UCSF Health Services Research Symposium: "Health System and Community-Embedded Health-Services Research
Date
UCSF Health Services Research Symposium – Accelerating our Impact on Health: Methods, Strategies, and Opportunities
Wednesday – January 27 - February 17, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm. (twitter poster session will occur during the four weeks)
Call for Abstracts
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, January 15, 2021
Notification: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
https://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu/accelerating-our-impact-health-methods-strategies-and-opportunities
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Time Duration
UCSF Health Services Research Symposium – Accelerating our Impact on Health: Methods, Strategies, and Opportunities
Wednesday – January 27 - February 17, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm. (twitter poster session will occur during the four weeks)
Call for Abstracts
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, January 15, 2021
Notification: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
https://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu/accelerating-our-impact-health-methods-strategies-and-opportunities
Speakers
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School of Nursing
School of Dentistry
School of Pharmacy
Department of Anesthesia and Preoperative Care
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Department of Dermatology
Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Department of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Ophthalmology
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Department of Surgery
Department of Urology
AIDS Research Institute
Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
Center for Health and Community
Center for Healthcare Value
Healthforce Center
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Institute for Global Health Sciences
Institute for Health and Aging
UCSF has had a long history of successful health services and health policy researchers who have helped to improve the health care delivery system and health and well-being overall. This event will bring together faculty, trainees, students, and postdocs to explore the latest developments and innovations in health services research.
The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, along with our co-sponsors (listed above), invites you to our first annual health services research symposium to be held virtually as a four-week series from January 27 to February 17, 2021.
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Chair of the Clinical Content Oversight Committee for UCSF Health
Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, in the Division of Hospital Medicine, where he is the Chair of the Clinical Content Oversight Committee for UCSF Health, the operational group responsible for developing and implementing electronic health record tools across the UCSF Health enterprise.
Dr. Auerbach is a widely recognized leader in Hospital Medicine, having authored or co-authored the seminal research describing effects of hospital medicine systems on patient outcomes, costs, and care quality. He leads a 13-hospital research collaborative focused on new discoveries in healthcare delivery models in acute care settings, and continues an active research mentoring program at UCSF.
In addition, Dr. Auerbach serves as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the flagship peer-reviewed publication for the field of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Auerbach’s research has been published in prominent journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Archives of Internal Medicine. He has received the Mack Lipkin Award for Outstanding research as a fellow, and the Western Society for Clinical Investigation Outstanding Investigator, and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
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Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR)
Dr. Adler-Milstein is a leading researcher in health IT policy, with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research – used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers – identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them.
She has published over 100 influential papers, testified before the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, been named one of the top 10 influential women in health IT, and won numerous awards, including the New Investigator Award from the American Medical Informatics Association and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. She has served on an array of influential committees and boards, including the NHS National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology, the Health Care Advisory Board for Politico, and the Interoperability Committee of the National Quality Forum.
Dr. Adler-Milstein holds a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and spent six years on the faculty at University of Michigan prior to joining UCSF as a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research.
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The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Vice Chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Pediatrics
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Associate Director of the UCSF Pepper Center for Aging Research
Co-Director for Research, Director of Research Training
Co-Director of the T32 Aging Research Fellowship in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics
Associate Director of the UCSF National Clinician Scholars Program
Dr. Steinman is a national leader in identifying and improving the quality of medication prescribing in clinically complex older adults. He devotes most of his time to research, while also maintaining an active clinical practice in the geriatrics clinic and inpatient general medicine service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Dr. Steinman's research program focuses on improving how doctors prescribe medications for older adults, and is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and other funders. His research interests also include improving evaluation and care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions, and pharmaceutical industry marketing, and he has a strong interest in mentorship and supporting career development for junior investigators.
Dr. Steinman is co-Principal Investigator of the US Deprescribing Research Network, an NIH-funded national research network for research on deprescribing medications in older adults. He is also Associate Director of the UCSF Pepper Center for Aging Research; Co-Director for Research, Director of Research Training, and co-Director of the T32 Aging Research Fellowship in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics; Associate Director of the UCSF National Clinician Scholars Program; and Visiting Research Scientist at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living (formerly known as the Jewish Home of San Francisco). He also has leadership roles with several national organizations, including service as co-chair of the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria guideline panel.
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The Alice Betts Endowed Professor of Medicine at UCSF
Dr. Yazdany’s scholarship focuses on improving health care quality, safety and outcomes for individuals with chronic rheumatic diseases. She co-directs the UCSF Rheumatology Quality and Informatics Lab, an interdisciplinary group that uses health services research, informatics, and implementation science to inform national health care improvement initiatives. She has worked with colleagues to develop the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE registry that aggregates and analyzes data from rheumatology practices around the country to inform quality improvement and research projects. She has developed a number of quality measures that have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum and are being used in federal programs. She has served as PI of grants from the NIH/NIAMS, AHRQ, and CDC and is the recipient of a NIAMS K24 mentoring award. Dr. Yazdany also serves as co-director of a research core – one focused on human subjects recruitment and clinical informatics support – for the NIH/NIAMS-funded P30 UCSF PREMIER Center.
Nationally, Dr. Yazdany has held numerous leadership positions, including serving as co-chair of the ACR’s Quality Measures Subcommittee, chair of the ACR’s Registries and Health IT Committee, chair of Research and Publications for the RISE registry, and member of the NQF’s Health Professional Council. She has earned several honors and awards for her work, including the Mary Betty Stevens Young Investigator Prize from the Lupus Foundation of America, the Ephraim Engleman Award for Arthritis Research, and the Hulda Irene Duggan Arthritis Investigator Award from the Arthritis Foundation.