January 31, 2019 5:00 PM EST (Letters of Intent); invited full proposals due April 24 at 5:00 PM EST, award announced in September 2019
Focus: High-quality comparative effectiveness research (CER) projects that focus on treatment options for adults 50 years or older with mild to moderate age-related hearing loss or presbycusis.

Treatment of Anxiety in Children, Adolescents and/or Young Adults
WEBSITE
Amount: Up to $5,000,000 over 3.5 years
Deadline: January 31, 2019 5:00 PM EST (Letters of Intent); invited full proposals
due April 24 at 5:00 PM EST, award announced in September 2019
Focus: High-quality clinical studies that compare the effectiveness of evidence-based clinical strategies to treat anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and/or young adults.
 
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