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CSP Alumni & Recruitment Receptions
This past open application period, the NPO sponsored two alumni & recruitment receptions on a pilot basis, one in Chicago and one in Boston. The receptions successfully brought alumni together to network and engaged prospective medical residents and medical students. We asked alumni to bring one or more prospective applicants. Attendees briefly talked about their research interests. The receptions gave alumni the chance to reconnect and yielded applicants and several acceptances into the 2010-2012 cohort. As such, we will be holding two receptions during the upcoming open application period in January 2010:
- Seattle, University of Washington - 1/14/2010 (Location TBD)
- New York City, Mount Sinai School of Medicine - 1/21/2010 (Location TBD)
Peter Ubel (Co-Director Michigan CSP) co-authors study examing the polarizing effect of news media messages about the social determinants of health
Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how the public responds to these messages. We conducted an experiment to test the effect of a news article describing the social determinants of type 2 diabetes on the public’s support for diabetes prevention strategies. We found that exposure to the social determinants message led to a divergence between Republicans’ and Democrats’ opinions, relative to their opinions after viewing an article with no message about the causes of diabetes. These results signify that increasing public awareness of the social determinants of health may not uniformly increase public support for policy action.
 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2009.161414v1
National Health Committee of the NAACP National Board of Directors Honors Ms. Loretta Jones
National Health Committee of the NAACP National Board of Directors recently honored Ms. Loretta Jones as a 2009 W. Montague Cobb Award recipient for her work in Los Angeles County. Ms. Jones has demonstrated unparalleled dedication to the NAACP and the community through service in the field of health disparities and health policy. Each year deserving individuals are chosen as recipients for the Montague W. Cobb Award in recognition of special achievement in social justice, health justice, health education, health promotion, fundraising and/or research. Ms. Jones serves as mentor for Scholars as well as the Co-Chair for the UCLA RWJF Clinical Scholars Program Community Advisory Board.
Please see recent publications by alumni/faculty:
Brook R. (co-director UCLA CSP) Possible Outcomes of Comparative Effectiveness Research. /JAMA. /2009:302(2):194-195//
Brook R. (co-director UCLA CSP) The Science of Health Care Reform. /JAMA/. 2009:301(23):2486-2487
Wells K; Jones L. (co-director UCLA CSP) “Research” in Community-Partnered, Participatory Research. /JAMA/. 2009:302(3):320-321
UCLA Co-Director Ken Wells and community leader Loretta Jones co-author JAMA commentary on CBPR
In many underserved communities, "research" is a loaded word that sets expectations of
being examined or exploitedThis is more likely when data are published but not
otherwise shared, such as in a community forum. Research, whether it intends to or not,
may disadvantage groups by highlighting problems rather than assets. Research can
thus become a symbol of distance between community reality and the "ivory tower,"
where few mechanisms exist to facilitate community access to knowledge. Academics
may view pursuit of knowledge as paramount and in entering research partnerships take
such perspectives personally rather than as an expected subject of ongoing discussion.
Click here to read the article - JAMA. 2009;302(3):320-321
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars named for 2010-2012
Chapel Hill, N.C.—The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program is pleased to announce the selection of 29 young physicians who will learn to conduct innovative research and work with communities, organizations, practitioners and policy-makers on issues important to the health and well-being of all Americans. They will begin their prestigious two-year fellowships in July 2010.
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Harlan Krumholz, Yale CSP Director, writes editorial on quality
"Which Docs Measure Up?" Washington Post, Sunday, May 31, 2009
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Clinical Scholars Co-sponsoring a Reception with Physician Faculty Scholars Program on Friday May 15, 2009 at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting in New Orleans
The national program office is co-sponsoring a reception with the RWJF Physician Faculty Scholars Program on Friday May 15, 2009 at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please join reception hosts Arthur Kellerman (new Clinical Scholars national advisory committee member) and current Scholars Zachary Meisel (Penn CSP) and Mitesh Rao (Yale CSP). Current and former Clinical Scholars are invited to connect with interested emergency medicine chairs, residency program directors, faculty and resident physicians also in attendance at the reception. Please RSVP by April 6th to Zachary Meisel Zachary.Meisel@uphs.upenn.edu
When: Friday May 15, 2009
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Where: Nottoway Room, New Orleans Sheraton
UCLA Clinical Scholars program Co-Director Dr. Robert Brook, MD, ScD writes commentary on health care quality, transparency and the US government in the Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA. 2009;301(13):1377-1378.
Some solutions for producing a better health care system in the United States and abroad call for paying clinicians more for better performance. For this solution to work, valid and reliable measures of performance must be available. Although the quality-of-care field has matured and many such measures have been produced, a need for better methods and indicators by which performance can be assessed remains.
In 2001, the government of California, responding to calls to improve quality of care, decided to produce routinely available statewide reports on mortality following isolated coronary artery bypass surgery, by hospital and physician.1 The outcome-reporting program is housed in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. I was asked to chair the committee that oversees the production of these reports, the purpose of which is to increase public and professional knowledge about this procedure.
Committee members include health services researchers, . . .
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Penn Clinical Scholars Co-Director Josh Metlay wins Penn Fellow award as part of a faculty leadership-development program that recognizes faculty in mid-career
PHILADELPHIA – Eight faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania have been named the inaugural Penn Fellows, a leadership-development program that recognizes faculty in mid-career....
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Clinical Scholars Co-sponsoring a Reception with the RWJF Physician Faculty Scholars Program on Friday May 1, 2009 at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference in Denver, CO
The national program office is coordinating with University of Michigan's Department of Family Medicine and the RWJF Physician Faculty Scholars Program to co-sponsor a Clinical Scholars reception Friday May 1, 2009 at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference in Denver, CO. One of our alumnus, Dr. Terence Steyer (Michigan CSP 1998-2000), will be inducted as society president during this meeting. Clinical Scholars family medicine alumni, current scholars and program sites are invited to connect with interested family medicine chairs, residency program directors, faculty and resident physicians also in attendance at the reception.
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Dr. Erica Spatz authors article appearing in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes that estimates numbers of older U.S. adults who may benefit from statin therapy
Researchers estimate more than 11 million older Americans may be newly eligible for statin therapy if findings from a recently published large clinical trial are adopted into clinical practice guidelines, according to a new analysis of the trial data. The analysis is published online in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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Quality Fellows/Clinical Scholars from IHI, VA, NHS, and RWJF hold meet and greet at Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Forum 12/9.
Please meet after the *The Scientific Assembly* in the same room on Tuesday, December 9th, at the Nashville Gaylord, from 4:30-5:30 PM. Bring business cards. Questions? Contact Maureen Layden at email: Maureen.Layden@va.gov
RWJF Clinical Scholars Program Names Dr. Richard Krugman New NAC Chair and
Names Five New Committee Members
Washington, D.C. – November 19, 2008 – The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars Program named pediatrician Richard Krugman, M.D., Chair of the National Advisory Committee. As chair, Dr. Krugman will provide program oversight, scholar selection and mentorship activities for a program that is over three decades old.
The Clinical Scholars Program has also appointed five new members to the National Advisory Committee: Joann Elmore, M.D., M.P.H., Karen Hein, M.D., Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P., Herminia Palacio, M.D., Carlos Pellegrini, M.D. Along with Dr. Krugman, the NAC members oversee the program and provide individual mentorship to program scholars.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars named for 2009-2011
Chapel Hill – July 25, 2008 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars program today announced the selection of 29 new Clinical Scholars who will begin their prestigious two-year fellowships in July 2009.
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