New UNC ECHO for Medication Assisted Treatment project to research barriers and enabling factors for primary care providers to offer medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders and thereby impact opioid overdose death rates in North Carolina [CHAPEL HILL, NC] – A new research initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill will help to increase North Carolinian’s access… Read more »
Youth Views on Communication About ADHD and Medication Adherence
Child & Adolescent Health Services Program director, Betsy Sleath, PhD, RPH, and colleagues just recently published the article “Youth Views on Communication About ADHD and Medication Adherence” in Community Mental Health Journal. Other authors associated with the Child & Adolescent Health Services Program are Delesha Carpenter, PhD, MSPH, Kathleen Thomas, PhD, and Sandra Sulzer, PhD…. Read more »
Researchers from Child and Adolescent Health Services Program receive award from international conference
Sheps Center researchers, along with two adolescent participants and their parents, were part of a team recognized for their work at the European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistence (ESPACOMP) in Lisbon, Portugal in November. The team won third place for their poster entitled, “Teen acceptance of an educational video and question prompt list… Read more »
A paper by Dr. Marisa Domino and Mental Health colleagues is in press at the premier journal, Health Services Research
Drs. Marisa Domino, Joe Morrissey, and Mona Kilany (T32 alum) have a paper in press at the premier journal, Health Services Research. The paper, entitled “Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness,” found positive associations between medical homes and access to primary care, specialty mental health care,… Read more »
Mental Health Postdoc Faculty Mentor, Byron Powell, receives Early Career Award
Byron Powell, PhD, Assistant Professor with Health Policy and Management and core faculty member for the Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program here at Sheps, received the Early Career Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group at their Annual Convention in New York this past… Read more »
Video showcases community advisors’ experience in engaged research in Latino community
A recently completed PCORI-funded research project called Padres Efectivos at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research in partnership with El Futuro, Inc. asked community members to provide advice on the researcher’s work in mental health care for Latino children. The advisors had the opportunity to participate in the research process, which… Read more »
Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Faculty Celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week
Members of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Systems and Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship gathered to celebrate the 7th Annual National Postdoc Appreciation Week in September. The group participated in several events and activities that week that were sponsored by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the UNC Postdoctoral Association. Their participation even won them… Read more »
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program Names First Cohort
Clinical Scholars is a national leadership program led by UNC SOM faculty members Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, and Claudia Fernandez, DrPH, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program, which recently named its first class of scholars, prepares health care providers and practitioners to expand their influence beyond the hospital or clinic to advance… Read more »
Case study describes best practices in care coordination for children with disabilities
A case study published July 28 in NEJM Catalyst examines the efforts of Partners for Kids (PFK), the nation’s largest pediatric accountable care organization (ACO), in managing the needs of Medicaid-eligible children with disabilities in Ohio. Paula H. Song, PhD, associate professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public… Read more »
Review of quality measures and instruments available to promote assisted living’s integration into the evolving healthcare landscape
Researchers from the University of North Carolina’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and School of Social Work, with funding from The Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL), completed a review of measures and instruments useful to maintain and improve quality in assisted living, and which may help assisted living providers become… Read more »
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Care4Moms project to research, make recommendations on needs of mothers with medically fragile infants
The study’s results will help improve health outcomes for mothers, their babies and future pregnancies. July 25, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHAPEL HILL, NC – An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has received nearly $900,000 in federal funding to identify and address the needs… Read more »
Thomas recognized for her commitment to mentorship with John M. Eisenberg Excellence Award
Kathleen Thomas has received the John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The award was created to honor the legacy of Dr. John Eisenberg and has been presented annually since 2001 to an outstanding faculty member in a National Research and Service Award (NRSA) institutional training program,… Read more »
Evidence review leads to recommendations on future research aimed at protecting and improving health of workers
Evidence review leads to recommendations on future research aimed at protecting and improving health of workers Researchers from the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) recently completed a systematic evidence review of integrated interventions to improve the health and safety of workers that was used… Read more »
Mark Holmes appointed new director of the UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research
The UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to announce that Dr. George “Mark” Holmes has been appointed as the director of the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, one of the oldest and largest academic health services research centers in the United States. “With his record of… Read more »
Sheps researchers present at NRSA Conference and AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Boston
AcademyHealth is one of the largest health services research conferences of the year, and Sheps researchers will be presenting throughout the conference June 25-June 28th. See details below: NRSA CONFERENCE – Sheraton Boston Hotel Saturday June 25th Plenary Session 8:00-8:30am Independence Presentation of the John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award Ballroom (Winner: Kathleen… Read more »
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