Cameron Glenn, an HMP first-year master's student, has been selected as a delegate to the 2013 Millennial Health Leaders Summit. He is one of four U-M School of Public Health students chosen for this honor by the CDC/King Center Millennial Health Leaders Summit Planning Committee.
Dr. Wayne Lerner (MHA '73, DrPH '88) was presented the 2013 Gold Medal Award at the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress in Chicago on March 11, 2013.
The Gold Medal Award is ACHE’s highest honor bestowed on outstanding leaders. The purpose of this award is to identify Fellows of the American College of Healthcare Executives who best exemplify leadership at the organizational, local, state/provincial and national levels. The Gold Medal Award recognizes individuals who go beyond the confines of their own organization to continually contribute to the improvement of healthcare services and community health.
Lerner has served ACHE in many capacities, including on the Council of Regents from 2000 to 2004. A member of ACHE since 1974, Lerner co-founded the Young Administrators of Chicago in 1976, which ultimately became the Chicago Health Executives Forum and was made an independent ACHE chapter in 2004.
Assistant Professor Diana Bowman and Research Assistant Professor Holly Jarman have received Development Fund Grants from the U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). These grants are awarded to individual faculty members or small groups of faculty proposing innovative revisions to courses, innovative course development, or initiating smaller innovative projects to improve student learning at the U-M.
Assistant Professor Diana Bowman is recipient of the AUPHA 2013 John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators. The Prize recognizes young investigators based on their contributions to the research literature in the field of health services.
Research Assistant Professor Angela Beck and Assistant Professor Simone Singh have received Junior Investigator Awards from the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR). They are among nine promising young investigators recently awarded grants to conduct research that will provide public health practitioners with valuable information. The evidence will, in particular, help guide financial and workforce decisions critical to the future of the public health system in the wake of the Affordable Care Act.
Beck will investigate how size and composition of Michigan's state and local public health workforce varies over time, and how it compares to workforce composition in states with similar characteristics. Singh will investigate characteristics of public health delivery systems that influence the productivity and efficiency with which public health strategies are delivered at the local level.
An interview with Kyle L. Grazier, Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Services Management and Policy and chair, Department of Health Management and Policy, was featured in the March/April issue of Journal of Healthcare Management (Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 80-83.)
Recently published U-M Health Management and Policy faculty research:
Assistant Professor David W. Hutton along with co-authors P.M. Stranges and C.D. Collins, conclude that fidaxomicin may be a more cost-effective option for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) when compared with oral vancomycin under most scenarios tested. Value Health, “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Evaluating Fidaxomicin versus Oral Vancomycin for the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States,” 2013 Mar-Apr (epublished January 29, 2013).
In additional research, Hutton and co-authors Rola Kaakeh, Kylee Funk, Justin Gatwood, Bernadette Chan, and Maha Salah-ud-Din conclude that use of generic samples should be extended and further evaluated to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. The American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits, "Cost-effectiveness of 3 Statin Sample Policies in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients,” March/April 2013 Web Exclusive (April 9th).
To foster understanding of how organizational transformation occurs and to stimulate further research, Associate Professor Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee and co-authors Bryan J. Weiner, Michael I. Harrison, and Mike Belden report findings from a systematic review of empirical research on transformational change in the health care and non-health care literature, with a focus on the antecedents, processes (or paths), and outcomes of transformational change. Medical Care Research and Review, “Organizational transformation: A systematic review of empirical research in health care and other industries,“ 2013; 70 (2): 115-142.
Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee, along with co-researchers Sarah A. Birken, Bryan J. Weiner, Marshall H. Chin, and Cynthia T. Schaefer, used self-administered surveys and interviews of middle managers in health centers that implemented an innovation to reduce health disparities to address the questions: Does middle managers’ commitment to health care innovation implementation influence implementation effectiveness? If so, in what ways does their commitment influence implementation effectiveness? The researchers found that although quantitative survey data analysis results suggest a weak relationship, qualitative interview data analysis results indicate that middle managers’ commitment influences implementation effectiveness when middle managers are proactive. Scholars should account for middle managers’ influence in implementation research, and health care executives may promote implementation effectiveness by hiring proactive middle managers and creating climates in which proactivity is rewarded, supported, and expected. Medical Care Research and Review, “Improving the effectiveness of health care innovation implementation: Middle managers as change agents,” 2013; 70 (1): 29-45.
Professor Brant E. Fries, and co-authors John P Hirdes, Jeff W. Poss, Hilary Caldarelli, John N. Morris, Gary F. Teare, Kristen Reidel, and Norma Jutan, evaluate data quality for the Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS) using an approach that may be generalizable to comparable data holdings internationally. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, “An Evaluation of Data Quality in Canada's Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS): Secondary Analyses of Ontario Data,” 13:27, 2013. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-13-27.
Brant E. Fries and co-authors T. Wharton, L. Mody, and R. Hogikyan note that: Comprehensive health care for older adults is complex, involving multiple comorbidities and functional impairments of varying degrees and numbers. In response to this complexity and associated barriers to care, home-based care models have become prevalent. The home-based primary care (HBPC) model, based at a Michigan Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Michigan Waiver Program (MWP) that includes home-based care are two of these. Although both models are formatted to address barriers to effective and efficient health care, there are differences in disease prevalence and functional performance between groups. The objective of this study was to explore the differences between the two groups, to shed some light on potential trends that could suggest areas for resource allocation by service providers. J. Am. Medical Directors Assoc , “Assessing Health Status Differences between VA Home-Based Primary Care and State Medicaid Waiver Program clients,” 14(4):260-4 (Apr) 2013. doi: 10.1016.