August 2018 Edition
 
Accelerating and recognizing impact

Policymakers across the public and private sectors depend on responsive, evidence-based solutions to address urgent questions around healthcare quality, costs, access, and equity.

Our academic research process often moves too slowly to produce actionable evidence within the timeframe policymakers require. Despite our best efforts, we may fail to articulate our findings in a way that communicates the potential implications and policy relevance of our work. The research we produce may not reach the appropriate stakeholders, or the audiences who can make the greatest use of it.

To help address some of these gaps, IHPI is excited to announce a call for proposals for our new Policy Sprint program. Funding will be available to support direct costs for select projects that undertake rapid analyses to address timely health policy questions and develop products that will inform ongoing decision-making at the local, state, or national level.

Please read on in the Noteworthy section for further details about IHPI's Policy Sprints and how to submit a proposal; the deadline is October 12.

Policy and practice engagement is also a major theme of IHPI's new annual report, Collaboration-Evidence-Impact, which we've launched in an interactive, web-only format. Explore highlights of accomplishments across the Institute from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018, including the critical work of our Data & Methods Hub, and the ways IHPI is innovating in education, training, and professional development. The report also features high-impact research in aging, precision health, opioids, and value, and takes a closer look at some of the 550+ innovative minds that make IHPI a truly distinctive community of collaboration and discovery.

Together, we can continue to make an impact in emerging issues in health policy by providing needed expertise to inform crucial decision-making.

And as we kick-off the new academic year, I hope you and your family will join me and other IHPI members at our IHPI Tailgate Party on Saturday, September 8, from 9:00-11:30 AM at the new Postma Family Clubhouse at the U-M Golf Course (across from the Big House) - please RSVP today!

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 

The council welcomes new members Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., M.S.N., M.Sc., School of Nursing, Pooja Lagisetty, M.D., M.Sc., Department of Internal Medicine, Michael Mathis, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, Hari Nathan, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Surgery, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, J.D., M.B.E., Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology, and Valerie Vaughn, M.D., M.Sc., Department of Hospital Medicine.


 
 
Policy Sprints: Fall 2018 call for proposals

Funding and/or IHPI staff support is available for select projects that undertake rapid-cycle analyses to address timely, policy-relevant questions.

Policymakers seek evidence-based solutions to real-world problems. This initiative is intended to help IHPI members present insights as nonpartisan experts, and inform emerging local, state, or federal policy. Proposals are due by October 12, 2018 and will be reviewed by November 1, 2018 by an IHPI review panel.

 
 
Collaboration-Evidence-Impact: IHPI's Annual Report

Explore highlights of accomplishments across the Institute from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018, including the critical work of our data and methods hub, and the many ways IHPI is innovating in education, training, and professional development. IHPI's first annual report also features high-impact research in aging, precision health, opioids, and value, and takes a closer look at some of the 550+ innovative minds that make IHPI a truly unique driver of collaboration and discovery.

 
 
IHPI to honor members who received named professorships

Next month, IHPI will honor members who received named professorships through September 1, 2018. New appointments to named professorships include:
  • Mousumi Banerjee, Anant M. Kshiragar Collegiate Research Professor
  • Jun Li, NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor of Business Administration
  • Sarah Miller, Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration
  • Paul Pfeiffer, Susan Crumpacker Brown Research Professor of Depression
  • Mary Ruffolo, Rosemary A. Sarri Collegiate Professor of Social Work
  • Andrew Ryan, UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management
  • Christopher Sonnenday, Darrell A. Campbell Jr., M.D. Collegiate Professor of Transplant Surgery
  • Jenna Wiens, Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Kerr to chair 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Eve A. Kerr, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine, and director of the Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Management, was recently appointed as chair of the 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. The meeting will take place June 2-4, 2019 in Washington, D.C.


 
Kerr
 
 
Friese and Patel selected as NAM Emerging Leaders

Chris Friese, Ph.D., R.N., M.A., M.S., professor of nursing, and Minal Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of public health, have been selected for the National Academy of Medicine's Emerging Leaders in Health & Medicine Program.

The program facilitates opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, and innovation between the emerging leaders, NAM members, and experts across sectors. NAM leaders select early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields to participate in this program and engage in a variety of activities throughout the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine over a three-year term.

 
 
 
Smith awarded the Welch/Woerner Path-Paver Award

Ellen Lavoie Smith, Ph.D., M.S.N., professor of nursing, was awarded the Welch/Woerner Path-Paver Award by the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. 

The honor comes to Smith in recognition of her work addressing neuropathic pain related to chemotherapy treatment. Her work in refining and validating measurement approaches for neuropathic pain has led to reliable measures for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). The measures she developed are widely used in CIPN intervention trials, allowing researchers to demonstrate the efficacy and effectiveness of treatments.

