UCSF Health Services Research Symposium: "Focus on Healthcare Value: Accelerating Research at UCSF and Beyond"
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
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.
Director of the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value
He is the director of the Colposcopy and Cervical Dysplasia Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He has taught the core curriculum in clinical decision making, evidence-based medicine and value-based decision-making at the UCSF School of Medicine for over a decade. He has received the Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award and is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. He served as the inaugural Director of the Pathways to Discovery Program in Clinical and Translational Research and currently serves as the Educational Lead for the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value.
Dr Sawaya earned a medical degree at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at UCSF and a fellowship in UCSF's Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. He is a former member of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Director for Quality and Safety in the Division of Hospital Medicine
Director of Caring Wisely at UCSF Health
Catherine obtained her undergraduate degree with departmental honors from Stanford University in 2002 and received her M.D. at New York University in 2006, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and was awarded the AMWA Glagow-Rubin Award for Excellence in Academics and Professionalism. She completed her medical residency training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA before joining the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF in August 2009.
Catherine is the former medical director of the Nighttime Hospitalist Service and former Director for Patient Safety and Quality in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
Leslie Wilson, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSF, she was the Director of Health Economics for Miles Inc. and also for Bayer AG. Dr. Wilson received her Ph.D. in health policy and economics from the University of Maryland. Her current research focuses on economic and outcome analyses including the cost of illness and cost effectiveness analyses of cancer and specific chronic diseases (including rare diseases) and how new diagnostics, treatments, and patterns of care affect the costs and outcomes of these diseases. She also looks at the epidemiology, risks and economics of Valley Fever, and also Chagas disease and its treatment in developing countries and in the U.S. blood supply. She also looks patient preference and decision making; specifically how patients weigh risks and benefits when making on treatment choices. Dr. Wilson is working with the FDA to help incorporate patient preference into approval of devices. In addition, Dr. Wilson studies the economics of policy issues, including the effects of drug legislation within the California Workers’ Compensation System, and cultural competence in California medical, dental and pharmacy schools. Dr. Wilson was instrumental in bringing health economics into the current and new pharmacy curriculum and teaches a course on decision analysis modeling and an elective and independent study on research in health economics. She is the developer and Co-Director of the Program for Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Studies(ProPEPS) whose purpose is to organize the development of economic and policy research, teaching , and funding within the Department of Clinical Pharmacy. She works with the Department of Urology on the economic issues in treatment of prostate cancer, with the Department of Neurology on a CMS innovation grant looking at new economic models of dementia care, and with the Osher Center on the economics of integrative medicine treatments.