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 »

Sheps Center releases 2013-2014 Annual Report

The UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research compiles an Annual Report each year to summarize research activities, products and publications. The 2013-2014 Annual Report was released on December 10. As in the past, this year’s annual report is organized into several sections.  Initially, the mission of the Center is discussed, followed by a… Read more »

Paula Song awarded PCORI grant for Model of Health Delivery

Paula Song PhD, a Research Fellow at the Sheps Center and Associate Professor Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, was recently awarded a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant of 1.9 million dollars. The project is titled Improving Care Coordination for Children with Disabilities Through an Accountable Care… Read more »

Betsy Sleath awarded PCORI grant for adolescent asthma research

Betsy Sleath, PhD, the Director of the Program on Child and Adolescent Health Services Research at the Sheps Center and Chair of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, had been awarded a 1.9 million dollar research grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The study is titled Using… Read more »

Holmes receives UNC Hettleman Prize for Outstanding Achievement

Mark Holmes, PhD, is one of four UNC-Chapel Hill faculty to receive the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. Holmes directs the Rural Health Research Program and co-directs the Healthcare Economics and Finance Program at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He is also associate professor of… Read more »

Aging program’s Patricia Poole wins 2014 RDH Award of Distinction

Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care Research Dental Hygienist, Patricia Poole, RDH, MS was awarded the 2014 Sunstar Award of Distinction on August 15th at the RDH Under One Roof conference in Chicago, IL.  Ms. Poole has partnered with Drs. Sloane and Zimmerman since 2010, and joined the Aging program in 2014.  More information… Read more »

Marisa Domino to lead Sheps Center Program on Mental Health

Marisa Domino, PhD, is the new Director of the Program on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Systems at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Domino was selected for this new role by Joe Morrissey, PhD, who has served as director of the program for many years. Morrissey will retire from UNC… Read more »

The North Carolina Network Consortium Webpage Relaunch

The Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN), North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC), has relaunched their webpage.  We would like to thank the Sheps Center for all their support in the redesign and relaunch of the web page especially Brian Cass, Liuliu Fan and Dea Bell.  We hope this website will support investigators interested in taking research projects… Read more »