HSR Seminar Series

Semenir series1.pngThe Health Services Research Seminar Series is hosted by the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice with funding from the Charles K. Colver Lectureship. The goal of the series is to expose graduate students, post-docs, and faculty both in the School of Public Health and across Brown University to cutting-edge research in a variety of health services research-related areas. This includes gerontology, quality measurement, quality improvement, health economics, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, mental health, comparative effectiveness research, behavioral economics and a variety of more methods focused topics of relevance to health services research.

The seminars take place throughout the academic year and feature leading health services researchers from the New England region and across the US.

2018-2019 Seminar Series

9/12/18

Jane Ann Driver, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Harvard University Boston, MA 

Lecture Title: "Staging the Aging: Using a Measure of Frailty to Predict Clinical Outcomes"

(Room 245)

10/17/18 

Signe Peterson Flieger, PhD, MSW 
Tufts Health Plan Professor of Health Care Policy Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Lecture Title: "A Mixed Methods Approach to Studying Health Care Organizations: Structures, Culture, and Implementation"

(Room 245)

11/14/18 
Dan Ollendorf, PhD  

Director, Value Measurement & Global Health Initiatives
Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA

Lecture Title: "Evaluating and valuing drugs for rare diseases: No easy answers"

(Room 245)

12/12/18 

Junenette L. Peters, PhD
Assistant Professor
Environmental Health
Boston University

Lecture Title:  "Joint exposure to metals and social stressors in relation to aging-related diseases"

(Room 245)

2/13/19 

Yvette C. Cozier, D.Sc. 
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston University

Lecture Title: “The Black Women's Health Study (BWHS): A Follow-Up Study of Black /African American Women”

 (Room TBA)

3/13/19 

Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., MPH  
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair
Director, Aging Brain Center, Institute for Aging Research
Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA

Lecture Title: "Delirium in Older Adults: A Public Health Priority"

(Room 245)

4/17/19

Margarita Alegria, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, 
Massachusetts General Hospital

Lecture Title: "Changing the Landscape of Mental Health Services for the 21st Century"

(Room 245)

5/15/19  

Charles F. Manski, PhD
Professor
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

Lecture Title: "Patient Care under Uncertainty"

(Room 245)

2017-2018 Seminar Series

9/20/17

John B. Wong, MD 
Professor of Medicine and Physician, 
Department of Medicine
Director, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Tufts CTSI, Tufts Medical Center

Lecture Title: "What do epidemiology, comparative effectiveness, and behavioral economics have to do with breast cancer screening?"

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10/04/17

Joe Cappelleri, MPH, PhD
Executive Director of Biostatistics
Pfizer, Inc and
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics,
Brown University

Lecture Title: "Applying the Rasch Model to Validate and Interpret a Kidney Symptom Index for Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma"

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11/07/17

Eric Tchetgen, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiologic Methods
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University 

Lecture Title: "Instrumental Variable Methods to Account for Non-Response Bias in Household HIV Testing Studies"

View the video of Dr. Tchetgen's lecture

11/29/17

Karen R.  Sepucha, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Harvard University

Lecture Title: "Shared Decision Making: Lessons from practice"

View the video of Dr. Sepucha's lecture

2/07/18

Anna Sinaiko, MPP, PhD
Research Scientist
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University

Lecture Title: “The impact of Reference-Based Pricing for imaging services on choice of provider and spending in a national health plan”

4/04/18

William Hsiao, PhD
K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics
Department of Health Policy and Management
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard Global Health Institute
Harvard University

Lecture Title: "Why the USA will adopt Medicare for All"

5/02/18 

Daria Pelech, PhD
Principal Analyst
Congressional Budget Office
Washington D.C.

Lecture Title: "New Duals? Testing for a Welcome Mat Effect from the Affordable Care Act among Medicare Beneficiaries"

2016-2017 Seminar Series

9/14/16​ 

Franziska Rokoske, PT, MS
Director, End-of-Life, Palliative, and Hospice Care (EPHC)
RTI International 

Lecture Title: "What Do We Know About Hospice Quality?"

Location: Room 245

View the video of Dr. Rokoske's lecture here.

10/19/16

James Rudolph, MD, MS 
Associate Professor of Medicine 
Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and   Practice, Brown School of Public Health
Director, The Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Support (LTSS COIN)

Lecture title: "Pairing HSR with Practice: the VA LTSS Center of Innovation"

Location: Room 245

View the video of Dr. Rudolph's lecture here.

11/11/16

Peter Haas
Associate Director Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative Brown University

Lecture Title: "New Tech for Boomers the Coming Wave of Robotics in Elder Care"

 

Location: Room 245

12/14/16

Nancy L. Keating, MD, MPH
Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Associate Professor, Health Care Policy, HMS
Associate Physician, Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Lecture Title: “Diffusion and Use of Bevacizumab in Oncology Practices” 

Location: Room 375

2/08/17

James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH
Section Chief, General Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine

Lecture Title: "Economics of Mind-body Medicine"

Location: Room 375

3/02/17

Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Case Western University

Lecture Title: “Dementia and the arts: transdisciplinary perspectives through a public health policy lens”

View the lecture video here

3/08/17

Amresh Hanchate, PhD
Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine,
Health Economist, VA Boston Healthcare 

Lecture Title: "Determinants of Hospital Destination for ED Care"

Location: Room 375

4/11/17

Joshua Salomon, PhD
Professor of Global Health
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lecture Title: “Decision analysis and simulation modeling for public health policy”

Location: Room 245

5/04/17

Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Quantitative Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Division of Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Vulnerable Populations

Lecture Title:  “Reducing Antipsychotic Use in Nursing Homes:  A Tale of Two Intervention Studies”

Location: Room 245

5/09/17

Christine W. Hartmann, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health and Research Health Scientist, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford VA Medical Center

Lecture Title: “Quality improvement and research: how to build on existing strengths” 

View the lecture video here

2015-2016 Seminar Series

9/09/15

Emily F. Oster, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Professor International and Public Affairs
Brown University

Lecture Title: "Diabetes and Diet: Behavioral Response and the Value of Health"

10/14/15

Julie Robison, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Connecticut
UConn Center on Aging

Lecture Title: "Connecticut's Money Follows the Person Demonstration: A Successful University - State Agency Partnership"

View the video of Dr. Robison's lecture

11/11/15

Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School 
Chief Quality and Safety Officer at Partners HealthCare

Lecture Title: "Quality of Care in the Indian Health Service"

12/17/15

Nancy Kressin, PhD
Professor
Boston University School of Medicine 

Lecture Title:  “Unequal Lives, Unequal Treatment, Unequal Outcomes:  Transforming Good Intentions into Meaningful Action to Address Health Disparities” 

View the video of Dr. Kressin's lecture

2/10/16

Terri Fried, MD
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Yale School of Medicine

Lecture Title: "Promoting Advance Care Planning as a Healthy Behavior"

View the video of Dr. Fried's lecture

3/09/16

Ben Sommers, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Policy an Economics
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Lecture Title: "Medicaid Expansion versus the Private Option: Changes in Access to Care, Churning and Health"

4/06/16

Carrie Colla, PhD
Associate Professor
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Geisel School of Medicine

Lecture Title: "Effects of ACOs on High Cost, High Need Elderly"

5/18/16

Marcella Nunez Smith, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Founding Director of Equity and Research Innovation Center (ERIC).

Lecture Title: "Using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Principles to Shape a Local and Global Health Equity Research Portfolio"

View the video of Dr. Nunez Smith's lecture