October 2017 Edition
 
One great week in the life of IHPI 

The last week of September was teeming with inspiring IHPI events on campus, in Lansing, and elsewhere around the state. Here are several snapshots of the vibrant member-driven initiatives that have come to exemplify the life of IHPI:

On September 26, Amy Bohnert, Chad Brummett and Rebecca Cunningham spoke at a Wolverine Caucus event in Lansing about the opioid crisis in Michigan and the U.S. They discussed trends in overdoses, prescribing patterns, and prescription drug monitoring programs, and new initiatives based at IHPI and the Injury Center aiming to curb overuse and misuse of opioid medications within the state and beyond. State Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-Ann Arbor) introduced the event, and I served as moderator. More than 100 attendees from state government and Lansing-based organizations were among the standing room-only crowd, including healthcare providers, health plan leaders, and policymakers.  Watch video

On September 27, the M-PrOVE Research Innovation Challenge led by Eve Kerr, Anne Sales, and Scott Flanders launched its kickoff event in the NCRC Dining Room. More than 50 people across seven schools and colleges discussed team-based research ideas focused on appropriateness and optimizing value in healthcare. A number of Challenge funding proposals are now in development, and I encourage all IHPI members to get involved in this effort, whether or not you attended the kickoff event ---- see "Funding" below for details.

On September 28, IHPI hosted three senior leaders from AARP to present our National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA) to the IHPI community and explore opportunities to expand our partnership. The first three NPHA reports have covered prescription drugs, dental care, and sleep. IHPI hosted a lunch attended by some 20 members interested in issues of health and aging, and more than 50 IHPI faculty members and staff attended an IHPI research seminar led by  Preeti Malani and AARP colleagues to learn about the NPHA design and ways to use poll data for research.  Watch video

On September 30, the Michigan-OPEN program at IHPI held another successful medication takeback event in Ann Arbor and seven other locations around the state, safely removing hundreds of pounds of unused opioids and other prescription drugs from circulation (see item in "News" below).

Keep abreast of all of our activity throughout this eventful fall with this newsletter, our events calendar, and Twitter, including live tweets from past and future events at #ihpi17. Finally, we are grateful to once again be featured in the NCRC Annual Report; please check out the IHPI section for an in-depth look at some of our signature programs.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 
Sleep problems & sleep aid use common in older adults, new poll results report

Sleep doesn't come easily for nearly half of older Americans, and more than a third have resorted to some sort of medication to help them doze off at night, according to new results from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.

But most poll respondents said they hadn't talked to their doctor about their sleep, even though more than a third said their sleep posed a problem. Half believe ---- incorrectly ---- that sleep problems just come naturally with age.


 
 
Two members elected to prestigious National Academy of Medicine and two others named fellows

Eve Kerr, M.D., M.P.H., the Louis Newburgh Research Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, and a member of the Division of General Medicine, and Paul Lee, M.D., J.D., the F. Bruce Fralick Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, were elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies. With their election, the U-M now has 56 members of the NAM among its active, emeritus, and living former faculty.  READ MORE

Mahshid Abir, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and director, Acute Care Research Unit, IHPI, was named American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Fellow and Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine, was named James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Fellow. READ MORE

 
 
Cunningham testifies about the value of research

Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., associate vice president for research - health sciences, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management about federal support for research. She highlighted the crucial role the federal government provides in supporting basic, curiosity-driven research alongside applied research and engineering, along with the economic benefits of federally supported research. 



The committee will use testimony by Cunningham and other witnesses as they consider legislation regarding how the government awards federal research dollars. 

 
 
How many opioid pain pills do surgery patients need? New prescribing guide available

How many prescription pain pills should a patient receive after breast cancer surgery? Or a hernia repair? Or a gallbladder removal?


A new tool developed at U-M is now available online for free use by any team that performs 11 common operations. It's based on data and surveys from surgery patients across the state of Michigan, and on research by U-M researchers who study pain control and surgical quality. The recommendations were created by the Michigan Opioid Prescribing and Engagement Network, in collaboration with the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative, both based at IHPI.


