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This past week, many of our research faculty traveled to Colorado Springs to speak at the North American Primary Care Research Group annual conference. Those in attendance shared their primary care research in workshop, oral presentations, and poster sessions, which highlight the diversity of research specialties in the U-M Department of Family Medicine.
What they shared:
- Michael S. Klinkman, MD, MS, professor, led a preconference workshop on health information technology and attribution of primary care physician and other health care providers. Dr. Klinkman also led a session on bridging the gaps between community and enterprise health information infrastructure.
- Alicia Cohen, MD, clinical lecturer, presented on her latest research on the intersections of primary care and food security. She also gave a second presentation on social determinants of health.
- Michael M. McKee, MD, MPH, assistant professor, shared initial findings from the Early Auditory Referral-Primary Care (EAR-PC) project, an active R21/R33 project that looks at how innovative media and electronic records-enabled alerts can increase early detection of hearing loss in primary care settings. [See more on Clinical Informatics & Technology research]
- Masahito Jimbo, MD, PHD, MPH, professor, presented finding from the Decision Aid to Technologically Enhance Shared Decision Making (DATES) Study, showcasing the interactive ColoDATES Web system, designed to inform and empower patients as they decide on colon cancer screening options and to improve communication between patients and their primary care physician. [See more on Cancer & Prevention Screening research]
- Caroline R. Richardson, MD, the Dr. Max and Buena Lichter Research professor and associate chair for research programs, shared a system efficiency analysis aimed to reduce pharmaceutical expenditures through therapeutic substitution.
- Tammy Chang, MD, MPH, MS, assistant professor, reflected on a recent project that analyzed online crowdsourced health information and information-seeking behavior to suggest new ways to to conduct primary care research methodology.
- Kimberly McKee, PhD, MPH, postdoctoral fellow, presented on predictors of postpartum BMI change among young women. {See more on research on Women's Health]
The University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine was a leading presence at the conference of over 1,000 primary care researchers, fellows, residents and students. Catch up with all the happenings of the NAPCRG conference through this retrospective Twitter story.
