UMass FMCH Tuesday Talk Newsletter-January 28, 2025/RESEARCH

UMass FMCH Tuesday Talk - January 28, 2025/RESEARCH

Welcome to the FMCH Tuesday Talk. Please continue to send us your announcements, celebrations, and accomplishments to FMCHtuesdaytalk@umassmed.edu.

Table of Contents

Message From the Chair

Upcoming Events

Focus of the Week - Research

Announcements

Department Member Recognition

Presentations and Publications

Frankly Speaking Podcast

Resources

Message From the Chair

Don’t forget to register for our 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion on

March 15th in collaboration with the MassAFP spring refresher. Register here! Saturday afternoon will kick off with a casual networking lunch followed by a program that explores the role of family medicine in health and health justice and culminate with a networking reception. We have received corporate sponsorship to defray some of the costs of the event, so the ticket price is just $75. You can also make a charitable donation to fund the attendance of a medical student or resident supporting our focus on the next 50 years of family medicine. Registrations must be received by February 24th.

Upcoming Events

FMCH Grand Rounds

Tuesday, January 28th, 12:00 - 1:00pm, Sasha Svendsen, MD, presents, "Addressing Concerns of Child Abuse & Neglect in Clinical Care."

Meeting ID: 191 986 273 Passcode: FMCH

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/191986273?pwd=NEtlZmNkdWlSUGwyeTJQU3dCeUs1QT09

Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Thursday, January 30th, 12:00 - 1:00pm, Gina Savella, MD, PGY IV, presents, "Supporting and Involving Family Caregivers in the Treatment of Adults with Serious Mental Illness."

Meeting ID: 818 349 233 Passcode: PsychGR1

https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/818349233?pwd=VVRDNUxZZmF4K3NqNXppTHJiVmNSUT09

Focus of the Week - Research

Jennifer Carroll, MD, MPH, Vice Chair, Research

Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MS, Director, Research

The Ambulatory Research Consortium (ARC) is a Practice-Based Research Network based at UMass Chan. A collaborative effort among the departments of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, and the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science, ARC was founded on the premise that involving clinicians, patients, and other key stakeholders in all aspects of research improves quality, implementation, and translation of results into real-life practice.

Read about the recent 2024-2025 ARC Pilot Awards here.

Announcements

New Clinical Practice Guideline for Medication Abortion Services at UMass Memorial Health Clinics

UMass Memorial Health is working to ensure equitable access to reproductive health care with the introduction of a new Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Medication Abortion. This evidence-based guideline provides a standardized protocol to help clinicians competently offer medication abortion services, making care more accessible to patients across our system. The initiative is part of UMass Memorial’s broader commitment to reproductive health and addressing racial disparities in accessing abortion services at earlier gestational ages, where care is safer and outcomes are improved. For more information see flyer . You can access the full guideline on the Hub.

Medical Humanities Event on Campus - January 30th

The Interstitium Team would like to invite you to our Website Launch Party! Please join the celebration on Thursday, January 30th, from 5:30-7pm at the NERB1-1500 conference room (in the new buidling). They will have light fare and beverages, introduce The Intersitium team and staff writers, and get a visual on the new website. The Interstium was started during the pandemic by a medical student to publish stories and poems written by local students, residents and faculty - new features are being added including images and a newsletter by a group of ambitious and creative current medical students!

The Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) invites family physicians, residents and medical students throughout the northeastern U.S. to submit presentations for its 2025 Annual Meeting, September 18th-20th. Submissions are welcome from faculty/fellows/residents and full-time medical students that address any and all topics related to family medicine, primary care, and the teaching of family medicine.

Deadline: February 3rd, 2025. For more information on the types of presentations, review the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting Session Overview. Submission form is available here.

2025 Thomas Zand Refugee Health Scholarship

The Department of FMCH invites applications for the annual Thomas Zand Refugee Health Scholarships. These scholarships support medical students passionate about refugee health by funding their attendance at the North American Refugee Health Conference (NARHC). This year’s conference will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from June 27–29, 2025. To apply, submit your application to maria.barluenga@umassmed.edu by February 15th, 2025. (guidelines here).

More details about the conference can be found here and at refugeesociety.org/narhc-conference.

Hepatitis C and General Hepatology Project ECHO

(Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes)

You are invited to join an exciting virtual collaborative learning opportunity which will allow you to build expertise in the evaluation and management of patients living with chronic

Hepatitis C. (see attached brochure and curriculum schedule)

A new cohort begins Friday, February 21st, 12:30-1:30pm ~ with 10 sessions held

bi-monthly.

The 2025 Faculty for Tomorrow Workshop for Residents will be held on May 3rd, 2025 as part of the STFM Annual Spring Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. See link for additional information.

https://www.stfm.org/awardsscholarships/scholarships/facultyfortomorrowresidentscholarship/overview/

Department Member Recognition

Congratulations to HFHC for being recognized by MQHP for excellence in adult care for Office Staff Professional Excellence.

Presentations and Publications

Dan Mullin co-authored a publication, Intervention Stage Completion and Behavioral Health Outcomes: An Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care Randomized Pragmatic Trial in the Annals of Family Medicine with colleagues in family medicine and medicine departments at UWashington, UVM, and UColorado.

https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.230576

Kate Pivovarova co-authored a publication, Medication for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD) Providers' Experiences with Recovery Courts: Qualitative Study of Individual and Systemic Factors Impacting Interagency Collaboration.

https://doi.org/10.1177/29767342241297745

Daniel H. Lasser Family Medicine Education Innovation Fund

You can contribute by credit card to this link or QR code:

https://alumni.umassmed.edu/lasserinnovationfund.

Or send a check payable to UMass Chan Medical School with “Lasser Fund” in the memo to: UMass Chan Medical School Office of Advancement, 333 South Street, Shrewsbury, MA 01545. If you want to make a multi-year pledge, gift of securities or a wire transfer, contact

giving@umassmed.edu for information. Donations from your IRA:

https://plannedgiving.umassmed.edu/give-from-your-ira.

Frankly Speaking Podcast

Please join us for a weekly Podcast series for an overview: Joseph is a 57 year old male who presents today for his routine annual exam. He is a healthy male, who is active and has no complaints today. He reports that since he was seen last he generally has been doing well but did have a ER visit for persistent cough in the setting of recovering from Covid. While in the Emergency Department he did undergo testing. On a CT Chest scan there was an incidental finding of moderate coronary artery calcifications. He asked today, what does moderate coronary artery calcification? Is my heart ok, my dad had a heart attack at 60. Guest: Mariyan L. Montaque, DNP, FNP-BC, presents:

"A Matter of the Heart-Screening Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease." - Frankly Speaking Ep 417. Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frankly-speaking-about-family-medicine/id1194659367

Resources

Resources to promote Family Medicine Proud and celebrate our 50th Anniversary:

a PowerPoint template, Zoom backgrounds, logo etc:

https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/faculty-resources/department-logos/

Past editions of the Tuesday Talk are available at

https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/ under Resources.

The UMass Memorial Caring for Caregivers Program is available at 508-334-HELP,

EAP at 866-263-3525, and the UMass Chan EAP at 800-322-5327.

www.LiveandWorkWell.com

Yoga Classes with Dr. Liz Erban.

New members always welcome.

Please join us on Wednesday(s), 6:30-7:30am, for a gentle awakening yoga session led by the talented Liz Erban.

https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/91343267992?pwd=ZHF3NHVrVlR1MVdMV09HSE5lTzdsQT09