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Outcomes Research Workshops (ORW) Archives

Summer 2009

 

July 1, 2009

Ray Dorsey, University of Rochester Medical Center

Influence of FDA Black Box Warnings on Use of atypical Antipsychotic Medications

 

July 8, 2009

Farr Curlin

Variations in Practices Related to Primary Care Mental and Behavioral health: A National Physician Survey

 

July 15, 2009

Christopher Masi

Estrogen Metabolism and Blood Pressure in a Population-based Cohort: Implications for Racial Disparities in Hypertension

 

July 22, 2009

John Yoon

Variations in Approaches toward the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A National Survey

 

July 29, 2009

Naomi Aronson, Blue Cross Technology Assessment Group

 

August 5, 2009

XinQi Dong, Rush University

Elder Mistreatment: Research, Practice, Policy and Community

 

August 12, 2009

David Meltzer

The Effects of Minimum Wage on Obesity Rates in the United States

 

August 19, 2009

Dana Suskind

The Thirty Million Words Project: Ending the Cycle of Poverty One Word at a Time

 

August 26, 2009

Neda Laiteerapong

Prioritization of care in the diabetic patient &

Body mass index and quality of life in the elderly: Is it better to be overweight?

 

 

Spring 2009

 

Monday, April 6, 2009*
Nancy Cox
Section of Genetic Medicine
TRIDOM and other large scale biobanks - how to use these effectively in discovery and translational research

Medical Center Room L272, 3:00-4:30pm

 

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Ken Rasinski
Research Associate, General Internal Medicine
Are doctors' beliefs about religion and health related to talking with patients talking about religion

 

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Debra Stulberg
Instructor, Department of Family Medicine
Pregnancy Outcomes in the Medicaid Population

 

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Learning Plans

 

Wednesday, May 6, 2009*
Catherine DuBeau
Professor, Geriatrics
Bladder, Brain, and Beyond: Translational Approaches to Improving Incontinence

 

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Dana Edelson
Defibrillator Charging During Ongoing Chest Compressions: Safety and Efficacy of the New Guideline Recommendations

 

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Dawnavan Davis
Research Associate, General Internal Medicine

 

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Jeanette Chung
Research Associate, Hospital Medicine
The Carbon Footfrint of the U.S. Healthcare Sector

 

Monday, June 1, 2009*
Julian Soloway, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Margaret Gardel, Assistant Professor in Physics
Disrupting Myosin Polymerization as a Treatment for Asthma

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Lisa Shah

Understanding and Improving the Ability of Hospitalized Smokers to Quit: An Update

 

 

Winter 2009

 

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Louis Philipson, MD, PhD
Professor, Institute of Endocrine Discovery and Clinical Care
Monogenic Diabetes – MODY – from molecular genetics to cost/benefit: where are the cases?

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Richard Lee
Palliative Medicine Fellow, Northwestern University; Ethnics Fellow, University of Chicago
A National Survey of Oncologists about complementary and alternative medicine

 

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Fernanda Machado

Medical & Health Economics Senior Manager, Johnson & Johnson Medical Brasil

Barriers and Challenges to Implementing Health Technology Assessment in a Developing Country

 

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Keiki Hinami
Clinical Associate, Section of Hospital Medicine
Care Coordination among Interdependent Providers under a Medical Co-management Model

 

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Esra Tasali, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Harold Pollack, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
The Seven Faces of Health Reform

 

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
John Yoon, MD
Hospitalist Scholar/Clinical Associate, Section of Hospital Medicine
Understanding the Moral and Professional Formation of Physicians: A Preliminary Exploration

 

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Greg Ruhnke, MD
Clinical Associate, Section of Hospital Medicine
The Impact of Physician Services on Outcomes and Resource Utilization

 

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
John Cacioppo, PhD
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology
Loneliness

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Caleb Alexander
Exploring drivers of off-label prescription drug use lacking scientific evidence

 

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Stacey Lindau
South Side Health and Vitality Study

 

 

Fall 2008


Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Jim Heckman

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Milda Saunders
Hospitalist Scholar/Clinical Associate, Section of Hospital Medicine
Neighborhood Effects on Time to Renal Transplant Candidacy: A Prelimary Exploration

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Atonu Rabbani
Psychotropic Drug use Among Children with Mental Disorder: Evidence from NHIS/MEPS Linkfiles

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Arshya Baig
Building a coalition in Little Village to improve Diabetes care

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Beth Marlow
Instructor of Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine
Category P: Results of the Qualitative Study

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Lucy Godley
Assistant Profesor of Medicine , Section of Hematology/Oncology
Understanding how a truncated DNMT3B protein influences DNA methylation in tumorigenesis and development

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Harold Pollack
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
The Effects of Schip Expansions on Family Insurance and Out of Pocket Medical Costs

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Valerie Press
Hospitalist Scholar/Clinical Associate, Section of Hospital Medicine
Evaluating and Overcoming Barriers to Effective Respiratory Inhaler Technique

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Jay Pinto
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgery
Age-related Olfactory Decline: Demographic and Genetic Factors

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Eneida Mendonca
Computational Institute University of Chicago
Decision Making in Childhood Solid Tumors

 

 

Summer 2008

 

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Caleb Alexander
Analyzing data from a national physician survey examining off-label prescribing

 

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Elbert Huang
Diabetes and Aging

 

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Farr Curlin and Ken Rasinski
Topic Variations in Physicians Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Practices

 

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Joe Lodato and Jonathan Birnberg
Referral Patterns for Cardiac Rehabilitation

 

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Siri Greeley
Diagnosis and Treatment of Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus

 

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Monica Peek
Perceived racial discrimination in health care and diabetes outcomes

 

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Dana Edelson
Improving In-hospital Cardiac Resuscitation: A K23 proposal

 

 

Spring 2008


Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Jonathan Moss, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Peripheral Opiate Antagonists:  Pain Relief Without Side Effects

 

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Dima Qato
Doctoral Student/Research Associate, Department of OB/GYN
Prevalence and Patterns of Medication Use Among Older Adults in the U.S

 

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Lewis Sandy, MD Senior VP of Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group
Can Performance Transparency Drive Improvement?

