UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
January 22nd – 3:30pm to 4:00pm – Works In Progress presented by Clara Park, MD
January 22nd – 4:00pm to 5:00pm – Works In Progress presented by Clara Lee, MD
January 29th – 3:30pm to 4:30pm – Works In Progress presented by Courtney Collins, MD
February 5th – No Meeting – Academic Surgical Congress
The meetings on January 22nd and 29th will be held in Doan N705
NEWS
- National Death Index Linkage- Reimbursement AnnouncementBeginning January 1, 2020, through an agreement between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, (NCHS), NIH will reimburse the NCHS National Death Index (NDI) for the costs of NIH-supported investigators to link their research databases with the NDI for the research aims supported by the NIH. For more information, see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-057.html
- Surgical Disparities Research- Funding Announcement:
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative research focused on understanding and addressing disparities in surgical care and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations. While the goal is to better understand and explore effectiveness of clinical intervention approaches for addressing surgical disparities, this initiative will also seek to identify multi-level strategies at the institutional and systems level.https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-079.html - From the NIA Director’s blog
NIA is off to another monumental start: Our FY2020 budget indicates continued congressional support for our work that is enabling unprecedented advances, including efforts to combat Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). Specifically, this year’s budget includes a 3.3 percent increase in NIA’s general appropriation plus an additional $350 million designated for AD/ADRD, bringing NIA’s total budget to $3.5 billion and the NIH-wide spending target for AD/ADRD to $2.818 billion.
- Presentation by Christopher J. Longo, PhD – Wednesday, Feb 12th, 12:00pm, at CATALYST (IBMR, 5th floor).
Dr. Longo’s presentation and visit is being co-sponsored by SHARP, HOMES, CATALYST, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Longo has over 20 years of industry experience in clinical research, economic evaluation, and market access strategies for pharmaceuticals. He has published both clinical and economic research in a number of therapeutic areas including diabetes, cancer, sepsis, and central nervous system disorders.
Dr. Longo’s research interests include the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, the public/private mix in the financing of healthcare, and the evaluation of factors influencing patients’ financial burden for health care services, particularly in the area of cancer.
Christopher J. Longo, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
McMaster University
https://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/profiles/christopher-j-longo/
- Save-The-Dates: 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.
- 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
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.
