Center for Clinical Management ResearchQuarterly Accomplishments Newsletter

Accomplishments and Impacts July-September 2017

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Awards and HonorsIn the News

GrantsFeatured Publications

Awards and Honors

Additional Awards and Honors

Donovan Maust joined the IHPI Early Career Faculty Advisory Council as their new chair-elect.

Brahmajee Nallamothu has been chosen as a recipient of the Best Abstract Award(Cardiac) in the upcoming national Resuscitation Science Symposium for his abstracttitled, "How do resuscitation teams at top-performing hospitals for in-hospital cardiac arrestdiffer? A qualitative study". The Symposium recognizes the four best abstracts in cardiacand trauma resuscitation each year.

Akbar Waljee's DoD study, "Defining hepatocellular carcinoma subtypes and treatmentresponses in patient derived tumorgrafts" has been highlighted on the CongressionallyDirected Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) website.

In the News

Additional News Items

Vineet Chopra. July 3, 2017. How to pick the right PICC for a patient? There's an app forthat.

Vineet Chopra. July 20, 2017. Assessing appropriate use of vascular access devices.

Gill Livingston, Andrew Sommerlad, Vasiliki Orgeta, Sergi Costafreda, Jonathan Huntley,David Ames, Clive Ballard, Sube Banerjee, Alistair Burns, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, ClaudiaCooper, Nick Fox, Laura Gitlin, Robert Howard, Helen Kales, Eric Larson, Karen Ritchie,Kenneth Rockwood, Elizabeth Sampson, Quincy Samus, Lon Schneider, Geir Selbæck,Linda Teri, Naaheed Mukadam. July 20, 2017. 4 takeaways from 'The Lancet' report onAlzheimer's disease burden. Later cited in M Health Lab and 290 other outlets.

Pooja Lagisetty, Amy Bohnert. July 20, 2017. Prescription tracking tackles misuse ofopioids and other drugs - but results vary. Later cited in 6 other outlets.

Vineet Chopra, Sanjay Saint. July 21, 2017. Islands of mindfulness: pausing for a momentwhile washing hands can help physicians restore balance.

Brahmajee Nallamothu. July 21, 2017. Improving care through innovative diagnosticsystems.

Sarah Hawley, Kent Griffith, Ann Hamilton, Kevin Ward, Monica Morrow, Nancy Janz,Steven Katz, Reshma Jagsi. August 15, 2017. How decision-making habits influence thebreast cancer treatments women consider. Later cited in M Health Lab and 12 other outlets.

Akbar Waljee. August 15, 2017. On the horizon: precision disease management for Crohn'sdisease.

Matthew Maciejewski, Xiaojuan Mi, Jeremy Sussman, Melissa Greiner, Lesley Curtis, JudyNg, Samuel Haffer, Eve Kerr. September 15, 2017. Time to dial back on diabetes treatmentin some older patients?. Later cited in M Health Lab and 9 other outlets.

Recently Initiated VA HSR&D Grants

Featured Publications

CCMR PublicationsSee the complete list of publications from July to September 2017.

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