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COERE Perspectives in Outcomes 
Research Seminar Series*

This seminar series was developed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of outcomes research as applied by researchers who are nationally recognized experts in their field. Details regarding upcoming Perspectives Seminars are posted below and promoted in the UAB Reporter and the Synopsis.  In addition, flyers and e-mail announcements are sent out to our distribution lists in advance of each seminar. If you are not already on our distribution list and want to be notified of the seminars, please email coere@uab.edu. We hope you will join us!   

     

Upcoming Seminar(s)

DATE

SPEAKER(S)

TITLE

LOCATION

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Past Seminars

DATE

SPEAKER(S)

TITLE

LOCATION

May 30, 2007

Gary J. Young, PhD

Professor and Chair, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Associate Director, Center for Organization Leadership and Management Research, Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Click here for detailed bio

“Early Lessons and Findings from Paying for Performance in the Healthcare Industry”

 

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Bevill Biomedical Research Building, 845 19th Street, South , Lecture Room 170

December 15, 2006

Anne Sales, PhD,

Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada
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“Developing a Cost-Utility Framework for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice”

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Medical Towers Building , Room 634, 1717 11th Avenue, South

March 2, 2006

Peter E. Dans, MD,

Independent Consultant in  Geriatric Polypharmacy and Drug Safety, formerly Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy & Management and Director of the Office of Medical Practice Evaluation,  Johns Hopkins
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“From :Calcuttato Hopkins :  A Thirty Year Study of

Outcomes and Effectiveness”

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Bevill Biomedical Research Building , 845 19th Street, South , Lecture Room 170

February 2, 2006

John E. Ware, Jr., PhD

Research Professor Department of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, QualityMetric Incorporated, Lincoln, RI

“Advances in Methods for Measuring Patient Reported Health Outcomes: Implications of Item Response Theory (IRT), Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT), and the Internet”

Bevill Biomedical Research Building , 845 19th Street, South , Lecture Room 170

May 10, 2005

Nelda P. Wray, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine

“Arthroscopic Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: Considerations of Placebo Surgery”

Bevill Biomedical Research Building , 1st Floor Conference Facility, Room 170

October 14, 2004 Noon-1:00 p.m.

(Lunch Provided)

Marc L. Berger, MD, Vice President, Outcomes Research and Management, US Human Health Division, Merck & Company, Inc.

"Comparative Effectiveness - What do we know? When do we know it? Will we learn what we want to know?",

 

Bevill Biomedical Research Building , 1st Floor Conference Facility, Room 170

 

February 2, 2004
12:00-1:00

Gregg Gilbert, DDS, MBA, FAAHD Professor and Chair, Diagnostic Sciences, UAB School of Dentistry

"Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in Health along the Continuum from Population-Based Research to Practice-Based  Research: Oral Health as an Example:"

West Pavilion Board Room

January 5, 2004
12:00-1:00

William McClellan, MD, MPH, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia

"Cardiovascular Disease and Risk of Developing Chronic and End Stage Renal Disease: A Health Care Quality Issue?"

West Pavilion Board Room

June 16, 2003
12:00-1:00

Michael Saag, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UAB AIDS Outpatient Clinic

"HIV-related Health Care Utilization: Costs vs. Expenditures"

Bevill Biomedical Research Building
First Floor Auditorium

January 21, 2003
11:30-12:30

Catherine MacLean, MD, PhD

"Quality of Care in the Rheumatic Diseases";

Sponsored with the UAB Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center's Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center ; Center for Research in Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders

Bevill Biomedical Research Building 170

November 5, 2002
12:00-1:00

Ralph D'Agostino, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

"Propensity Score Methods for Bias Reduction: Health Services Research Applications"

Sponsored with the UAB Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center's Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center; Department of Biostatistics, UAB School of Public Health; Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders

Ryals Building 
Room 407

August 26, 2002
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Martin Meltzer, MS, PhD, Senior Health Economist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , , , Atlanta , GA , National Center for Infectious Diseases

"The Economics of Planning and Preparing for a Bioterrorist Event"

Sponsored with the Center for Disaster Preparedness

West Pavilion Board Room

May 9, 2002
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Maria Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine

"Ethnic Disparities in Preferences for Health"

Sponsored with the UAB Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) of Musculoskeletal Disorders, and the UAB  Arthritis and Musculoskeletal  Center

Bevill Biomedical Research Building 1st Floor Auditorium

April 4, 2002 
11:30 am-12:30 pm

Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Patient Preferences and Health Care Disparities: Respecting and Reshaping Preferences"

Sponsored with the UAB Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) of Musculoskeletal Disorders, and the UAB  Arthritis and Musculoskeletal  Center

Bevill Biomedical Research Building
1st  Floor Auditorium

March 20, 2002
9:30-10:30 am
(Please note time change

Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH, Professor and Director, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, , University of California , Davis

"Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs and the Patient-Physician Relationship"

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West Pavilion Board Room

Sponsored with the UAB Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) of Musculoskeletal Disorders, and the UAB  Arthritis and Musculoskeletal  Center

November 9, 2001 
3:00-4:30pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


Mark Roberts, MD, MPP
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Services Research, Chief, Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh


"Estimating Natural History and Survival in Stochastic Simulation Models: Applications to the Optimal Timing of Liver Transplantation"

Jointly sponsored with the Division of General Internal Medicine, UAB Department of Medicine

West Pavilion Conference Room D

July 30, 2001
12:00 noon

Brad Rodu, PhD Professor of Oral Pathology, Department of Pathology, UAB School of Medicine 

"A Novel Harm Reduction Strategy for Inveterate Cigarette Smokers"

West Pavilion
Board Room

March 8, 2001
12:00 noon

Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD, Professor of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, President and CEO , North Carolina Institute of Medicine 

"Self-Care and Self-Management of Musculoskeletal Conditions: Old Concepts in New Forms in a New Era of Multi-Dimensional Approaches to Chronic Disease Care" 

Jointly Sponsored with the Center for Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) in Musculoskeletal Diseases

West Pavilion
Board Room 

February 26, 2001
12:00 noon

Robert L Goldenberg, MD
Charles Flowers Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, , School of Medicine , University of Alabama at Birmingham

"An Evaluation of Strategies to Prevent Pre-Term Birth"

West Pavilion Board Room

October 11, 2000
12:00 noon

Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, Deputy Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department of Health and Human Services

"AHRQ Priorities, Programs, and Opportunities"  <