Research Initiatives
Monthly Departmental Research Forums
The department hosts a monthly research forum (coordinated by Judy Savageau, MPH) at which faculty and students are encouraged to present research in progress, new grant ideas, data analysis plans, etc. The goal for these forums is to provide faculty with the necessary feedback and assistance to bring scholarly projects to completion. Listed below are presentations for the 2008-2009 academic year, followed by those presentations made during the 2007-2008 academic year.
2008-2009 Department Research Forums:
September 19, 2008:
Chyke Doubeni, MD, MPH and Anna Doubeni, MD, MPH - "Satisfaction with Care and Use of Colorectal Cancer Screening: 2000-2005” (dry-run in preparation for oral presentation at NAPCRG annual meeting)
October 19, 2008:
Ellen Green, MS-IV and Sara Shields, MD, MS - "Breastfeeding Messages at a Community Health Center Serving Diverse Urban Families” (dry-run for two upcoming national presentations: STFM and NAPCRG)
November 21, 2008:
Judy Savageau, MPH, Linda Weinreb, MD and Lucy Candib, MD - "Childhood Trauma Screening Among Adult Primary Care Patients”
December 19, 2008:
Cancelled due to inclement weather
January 16, 2008:
Glenn Pransky, MD, MOccH - "Competencies of Return to Work Coordinators: Addressing Qualitative and Quantitative Data”
February 20, 2009:
Roger Luckmann, MD, MPH - "Supporting Informed Decision-Making About Prostate Cancer Screening: An Intervention Combining Print Materials and Telephone Counseling”
March 20, 2009:
Roger Bibace, PhD - "A Patient's Own Story” - a methodology describing taking an oral history
April 17, 2009:
Lee Hargraves, PhD - "Primary Care Physicians Perceptions' of Problems in Primary Care and Requests for Assistance”
May 15, 2009:
Carole Upshur, EdD and Melodie Wenz Gross, PhD (Dept of Psychiatry) - "Children's behavioral issues in preschool -- Correlates and findings about primary and secondary prevention”
June 19, 2009:
Laney Bruner-Canhoto, PhD and Nicole Lomerson, MPH - "MassHealth Members and Mobility Equipment - Experiences, Successes, Challenges and Recommendations”
2007-2008 Department Research Forums:
September 21, 2007:
Chyke Doubeni, MD, MPH - "Perceived Accessibility of Tobacco and Youth Smoking” (dry-run in preparation for oral presentation at NAPCRG annual meeting)
October 19, 2007:
Sharada Weir, DPhil (from the Center for Health Policy and Research) - "Population Selection for the Vermont Medicaid Care Coordination and Chronic Care Management Programs: Choosing a Health Risk Predictive Modeling Tool”
November 16, 2007:
Hugh Silk, MD - "The Effect on Pediatric Oral Hygiene of Training Community-based Pediatric Primary Care to Teach Patients/Parents about Oral Health”
December 21, 2007:
Sandy Blount, EdD, Ben Miller, PsychD, and Jeremy Golding, MD - "Screening for Anxiety and Depression in Inpatients Hospitalized to Rule-out an MI: Should a QI Project Become a Study”
January 18, 2008:
Barry Saver, MD, MPH - "Time Trends and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations, 1993-1999”
February 15, 2008:
Susan Pfefferle, PhD - "Working at Intersects: Policy, Organizations and Evidence-based Services"
March 21, 2008:
Heather-Lyn Haley, PhD - "Between two worlds: A multi-institutional qualitative analysis of studetns' reflections on joining the medical profession”
April 18, 2008:
Jeffrey Phillips, MS-IV (Senior Scholars presentation) - "Clinical Health Informatics Meets Medical Eduation”
May 23, 2008:
Mary Lindholm, MD (presentation of Commonwealth Medicine mini-grant project) - "The Utilization Trends of Professional Interpretation for the Inpatient and Its Effects on Post Discharge Health Care Visits”
June 20, 2008:
Valerie Pietry, MD, MS (presentation of Commonwealth Medicine mini-grant project) - "Hispanic Low-Income Parents' Attitudes Toward Teratment of ADHD in a Community Health Center”