Smith
 
 
Episodes of Care (EoCs) begin with a healthcare "event," such as a knee replacement surgery, and extend through a window of time when a patient receives healthcare services following that event. IHPI member research related to EoCs have important implications for developing an updating healthcare payment policies, as explained in this brief.
 
 
Fall 2018 U-M student MOOC: Understanding and Improving the U.S. Healthcare System


The "Understanding and Improving the U.S. Healthcare System" Residential MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is designed to provide U-M students from a variety of backgrounds with an engaging, practical, and interactive way to understand the U.S. healthcare system.

The fall 2018 program is open to U-M students and runs from October 8 --- November 16.

 
Membership
 
 
Romesh Nalliah, D.D.S., M.H.C.M.
Clinical Associate Professor of Dentistry

What role do dentists have to play in addressing the nation's opioid epidemic? As a major prescriber of opioids for mouth pain ---- and the largest prescriber by far for the age group that includes kids and young adults ---- their impact could be quite significant. Romesh Nalliah talks about policy and practice initiatives to improve prescribing, communication, and the integration of oral health services within the healthcare system.

The Journal of the American Dental Association also published Nalliah's letter about reimbursement reform in dentistry in its June 2018 issue.

READ Q&A
 
  EVENTS

Location: Richard L. Postma Family Clubhouse, U-M Golf Course

Join your IHPI colleagues and their families for plenty of food, fun, games, and spirit before the Wolverines take on Western Michigan University! Stop by whether you're attending the game or not.

This event is open to IHPI faculty members and their families.

 
 
September IHPI Seminar Series: WAITING ON TITLE 

Date: September 20, 2018
Time: 4:00 p.m. --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: Jeff Kullgren, M.D., M.P.H.,

Text of his talk will go here
 

You're invited to attend the 2018 Ann Arbor Health Services Research Symposium, where nationally renowned speakers will give powerful TED-style talks on translating research into real world impact.

The symposium will be held at the U-M Power Center and CME credit will be available.
 
 
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal 

Date: September 14, 2018
Time: 9:30 a.m. --- 12:00 p.m.
Location: Weiser Hall, Room 1010, Central Campus
Speaker: Dr. Jill Jividen, assistant director for research development, Medical School

This workshop will discuss strategies for developing a persuasive grant proposal that is responsive to sponsor priorities. Focusing on proposals that are driven by a hypothesis and/or research question, this workshop will offer an overview of crucial pre-proposal preparation, from assessing readiness, to analyzing funders, to understanding the review process. During the second half of the program, we will look at proposal components, structure, writing style and common errors.

Co-sponsored by LSA and the ADVANCE Program
 
 
2018 Symposium on Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety

Date: September 17, 2018
Time: 5:00 --- 7:30 p.m.
Location: 3rd and 4th Floors, Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center, 1221 Beal Ave

Learn more about how the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) is improving the safety and quality of healthcare delivery by identifying, fostering, and promoting collaborative projects across the university. Come enjoy refreshments, networking with colleagues and potential collaborators, poster presentations on cutting-edge healthcare research, and the opportunity to learn about current activities at CHEPS.
 
 
Learning Health Sciences Collaboratory: Welcome Back Event and Poster Session

Date: September 18, 2018
Time: 12:00 --- 1:30 p.m.
Location: Palmer Commons, South-Central Room

This interactive "Kickoff" event will include a poster session showcasing the great ongoing LHS work and research.

 
 
 

Rick Iedema, Ph.D., FASSA, professor and director for the Centre for Team Based Practice & Learning in Health Care, King's College London, will be on campus September 24 --- 25 for three workshops/lectures. The School of Nursing and IHPI are sponsoring:

Novel video techniques for improving patient safety
September 24: 4 --- 5 p.m. | Level 1 Research Auditorium | NCRC Building 10
Reception to follow

Mini workshop on video reflexive ethnography
September 25: 8 a.m. --- noon | Room 1000 | School of Nursing Building, 426 N. Ingalls

If healthcare is a complex adaptive system, what approaches do we need to engage with such a system?
September 25: 2 --- 3 p.m. | Room 1000 | School of Nursing Building, 426 N. Ingalls
 
 
 
 
Learning Health Sciences Inaugural Roland "Red" Hiss Lectureship

Date: October 4, 2018
Time: 3:30 --- 5:00 p.m.
Location:MCHC Auditorium, Floor 2 of UH South
Speaker:David G. Marrero, Ph.D., director, University of Arizona Center for Health
Disparities Research, professor of health promotion science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and professor of endocrinology, College of Medicine --- Tucson, University of Arizona Health Sciences

Reception to follow
 
 
Orientation for Clinical Investigators

Date: October 5, 2018
Time: 8:00 --- 11:30 a.m.
Location: University Hospital Room UH 2C224 (near the cashier's office)

Orientation for Clinical Investigators is designed for early career faculty or experienced researchers new to clinical research at U-M. This 3.5-hour session will provide participants with:
  • An orientation to information, resources, and tools necessary to navigate the university's research enterprise
  • A basic understanding of what is needed to comply with regulations related to clinical research
Participants will learn information about IRBMED, regulatory affairs, conflict of interest, audits and monitoring, ClinicalTrials.gov, and U-M resources for clinical trials research.
 