Also, a new study by lead author Pooja Lagisetty, M.D,, M.Sc., clinical lecturer in internal medicine, suggests that primary care physicians and their existing teams of nurses, medical assistants, social workers and pharmacists can provide effective addiction care using  medication-assisted treatment. She and her colleagues Amy Bohnert, Ph.D., M.H.S., Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., and Vineet Chopra, M.D., M.Sc. hope their findings will encourage more general practitioners to start offering medication-assisted therapy or MAT.

 
 
State of Michigan announces progress on physical and behavioral health coordination initiative and selects IHPI as project evaluator

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) recently announced the next steps for the Section 298 Initiative.

The Section 298 Initiative is a statewide effort to improve the coordination of physical health services and behavioral health services in Michigan. This initiative is based upon Section 298 in the Public Act 268 of 2016. The Michigan legislature approved a revised version of Section 298 as part of Public Act 107 of 2017. Under the revised Section 298, the Michigan legislature directed the department to develop and implement up to three pilots and one demonstration model to test the integration of physical health and behavioral health services.

Additionally, MDHHS was directed to contract with one of the state's research universities to complete an evaluation of the pilot(s) and demonstration model. In September 2017, the department selected IHPI as the project evaluator for the Section 298 Initiative and it will be led by Kara Zivin, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.. , a

 
 
IHPI to honor members who received named professorships

Next month, IHPI will honor members who received named professorships through September 1, 2017. New appointments to named professorships include:
  • Daniel Eisenberg, S. J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy
  • Nancy Fleischer, John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
  • Christopher Friese, Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
  • Richard Gonzalez, Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Statistics
  • Brent Hollenbeck, Dr. Robert H. and Eva M. Moyad Research Professor of Urology
  • Holly Jarman, John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy
  • Sarah Krein, Rensis Likert Collegiate Research Professor
  • Minal Patel, John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Public Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Marcia Valenstein, Susan Crumpacker Brown Research Professor of Depression
  • John Wei, David A. Bloom Professor of Urology
  • Yue Maggie Zhou, NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor of Business Administration
  • Marc Zimmerman, Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor of Public Health
 
 
IHPI Impact Accelerator Award: Call for nominations

Deadline: November 17, 2017 by 5:00 p.m.
The IHPI Impact Accelerator is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2017 Impact Accelerator Award. This award will be given to an IHPI faculty member, regardless of career stage, who has demonstrated a commitment to making a policy or practice impact with their work. Winner(s) will be honored at the annual IHPI member forum on January 24, 2018. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.

Award applications will be accepted from now through November 17, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. The award winner will be notified on or before January 5, 2018. For more details on the award information, nomination criteria and to apply, please visit the IA Awards information Web page (requires Level-1 login).
 
 
Kilbourne to lead $3.9M study of student mental health

The U-M Department of Psychiatry was recently awarded a $3.9 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a new study titled, "Improving Student Mental Health: Adaptive Implementation of School-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy."

The trial will allow U-M researchers to study the effectiveness of different implementation strategies to improve access to evidence-based mental health care for students with depression and anxiety throughout the state of Michigan.

Amy M. Kilbourne, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the principal investigator for the study that focuses heavily on the work being done through the TRAILS program (Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students), which is led by Elizabeth Koschmann, Ph.D. The randomized controlled trial will engage more than 200 school professionals spanning all 83 Michigan counties.

 
Kilbourne
 
 
Nahum-Shani, Krein, and Rothman honored for scholarship and service

Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani, Ph.D., M.A., research associate professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Sarah Krein, Ph.D., R.N., research professor of internal medicine, Medical School, and Edward Rothman, Ph.D., professor emeritus of statistics, LS&A, were among the thirty-one faculty members formally recognized for their teaching, scholarship, service and creative activities.

Nahum-Shani received the Research Faculty Recognition Award. Krein was honored with the Collegiate Research Professorship Award. Rothman received the Bicentennial Faculty Governance Lifetime Achievement Award, a one-time award presented to four former chairs of the Faculty Senate who have demonstrated a longtime commitment to faculty governance.

