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Outcomes Research Discussion Groups Upcoming Topics
PLEASE NOTE: COERE Discussion Groups have moved to a new standing date and time. Beginning in November, unless otherwise announced, we will meet every second Wednesday of the month from 12 noon - 1:15 p.m. (lunch provided) in Medical Towers, R 634 (Oberman Conference Room).
Discussion Group		Presenter(s)	Topic(s)
December 7, 2007		*Special Discussion Group to be held, Friday, December 7^th from 12 noon – 1:15 pm in MT634 – Presenters:* John R. Rinker II, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Khurram Bashir, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology	“What are the important factors determining disability outcomes among African-Americans with multiple sclerosis?”
Previous Topics (2005-2007)
Discussion Group		Presenter(s)	Topic(s)
October 4, 2007		*Special Discussion Group to be held, Thursday, October 4^th from 12 noon – 1:15 pm in MT634- Presenters:* Mona N. Fouad, MD, MPH Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, Director, Minority Health and Research Center (MHRC) and Jeannette Y. Lee, PhD Professor, Division of Hematology & Oncology	“Using Cancer Care Outcomes and Research Surveillance (CanCORS) Consortium data to identify factors of variability in treatment in newly diagnosed colon and lung cancer patients”
September 21, 2007		Cancelled
August 17, 2007		Cancelled
July 20, 2007		Cancelled
June 8, 2007		Cancelled
May 11, 2007		Cancelled
April 13, 2007		Cancelled
March 9, 2007		Susan L. Davies, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Tina Y. Simpson, MD, Assistant Professor, Ped-Adolescent Medicine	“Expanding the Role of the Pediatrician in Adolescent Sexual Risk Reduction”?
February 9, 2007		Nathaniel S. Winstead, MD, MS NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow UAB Health Services and Outcomes Research Training Program (T32)	“Cost-Effectiveness of Erythromycin Prior to EGD for Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage”
January 26, 2007		Michael S. Saag, MD Professor of Medicine Director, UAB Center for AIDS Research	“CNICS: What is it and how does it work?”
December 8, 2006		Michael J. Mugavero, MD, MHS Assistant Professor Division of Infectious Diseases	“Preliminary Data Regarding Access to Outpatient HIV Care”
November 10, 2006		Wendy Marsh-Tootle, OD, MS Director Pediatrics Services Department of Optometry	“Translating knowledge about amblyopia and preschool vision screening to primary pediatric settings”
October 13, 2006		Jeffrey Curtis, MD, MPH Assistant Professor Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology	“Adherence with Osteoporosis Medications and Associated Fracture Risk”
September 8, 2006		Todd B. Brown, MD, MSPH Assistant Professor Department of Emergency Medicine	“Assessment of Risk Tolerance for Missed Cardiac Ischemia in Emergency Departments”
August 11, 2006		Meredith L. Kilgore, PhD Assistant Professor Health Care Organization & Policy	“Automated Nosocomial Infection Surveillance, Risk Adjustment and Cost of Infections”
July 14, 2006		Andrei Barasch, DMD, MDSc Associate Professor, Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry	“Risk of Post-Surgical Complications in (Diabetic?, Dental-All?) Patients”
June 9, 2006		Hector H. Gutierrez, MD Associate Professor, Pediatrics Director, UAB Cystic Fibrosis Center	“The Bell Curve in Cystic Fibrosis Care: The UAB CF Center Experience in Improving Outcomes”
May 12, 2006		Erik Angner, PhD Assistant Professor Departments of Philosophy and Economics	“Subjective Measures of Wellbeing: Philosophical Perspectives”
April 14, 2006		Frank A. Franklin, MD, PhD Professor Pediatrics Department Ped-Gastroenterology	“Head Start and Home Intervention to Decrease Rate of Change in Child BMI – A Head Start to FINE (Family Interactions over Nutrition and Education) Dining Themes: Friends (Head Start and community), Family and Foods “ 5-Year New Grant Application due June 1, 2006
March 10, 2006		Penelope M. Jester, BSN, MPH, CCRC CASG Project Manager Pediatric-Infectious Disease	“Regulatory Challenges: Lessons From Recent West Nile Virus Trials in the United States”
February 10, 2006		Jewell H. Halanych, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine	“Perceived Discrimination in Health Care Proposal to the RWJF Minority Faculty Development Program”
January 13, 2006		Katri Palonen, MD, MSPH Assistant Professor General Internal Medicine	Calcium and Vitamin D Intake among College Women
December 9, 2005		Cancelled
November 11, 2005		Cancelled
October 14, 2005		Angelo de Mattos, MD, MPH Associate Professor Medicine - Nephrology	Ischemic versus Uremic Cardiomyopathy: Outcomes on Dialysis and Renal Transplantation. Preliminary Results of a Single-Center Study.
