Research Initiatives

Presentations

The academic research findings of the department's faculty are often accepted for presentation at local, state and national meetings. In addition, many of our faculty are often invited to present their educational and clinical research findings - both nationally and internationally. Listed below (alphabetically by faculty name, though many presentations included faculty from other departments/institutions) are some of the more recent presentations made by departmental faculty:

Ron Adler:
"Creation and Implementation of a Diabetes Collaborative to Promote Quality Improvement in the Management of Patients with Diabetes in Six Primary Care Practices” (Third Annual Commonwealth Medicine Academic Conference)
"Immunization Update: Quality Improvement in the Office Setting” (Massachusetts Academy of Family Practice annual meeting)
"Vaccine Safety” (Massachusetts Immunization Action Partnership Skills Building Conference) 

Nicholas Apostoleris:
"The Primary Care Shortage: Symptom of Societal Problems” (National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice)

Carolyn Augart:
"Update on Migraine Headaches” (Massachusetts Academy of Family Practice annual meeting)

Bob Baldor, Mark Quirk and Frank Domino:
"Evolving the Teacher/Preceptor Role to Have a Positive Influence on Family Medicine Career Choice” (Annual STFM Predoctoral Education Conference)

Jeff Baxter:
"The Impact of Buprenorphine on Medicaid-funded Treatment for Opioid Addiction” (Third Annual Commonwealth Medicine Academic Conference)

Jeff Baxter and Heather-Lyn Haley:
"Buprenorphine Treatment in an Inner-City Community Health Center: Patient Charcteristics and Correlates of Treatment Discontinuation” (poster presentation at the Third Annual Commonwealth Medicine Academic Conference)

Jeff Baxter, Robin Clark and Mihail Samnaliev:
"The Quality of Asthma Care in Adult Medicaid Patients with Subtance Related Disorders” (Addiction Health Services Research Conference)
"The Quality of Asthma Care in Patients with Mental Illness and Substance Related Disorders” (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program Annual Grantee Meeting)

Joseph Bernard:
"Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in a Collegiate Swimmer” (American College of Sports Medicine annual conference)
“Determining Appropriate Weight for Competition in Wrestlers” (UMass/UConn Sports Medicine Fellowship Conference)
“Shoulder Instability” (New England American College of Sports Medicine conference)

Alexander Blount:
"Including the Family in Integrated Primary Care for the Medical Home” (STFM Annual Spring Conference)
"Continuing the Discussion of Advocacy for Collaborative Care” (Collaborative Family Healthcare Association annual meeting)
"The Future of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association” (Collaborative Family Healthcare Association annual meeting)
"Integrated Primary Care: From Interesting Add-on to Medical Home Care Service” (Forum on Behavioral Science in Family Medicine)
"Designing and Implementing Practices that Deliver Person-Centered / Cost Effective Health Care: An Update from the 90:90 Working Group” (Northeast Regional STFM conference)

Alexander Blount, Frank Domino, Ben Miller, Dan Mullin and Carlos Cappas:
"Five Minutes to Change: Practical Counselng Skills for the Primary Care Provider” (STFM Annual Spring Conference)

Lucy Candib and Catherine McKegny:
"Survivors in the Medical Home: Exploring How Personal Abuse Histories Affect Clinicians, Teachers and Learners” (STFM Annual Spring Conference)

Lucy Candib, Judy Savageau and Linda Weinreb:
"The Relationship of Childhood Violence Exposure and Child Abuse Screening Practices for Adult Primary Care Patients: A Survey of Massachusetts Family Physicians” (North American Primary Care Research Group annual meeting)

Lucy Candib, Matthew Silva, Suzanne Cashman et al.:
"Using Complexity Science and Syndemics to Consider Two Contemporary Epidemic Phenomena: Diabetes and Cesarean Sections” (STFM Annual Spring Conference)

Robin Clark et al:
“Medical Expenditures for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders” (Addiction Health Services Research Conference)
“The Impact of Substance Abuse on Medicaid Spending for Chronic Illness” (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program Annual Grantee Meeting)

Robin Clark and Mihail Samnaliev:
"Substitution in Medicaid Spending for Behavioral Health and Medical Care: An Analysis of Six States” (Third Annual Commonwealth Medicine Academic Conference)

Christine Clements, Ayesha Commearts, Patricia Gallagher, Lee Hargraves and Ann Lawthers:
"Impact of the MassHealth Tobacco Cessation Benefit” (Third Annual Commonwealth Medicine Academic Conference)

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