 
 
Gold appointed new chair of International Stillbirth Alliance

Katherine Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S., assistant professor of family medicine and obstetrics/gynecology, was recently appointed as chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA). The ISA is an alliance of member organizations and individual supporters working toward stillbirth prevention and improvement of bereavement care worldwide.

Did you know October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month?
Gold
 
 
Ehrlich receives K23 award to address quality of life in people with low vision

Joshua Ehrlich, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of ophthalmology, will work to develop a patient-centered outcome measure of vision-dependent functioning in individuals with peripheral field loss under a new K23 award from the National Institutes of Health.

The measure, which will be developed using the insights of patients, their caregivers, and their vision care providers, would help evaluate and compare interventions for low vision rehabilitation strategies, and could be used in future clinical trials of interventions for this population.

 
Ehrlich
 
 
U.S. Department of HHS seeks nominations for appointments to the Advisory Committee on Minority Health

Deadline: January 3, 2018

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Minority Health (OMH), is seeking nominations of qualified candidates to be considered for appointment as a member of the Advisory Committee on Minority Health (hereafter referred to as the ''Committee or ACMH''). The Committee provides advice to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in carrying out the duties stipulated under Public Law 105-392. This includes providing advice on improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations and in the development of goals and specific program activities of OMH.
 
 
The journal Health Services Research (HSR) set to publish Theme Issue on Health Equity: Call for abstracts

Deadline: November 1, 2017

Health Services Research (HRET's flagship publication and an official journal of AcademyHealth) is excited to announce a CMS Office of Minority Health-sponsored theme issue on Health Equity for late 2018. For the Theme Issue, HSR is soliciting studies, evaluations, and policy analyses that use rigorous and scientific research methods to promote health equity and reduce health disparities. They encourage work from a variety of disciplines including health services research, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, sociology, social work, economics, political science, anthropology, history of science, and others. All papers must pertain to health equity and must report the results of original research.

 
 
 
 
Lindsey Herrel, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Lecturer, Department of Urology, Medical School

Ensuring that safety net hospitals remain financially viable over time is crucial to maintaining a usual source of care for vulnerable populations and improving access to high-quality healthcare. For Accountable Care Organizations, a better understanding of organizational attributes that make for a successful ACO will improve the ability of organizations to come together and engage physicians to provide lower cost, higher quality care.

VIEW PROFILE
 
  EVENTS
 
 
 
 
NOVEMBER SEMINAR: Precision Health with Dr. Sachin Kheterpal

Date: November 16, 2017
Time: 4:00 p.m. --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker:  Sachin Kheterpal, M.D., M.B.A., a ssociate professor of Anesthesiology, and associate dean, Office of Research, Medical School
WEBSITE

The IHPI Research Seminar Series is a lecture-based program designed to share innovative health services research topics, studies, and programs, with clinicians, faculty, research staff, and students from a variety of disciplines.

To record CME activity, visit  www.umhscme.com using the following program ID: IHPI Research Seminar Series ---- 05182
 
 
 
 
Diabetes Simulation Modelling: How far have we come? How much further to go?

Date: October 30, 2017
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Location: Palmer Commons, Board Room 5
Speaker: Professor Philip Clarke, FASSA, director, Centre for Health Policy
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Professor Clarke's research interests include evaluating policies to improve the management of people with chronic diseases such as diabetes, health inequalities and the use of simulation models to inform health economic evaluation. He has also undertaken policy-relevant research for the World Bank, OECD, AusAID and DoH and is on the Lancet Commission on Diabetes.

This event is co-hosted by William H. Herman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine and epidemiology, and associate director of the Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research and  Lisa Prosser, Ph.D., M.S., professor of pediatrics and director of The Child Health Evaluation and Research Center.
 
 
Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems MS & PhD Program fall open houses

Dates and Times:
Wednesday, October 25, 6:00 --- 8:00 p.m.
Monday, November 13, 6:00 --- 8:00 p.m.

The Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) MS & PhD program invites prospective students (and anyone else who's interested in HILS) to attend on-site open houses with HILS faculty and current students. HILS is the nation's first graduate program focused on the science and methods of learning health systems and is housed in the Department of Learning Health Sciences. Increasingly recognized in academic literature, learning health systems are the underpinning of wide-ranging health improvement movements nationally and globally.
 
 


One-on-One Meetings
Dr. Livingston will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis in 30-minute blocks. CLICK HERE if you are interested in a meeting.

Project Pitches: 11:00 a.m.--- 2:00 p.m.
NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium
Each presenter will have approximately five minutes to pitch their research idea. Dr. Livingston and others will then provide feedback. The session will include a lunch break, during which Dr. Livingston will take questions and we'll have an informal group conversation. This session is open to anyone who is interested, and you need not be presenting to attend. CLICK HERE to register.

CHOP Seminar Guest Lecture: 4:00 p.m.--- 5:00 p.m.
NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Dr. Livingston will present on successfully submitting manuscripts, tips for getting articles into journals, and pitfalls to avoid. This session is open to all.
 
 
5th Annual Symposium on Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety

Date: November 6, 2017
Time: 5:00 p.m. --- 7:30 p.m.
Location: 3rd and 4th Floors, Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center, 1221 Beal Ave

Join the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) and learn how they are helping to improve 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, posters and mini-presentations on cutting-edge healthcare research, and the opportunity to learn about current activities at CHEPS. For questions, please email cheps-contact@umich.edu.
 
 
Michigan Health Policy Forum: Bold and Innovative Ideas for Medicaid

Date: November 13, 2017
Time: 1:00 p.m. --- 4:00 p.m.
Location:  East Lansing Marriott at University Place

As Congress wrestled with efforts to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, a recurring central theme was to cap the federal contribution to the Medicaid budget. While the "repeal and replace" discussions have quieted, the underlying desire to cap the federal contribution to Medicaid remains very much alive. In the belief that the nation may still be facing reduced federal Medicaid funding, further complicated by Michigan's budget forecast, the Michigan Health Policy Forum will review "bold and innovative" Medicaid cost containment initiatives from other states. The Michigan Health Policy Forum has invited Mr. Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, to provide this overview.
 
 
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems Symposium

Date: November 15, 2017
Time: 8:00 a.m. --- 4:00 p.m.
Location: Palmer Commons

This year's events focus on the ELSI of data and knowledge sharing. Speakers currently scheduled include John Wilbanks, Elizabeth Pike, Kenneth Goodman, Debra Matthews, Peter Embi, and Joon-Ho Yu, with more to come.
 
 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
 
 


Registration Deadline: December 11, 2017

The NHPC brings together health care decision makers, advocates, consumers, patients, researchers, and leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss the most critical issues and immediate policy priorities in United States health care using the latest evidence and examples from science and practice.
 
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC

Highlighted resource: iCite

Created by the National Institutes of Health, this citation analysis tool utilizes the relative citation ratio, an article level impact measurement created as a way to remedy the use of journal impact factors to measure impact. The RCR is a field-normalized metric that shows the scientific influence of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
View Health Management and Policy Guide.
 
 
Wolverine Express: Your opportunity to promote higher education for high-schoolers across the State of Michigan

Wolverine Express takes faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the University of Michigan to under-resourced high schools across the state to promote higher education through sharing their stories of aspiration, education, and career experiences.


School visits generally require a half day commitment depending on travel conditions and location. The U-M Center for Educational Outreach provides templates and resources for classroom presentations prior to visits. On the morning of each visit, participants receive detailed itineraries and an orientation.

For more information about Wolverine Express please contact: Sheri Samaha at
(734) 615-5241 or sridout@umich.edu.

Visit the  WEBSITE for the list of schools where visits are planned.
 
 
2018 IHPI R01 Boot Camp: Application available---- registration ends October 23

IHPI is once again sponsoring an R01 Boot Camp program in conjunction with the Medical School's Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp. The IHPI Boot Camp will run from January to October 2018 and will accommodate 8 --- 10 early career faculty. It 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 23. For more information, visit the IHPI Boot Camp webpage or contact Wendy Lombard

(NOTE: IHPI junior 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.)
 
