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Accomplishments of CHSR Faculty
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Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS will depart VUMC to become chair of the Department of Pedi atrics and physician-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. Thank you, Dr. Barkin, for your many years of service and leadership at VUMC. We wish you all the best in your new role! Read More
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Michael DeBaun, MD, MS, MPH has been elected president-elect of the American Ped-  iatric Society (APS). The mission of the APS is to shape the future of academic pediatrics through engagement of distinguished child health leaders to represent the full diversity within the field. Read More
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Wes Ely, MD, MPH was honored by the American College of Critical Care Medicine with the 2022 Distinguished Investigator Award. This award recognizes an established and active Society of Critical Care Medicine clinical investigator for meritorious and pioneering clinical research in critical care who has significantly contributed to the understanding of disease or treatment of patients.
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The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), under the leadership of Gordon Bernard, MD and Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, successfully competed for a renewal of its CTSA award from the NIH. The five-year and $73 million grant will continue to support clinical and translational research at VUMC and Meharry, with priority areas such as causes of health disparities and the expansion of the Learning Healthcare platform. Read More |
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 Kevin Griffith, PhD examined how the pandemic impacted access to substance use disorder treatment services, which are improved with Medicaid services. Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states experienced similar increases in drug and opioid overdose deaths during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but following future trends is important to guide evidence-based policy changes. Read More
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 Paul Harris, PhD, and colleagues with the All of Us Research Program announced that their cloud-based platform includes genetic data for over 165,000 participants, along with survey, EHR, physical measurement and activity, and Census data. This repository is poised to be a major resource for biomedical research in this country and includes a high percentage of research participants who identify with racial or ethnic groups that have historically been underrepresented in research. Read More
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 Allison McCoy, PhD and Adam Wright, PhD led a “Clickbusters” initiative to optimize best practice advisories (BPA) in eSTAR and help stem alert fatigue. A comprehensive review of 20% of the rule-based alerts in use at VUMC led to a 15% reduction in interruptive alerts. Sarah Horst, MD, MPH was a co-author on the study. Read More
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Many Medica re beneficiaries do not fill high-price specialty drug prescriptions, particularly those that do not receive a low-income subsidy. Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, Russell Rothman, MD, MPP, and colleagues found that beneficiaries receiving subsidies were twice as likely to obtain the prescribed drug than those not receiving subsidies, demonstrating the need to increase the accessibility of high-price medications by reducing out-of-pocket expenses under Medicare Part D. Read More
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Implementation Research in the Learning Health System Symposium
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Duke's Population Health Summer Institute
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The Summer Institute is for early- to mid-career researchers, trainees, students, and healthcare professionals. Choose from 12 affordable workshops that offer a foundation in the emerging field of population health sciences and teach a variety of research methods and real-world implementation skills. All are taught by Duke faculty and are virtual. Students receive discounted pricing, and all attendees receives 25% off when they sign up for at least four workshops.
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Women's Health Research Symposium: Women's Health and COVID-19
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Shared Decision Making — VUMC Special Interest Session
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With growing interest across departments, Drs. Kerri Cavanaugh, Jessica Ancker, and Megan Salwei are convening a special interest session on shared decision-making (SDM). The session will be held on Monday, June 27, 4pm-5pm, with both an in-person and a virtual option. There will be several short presentations on current research activities related to SDM to share ideas and collaborate. If you are interested in attending, please email the Center for Effective Health Communication at cehc@vumc.org. |
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2022 Health Communication Research Grant Program
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The Health Equity Research Committee hosted a mixer on March 25 at the Student Life Center. Nearly 60 faculty and students attended this event to kickstart planning efforts for health equity research at VUMC and VU.
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Congratulations to CHSR Investigators on these New Awards!
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CHSR new grant awards (March 2022 - April 2022)
- Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD: PCORnet Engagement Coordinating Center, PCORI
- Gordon Bernard, MD and Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI: Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (CTSA), UL1/NIH/NCATS
- Kevin Griffith, PhD: A Pragmatic Evaluation of the Effects of Mixed Income Redevelopment on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Envision Cayce, Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency
- Carlos Grijalva, MD, MPH: 9.1- A Prospective Cohort Study To Assess The Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines, CDC
- Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD: Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research-Vanderbilt-Meharry Edge for Scholars Career Development Core, KL2/NIH/NCATS
- Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD: Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research-Vanderbilt-Meharry Edge for Scholars NRSA Core, TL1/NIH/NCATS
- Alexander Hawkins, MD, MPH: Creation and Testing of an Education Decision Aid for Colectomy in Recurrent Diverticulitis, R03/NIH/NIDDK
- Josh Peterson, MD, MPH: Rational Integration of Polygenic Risk Scores (RIPS), R01/NIH/NHGRI
- Paul Moore, MD: An open-label trial of the long-term safety and tolerability of nintedanib per os, on top of standard of care, over at least 2 years, in children and adolescents with clinically significant fibrosing, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceutical
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Job openings in the Institute for Medicine and Public Health and affiliated entities:
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| Sr. Application Developer |
Institute for Global Health |
2105316 |
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| Program Manager |
Office of Health Equity |
2110447 |
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| Project Manager |
Center for Health Services Research |
2114572 |
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| Staff Scientist |
Center for Health Services Research |
2200564 |
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| Manager, Research Programs |
Center for Health Services Research |
2201063 |
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| Staff Scientist |
Center for Health Services Research |
2201921 |
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| Clinical/Translational Research Coordinator II |
Emergency Medicine Research |
2201956 |
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| Clinical Trials Specialist |
Emergency Medicine Research |
2203997 |
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| Associate Health Services Research Analyst |
Institute for Global Health |
2205009 |
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| Sr Project Manager |
Emergency Medicine Research |
2205264 |
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Edwards, PhD, MS is the director of the Women’s Health Research Center at Vanderbilt. The researchers and clinicians involved in the center are diverse and dedicated to improving women's health through research and translating research into practice. 
