UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
December 25th – No Meeting
January 1st – No Meeting
January 8th – SHARP Works In Progress presented by Courtney Collins, MD
January 8th – SHARP Works In Progress presented by Clara Lee, MD
NEWS
- Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Cloyd
SHARP Core faculty member Dr. Jordan Cloyd was appointed as the next Ward Family Surgical Oncology Designated Professor.
- WE HAVE THE NASS!
This month, SHARP received a download of the 2016 NASS dataset. Sampled from the State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD), HCUP’s NASS can be used to create national estimates of major ambulatory surgery encounters performed in hospital-owned facilities. Major ambulatory surgeries are defined as selected invasive, therapeutic surgical procedures that typically require the use of an operating room and require regional anesthesia, general anesthesia, or sedation (i.e., surgeries flagged as “narrow” in the HCUP Surgery Flag Software).
Key features of the 2016 NASS include:
• Data from 2,718 hospital-owned facilities located in 33 States and the District of Columbia, approximating a 59-percent stratified sample of U.S. hospital-owned facilities performing selected ambulatory surgeries
• Data on clinical procedures and diagnoses, disposition of the patient, expected source of payment, and total charges, as well as geographic, hospital-owned facility, and patient characteristics
• A focus on encounters with at least one “in-scope” ambulatory surgery: an invasive, therapeutic procedure with relatively high procedure volume, a substantial share of procedures in the hospital outpatient setting, and reliable reporting from hospital-owned facilities
• A supplemental file that provides information on out-of-scope procedures performed during these encounters
- Save-the-Date: 2020 Health Disparities Research Institute
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) from August 3-7, 2020, in Bethesda, MD. The online application system will open in early February 2020! The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising early-career minority health and health disparities research scientists and to stimulate research in disciplines supported by health disparities science.
The program will feature:
- lectures on minority health and health disparities research
- mock grant review
- seminars and small group discussions
Institute participants will also have the opportunity to engage in sessions with NIH scientific staff involved in health disparities research across the various NIH institutes and centers.
Please note that applications will only be accepted from extramural scientists who meet NIH’s Early Stage Investigator (ESI) eligibility criteria. NIH and HHS staff, including persons doing fellowships/training at NIH or an HHS agency, are not eligible to apply.
Visit the HDRI webpage to learn more about the target audience, eligibility, selection criteria, and how to apply.
For questions or more information, email HDRI@nih.gov.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY SUCCESSES
We pull publication data from Scopus, based on our ORCID list. If you have other publications (i.e. book chapters), or invited lectures, patents, etc. please send to Scott Chaffee (scott.chaffee@osumc.edu) for inclusion on this list!
ABSTRACT DEADLINES
Send us the names of your favorite meetings! Email to Scott Chaffee (scott.chaffee@osumc.edu).
DIRECTOR’S OFFICE HOURS
Dr. Strassels’ office hours are every Wednesday from 8:00AM-11:00AM. Contact Scott Chaffee (scott.chaffee@osumc.edu) to schedule a 30 minute block of one on one time with the SHARP Scientific Director.
