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What's New?
Claire Brindis was this year's faculty recipient of the Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women; the staff winner was
Michael McGuire, Director of Operations for the Call Center and Operator Services at the Ambulatory Services Care Center; the student winner was Sunita Puri, a third year student in the School
of Medicine. The award was presented by Chancellor Bishop on Monday, March 30.
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Grant received to establish a comparative effectiveness large dataset analysis core.
The CTSI-UCSF Health Policy Program has been awarded a NIH/ARRA Supplement Grant for a Comparative Effectiveness Large Dataset Analysis Core (CELDAC). The goal is to establish a centralized, campus-wide data repository infrastructure that will enable CTSI-UCSF and its collaborating CTSA partners to accelerate access to and use of local, state and national health datasets for comparative effectiveness research and other types of T2 research.
CELDAC will initially focus on acquisition of administrative claims data from Medicare and Medicaid, and will expand the repository over time to include data from health care delivery systems, patient registries, clinical trials, and surveys. Our first substantive focus will be in joint replacement.
CELDAC will be led by Professors Jim G. Kahn, Adams Dudley, Steve Takemoto, and Janet Coffman of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (PRL-IHPS). The Academic Research Service (ARS), under the direction of Michael Kamerick, will provide data security, storage, and linkage services. Faculty and staff at PRL-IHPS and ARS will collaborate with faculty from the Departments of Orthopedics at UCSF and Washington University on two pilot studies to demonstrate the value of a centralized data repository. The CELDAC grant will also provide resources to enhance the CTSI-UCSF Health Policy Program’s capacity to collaborate with clinician researchers to assess issues that affect the translation of research into policy and practice.
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CaMRI receives funding through UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI)
In 2006, the University of California Office of the President designated the California Medicaid Research Institute (CaMRI) as a multi-campus research program to be hosted at UCSF with appointments of senior faculty with expertise in health policy as representatives on a steering committee from each of the participating campuses of UCSF, UCLA, UCSD and UCB. Andrew Bindman at UCSF serves as the Director and Chair of the Steering Committee. The Associate Directors include Claire Brindis (UCSF), Richard Scheffler (UCB), Richard Kronick (UCSD), and E. Richard Brown (UCLA). In 2008, CaMRI successfully negotiated a multi-year interagency Master Agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which oversees the State’s Medi-Cal Program. Medi-Cal is the 2nd largest and fastest growing component of the California state budget. The Master Agreement provides a mechanism for the University to obtain state and federal matching funds to provide research and analytic expertise to Medi-Cal that is grounded in data and focused on health policy. Negotiated projects are intended to strengthen Medi-Cal’s analytical foundations for policy setting while advancing the University’s research, training, and public service missions. As per the Master Agreement, UC faculty and staff have enhanced access to confidential Medi-Cal data through a HIPAA compliant business associate agreement and they retain the opportunity to publish their results. With MRPI funding, CaMRI will develop capacity at UC to support multi-campus research, training and public service opportunities in collaboration with the California DHCS. Some of the benefits that the University can expect to derive from this MRPI and its partnership with the California DHCS include:
· the provision of resources and support for attracting and developing faculty experts in health policy, as well as enhanced trans-disciplinary collaborations between faculty across a wide range of departments and schools;
· opportunities for trainees including students in public health, medical students and residents, and post doctoral fellows to participate in applied research and policy analysis;
· the enhancement of current and future course offerings in the areas of long term care, managed care, quality management, data management, financing and payment, disability, and program administration; and
· new research knowledge to seed the development of other state and national endeavors, including national health reform efforts and comparative effectiveness. |
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--Sigurd Berven, MD; Orthopedic Surgery, UCSF; spinal surgery and outcomes research.
--Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH; Kaiser and UCSF; clinical and health policy related to cardiac disease and treatment.
--Dominick Frosch, PhD; Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute (PAMFRI); patient decision-making.
--L. Elizabeth (Liz) Goldman, MD, MCR; Medicine, UCSF; performance measurement, public reporting on quality of care, and pay-for performance.
--Amy Houtrow, MD, MPH; Pediatrics, UCSF; children with disabilities.
--Dorothy Hung, PhD, MPH; PAMFRI; patient care in ambulatory settings.
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Hospitals that reported higher scores on measures of safe practices did not have a significantly lower rate of in-hospital deaths compared to hospitals that reported lower scores on these measures, according to a study conducted by Leslie Kernisan, Sei Lee, John Bascardin, Seth Landefeld, and Adams Dudley. Their findings are reported in the April 1 issue of JAMA.
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“Each year, David Colby, Vice President of Research and Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation lists what he considers the 10 most influential papers of the year. In 2008, for the first time, RWJF provided a list of 25 nominated papers and opened the voting to health services researchers (and David Colby also picked his top ten). IHPS had two papers among the 25 nominees”:
• Adams Dudley was PI and senior author and Liz Goldman was second author on: Werner, RM, Goldman, LE, Dudley, RA. Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2008; 299(18):2180-2187
• Diane Rittenhouse was first author on: Rittenhouse DR, Casalino LP, Gillies RR, Shortell SM, Lau B. Measuring the Medical Home Infrastructure in Large Medical Groups. Health Affairs, 27(5): 1246–1258, September/October 2008.
Both papers were winners! Adams and Liz’ paper ended up being selected by the voters (3rd out of all 25), while Diane’s paper was selected by David Colby for “Colby’s Top Ten”. Both were identified on the RWJF web site.
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Newslinks
In addition to being the first recipient of the Institute's Hal Luft Mentoring Award,
Lisa Bero wins UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Award.
Drilling Down to Eliminate Cancer Disparities. Dan Dohan speaker at recent AACR conference.
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Hal Fest!
Harold (Hal)Luft, PhD, joined UCSF in 1978 and served as director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (PRL-IHPS) for 14 years. Hal retired from UCSF and he began a new full-time role as director of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute (PAMFRI). Hal retains an emeritus faculty title, and we are delighted to note that he continues some involvement in PRL-IHPS activities.
On September 19, 2008, we marked this significant transition in Hal's career and acknowledge the many contributions he has already made to the Institute, to the University, and to the field of health services and health policy research.
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Celebrating a Life of Leadership and Service
in Health and Health Policy
September 2007 marked the 35th anniversary of the Institute for Health Policy Studies.
The Institute was founded in 1972 as the Health Policy Program in the School of Medicine, UCSF by Philip R. Lee, MD, after he had served as UCSF’s third Chancellor from 1969 through 1972. The Institute has grown from the small group of faculty and staff that made up the first health policy unit on the campus of a major academic health science center to the more than 100 faculty, research and administrative staff, and fellows that are part of the Institute today. In 1981, the Board of Regents of the University of California established the Institute for Health Policy Studies as an organized research unit. To honor Dr. Lee’s and the Institute’s contributions, we held two major UCSF campus-wide events at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center: a Symposium on September 24th and a Celebration Program on September 25th, when we acknowledged Dr. Lee’s many achievements and announced the renaming of the Institute, which is now the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Thanks to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Symposium and Celebration Program can be viewed as a webcast at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/ucsf/24sep07.
To continue Dr. Lee’s legacy and commitment to teaching and mentoring, we also established the Philip R. Lee Health Policy Fellowship Program and Fund.
To contribute to the Fellowship Fund, please click here.
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