 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Elbert Huang, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Health economic analysis of real-time continuous glucose monitors in type 1 diabetes

 

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Debra Stulberg, MD, MA
Instructor, Deparment of Family Medicine
Ectopic Pregnancy in the Medicaid Population: A K08 Application in Progress

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Wm. Thomas Summerfelt, PhD
Research Associate/Assistant Professor and Executive Director, Center for Health and Social Sciences
Using Community-Based Discoveries to guide Translational Research in the Reduction of Health Disparities

 

 

Winter 2008

 

January 9, 2008
Lisa Shah, MD
Hospital Scholar, Program in Hospital Medicine
Barriers to Quitting Smoking in Hospitalized Patients

January 23, 2008
Debbie Stulberg, MD, MA
Instructor, Dept of Family Medicine
Secondary Database Analysis in Ectopic Pregnancy Research

 

January 30, 2008
Keiki Hinami, MD
Hospital Scholar, Program in Hospital Medicine
Coordinating the Hospital Care of Chronic Liver Patients under Co-Management

 

February 6, 2008
Vineet Arora, MD, MA
Assistant Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Environment and Perceived Control: Improving Sleep in Hospitalized Older Patients

 

February 13, 2008
Dana Edelson, MD
Instructor, Program in Hospital Medicine
Patient Acuity Rating as a Predictor of Clinical Deterioration

 

February 20, 2008
Elbert Huang, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Personalized Decision Support to Older Patients with Diabetes

 

March 5, 2008*
David Beiser, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Emergency Medicine
Hypothermia and Cardiac Arrest: Optimizing Akt-Nitric oxide Synthase Signaling

 

 

Fall 2007

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Rena Conti, PhD, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics
Can Economic Methods Help Evaluate and Prioritize Public Oncology R&D?

 

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Oana Klein, MD, Hospitalist Scholar, Hospitalist Program
The Association Between Lung Function and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

 

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Richard Lee, MD
Complementary Alternative Medicine Use in Subjects Involved in Therapeutic Cancer Clinical Trials - A YIA grant proposal

 

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Arshiya Baig, MD, MPH
Job Talk

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Caleb Alexander, MD, MS
So you want a job someday: A workshop to review the nuts and bolts of conducting a job search

 

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Beth Marlow, MD
Effects of the CMS Quality Indicators and Category P on the Care of Patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia

 

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Kate Rowland, MD
Early growth patterns in children who are overweight at age 8

 

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Elmer Abbo, MD, JD
Making the Business Case for Palliative Care

 

Summer 2007

 

July 18, 2007
Alyna Chien, MD, MS, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics

 

July 25, 2007
Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Using pharmaceutical claims to understand the impact of the Part D Prescription Drug Benefit and Physicians and off-label prescribing: good, bad, or a false dichotomy?

 

August 1, 2007
Muriel Jean Jacques, MD, Fellow, Section of General Internal Medicine
Effects of Health Shocks on Health Behaviors

 

August 8, 2007
Vineet Arora, MD, MA, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovation, Department of Medicine

 

August 15, 2007
Tracy Gladstone, PhD, Director of Center for Study of Prevention of Mental Disorders
Wellesley College
Family Based Approaches to Preventing Depression in Youth

 

August 22, 2007
Outcomes Research Workshop
Debra Stulberg, MD, MA, Instructor, Dept of Family Medicine
Ectopic Pregnancy Processes of Care and Outcome Disparities

 

 

Fall 2006

 

August 9, 2006
Dana Edelson, M.D., Clinical Associate, Section of General Internal Medicine
Decreasing the Incidence of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A K23 Award Proposal

 

August 16, 2006
Farr Curlin, M.D., Assistant Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Is It All About the Data? Prior Commitments and 'Objective' Analysis of CAM Trials

 

August 23, 2006
William Borden, M.D., Fellow, Section of Cardiology
Cardiology Quality of Care Study

 

August 30, 2006
Wm. Thomas Summerfelt, PhD, Executive Director of CHeSS
Medicaid Transformation through Innovative Technology: Enhancing Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes

 

September 6, 2006
Nanah Suk Park, MD, Assistant Professor, Section of General Pediatrics
Does an ER Referral Asthma Clinic Improve Asthma Outcomes?

 

September 27, 2006
Debra Stulberg, M.D., Fellow, Department of Family Medicine
Ectopic Pregnancy at Religious and Secular Hospitals Identifying Trends Through National Hospital Survey

 

October 11, 2006
Alyna Chien, MD, MS, Fellow, Pediatrics
Unintended consequences of pay-for-performance: Introduction to K23 proposal and job talk preparation

 

October 18, 2006
Farr Curlin, MD, Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine

Religious commitments and clinical engagements: Refining the measures and exploring the relevant domains

 

November 15, 2006
Alexia Torke, MD Fellow, Section of General Internal Medicine
Surrogate Decision Making: A Career Development Award

 

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