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CHERP Has A Great Showing at 2008 SGIM Conference, 04/15/2008
Contact: Christine Weeks
Investigators from the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) presented 21 abstracts at the Society for General Internal Medicine Conference (SGIM) Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, including two plenary presentations, six oral presentations and a workshop. In addition, Virginia Chang, MD, PhD received the 2008 SGIM Outstanding Junior Investigator award during a ceremony on Saturday, April 12. Previous CHERP recipients of the SGIM Junior Investigator Award include Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, (2006) and Katrina Armstrong, MD (2003).
• Virginia, Chang, MD, PhD gave a presentation on her research entitled, Reversal of fortune: income disparities in cholesterol in the era of statins.
• Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD gave a plenary talk entitled, Financial incentives for smoking cessation and oral presentation, Financial incentives for weight loss.
• Rachel Werner, MD, PhD provided a plenary session presentation entitled, The impact of quality improvement incentives on quality of care and disparities at safety-net hospitals and chaired a session entitled, Inpatient quality/hospital medicine.
• Another research group that includes Rachel Werner, MD, PhD presented, Is poor hospital adherence to AMI process measures associated with increased patient mortality? An analysis of CMS clinical and administrative data.
• Bruce Ling, MD gave an oral presentation of his research, Communications on colorectal and prostate cancer screening: Are patient perceptions consistent with actual information exchanged?
• An oral presentation entitled, Does race affect cancer screening among women in VA? was given on behalf of a research team that includes Michael Fine, MD, MSc and Maria Mor, PhD.
• Another research group that includes Michael Fine, MD, MSc gave an oral presentation of their research, Association between exposure to degrading sex in popular music and sexual experience among adolescents.
• A team that includes David Asch, MD, MBA presented a talk entitled, Negotiating your first job and more.
• Leslie Hausmann, PhD presented research by her team entitled, Patient race and doctor-patient communication in the orthopedic setting.
• Adam Gordon, MD, MPH presented, Update in addiction medicine for the generalist and his research will also be presented in a talk entitled, Patients in recovery and opioids.
• A team that includes Said Ibrahim, MD, MPH gave an oral presentation entitled, Surviving the funding environment.
• Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD and colleagues presented, Patterns and determinants of inappropriate antibiotic use among injection drug users.
The following CHERP research was presented in poster form:
• Novel predictors of medication adherence among veterans. (JA Long, SE Kimmel, W Yang, A Troxel, KG Volpp)
• Thrombolytic therapy and mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism. (Aujesky D, Stone RA, Obrosky DS, Geng M, Fine MJ, Ibrahim SA)
• Translating research into practice: facilitators and barriers of implementing buprenorphine in the Veterans Health Administration. (Gordon AJ, Kavanagh G, Paidisetty S, Ramgopal R, Liberto JG)
• Personal, medical, and healthcare utilization differences between metropolitan and non-metropolitan homeless veterans. (Gordon AJ, Hilton M, Haas GL, Andree T, Goldstein G)
• Physician attitudes toward harm reduction in office-based opioid agonist therapy. (Grosheider T, Luther J, Ramgopal R, Gordon AJ)
• Predictors for hospital readmission after acute pulmonary embolism. (Aujesky D, Mor M, Geng M, Fine MJ, Ibrahim SA)
• Doctor-patient communication and the racial disparity in recommendations for joint replacement. (Hausmann LRM, Kresevic D, Cohen PZ, Grant R, Kwoh CK, Mor M, Geng M, Ling BS, Ibrahim SA)
• Impact of ACGME duty hour rules on prolonged length of stay among Medicare patient. (Volpp KG, Rosenbaum P., Rosen A., Romano P.S., Itani K.M., Cen L., Wang Y., Shoshan O., Halenar M., Silber JH)
• Did high-risk patients experience worse outcomes under ACGME duty hour rules? (Volpp KG, Rosenbaum P, Rosen A, Romano PS, Itani KM, Cen L, Wang Y, Shoshan O, Halenar M, Silber J)
• Provider communication cited as barrier to antiviral therapy for Hepatitis C-Infected methadone using patients (Zickmund S, Campbell S, Tirado C, Weinrieb, R)
• Statistical modeling and qualitative data: The development of an approach to mixed methods within health services research (Zickmund S, Bost J)
In addition, CHERP Steering Committee member Sankey Williams, MD received the Robert J. Glaser Award for outstanding contributions to research and education in general medicine.
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