Sandra Greene, DrPH, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Program on Healthcare Economics and Finance at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health was recently appointed as Chair of the NC State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC)… Read more »
New projects funded for Year 9 of the Carolina Health Workforce Center
Four new projects have been funded for 2021-2022, Year 9 of the HRSA-funded Carolina Health Workforce Center. Projects include geospatial analyses of whether behavioral health providers are co-located with buprenorphine prescribers and whether pharmacist are co-located with primary care providers, as well as a deep dive on the factors contributing to physician burnout which builds… Read more »
Workforce team welcomes new CHWRC Deputy Director, Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW
Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW is joining the health workforce team as the Deputy Director for the HRSA-funded Carolina Health Workforce Research Center. Dr. Lombardi holds faculty appointments at UNC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Lombardi received… Read more »
Workforce team welcomes new HPDS Director, Hilary Campbell, PharmD, JD
Hilary Campbell, PharmD, JD joined the Program for Health Workforce Research & Policy on March 15th, 2021. Dr. Campbell is joining the team as the Director of Sheps Health Workforce NC and the North Carolina Health Professions Data System; she will state health workforce initiatives within the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy. Prior… Read more »
Sheps Center’s Brad Wright Receives NINDS funding to advance our understanding of Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Using Medicare Claims to Advance Our Understanding of Guillain-Barre Syndrome The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) approved $427,625 in funding for co-investigators Brad Wright, PhD, Rebecca Traub, MD and Chip Howard, MD for their project which will run from 09/27/21 to 02/28/23. Project summary Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune disorder (annual incidence… Read more »
WRAL features Dr. Michelle Hernandez in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Dr. Michelle Hernandez In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, WRAL-TV recently featured UNC’s Dr. Michelle Hernandez—highlighting her work in underserved communities. At UNC Health, Hernandez is breaking down barriers as a pediatric allergist and immunologist. The Puerto Rican native calls the work her purpose. In regards to working in Lee… Read more »
Former Primary Care Research Fellow, Dr. Bianca Allison, awarded 2021 Changemakers grant
Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, has been awarded a 2021 Changemakers in Family Planning grant by the Society of Family Planning Research Fund. The aim of the award is to provide dedicated support for awardees to develop their research skills and leadership in the field of family planning… Read more »
Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes iLibrary helps design pragmatic clinical trials
Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes iLibrary now available to help design pragmatic clinical trials Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, supported by project manager Kathryn Wessell, MPH and PCRO Core member Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, created a library to help investigators seeking to develop pragmatic clinical trials in people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This library… Read more »
NRSA Fellow Bianca Allison’s Clinic-Based Quality Improvement Initiative Featured in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
How can we increase screening for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia in Adolescents? Sheps Center’s National Research Service Award (NRSA) training fellow Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, along with UNC collaborators Elizabeth Walters, DNP, CPNP-PC, RN (School of Nursing), Benjamin Butler, MSN, RN, CPN (Primary Care Clinic), and Martha Perry, MD, (General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine). In… Read more »
Join the NC Registry for Brain Health
About the North Carolina Registry for Brain Health The Program on Aging Disability and Long-Term Care works with the North Carolina Consortium for Brain Health in Aging to improve awareness of resources available to help people with memory disorders. The NC Registry for Brain Health is the first registry of its kind in the state… Read more »
Sheps Researchers win 2021 Willard Manning Award
A paper featuring the work of Sheps researchers, Marisa Domino, PhD and Joseph Morrissey, PhD, has won the 2021 Willard Manning Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research. The paper, “Putting Providers At-Risk through Capitation or Shared Savings: How Strong are Incentives for Upcoding and Treatment Changes?”, was published in the Journal of Mental… Read more »
Sheps COVID-19 brief estimates that NC hospitals may reach ICU capacity by January if COVID trends continue
UNC’s Sheps Center and Duke University’s Margolis Center for Health Policy released a brief recently estimating that if COVID trends continue, hospitals will be out of beds by January. This is part of a series of modeling impact briefs the team of researchers has been writing since April 2020. Several local media outlets have been… Read more »
National Institute on Aging Awards $4.1M Grant to Laura Hanson
Dr. Laura Hanson, UNC Professor Geriatric Medicine and Medical Director of Palliative Care has been awarded a new $4.1 million dollar grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
New Monthly Seminar in Health Disparities and COVID-19
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Disparities: Healthcare Delivery in the Age of COVID-19 This interdisciplinary Seminar will hold intensive and collaborative sessions focused on health outcome and health delivery problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our main research topic is health disparities in healthcare delivery and how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes systems and impacts resources, including… Read more »
Dr. Crystal Cené named UNC Health System Executive Director for Health Equity
Join us in congratulating Dr. Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA, with her promotion by UNC Health as the organization’s first System Executive Director for Health Equity. In this new role, Dr. Cené will lead a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort to plan, implement, and evaluate science-based strategies and interventions to help address the structures, policies,… Read more »
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