Alexa Waters, a medical student at UNC and a Primary Care and Population Health (PCPH) Scholar, has been working with NCNC on the Monitor Trial. Her poster presenting her work has won the student competition at the NC Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP). The Monitor Trial is is funded by by the Patient-Centered Outcomes… Read more »
Positive reinforcement from physician can help glaucoma patients remember to take medication
Almost half of all glaucoma patients stop taking the eye drops essential to preventing loss of eyesight. A study published in Health Education Research on September 2 shows that achieving better adherence to medication could be as simple as ophthalmologists saying, “Keep up the good work.” Researchers at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health… Read more »
Sheps Center receives $3.4 million grant to study inappropriate and excessive use of antipsychotic medications
National Institute on Aging study targets use of medications in assisted living communities (Chapel Hill, N.C. — Nov. 2, 2015) – Researchers in aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a nearly $3.4 million federal grant to examine the inappropriate and excessive use of antipsychotic medications in assisted living… Read more »
UNC-Chapel Hill Selected as Center for New Leadership Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
UNC-Chapel Hill to lead an unprecedented national push to equip clinicians with leadership, team-building and cultural competence skills to improve the health status of Americans. (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Nov. 2, 2015) — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to serve as the… Read more »
Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure in the U.S. Black Belt
September 28, 2015 UNC Part of Collaborative Receiving Large Award to Reduce Health Disparities in Rural South Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, in partnership with researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and East Carolina University, were awarded… Read more »
Kaluzny’s book addresses quality of care and access to research for cancer patients in the community setting
Reprinted from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health A new book, published this month by Oxford University Press, calls for an increase in patient access to high-quality cancer care in the community and an improvement in community hospitals’ capacity to support research and genomically informed medicine. Managing Disruptive Change in Healthcare: Lessons from… Read more »
Sheps researchers awarded seed grant for quality improvement in lung cancer screening implementation
Daniel Reuland, MD MPH, was recently awarded a seed grant from the UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (https://www.med.unc.edu/ihqi) to address quality gaps related to implementation of lung cancer screening. Alison Brenner, PhD, who is joining the Sheps Center as a Research Scientist, helped to develop this proposal during her postdoctoral fellowship, and will serve… Read more »
UNC Receives $15M AHRQ Award to Advance Heart Health in NC Primary Care
Chapel Hill NC (May 26, 2015) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a cooperative team of health care and quality improvement experts were recently awarded a $15M federal grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to help primary care practices use the latest evidence to improve the heart… Read more »
Phil Sloane receives Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement | 2015 University Teaching Award
Phil Sloane, a Sheps Center Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Sheps Center Program on Aging, Disability and Long Term Care, recently received the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2015 University Teaching Award. “This award, created in 1997, acknowledges a lifetime of contributions to a broad range of teaching and learning, particularly mentoring… Read more »
Holmes receives 2015 Outstanding Researcher Award from the National Rural Health Association
Originally published April 8, 2015 by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Mark Holmes, PhD, director of the Rural Health Research Program at UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and associate professor of health policy and management at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, is the 2015… Read more »
Dr. Thomas Ricketts to give 2015 Gordon H. DeFriese Lecture April 1
Dr. Thomas Ricketts will give the Gordon H. DeFriese lecture on Health Services Research at the Carolina Club at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on April 1st at 3:00pm. The lecture is the largest event of the year sponsored by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The speaker is… Read more »
Tackling the Triple Aim in Primary Care Residencies
Dr. Katrina Donahue published the baseline data from the I3 (Impact cubed) Collaborative that seeks to improve care of patients served by primary care residency practices in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. This work was published in the February 2015 issue of Family Medicine with Ann Lefebvre from the North Carolina Area Health Education… Read more »
Statewide Study of Comprehensive Post-Stroke Treatment
$14 Million Funding Award to Support First Statewide Study of Comprehensive Post-Stroke Treatment, Based on Wake Forest Baptist Model In Collaboration with UNC- Chapel Hill and in Partnership with 51 Hospitals in the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative Jacquie Halladay MD, MPH, Codirector of NCNC and Doyle M. “Skip” Cummings, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP of ECARE… Read more »
Patients who smoke ask to be treated with respect
What is it like to be someone who smokes in today’s increasingly smoke-free world? How can providers best interact with their patients who smoke and support their efforts to become tobacco-free? A new study by researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Family Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center represents… Read more »
Seminar on February 23 will address Medicaid policy and implementing prevention research findings
On February 23, the NRSA seminar will host two outside speakers of special interest. The seminar is open to the public and University staff and students are encouraged to attend. Both speakers will present in the DeFriese Conference Room (Room 150) at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. From 3-4pm, Genevieve Kenney… Read more »
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