Broglio, Ellimoottil honored for impact on health policy and practice

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.

Virtual program to promote smoking cessation among Medicaid-enrolled expectant mothers

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.

Lara Coughlin

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.

In the past two years, 60% of people age 50 to 80 have visited an urgent care clinic, or a clinic based in a retail store, workplace or vehicle, according to new findings from the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging.

Thursday, May 16, 2024 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET

This livestream will focus on special considerations for people who have a mental health diagnosis or a family member with a diagnosis -- whether or not they are firearm owners themselves. Presented in collaboration with the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, the discussion will include tips about firearm safe storage and how to leverage the “red flag laws” now available in Michigan and other states. 

Featured Michigan Medicine experts:

Mark Ilgen, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry

Cynthia Ewell Foster, Ph.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry

Victor Hong, M.D., medical director of psychiatry emergency services and clinical associate professor of psychiatry

This event will be streamed live over the Michigan Medicine YouTube channel and Facebook page