Category: Community Engagement

Value Institute Spring Symposium 2016 – Bridging the Gap: Connecting Data to Decisions

In a transformative era when reimbursement models are rewarding quality improvements in medicine, Christiana Care is well-positioned to bring evaluative science to clinical practice because of the research of the Value Institute. “If we are going to be successful in achieving optimal health for our patients and exceptional patient experience, as well as maintaining organizational […]

Value Institute Spring Symposium 2015 – “Eliminating Health Care Disparities”

Giselle Corbie-Smith, M.D., MSc and Lisa Cooper, M.D., MPH discuss the critical topic of eliminating health care disparities. Dr. Lisa Cooper is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Nursing, and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also Vice President, Healthcare Equity, for Johns Hopkins Medicine. A […]

Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “The Future of Hospice and Palliative Care”

David Casarett, MD, MA, serves as the chief of Palliative Care Services for Duke University Health System, and chief of the Section of Palliative Care within Division of General Internal Medicine. Formerly, he was professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he was also a faculty member of the […]

Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Ensuring Value for Patients in a Cost-Conscious World”

Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, FRACP, FACP, an internist and nephrologist from Burlington, Vermont, served as the President of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization, from 2011-2012. Dr. Hood has been a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) since 1991. FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes […]

Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Value: Medicine’s New Frontier”

Senator Chris Coons has worked hard to find bipartisan solutions to the issues facing Delaware and the nation. He has emerged as a strong voice for job creation and the innovation economy, fighting in Congress for deficit reduction, progressive social justice, and forward-looking foreign policy. Unwilling to be sidelined by partisan gridlock, Chris has worked […]

Fear, Vulnerability, and Sacrifice as Factors in ED Use: Ethnographic Research Methods and their Insights

Ethnographic research and social analyses in healthcare settings have long been valued, however their use is not widespread. Qualitative research about patient-centered care makes patients the experts, and providers, policy makers and administrators the students. In this presentation, I discuss a 2015 case study of a 51-year-old low-income Philadelphia man who had two ED visits […]

Field Trials in Developing Countries: Lessons from the PURE Study

The PURE study assesses environmental, societal, and biological influences on obesity and chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. This presentation will describe the setup and execution of this large and complex study; key findings to date; and the possibilities and pitfalls of field-based data collection in developing countries. Dr. Rahman is […]

Differences in Patient and Physician Perceptions of Care for Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

This talk will focus on data collected from the Landmark Survey, a large survey of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs, namely essential thrombocytosis, primary myelofibrosis, and polycythemia vera) and the providers who take care of patients with MPNs. The Landmark Survey focused on quality of life issues surrounding the diagnosis of MPNs and differences in […]

Privacy-Protecting Technologies for Collaborative Research

The rapid increase in digitized information related to human health has raised the possibility of performing more complex statistical analyses by pooling data from several different sources or institutions. This presentation will discuss modern approaches for sharing access to private data to give clinicians and researchers an overview of how these technologies work, what the […]

Delaware Medical Legal Partnership: Attorneys Collaborating with Clinical Teams to Address Social Determinants of Health

Patients challenged with social determinants of health are more likely to incur higher health care costs due to their inability to adhere to prescribed medical recommendations and their inefficient use of health care resources. Some of these challenges can be resolved with legal intervention. The Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) model has demonstrated positive impact on improving […]