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NEWS TO NOTE
Time-sensitive information
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IHPI is one of the first academic institutions to partner with Truveta, a company that provides access to data based on electronic health records from millions of patients. Truveta's portal includes full EHR data collected from clinician notes, images, and structured data from more than 30 health systems, linked with claims, social determinants of health, and mortality data. The daily updated data represent more than 100 million de-identified patients with all types of insurance, from more than 800 hospitals and 20,000 clinics across the U.S. | | |
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OUR EXPERTS
Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy
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Pictured left to right: Ayanian, Broglio, Ellimoottil, and Lantz |
Steve Broglio, Ph.D., and Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S. were named the 2023 recipients of IHPI's Policy Impact Award at the Institute's Member Forum on April 18. IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., and Paula Lantz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., professor of public policy and IHPI policy engagement faculty advisor, presented the awards.
Broglio, professor of kinesiology and founding director of the U-M Concussion Center, was selected for his sustained engagement and leadership in advancing concussion research and policy at local, state, national, and international levels.
Ellimoottil, associate professor of urology and medical director of virtual care at Michigan Medicine, received this award for his impactful research and many contributions to institutional, state, and national policy in the rapidly evolving field of telehealth.
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A virtual program has launched to promote smoking cessation among Medicaid-enrolled expectant mothers in Michigan. A team led by Lara Coughlin, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, will oversee the implementation of Incentives2Quit, which provides small monetary incentives for participants to engage in the smoking cessation program via an online app, tailored motivational text messaging, and biologically verified breath tests that indicate if the participant has recently smoked. | |
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LEARN SOMETHING NEW
Education, training, grants, and skill-building
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IHPI partners with the U-M Medical School’s Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp to offer a health services research-focused R01 Boot Camp track. This multi-faceted mentoring program is designed to help early and mid-career faculty develop their first R01 proposal. | | |
First Available Due Date: May 6, 2024
In alignment with the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, the NIH is issuing a Notice of Special Interest to highlight interest in receiving research applications focused on diseases and health conditions that predominantly affect women (e.g., autoimmune diseases, depressive disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, gender-based violence), present and progress differently in women (e.g., cardiovascular disease; HIV; reproductive aging), or are female-specific (e.g., uterine fibroids, endometriosis, menopause).
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IHPI is hosting two summer student programs in June and July for students working with IHPI members. If you have students who may be interested in attending weekly lunch-and-learn sessions or skill-building seminars, please complete this form to add them to our email list. | | |
For 15 years, the University of Michigan Healthy Minds Network Healthy Minds Study (HMS) has collected student mental health data from 530+ colleges and universities. The Healthy Minds Network website offers free access to these data including the questionnaire, codebook, national data reports, and an interactive data interface tool, as well as other resources for researchers interested in college student mental health. | | |
May 24, 2024 | 8:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
Biomedical Science Research Building, seminar rooms, first floor
This full-day program, sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and the Office of Research, offers tailored workshops designed specifically for scientists and faculty in the research space:
- Difficult Conversations in the Research Workplace: Fundamentals of Negotiation
- Hiring and Retaining Your Science Team
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Deadline: June 28, 2024
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM), is now accepting letters of inquiry for the 2024–2025 funding cycle of the NIHCM Foundation's investigator-initiated research grant program. The Institute is seeking studies with strong potential to inform policy or have a positive impact on the U.S. health care system by improving efficiency, quality, access to care, or equity.
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SAVE THE DATES
Events that connect and engage
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Monday, July 1 | 6:30–8:00 p.m. ET
Connect with colleagues and friends of IHPI who are committed to improving the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of health care.
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May 2, 2024 | 9:00–10:30 a.m. NCRC, Building 10, Rm G064
Lauren Hunt, Ph.D., RN, FNP
Assistant Professor of Nursing University of California, San Francisco
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May 10, 2024 | 9:00–10:30 a.m.
NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Elinore Kaufman, M.D., M.S.H.P.
Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Pennsylvania
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May 16, 2024 | 10:00–11:00 a.m. NCRC (Building 16 Room 467C) and Zoom
Laurie Buis, Ph.D., M.S.I.
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Faculty Lead of IHPI’s Telehealth Research & Policy Initiative
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June 3, 2024 | 12:00–1:30 p.m.
NCRC (Building 16 Room 467C) and Zoom
Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Urology, Medical Director of Virtual Care for the University of Michigan Medical Group
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Tuesday May 21, 2024 | 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET
During this session, Vahakn Shahinian, M.D., M.S., professor of internal medicine, will discuss how to navigate becoming a multi-PI on an NIH Grant, including tips for packaging a multi-PI application and use cases, caveats, and pitfalls of the multi-PI option.
This session will accommodate up to 20 participants.
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IN THE NEWS
Our members making headlines
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A series of new findings, published in three papers in the April issue of Health Affairs, show rises in diagnoses of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder during pregnancy and the first year after giving birth in Americans with private insurance from 2008 to 2020. The research comes from a U-M team led by Kara Zivin, Ph.D., M.S., M.F.A., professor of psychiatry, studying mental health in the perinatal period. | | |
NATIONAL POLL ON HEALTHY AGING
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NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to IHPI
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About IHPI
The Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation is the nation’s largest university-based community of health services researchers.
Our mission is to foster innovative, interdisciplinary research to inform policies and practices that advance the equity, quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare, and improve health for individuals, families, and communities.
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