 
Event Host: Joyce Lee, M.D., M.P.H., Robert Kelch Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School

Join Fast Forward Medical Innovation for an exclusive health IT symposium to learn about the growing and inevitable intersection of technology and healthcare, along with research/innovation/commercialization opportunities in the arena of digital health and "big data".

This half-day event is designed to educate faculty, staff, students, and community on how digital tools, precision health, and machine learning algorithms will change the future of medicine, as well as highlight compelling examples of technology-based health innovations both inside and outside of the U-M ecosystem.
 
 


This one-day workshop will provide participants with an introductory overview of qualitative research methods. What to expect: Instructors will cover key features of qualitative research, study design, sampling, data collection, data analysis, and proposal and manuscript preparation. The workshop will include interactive exercises (e.g., designing a study, developing a sampling strategy, writing an interview guide, developing a codebook, coding data) to help participants apply their learning to real research questions.
 
 


This workshop targets researchers, faculty, staff, and students motivated to design a mixed methods research project using both qualitative and quantitative methods. What to expect:
  • Work on your mixed methods proposal, research study, or manuscript
  • Improve your project with rigorous methodology using an interactive-participatory format
  • Refine your project through group consultation with leading methodologists and group feedback
 
 
Women in Big Data at Michigan Symposium

Date: November 12, 2018
Time: 8:30 a.m. --- 4:30 p.m.
Location: Michigan League
Keynote Speaker: Xihong Lin, Ph.D., Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics, and chair, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

This day-long symposium will highlight women data science researchers at U-M, provide resources and support for women pursuing careers in data science, a poster session, lunchtime round table discussions, a faculty panel, and ample time for networking.

IHPI Speakers:
 
 
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC


This guide provides a list of mobile-friendly resources offered through Taubman Health Sciences Library, as well as information on how to access and install them. You'll find clinical resources, as well as a broad range of additional apps.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
 
 
Mentored Clinical Scientists Career Development (MICHR K) Award

Applications due September 11, 2018

The Mentored Clinical Scientists Career Development (MICHR K) award is a two-year award that provides protected time for a clinician scientist to focus on conducting clinical research. University of Michigan early-career faculty and mid-career health care professionals initiating careers in clinical research are encouraged to apply. Each applicant should hold an advanced professional degree (i.e. DDS, JD, MD, PharmD, or PhD) with a clinical or health focus, and must be a U.S. citizen or a U.S. permanent resident.

 
 
Learn How to Think Like a Grant Reviewer

MICHR will offer a Mock Study Section Workshop on Thursday, September 27 from 5:30-8pm at NCRC. This mock study section, which is ideal for fellows and early career investigators writing career development and R01 grant proposals, helps participants understand how NIH grant reviewers think. Participants will discuss actual twelve-page K and R grants (already submitted in some version to the NIH), learning what happens behind the closed doors in a real K or R grant review.
 
 
2019 IHPI R01 Boot Camp: Application available now---- register by October 15

IHPI is sponsoring a health services research-focused R01 Boot Camp program in conjunction with the Medical School's Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp. The IHPI Boot Camp will accommodate up to eight early career faculty and is open to all assistant professors who are IHPI members, regardless of the school or college in which they are appointed.

The IHPI R01 Boot Camp application is now available in Competition Space, and will be open through October 15. For more information, see the IHPI Boot Camp webpage or contact Wendy Lombard.

( NOTE: IHPI early career faculty with appointments in the Medical School may choose to apply to either the Medical School or IHPI Boot Camp based on their primary research interests. For those who wish to apply to the Medical School Boot Camp, that application and program details are available here .)
 
 
IHPI and MICHR team up to help early career faculty with K-award writing workshops

Date: Tuesdays, November 13, 27, and December 11, 2018
Time: 5:30 p.m. --- 8:00 p.m.
Register by October 26
Visit the MICHR website

This structured, three-part workshop is designed to assist early career faculty and fellows who are preparing competitive career development grant applications (NIH K and VA CDA) for a 2019 submission. As a participant, you will exchange drafts of sections of your proposal and receive peer critique and feedback from senior faculty experienced in NIH study section thinking. IHPI faculty will lead health services-focused breakout sessions. Space is limited, please sign up by October 26.
 