September 9, 2005		Cancelled
August 12, 2005		Cancelled
July 8, 2005		Brendan M. McGuire, MD Associate Professor Medicine-Gastroenterology	●Prevalence and Outcomes of Glomerulonephritis in Patients with Hepatitis C
June 10, 2005		Cancelled
May 13, 2005		Cancelled
April 8, 2005		Jeffrey Curtis, MD, MPH Fellow in Rheumatology Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology	●Ethnic Differences in Osteoporosis Outcomes and Associated Vascular Disease
March 11, 2005 **In lieu of the regular Discussion Group the COERE is co-hosting a special VA Health Services Research & Development cyber seminar with the BVAMC Deep South Center on Effectiveness (DSCE) from the 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm (CST).		Rod Hayward, MD, the recipient of the 2005 Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research	●Quasi-Experimental Design For Studying Quality Improvement Interventions: Strengths and Pitfalls
February 11, 2005		CANCELLED
January 14, 2005		Daniel C. Dahl, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry	The Effect of an Educational Intervention on the Clinical Monitoring Practices of Psychiatrists that Prescribe Antipsychotic Drugs for Schizonphrenia
Previous Topic (1999-2004)
Discussion Group	Presenter(s)		Topic(s)
February 5, 1999	Patricia Goode, MD, Assistant Professor, Gerontology/Geriatric Medicine; Holly Richter, PhD, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Ob/Gyn Kevin Smith, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Brian Jones, MD, Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Radiology		Continence Center’s clinical data set and ideas for continence related outcomes research proposal Investigating DVT Ultrasound and Treatment/Diagnosis Protocol for DVTs.
March 5, 1999	Myriam Peralta-Carcelen, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics		Indicators of access to care for children and variation across health plans using ELBW children as markers
April 2, 1999	Linda Casebeer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Continuing Medical Education		Proposal to AHCPR to: Translating HIV Research into Practice
June 4, 1999	Robert Stanford, PhD, Professor of Economics (School of Business) Richard Sims, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology/Geriatric Medicine		Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Benchmark Medical Treatment Processes. Mobility Dysfunction in Older Veterans (Supported in part by a VA Advanced Research Career Development Award.)
August 13, 1999	Michael Bowers, PhD, Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Department of Management, Marketing, and Industrial Distribution (School of Business) Monica Kurylo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rehabilitation Psychology		Meta-Analysis of Patient Perceptions of Quality in Health Care. Evaluation and application of a community-based intervention aimed at training family care-givers of individuals with congestive heart failure in problem-solving skills.
Sept 10, 1999	Gary Abrams, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology		Screening Pulmonary Function Tests and Arterial Blood Gas Measurements: Are They Necessary and Do they Predict Poor Outcome?
October 8, 1999	Norman Weissman, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Health Services Administration, COERE Director; Catarina Kiefe, PhD, MD, Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics, COERE Director		Effectiveness Research Aimed at Measuring the Impact of Trial Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials.
November 12, 1999	Trudi Horton, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow, Health Outcomes Assessment, Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE)		Decision-Making for Clinical Trial Participation in Adolescents with Cancer.
December 10, 1999	Stephen Moser, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of Informatics Section, Department of Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Division; Eta Berner EdD, Professor, Health Informatics Program, Department of Health Services Administration		Knowledge Discovery (aka Data Mining) Applied to Infection Control Epidemiology.
January 14, 2000	Lynn Gerald, PhD, MSPH, UAB Lung Health Center; Bonnie Sanderson, RN, Cardiopulmonary Rehab., Cardiology Services		Understanding Patient, Physician, and Systems-Level Barriers to Use of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services among COPD patients eligible for referral.
February 11, 2000	Jason Owen, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology (School of Social and Behavioral Sciences)		Internet Support and Information for Women with Breast Cancer
March 10, 2000	Canceled
April 14, 2000	Joshua Klapow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology (SSBS) and Health Care Organization and Policy (SOPH), Director, COERE Health Outcomes Assessment Unit		The Role of Feasibility Studies in Health Services Research "Written Disclosure: Feasibility of an Intervention in Older Primary Care Patients." A feasibility trial funded through a 5-year career development award from the NIH/NIA.
May 12, 2000	Khurram Bashir, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Center		A Study of Clinical and Laboratory Features of Multiple Sclerosis in African American Population Using a MS Database
June 9, 2000	Cancelled
July 14, 2000	Cancelled
August 11, 2000	Denyse Thornley-Brown, M.D., Assistant Professor, Nephrology		End Stage Renal Disease in Patients with Sickle Cell
September 8, 2000	Beverly Mulvihill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health		Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation System for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in Alabama
October 13, 2000	Ali Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine		Improving Heart Failure Quality of Care Through Patient Education
November 10, 2000	Mona Fouad, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine and Director, Recruitment and Retention Shared Facility		NCI RFA - Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS)
December 8, 2000	Dorcas Mansell, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine		Alcohol and the Mature Woman
January 12, 2001	John Putzke, Ph.D., Rehabilitative Medicine, Spain Rehabilitation Center		Race: Proxy versus Predictor Variable?
