NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, Aprl 18, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“WHELD programme”

Presented by:

Clive Ballard, MD, PhD
Professor of Age-Related Diseases, Pro-Vice Chancellor,
University of Exeter Faculty of Health and Life Science

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Conversation | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Register for this in-person event below. 

Dean Ashish K. Jha and Michael VanRooyen will engage in conversation about Dr. VanRooyen’s experiences leading complex humanitarian operations with relief organizations in more than thirty countries affected by conflict and disaster, and apply those experiences to a discussion of current health crises across the globe.

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the founding director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), an interfaculty initiative at Harvard University dedicated to advancing evidence and professional development in humanitarian assistance. He has led complex humanitarian operations with numerous relief organizations in more than thirty countries affected by conflict and disaster, including Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan–Darfur, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine, and Ukraine.

He has worked internationally as a humanitarian and leadership expert with several nongovernmental organizations, including CARE, Save the Children, Oxfam, and Physicians for Human Rights. In 2012, Dr. VanRooyen founded the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard to advance professional development for humanitarian leaders globally.

The conversation will be recorded and posted to the Brown SPH YouTube channel post-event.  

About The Lectureship
The lecture is supported by The Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes, Jr. Lectureship in Public Health, endowed through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Zisson ’74, in memory of Norma and Miles Zisson ’38. Dr. Barnes was a beloved member of the faculty who had strong interests in humanism and medicine, and who developed several innovations in teaching at Brown, including the use of authors and actors to read and perform pieces on health-relevant themes. Mrs. Barnes was a social worker who shared her husband’s love of students and teaching.

Brown University Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research is pleased to announce that our April 12th Brown Bag will be presented by Dr. Mina Tadrous, Assistant Professor Of Drug Safety and Health Services Research at the University of Toronto. In this presentation, we will explore the background of drug shortages in both the US and Canada, highlighting their global nature and the pressing need for proactive measures. We will emphasize the necessity of a systematic and transparent at-risk medicine list and discuss the ongoing development of a national list that comprehensively considers both supply chain and clinical risk factors in Canada.

Brown University Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research is pleased to announce that our April 3rd Seminar Series will be presented by Alyssa Bilinski.

Here is a description of this presentation:

Does your code work? How are you sure? Software engineers have thought a lot about answers to these questions. Researchers, not so much. In this talk, I’ll argue that better systems for reproducibility and transparency could both improve science and help researchers, and I’ll talk about what these could look like in health policy.

We hope to see you there!

Public Health Research Day is an annual conference hosted by Brown University’s School of Public Health that highlights the research accomplishments of our students, trainees, and partners. All members of the Brown community are welcome to visit the poster session to learn more about Brown students’ high-impact public health work!

The conference, held in Alumnae Hall, is one of several events held to commemorate National Public Health Week, April 1-7, 2024. Visitors are encouraged to discuss posters with students, fellows, staff, faculty, and affiliates.

Posters will be reviewed by a panel of judges. Prizes will be awarded for posters judged to be the best in the following categories:

• undergraduate student
• master’s student
• doctoral student

Winners will be announced by the School of Public Health in mid-April.

This Grand Rounds will feature a panel of three rehabilitation providers who will discuss initiatives within their health systems to collect and use social determinants of health data.

Brown University School of Public Health’s Center for Health System Sustainability (CHeSS), in collaboration with the Information Futures Lab, is pleased to announce that Dr. Reuben Ng will kick off our seminar series.

Ageism is the discrimination of older adults based on their age and the negative portrayals of older adults as derived from age-based stereotypes centered on illness, irrelevance, and incompetence. Join us as Dr. Ng discusses innovative methods in analyzing the historical narratives of aging over 200 years, contemporary media portrayals of older adults, and strategies to reframe aging.

We hope to see you there!

NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, March 21, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“Diagnosed Dementia in Medicare: Benchmarking for Study Planning and Equity”

Presented by:

Julie Bynum, MD, MPH
Margaret Terpenning Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Geriatric & Palliative Medicine, University of Michigan

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Brown University Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research is pleased to announce that our March 19th Brown Bag will be presented by Drs. Emma Belanger and Joyce Wang. Drs. Belanger and Wang will be presenting results from a nationally representative survey of 2,084 assisted living administrators across the US. The survey includes measures of important end-of-life care processes and aims to better understand the extensive national variation in outcomes among dying assisted living residents, including hospice collaboration and protocols surrounding dying and deceased residents. We will also present preliminary findings about the association between these end-of-life care processes and claims-based resident outcomes, focusing on hospice utilization in the last month of life. Results highlight opportunities to improve quality of care for terminally-ill assisted living residents.
We hope to see you there!

Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI, Columbia University, “Epistemic Justice in Advancing Health Informatics and Data Science Innovations“ February 23, 2024 12:00 - 1:00PM ET

Dr. Bakken will discuss how health informatics and data science innovations can both perpetuate and mitigate epistemic injustices – injustices that occur when people are denied opportunities to create knowledge or derive meaning from their lived experiences.

NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, February 15, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“Cultural Adaptation of ARDR Clinical Trials for Latino Participants”

Presented by:

Stacy Fischer, MD
Discussant

Laura Hanson, MD, MPH
Presenter

Hillary Lum, MD, PhD
Presenter

Lilliana Ramirez-Gomez, MD
Presenter

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“Equitable Implementation of Innovations to Promote Successful Aging in Place presented by Allison Gustavson,” PT, DPT, PhD

Even evidence-based innovations developed with equity in mind may not translate to equitable implementation because of different contextual barriers experienced by a diverse population of older adults. The lack of equitable implementation may further reinforce health disparities that challenge the ability of the growing diversified aging population to successfully Age-in-Place. The purpose of this presentation is to: (1) define the concept of “equitable implementation” and note current equity gaps in aging research and (2) present a customizable research logic model that can guide the equitable implementation and scaling of aging innovations.

Dr. Linda Resnik presents, “Advancing access to and quality of rehabilitation services through learning health systems research.”

Dr. Linda Resnik, PT, PhD, FAPTA is a Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University and a VA RR&D funded Research Career Scientist at the Providence VA Medical Center. She is the Principal Investigator of LeaRRn, the Learning health System Rehabilitation Research Network, and has directed the Center on Health Services Research and Training (CoHSTAR) since 2015.

At the Providence VA she is the leader of the research focus area on Restoring Limb Function of the VA Rehabilitation Research Center of Excellence, the Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology (CfNN).

“Six Mindsets to Promote Health Equity Through Implementation Practice and Science” presented by Eva Woodward, PhD, MA, BS

This is a “big picture” talk with something for everyone at any phase of an implementation effort, complete with tools to support six mindsets to approach your work using implementation to promote equitable health for all – not prescriptions, not rules, not steps. These mindsets come from dedicating my and others’ work entirely to improve the health of people who have been oppressed, marginalized, or excluded, and help us consider research design, measurement, and work processes

NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, January 18, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“Strategies to implement ePCTs in home and community-based settings – issues and successes in Assisted Living and Adult Day Centers”

Presented by:

Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor,
Brown University School of Public Health

and

Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor,
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

and

Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD
University Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, December 21, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“The Clinical Implementation of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers”

Presented by:

Kyra S. O’Brien, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Penn Memory Center, University of Pennsylvania

and 

Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

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Faculty and staff are invited to join us for an introduction to the newly launched Community-Engaged Data and Evaluation Collaborative to learn about opportunities to partner on community-identified challenges and projects.

The Community-Engaged Data & Evaluation Collaborative (CEDEC) leverages Brown University’s resources to address data, evaluation and research priorities identified and valued by nonprofit and public agencies in Rhode Island. With an administrative home at the Swearer Center for Public Service, CEDEC brings together several partners from across the university, including the School of Public Health, to collaborate with community partner organizations on projects ranging from quantitative data analysis to long-term program evaluation. In these collaborations, community partners advance their goals while students learn through meaningful experiences and faculty engage in research with real-time, local impact.

