Upcoming Events

Jun 14 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Comparing Providers and Provider Teams <Link to more info and seminar materials> Darren DeWalt, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
Jul 19 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Comparing Health Care Systems and Facilities <Link to more info and seminar materials> Mark Holmes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Policy & Management --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
Aug 23 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Comparing Health Care Facilities <Link to more info and seminar materials> Alan Brookhart, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
Sep 13 8-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Alternatives to the Conventional RCT Michael Kosorok, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman, Department of Biostatistics Peter Thall, Ph.D., Professor, Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Location: Carolina Club, Alumni Hall I (Breakfast will be provided)
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Sept 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Speaker and time to be announced --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
October 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Speaker and time to be announced --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

What's New?

The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "Trends in Graduate Medical Education in North Carolina: Challenges and Next Steps." [report]
Sandra Greene has been reappointed to the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council. For more information, click here.
The NC Health Professions Data System has released the 2011 health professions data. [Data book] [Data]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "Trends in Medical Education in North Carolina." [report]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "The Diversity of North Carolina's Health Care Workforce" and presented the findings at the North Carolina Health Professions Diversity Conference on August 29, 2012. [report] [slides]
A year-end report on the project to develop an online, dynamic model for projecting physician supply and demand has been completed by a Sheps team led by Erin Fraher. [report]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Fall 2011 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [report]
The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute has released an update to their online, interactive atlas of the surgical workforce in the US. This updated version includes data on surgical sub-specialties, population data, and health access indicators. [Atlas]

what was new

Sheps Center Director - Dr. Tim Carey

Tim Carey, MD, MPH, was named director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research in October 2000. Carey replaces Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD, who served as the center's director since 1973.

A Sheps Center fellow and UNC faculty member since 1986, Carey is a physician and health services researcher with interests related to evidence-based medicine, access to care, health disparities, and medical outcomes. Several of his current research projects examine technology assessment, including the benefits and disadvantages of tube feedings in the frail elderly. He has also conducted a number of studies to examine the outcomes of care for low back pain, and is co-director of the joint Research Triangle Institute/UNC Evidence-Based Practice Center examining the strength of the literature on a variety of medical and health policy topics.

Carey is a Sarah Graham Kenan Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, and was chief of the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the UNC-CH School of Medicine from 1991-2000.

He is a frequent federal reviewer and has served as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Monitoring Panel on Access to Care. He teaches at both the UNC Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

"Under Gordon DeFriese's leadership, the Sheps Center has grown dramatically, achieving national and international visibility," said Carey. "I hope to continue the type of leadership that has made the center so successful, while helping it meet the changing needs of our constituents–within the university and on a local, state and national level."

Assistant to Director:

966-8628

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