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Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series
Massachusetts Health Reform Experience
Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, talks about the "Massachusetts Health Reform Experience". Presented September 26, 2011 at UCSF as part of the Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series.
"What Can California Learn from the Massachusetts Health Reform Experience?"
Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, interviewed by Dr. Claire Brindis, Director of the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
Winner of the annual Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in the journal in 2010! We are pleased to announce that a paper co-authored by Drs. Diana Greene Foster, Tine Raine, Claire Brindis, Daria Rostovtseva and Philip Darney,"Should Providers Give Women Advance Provision of Emergency Contraceptive Pills? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis," The award recognizes excellence in research on women's health care or policy.
To Janet Coffman
who recently gave a presentation entitled "Ensuring that the Health Care Workforce Can Meet Future Demand" as part of a briefing on health care reform that the California HealthCare Foundation held in Sacramento, California, on April 14, 2011. Click here (http://www.chcf.org/events/2011/briefing-health-reform-101) to find a nice summary of the event, as well as links to all the speaker presentations and a video of this briefing . She gave a similar presentation at the national meeting of the American College of Physicians on April 8, 2011. These presentations draw on a paper that she wrote for the California Program on Access to Care with Gil Ojeda, the program's director. Click here (http://cpac.berkeley.edu/documents/coffman_ojeda_brief.pdf) for a summary of the paper and here for the full paper (http://cpac.berkeley.edu/documents/coffman_ojeda_whitepaper.pdf).
To Michael Cabana
who was selected as this year’s recipient of the Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy Research. A celebratory grand rounds was held on Wednesday,
February 2, 2011.
To Patti Katz and Ed Yelin who were honored with the President’s Award from the American College of Rheumatology’s Association of Rheumatology Health Professions for extraordinary service as editors-in-chief of Arthritis Care and Research. During that time, the journal grew from 6 issues a month as a supplement to the other ACR journal, Arthritis & Rheumatism, to 12 issues as an independent journal, currently ranked #8 among the 26 rheumatology journals. Drs. Katz and Yelin are faculty in the Department of Medicine, the Arthritis Research Group, which Dr. Yelin heads, and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
(For more information, please contact the American College of Rheumatology, 415-633-3777.)
To Cathy Hoffman who was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing at its recent annual meeting. AAN Fellows are individuals who have made outstanding and broad contributions to nursing practice and health policy aimed at improving the health of the American people. According to Academy President, Catherine Gilliss, “the Academy Fellowship represents the nation’s top nurse researchers, policymakers, scholars, executives, and practitioners”. Dr. Hoffman is Deputy Director of UC’s California Medicaid Research Institute (CaMRI), a multi-campus program that involves UCSF, UCB, UCLA, and UCSD, and is based at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. She has held research positions with the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and Uninsured, the Physician Payment Review Commission, and the UCSF Institute on Health and Aging.
To Ralph Brindis who received the Kaiser Permanente Group’s Morris F. Collen Research Award for his significant contributions to the scientific literature, the knowledge of his colleagues, and the health and welfare of plan members and their communities (http://xnet.kp.org/ncal/tpmgawards/collen/awardee/brindis/index.html). Dr. Brindis is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. At Kaiser, he is Regional Senior Advisor for Cardiovascular Diseases for Northern California, and he is the current President of the American College of Cardiology. ToJoe Guydish
who will serve as the Director for the recently awarded competing continuation of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) P50 San Francisco Treatment Research Center, previously led by Dr. Sharon Hall. NIDA is committing nearly $14 million over 5 years to the Center, which will test models of continuing and extended care for drug abuse treatment, including nicotine dependence, and will increase our understanding of how drug-related brain injury affects the process of treatment for, and recovery from, drug abuse. More about the Center To Jim Kahn who recently received funding from NIH ($3.37 million over 3 years) for a project entitled, “Global Health Comparative Effectiveness: A Data Synthesis Method Applied to HIV”. This project builds on previous work by Jim and his team, and aims to develop and implement innovative approaches to translate existing data on the health benefits of HIV prevention and treatment interventions into an accurate and transparent empirical basis for global health HIV policies and programs. More about this project
“Q&A: How California is ahead of the game on health exchanges.” Janet Coffman addresses questions about California’s health benefit exchange in the Sacramento Beeand inUCSF Today.
In Addressing California’s Health Coverage Gaps: The Impact of National Health Care Reform, political scientist Annette Gardner, Berkeley CHEFS Associate Director Melissa Rodgers, and Berkeley Labor Center Chair Ken Jacobs focus on the human face of health care reform: the millions of individuals and families who lack affordable insurance coverage. The report analyzes how well the bills moving forward in Congress will succeed in filling coverage gaps in California and what effects the bills will have on California’s safety net system.
Heart Matters: "Advances in Stenting" Ralph Brindis interviewed by Angioplasty Organization.
Being Well, Learning Well. California Healthy Student Research Project headed by Claire Brindis and Mary Kreger. New research shows that the health and well-being of California’s students have a direct impact on dropout rates, attendance, academic performance and school revenues.
Bridging the Gap Between Nurses and IT. Joanne Spetz was interviewed for the Marketplace Morning Report. As hospitals try to reach a federal deadline of 2015 to go electronic, the job field of nursing informatics is in high demand.
Catherine Dower and Joanne Spetz presents before the state Senate Business & Professions Committee for the Sunset Review of the Board of Registered Nursing. The entire BRN segment is here: http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/2130.
Catherine and Joanne start at about 1:02
AHRQ has featured the UC San Francisco Breast Care Center Decision Services Unit (headed by Jeff Belkora) in their 2010 quality report under “National Priority: Patient and Family Engagement” http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr10.htm. BCC were among the first 100 innovations featured in the AHRQ’s Innovations Exchange.
See p. H-20 of the PDF report http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqr10/nhqr10.pdf
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