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Dr. Loren Berman ('06-'08 Yale CSP) co-authors study examining the effects of insurance coverage on the care for newborns with congential defects.
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Carol Horowitz, MD ('93-'95 Washington CSP) authors article in Circulation on preparation of researchers to conduct community-based participatory research.
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Glenn Geelhoed, MD, FACS ('75-'77 GWU) will be given the 2009 American College of Surgeons/Pfizer, Inc Surgical Volunteerism Award for International Outreach at the October 2009 ACS Clinical Congress.
Task Force Led by Woodrow A. Myers, MD, MBA (UCSF-Stanford CSP 1980-82) Releases Report Providing New Vision for L.A. County Healthcare Safety Net
LOS ANGELES, Apr 28, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A new report released today by the Los Angeles Healthcare Options Task Force recommends that L.A. County should form a Healthcare Planning Commission to capitalize upon imminent opportunities to improve the quality of care and financial stability of the county healthcare safety-net system. The report, Achieving the Vision: Healthcare Options for Los Angeles County, lays out a vision of a reengineered safety net of health services for the residents of Los Angeles County.
"The unfortunate realities of the economic downturn mean that business as usual in healthcare simply cannot be sustained," said Woodrow A. Myers, MD, MBA, Managing Director, Myers Ventures, LLC, who also serves as the chair of the Los Angeles Healthcare Options Task Force. "The integrated healthcare delivery model the Task Force has put forth is not just a wish list, it is a fiscal imperative."
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Dr. Patrick Conway (Penn CSP 05-07) co-authors study documenting that hospital care varies greatly for children with urinary tract infections.
More than 45,000 infants and children in the United States are hospitalized each year for urinary tract infections, but a new study reveals significant variability across hospitals in treatment and outcomes.
The findings of the study provide an opportunity to eliminate potential waste in the healthcare system and to engage in quality improvement efforts for this common condition, according to study co-authors Patrick Conway, M.D., a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Ron Keren, M.D., a pediatrician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Dr. Thomas Gill (Yale CSP 91-93) Designated as Humana Foundation Professor
Dr. Thomas Gill (Yale CSP 91-93) is designated as the Humana Foundation Professor. He is the co-director of the Yale Program on Aging and of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
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Responding to Child Maltreatment: 2008 Survey Findings and Trends
Dr. Carol Jenny, MD, MBA (Penn CSP 74-76), Professor at Brown University and Director of the Child Protection Program at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, RI, provides video commentary on the latest data from the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) report, Responding to Child Maltreatment: 2008 Survey Findings and Trends. > Click here to read the report
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Dr. Eric Coleman (Washington CSP 95-97) an author for study that finds that too many Medicare patients must go back to the hospital after an in-patient stay
The nation spends billions of dollars a year on patients’ return visits to the hospital — many of which are readmissions that could be prevented with better follow-up care, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
As many as a fifth of all Medicare patients are readmitted within a month of being discharged, according to the study, and a third are rehospitalized within 90 days.
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Dr. Ed Ehlinger (UNC CSP 1978-1980) hosts weekly cable television program, A Public Health Journal
A Public Health Journal is a weekly cable television program with host Dr. Ed Ehlinger. The program is produced by Minneapolis Office of Media Services, University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service, Minnesota Public Health Association, West Metro Medical Society, and the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department. Each week Dr. Ehlinger is joined by a variety of guests to discuss health issues and problems.
Link to archived programs:
http://hennepinmn.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5
Dr. Gary Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A., (Penn CSP Alum), President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, selected as incoming President and CEO of Partners HealthCare.
Consistent with a succession plan approved by the Partners HealthCare Board of Directors and James J. Mongan, MD’s long standing plan to retire at the end of 2009, the Partners Board has named Brigham and Women’s Hospital President Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA as its next President and CEO effective January 1, 2010. Dr. Gottlieb will be the fourth Partners CEO since the organization was founded in 1994.
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Dr. Kavita Patel (UCLA CSP 2003-2005) has been appointed as senior policy staff for Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Dr. Patel will be representing domestic policy issues across health, education, and other public areas.
Timothy Carey, MD, MPH (UNC CSP 1983-1985) Lead Author on Study Finding Chronic Low Back Pain Is on the Rise
A North Carolina study finds that the rate of chronic low back pain has more than doubled in that state since the early 1990s -- a statistic the authors say might reflect what's happening in the country as a whole.
"We were actually surprised by what we found," said Dr. Timothy S. Carey, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina and the study's lead author.
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Systemic Solutions for Health Care - Benjamin Littleford, MD (Stanford CSP 1986-1988)
After residency, Benjamin Littenberg received postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University, where he worked with such greats as Harold "Hal" Sox, then Stanford's chief of general internal medicine, now a leader in shaping clinical, educational, and public policy in the United States, and the late Moses Lincoln, a pioneer in the field of biostatistics. Among Littenberg's projects at Stanford was a meta-analysis of diagnostic tests, conducted with Lincoln, that established a new standard method for medical decision-making.