Tuesday December 5, 11:00am-12:00pm
Virtual Presentation and Introduction

This introduction will feature Dan Turner, Assistant Director of CEDEC.

Sponsored by the Office of Community Engagement at the Brown University School of Public Health. 

Monday, December 4, 2023

7:00-8:30 p.m. ET

via Zoom

RSVP required

The Friends of the Pembroke Center present this panel conversation featuring alumnae and Brown-affiliated physicians. The discussion will unpack documented trends in the field, and explore the perspectives of women in the medical profession, how the pandemic and other stressors have served as “last straws” for many, and what this means for the future of healthcare and women in the field.

Panelists:

• Dr. Sabina Holland, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist and Diversity Officer, Hasbro Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Dean of Medicine for the Program in Liberal Medical Education First Generation and Underrepresented in Medicine Students, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Dr. Valerie Parkas ’88 MD’92, P’20 ’22, Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and Recruitment; Professor, Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Dr. Wendy Wilcox ’88, P’23, NYC Health + Hospitals’ Chief Women’s Health Service Officer

Moderator:

• Shefali Luthra ’14, health reporter at The 19th covering the intersection of gender and health care

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Brown Women’s Network.

LeaRRn Grand Rounds: Pimjai Sudsawad, ScD, presents “Knowledge Translation: The What, The Why, & The How”

The presenter will discuss knowledge translation frameworks and activities at a federal funding agency, the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). The presenter will discuss knowledge translation in the context of disability and rehabilitation research and provide examples of how projects funded by NIDILRR have incorporated knowledge translation principles and methodologies.

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

Join us for a webinar with former White House COVID Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Tuesday November 14th from 5-6pm EST. Our conversation will focus on her journey in medicine and public service as well as her insight as a leading figure in public health. Space is limited, so register and submit questions in advance via the link below. We look forward to seeing you!

Dr. Deborah Birx served as the White House COVID Coordinator from 2020-2021, US Global AIDS Coordinator as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) from 2014-2020, Director of CDC’s Division of Global HIV/AIDS (DGHA) from 2005-2014, and Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1996-2005. Dr. Birx is a military-trained infectious disease physician and an esteemed scholar, having published over 230 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, authored nearly a dozen chapters in scientific publications, and developed and patented vaccines.

LeaRRn Webinar: Kristin Rosengren, presents “Strategic Communication Strategies for Research Impact”

How we communicate about our work, with whom, when, and in what format can affect the way that information is received and acted upon – or not. In this session, participants will learn about the importance of setting communications goals as well as simple approaches for defining and understanding target audiences, and developing effective messages and tactics to support change.

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

LeaRRn Grand Rounds: Stephen Hunter, PT, DPT, presents “It Takes A Village: Team-Based Clinical Research Within A Learning Health System”

Sustained improvements in evidence-based clinical practice is not an easy task. This requires assembling a research team balanced with frontline caregivers, researchers, clinical leaders, analysts and statisticians. This team will guide data collection on current performance, translate that data to knowledge and most importantly, support providers to apply that knowledge in clinical performance, resulting in better patient outcomes at a lower cost. This talk will review these principles supported by case studies and published research.

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

The Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice is hosting Jose F. Figueroa on October 23, 2023. Jose Francisco Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is a practicing Hospitalist and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the BWH Medicine Residency Management & Leadership Pathway. Dr. Figueroa is also the Faculty Director of the Healthcare Quality & Outcomes Lab at HSPH and the Co-Director of the International Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes, and Needs in Care (ICCONIC), an international research collaborative across 12 high-income countries. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