 
Computational Social Science (CSS) Initiative and Workshops

The College of Literature, Science & Arts' Computational Social Science (CSS) Initiative is developing a community where Michigan faculty and students can discuss topics of mutual interest, learn new skills, and create interdisciplinary collaborations. As part of this effort, a series of methods workshops are being offered to provide introductions to important CSS-related models and techniques.

All sessions are from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 747 Weiser Hall. Visit the website for the list of dates, topics, and speakers.
 
 
 
 
IHPI and MICHR team up to help early career faculty with K-award writing workshops

Date: November 14, 28, and December 12
Time:: 5:30 p.m. --- 8:00 p.m.
Registration ends October 20
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 2017 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. 
 
 
 
How can exam room computing foster---- rather than hinder---- patient-centered communication?

How can IT devices in the exam room be used to improve, rather than detract from, patient engagement? Can providers be trained to conduct their computing in a way that guides and encourages conversations, rather than shutting them down? Can such training also simultaneously enhance therapeutic practice?

Minal Patel, Ph.D., the John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the U-M School of Public Health, has been researching the answers to many of these questions, with the goal of promoting effective strategies to improve patient outcomes and patient and provider engagement and satisfaction within the context of health IT.

 
Patel
 
Statewide drug takeback event nets 900 pounds of opioids & more

Michiganders from eight communities had a chance to drop unneeded medications off for free on September 30, as part of the largest drug takeback event ever spearheaded by the Michigan-OPEN initiative based at IHPI. The event, which included partners from healthcare and law enforcement from Livonia to Traverse City, collected 130,000 pills, 17,500 of which were opioid pain medications. READ MORE

 
 
Low-cost, high-volume services make up a big portion of unneeded health care spending

Analyzing data on 5.5 million patients in Virginia, a team from several institutions found that services providing no net health benefits to patients cost that state's health care system more than $586 million in 2014. Of that amount, 65 percent went to low-cost, high-volume services such as unnecessary lab tests.

The findings are published in the October issue of Health Affairs by lead author John Mafi, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and senior author Mark Fendrick, M.D., professor at the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health.

 
Fendrick
 
  
MORE NEWS


Latest Mott Poll report---- Split-second decisions: First aid at home or rush to the ER?( C.S. Mott Children's National Poll on Children's Health ----Freed)
 
  FUNDING
 

MPrOVE Innovation Challenge: Apply for up to $75,000 in planning funds

Deadline: November 3, 2017


The MPrOVE Research Innovation Challenge successfully kicked off on September 27, 2017 with over 50 faculty members across seven schools/colleges in attendance.

Even if you didn't attend the kickoff, we encourage you to lead or work with a team to apply for up to $75,000 in planning funds, and in-kind resources from IHPI to help develop a proposal for external funding. Challenge applications are due on November 3, 2017 and two teams will be chosen in December to receive the planning funds.

 
 
Up to $220K available for research strategies to prevent and alleviate poverty

Deadline: November 13, 2017


Poverty Solutions is pleased to announce its second round of grant funding to support action-based research focused on preventing and alleviating poverty. Up to $220,000 is available through two funding mechanisms: community-academic partnership and faculty project development.
 
 
The National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program

Deadline: November 15, 2017

NIH seeks applications and renewals for their Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs).

This important program helps keep great researchers at our institution. Participants in the NIH LRPs receive up to $70,000 of qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year contract. What you need to know for your application:
  • U-M contact: Terri Maxwell
  • No PAF required. Individuals apply for the program, so no Proposal Approval Form (PAF) is necessary.
  • Application cycle is open now and until November 15, 2017
 
ABOUT IHPI

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To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:

  • Evaluating the impact of healthcare reforms
  • Improving the health of communities
  • Promoting greater value in healthcare
  • Innovating in IT and healthcare delivery

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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 Government & External Relations Director
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 Communications Specialist

Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Coordinator