CHSOR Seminar
CHSOR Seminar is a weekly opportunity to join a scholarly forum on ongoing projects that features interdisciplinary discourse.
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Do you want to be a Seminar speaker? Contact Jodi Segal or Jill Marsteller.
The upcoming seminars are announced in our calendar.
Introduction to Colorado All Payer Claims Database (DO APCD) and How We Work with Data Requestors
David Dale, MHA, Health Data Solutions Consultant
Center for Improving Value in Healthcare
September 1, 2020
COVID Data Sources
Hadi Kharrazi, MD, PhD, MHI, Associate Professor & Co-Director
Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT)
April 28, 2020
AHRQ’s Compendium of U.S. Health Systems: Early findings and emerging opportunities
Eugene Rich, MD – Senior Fellow, Mathematica
March 10, 2020
EPC Journal Club: Data Visualization Tools
Taxiarchis Botsis, PhD, MSc, MPS – Assistant Professor of Oncology & Health Sciences Informatics, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
February 18, 2020
Making an Impact with Social Media
Elliott R. Haut, MD, PhD (@elliotthaut) – Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, & Service Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine
February 11, 2020
Digital Health Transformation
Anselmo Chung, MBA – Manager, Federal Healthcare Practice, Ernst & Young
January 28, 2020
EPC Journal Club: New PubMed Interface
Claire Twose, MLIS – Associate Director, Research Services, Welch Medical Library
January 21, 2020
Organizational Influences in Healthcare Delivery at the National Cancer Institute
Erica Breslau, PhD, MPH – Program Director, Health Systems and Interventions Research Branch, National Cancer Institute (NCI) &
Sallie Weaver, PhD, MHS – Program Director, Health Systems and Interventions Research Branch, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
January 14, 2020
Using a Longitudinal Patient History Sourced From Claims Data To Analyze and Predict Potentially Avoidable Utilization, Costs, and Adverse Outcomes
Stephen Bandeian, MD, JD – Chief Analytics Officer, Blue Health Intelligence
December 3, 2019
EPC Journal Club: The Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool: What’s New?
Renee F. Wilson, MS – Research Associate, JHU Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC)
November 11, 2019
Research Using Military Health System Data
Veronika Pav, MS – Senior Analyst, Kennell and Associates
November 5, 2019
Data Visualization Tools
Jeffrey Day, MD, MA – Instructor, Medical and Biological Illustration, Art Graduate program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
October 15, 2019
Healthcare Solutions role in the Johns Hopkins Innovation Ecosystem
Kumar Subramaniam, DBA – Executive Director, Population Health Analytics, Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions
October 8, 2019
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare! Reflections on the Impact of Behavioral Economics on Health Care and Health Policy?
Douglas E. Hough, PhD – Associate Scientist, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
September 24, 2019
A look downunder: How Australia reviewed its entire Medicare fee-for-service schedule focusing on quality and value
Adam Elshaug, PhD, MPH – Professor of Health Policy and Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The University of Sydney & Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution
September 17, 2019
Update on Patient Engagement in Healthcare System-level Decision-making: Commentaries from Scholars and Patients’ Perspectives
Vadim Dukhanin, MD, MHS – Research Associate, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
June 25, 2019
Introduction and Review of RedCAP
Daniel (Danny) Scerpella, BA – REDCap Specialist & Senior Research Coordinator, Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care
June 18, 2019
Chronic GERD: Opportunities for Collaborative Shared Decision-Making and Health Services Research
Mimi Canto, MD – Professor and Director of Clinical Research, Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
June 11, 2019
Integrating Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health into Population Health Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges
Elham Hatef, MD, MPH – Assistant Scientist, Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT)
May 28, 2019
Systematic Review Data Repository Plus (SRDR Plus): What is it and What’s New?
