Upcoming Events

Mar 6 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research In Search of a Claims-Based Hospitalization Risk Prediction Model Harold Carmel, MD, Vice President for Clinical Services, Care Management Technologies Consulting Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine -- Duke, Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Brightleaf Square, Main St. Durham
Mar 12 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Using qualitative methods to inform quantitative methods Jennifer Craft-Morgan -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
Mar 19 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Long term acute care study Kathleen Dalton -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
Mar 20 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research Global Mental Health: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Grieving Youth in Tanzania Karen E. O'Donnell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics Duke University Medical Center -- Duke Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Suite 22, Brightleaf Sq., 905 W. Main St., Durham, NC
Apr 2 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Understanding high financial performance in Critical Access Hospitals: A mixed methods approach George Pink -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
Apr 3 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research 50 States as Laboratory: Quasi-Experimental Panel-Data Methods Philip J. Cook, PhD ITT/Terry Sanford Professor Public Policy, Professor of Economics and Sociology, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University -- Duke, Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Brightleaf Square, Main St. Durham
Apr 23 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Giselle Corbie-Smith The IOM committee on CER standards -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
May 1 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research Mandating Community Treatment for Mental Illness John Monahan, Ph.D. John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences University of Virginia -- Duke Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Brightleaf Sq, Durham, NC
May 15 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research Bringing Mental Health into the Mainstream of Healthcare Quality Measurement Harold A. Pincus, MD Professor and Vice Chair for Strategic Initiatives Department of Psychiatry Columbia University Director of Quality and Outcomes Research, New York-Presbyterian Hospital -- Sheps Center 1st flr , DeFriese Room 150
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What's New?

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]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Spring 2011 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [report]
The NC Health Professions Data System has released the 2010 health professions data. [Data book] [Data]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Fall 2010 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [cover letter] [report]
Tom Ricketts, PhD, Sheps Center, was appointed to the National Health Care Workforce Commission. [news release]
The 2009 NC Health Professions Data are now available. [Data book] [Data]
The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute has released an online, interactive atlas of the surgical workforce in the US. [Atlas] [Press release]
The NC Health Professions Data System has released a new report entitled, "Trends in the Supply of Pharmacists in North Carolina," [link to report]

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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