His main research interests focus on understanding the drivers of healthcare spending and poor clinical outcomes among low-income and historically marginalized populations with complex clinical needs. To date, this has included work on racial and ethnic minorities, Dueal-Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and people with frailty, major disabilities, and serious mental illness. His research also focuses on evaluating how policy interventions and payment reform aimed at improving the quality of care and controlling costs are working, and in particular, how they affect safety-net clinicians and hospitals. To support his work, Dr. Figueroa is funded by grants from the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Episcopal Health Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, October 19, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“Electronic Nudges and Pragmatic Trials to Improve Hospital Palliative Care Delivery”

Presented by:

Katherine Courtright, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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LeaRRn Webinar: Gretchen Piatt, MPH, PhD, presents “Breaking Down Learning Health System Silos: The Vital Role of Inclusive, Accessible, & Adaptable Teams.”

This session will focus on best practices in team management, types of needed organizational infrastructure, and how to support culture change to promote collaboration in learning health systems (LHS).

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

The Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research Presents a Lecture by Guest Roz Murray, MPP

Please join Dean Ashish K. Jha for the first of our Dean’s Conversation Series with former chief of staff to President Biden, Ron Klain, and a special introduction by President Christina H. Paxson. 

This event will be held in hybrid format with both in-person and virtual attendance permitted. 

Doors open at 11:45 for a buffet lunch!

Zoom Link to Attend Virtually: https://brown.zoom.us/j/93024493520 

Speaker Bio:

Ron Klain draws on four decades of experience in law, finance, policymaking, and politics to advise clients across industries on national and international legal issues, crisis management, and the global regulatory environment.

Having served as a key advisor to three US Presidents—most recently as White House Chief of Staff in the Biden-Harris administration—Ron is sought after when the stakes are at their highest. President Biden described Ron as “a once-in-a-generation talent” and a “fiercely brilliant intellect” with “a heart as big as his head.”

Selected by Time magazine among the world’s 100 most influential people in 2021, Ron is a recognized authority on matters of government, law, and public affairs. During his time as White House Chief of Staff, Ron oversaw the administration’s COVID-19 response and contributed to major legislative accomplishments, including the American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act.

His long history of public service includes serving as Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Chief of Staff and Counselor to Vice President Al Gore. Earlier, he served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton, and then, Counselor to the US Attorney General. He subsequently served as a senior aide to President Barack Obama and Chief of Staff to then Vice President Biden.

Ron’s experience extends far beyond politics. In between tours in government, he previously worked as an O’Melveny partner; served for more than a decade as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of a multibillion-dollar investment firm, and taught as an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School and Georgetown University. Ron began his legal career as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White.

NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Grand Rounds

Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

“Decision Architecture Randomization Trials: Extremely Low-Cost Trials with Preservation of Clinician and Patient Choice”

Presented by:

James Flory, MD, MSCE
Assistant Attending Physician, Endocrinology Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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The Advance RI-CTR Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series showcases clinical and translational research from across Rhode Island. This series features outstanding science from expert investigators alternating with Advance RI-CTR Pilot Projects awardees sharing their early research. Seminars are held virtually on the second Thursday of each month.

Thursday, September 14, 2023:

Caroline Richardson, MD: “New Approaches to Type 2 Diabetes” 

New developments in Type 2 Diabetes Care have the potential to dramatically improve outcomes for this common and costly disease. However, the rapid pace of innovation in diabetes care has outpaced our ability to transform care delivery. The presentation will focus on pragmatic and implementation focused clinical trials of interventions to support patients and their primary care teams to incorporate new strategies to manage in Type 2 Diabetes including new medication classes, continuous glucose monitoring, and low carbohydrate diets.

About the Speaker

Dr. Richardson is the George A. and Marilyn M. Bray Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Care New England and Brown. Her research is focused on improving the quality of care for Type 2 Diabetes in primary care. Prior to moving to Rhode Island in 2022, she was at the University of Michigan where she lead the state wide Michigan Collaborative for Type 2 Diabetes and she was the center director of the Veterans Administration Diabetes Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. She is an expert in pragmatic trial design and patient facing e-health research and leads the VA’s national Diabetes Prevention Clinical Demonstration Project.