February 9, 2001	Marjorie Jeffcoat, D.M.D., Rosen Professor of Dentistry, Chair Department of Periodontology		Oral Infection and Periodontal Disease
March 9, 2001	Ashley Vernon, MD, Fellow and Carroll Harmon, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery		Benefits of Laporascopic Surgery for Children
April 13, 2001	William Hillegass, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Disease		Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Predicting The Outcome and Cost
May 11, 2001	Ananda Dasanayake, BDS, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry		Maternal Peridontal Health and Low Birthweight
June 8, 2001	Richard Sims, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology/Geriatric Medicine		Improving the Mobility of Older Veterans: A Clinical Trial
August 10, 2001	Sharina Person, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine		The Relationship Between Nurse Staffing Levels and Mortality for Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
September 14, 2001	Miguel Arguedas, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology		Health-related Quality of Life and Health-state Utilities in Chronic Liver Disease
October 12, 2001	Gregg Gilbert, D.D.S., Professor of Dentistry, Chair of Diagnostic Sciences		Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Oral Health and Dental care Use
November 9, 2001	Britt Newsome, MD, 2nd Year Resident, Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine		Cholesterol assessment and treatment in patients with unstable angina
December 14, 2001	Laura Vogtle, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy		An Agenda for the Study of Long Term Outcomes in Development Disabilities
January 11, 2002	Brendan M. McGuire, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology		Driving Habits and Crash Risk Cirrhotic Patients
February 1, 2002	Michael Saag, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases		Outcomes Research: The Future of HIV Research (focus on UAB 1917 Clinic)
March 8, 2002 Medical Towers 634	Vivian Ho, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health, Health Care Organization and Policy		A Proposal to Study Volume, Outcomes, and Costs of Cancer Surgery
April 12, 2002 MT 634	Lynda Law Harrison, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, UAB School of Nursing		Effects of a massage intervention on preterm infants: Pilot study results and ideas for R01 proposal development
May 10, 2002 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.	Douglas Heimburger, MD, Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Division, School of Health Related Professions		Incentivized insurer-based reimbursement improves weight control outcomes
June 14, 2002	Richard Shewchuk, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Related Professions		Guidelines and strategies for using the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) for research
July 12, 2002	Maria Pisu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Related Professions		Economic burden of cancer on patients and their families
August 9, 2002	Mary Hawn, MD, Assistant Professor, Surgery, UAB School of Medicine		Variability in mesh repair of abdominal wall hernias
September 20, 2002	Joseph E. Schumacher, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine		Getting evidence into practice in Ukraine: drug addiction treatment for opiate IDU's
October 11, 2002	Cancelled
November 12, 2002 1:15-2:30	David Volgas, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Orthopaedic		The socioeconomic fate of patients who have sustained orthopaedic trauma
December 13, 2002 2:30-4:00	Stefan Kertesz, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, UAB School of Medicine		Does a post-hospitalization stay in a Medical Respite Unit avert hospital readmission among homeless patients?
January 10, 2003 1:15-2:30	Jim Gore, M.D., Chief Resident, Baptist Medical Centers-Montclair/Princeton Residency Programs		Observational study to compare prescribing patterns of Enoxaparin and subcutaneous Heparin for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis in hospitalized internal medicine patients
February 14, 2003 1:15-2:30	Cancelled
March 14, 2003 MT 634 *Please Note New Time*	Amos Bailey, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatic Medicine		Palliative Care
April 11, 2003 MT 634 1:15-2:30	Michelle Martin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, UAB School of Medicine		Active for Life! Exercise Identity and Physical Activity in African American Women at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
May 9, 2003 MT 634 1:15-2:30	Sakoora Omonuwa, MD, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine		Barriers to Prenatal Care among African American Women of Low Socioeconomic Status - A Focus Group Study
June 13, 2003 MT 634 1:15-2:30	Stefan Kertesz, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine		Chronic homelessness, addiction and health related quality of life
July 11, 2003	Canceled
August 8, 2003	Britt Newsome, MD, MPH, COERE NRSA Trainee		Predictors of Mortality and End Stage Renal Disease in Post-MI Patients
September 12, 2003	Canceled
October 10, 2003 MT 634 1:15-2:30	Michelle Shipp, MD, DrPH, Division of Preventive Medicine		“A population -based study of colon cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis in Alabama (1996-1999)”
November 14, 2003	John Bian, PhD, Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine		Changing patterns of surgical care: inpatient vs. ambulatory surgery
December 19, 2003 MT 111	John Beard, ALACARE		Information Technology in Home Health Care that could Assist in Data Collection for Research and Patient Care
January 9, 2004	Mark Waldrum, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care		The Healthcare and Research Continuum: Role of Information Management
February 13, 2004	Cancelled		Cancelled
March 12, 2004	Cheryl Holt, PhD, Assistant Professor, UAB Division of Preventive Medicine		Religion and cancer related behaviors among African American women
April 9, 2004	Mary Hawn, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery		Effect of Obesity on Resource Utilization for General Surgical Procedures
May 21, 2004	Monika M. Safford, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine		Why are blood pressure, lipid and glycemic control levels still so high among veterans with diabetes?