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 »
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 »
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 »
“Improving Youth Question-Asking and Provider Education during Pediatric Asthma Visits” will be published in the Patient Education and Counseling Journal. It was authored by Betsy Sleath, Delesha M. Carpenter, Scott A. Davis, Claire Hayes Watson, Charles Lee, Ceila E. Loughlin, Nacire Garcia, Daniel S. Reuland, and Gail Tudor. “The question prompt list and video intervention… Read more »
The American Pharmacists Association has announced that Betsy Sleath, PhD is the recipient of the 2018 Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences. Dr. Sleath will receive the award in March in Nashville.
Betsy Sleath, Ph.D. Sleath Receives $1.6 Million AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., has received a grant worth nearly $1.6 million over four years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help reduce vision problems in African-Americans caused by glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness… Read more »
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects approximately 5% of the children in the United States, making it one of the most prevalent mental health disorders in the pediatric population. A group of researchers from the UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research published an analysis of online information-seeking behaviors of parents of children with ADHD in… Read more »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
The Sheps Center for Health Services Research is co-sponsoring the Tenth Annual Chapel Hill Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference May 12-13, 2016 which is being hosted by the Eshelman School of Pharmacy on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The theme of conference is “Addressing Methodological and Ethical Issues in Pediatric Medication… Read more »
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 »
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, 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 »
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