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David Brailer, MD, PhD, (Penn CSP 1989-1991) the Chairman of Health Evolution Partners to Present Keynote at the 2009 Health Tech Investment Forum
The Health Tech Investment Forum announced today that David Brailer, MD, PhD, the Chairman of Health Evolution Partners will present the opening Keynote at this year's forum Tuesday, March 24th at 8:45am in San Francisco. His presentation entitled, "Health Care Information Technology: Center Stage in Health Care's Future" will present unique perspectives on key drivers in healthcare, insight on new opportunities and who is investing where.
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John Morton, MD (Washington CSP 95-97) pioneers natural orifice procedures
John Morton, MD describes natural orifice procedures as being a part of a continuum of evolving practices. "They're innovations in what I call 'minimal access' surgery," he said. "We're moving away from small, multiple incisions, to just one scar or, in some cases, no scar. It's something we can offer that hopefully will decrease pain and allow for quicker recovery."
As Morton and other surgeons at Stanford continue to refine no-scar and single-incision procedures, he predicted that more flexible instruments, which will help surgeons work in smaller areas and around corners, will be developed. "That's a prime direction for the hospital's Surgical Innovations Program, that we look for new tools and new technologies to help us perform these procedures," he said.
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Clinic lead by Dr. Crista Johnson (Michigan CSP 2005-08) reaches out to African refugees
"What was striking was the language barriers and the stress of the women when they would come to the hospital," Johnson said. "This will be an oasis to the community because there will be people who understand them better."
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Ruben Amarasingham, M.D., M.B.A. (Hopkins CSP) lead author on statewide study that "paperless" hospitals are better for patients
Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly...
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Child Abuse Article in JAMA by 2 Clinical Scholars Alumni Desmond Runyan
and Molly Berkoff
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Diabetes Treatment Becomes More Complex, Costly - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2008) — A progressively more complex and expensive array of treatments for type 2 diabetes is being prescribed to an increasing number of adults, according to a new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Dr. G. Caleb Alexander is a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Scholar and is also supported by a career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Senior author Dr. Stafford was supported by a Mid-Career Mentoring Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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Current & Former Scholar Collaboration in JAMA
2nd Yr. Michigan Scholar C. Sasson and Former Scholar A. Kellerman,
M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P. (Washington CSP 83'-85') Author JAMA Study on
Standard ER Guideline for Cardiac Arrest Victims
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Jennifer Waljee (Michigan CSP 2005-2007) Newswise — Most women with breast cancer assume that surgery to preserve their breast will be less disfiguring than a mastectomy that removes the entire breast. Results of the study appear in the July 10 Journal of Clinical Oncology.
But nearly one-third of women reported pronounced asymmetry between their breasts, and that perceived disfigurement greatly affects a woman’s quality of life after treatment, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson Receives 2008 Health Care Quality Award
Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson (UNC CSP 1993-1995) received the 2008 Health Care Quality Award from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The 2008 Health Quality Award recognizes the achievements of individuals and organizations who highlight the need for and drive health care quality improvement.
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A Fruitful Research Collaboration Continues for Five UNC Clinical Scholars Alums
Association of Numeracy and Diabetes Control. Kerri Cavanaugh, Mary Margaret Huizinga, Kenneth A. Wallston, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Ayumi Shintani, Dianne Davis, Rebecca Pratt Gregory, Lynn Fuchs, Robb Malone, Andrea Cherrington, Michael Pignone, Darren A. DeWalt, Tom A. Elasy, and Russell L. Rothman.
/Ann Intern Med/ 2008; 148 737-746
(Scholars in bold)
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/148/10/737?etoc
Bob Arnold (Penn 1986-1988) Named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year at University of Missouri at Kansas City
From UMKC press office:
2008 Alumnus of the Year gives his best to dying patients
For those who graduate with multiple degrees, there are certain academic strengths, some personal motivation and a conviction that there must be a field where those qualities unite. Bob Arnold, who graduated from UMKC in 1983 with degrees in philosophy, biological sciences and medicine, decided to use his collective education caring for patients beyond recovery.
Arnold, UMKC’s 2008 Alumnus of the Year, is a bioethicist who considers the emotional as well as the physical needs of the dying. He is a physician who has had an enormous impact on treatment and care at life’s end – helping patients and families make choices about continuing care or organ donation. As one colleague says, “He gets it.”
Wearing many hats is nothing new for Arnold . Currently, he is a professor of medicine; chief of palliative care and medical ethics; and assistant director for education in the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh , in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . In recognition of his work, Arnold was chosen by the College of Arts and Sciences as their Alumnus of the Year in 1998; moreover, the College nominated Arnold for UMKC’s 2008 Alumnus of the Year. In addition to these honors, Arnold received the noted “Take Wing” award from the School of Medicine in 2003.
http://www.umkc.edu/news/AlumniAwards.asp
Virginia Chang (1997-1999, Chicago), Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, received the 2008 award for Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM).
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