Unwise opioids for wisdom teeth: Study shows link to long-term use in teens and young adults

Getting wisdom teeth removed may be a rite of passage for many teens and young adults, but the opioid painkiller prescriptions that many of them receive could set them on a path to long-term opioid use, a new study finds.

Unwise opioids for wisdom teeth: Study shows link to long-term use in teens

Young people ages 13 to 30 who filled an opioid prescription immediately before or after they had their wisdom teeth out were nearly 2.7 times as likely as their peers to still be filling opioid prescriptions weeks or months later, according to new research published in JAMA and led by Calista Harbaugh, M.D., IHPI National Clinician Scholar and surgical resident in the Department of Surgery.

 
 
As Medicaid work requirements gain traction, U-M researchers propose ways to reduce potential harm

New Medicaid rules in several states mean low-income people will have to work, or prove they're too unhealthy to work, to receive health coverage. Other states want permission to require the same, which could affect millions of Americans living in or near poverty.


Before these requirements get into full gear, a team of University of Michigan researchers including John Ayanian , M.D., M.P.P., IHPI director,  Renuka Tipirneni , M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of internal medicine, and  Susan Goold , M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., professor of internal medicine, is offering specific recommendations to help states ensure that work requirements don't harm the health of people enrolled in Medicaid.

 
 
Gold and Sen discuss challenges of physician mental health treatment and suicide

Researchers estimate hundreds of physicians die by suicide every year in the U.S., but exact numbers are hard to come by. Media outlet Newsy took an in-depth look at the challenges doctors face in their new investigation " Unspoken: Doctor Depression and Suicide." Newsy spoke with physician suicide expert Katherine Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S., assistant professor of family medicine, about her research.

Newsy also sat down with Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, about his efforts to promote physician well-being, especially supporting medical students and trainees.
 
 
MORE NEWS


Not all hope is lost for kids who are obese ( Michigan News ---Bauer, Mezuk)
 
  FUNDING
Understanding and Addressing Violence in Health Disparity Populations


The National Institute on Minorith Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) has announced its interest in receiving grant applications studying the causes and consequences of violence in health disparity populations, as well as policy, health services, and intervention studies to understand how best to prevent or mitigate the impact of violence in these populations.
 
 
Russell Sage Foundation: The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Deadline: August 20, 2018
Award Amount: $150,000

This Russell Sage Foundation initiative will support innovative social science research on the social, economic, and political effects of the Affordable Care Act. They are especially interested in funding analyses that address important questions about the effects of the reform on outcomes such as financial security and family economic well-being, labor supply and demand, participation in other public programs, family and children's outcomes, and differential effects by age, race, ethnicity, nativity, or disability status. They are also interested in research that examines the political effects of the implementation of the new law, including changes in views about government, support for future government policy changes, or the impact on policy development outside of health care.
 
 
Mi-TRAC funding available

The U-M Translational Research and Commercialization for Life Sciences Hub (Mi-TRAC Hub) provides resources to support translational projects in the life sciences with high commercial potential. The Mi-TRAC Award offers 1-year of funding in the range of $100K-$250K with a deadline of September 24, 2018.

 
 
American Cancer Society RFA---- The Role of Health Policy and Health Insurance in Improving Access to and Performance of Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Services

Deadline: October 15, 2018
Award Amount: $825,000 (up to $165,000 per year)


A call for 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. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. 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.
 
 
Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging: K76 Emerging Leaders Career Development Award

Deadline: October 24, 2018

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites early-stage physician and other health professional investigators with a commitment to aging and/or aging-related diseases to apply for this award to advance their research and leadership skills in their specialty and in the broader field of aging and geriatrics research

The National Institute on Aging is pursuing this initiative to recruit early-stage investigators who have begun to establish research programs and who, through this award, will be ready to assume leadership roles in their field of expertise and will be poised to change theory, practice and health outcomes related to the health of older individuals. Unlike other mentored K awards, candidates for this award must have received competitively awarded research support as a PD/PI at the faculty level or have otherwise leveraged faculty-level research support to develop an independent line of research. They must show evidence of leadership in the clinical or research domain.

IHPI members and previous award recipients Donovan Maust and Julie Bynum are available as resources regarding this award.
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CONTACT US

U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Eileen Kostanecki
IHPI Director, Policy Engagement and External Relations
ekostan@umich.edu
202-554-0578

Christina Camilli-Whisenhunt
IHPI Communications Manager
camillic@umich.edu

Kara Gavin
IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
 
Lauren Hutchens
IHPI Senior Communications Specialist

Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Specialist