Ian Saldanha, PhD, MBBS, MPH – Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice & Epidemiology, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University
April 30, 2019
360 Degree Automated Characterization of the Built Environment for Neighborhood Effects Research
Quynh Nguyen, PhD – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park
April 23, 2019
Pushing the Envelope on Transitions of Care
Marjanna Barber-Dubois, BA – Quality and Patient Safety Specialist, Rutland Regional Medical Center, Rutland, Vermont
April 16, 2019
Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Tool for prevention of Surgical Site Infections after Joint Replacement Surgery
Rajan ("Raj") Nair, MD, FACS – General Surgeon, Salem Clinic, PC & Founding Medical Director and Bariatric Surgeon, Salem Health Bariatric Surgery Center
April 16, 2019
Biased Language in Patient Medical Records: Detection through Natural Language Processing and Impact on Quality
Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH – Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
April 2, 2019
EPC Journal Club: Realist Review: What is it? How is it different than a systematic review?
Renee F. Wilson, MS – Research Associate, JHU Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC)
March 26, 2019
Choosing Surgery: Shared Decision Making within the High Value Healthcare Collaborative
Vanessa Hurley, PhD, MPH – Assistant Professor, Health Systems Administration, Georgetown University
March 19, 2019
What is patient safety in the medical home?
Christina Yuan, PhD, MPH – Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
March 5, 2019
Population Health Research with Big Data: Updates and Opportunities for Collaboration
Jonathan Weiner, DrPH – Professor & Director
and
Hadi Kharrazi, MD, PhD, MHI, Assistant Professor & Research Director
Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT)
February 2, 2019
EPC Journal Club: A statin a day keeps the doctor away: comparative proverb assessment modelling study
Kristen McArthur – Research Assistant, JHU Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC)
December 18, 2018
Sharing access to Health records, Agenda-setting, RespectING CHOICES to engage families
Sydney Dy, MD, MSc – Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
and
Jennifer Wolff, PhD – Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
December 4, 2018
Hearing Loss and the Healthcare system
Nicholas Reed, AuD – Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, JHSPH
November 27, 2018
EPC Journal Club: Benefits and challenges of using multiple data sources in systematic reviews
Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil – Assistant Scientist, Department of Epidemiology
and
Tianjing Li, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
November 20, 2018
Pediatric Ambulatory Safety: Engaging Patients and Families to Reduce Medication Errors
Julia Kim, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Vice Chair, Ambulatory Quality, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center & Co-Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Academy
November 13, 2018
Improving care for pregnant people with opioid use disorder in U.S. jails: Research to implement medication assisted treatment
Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH
October 30, 2018
EPC Journal Club: Electronic Database Search Tips
Lori Rosman, MLS, AHIP – Public Health Informationist, Welch Medical Library, JHMI
October 16, 2018
Advancing Quality and Improving Care: Getting to the Results that Matter
Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil – President & CEO, National Quality Forum
October 9, 2018
Implementation of a comprehensive program to improve coordination of care in an urban academic health care system: Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership (J-CHiP)
Ya Luan Hsiao, MD, MPH – DrPH Candidate, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
October 2, 2018
Introduction to the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at Johns Hopkins: Applying a Measurement and Evaluation Framework focused on Corporate Health Promotion Applied Research
Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD – Senior Scientist, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, JHSPH & Director, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies
September 25, 2018
National Health Care Spending In 2016: Spending and Enrollment Growth Slow After Initial Coverage Expansions
Micah Hartman – Statistician, Office of the Actuary Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
and
CJ Wolfe – Actuary, Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
July 31, 2018
Formative Evaluations of Cost, Quality and Access within a Statewide Multi-Payor Patient-Centered Medical Home Program
Oludolapo Fakeye, MA – PhD Candidate, Health Services Research and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
July 24, 2018
EPC Journal Club: Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization-and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review
Vadim Dukhanin, MD, MHS – Senior Research Program Coordinator II, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR), HPM, JHSPH
and
Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Berman Institute of Bioethics, JHU and Division of General Internal Medicine, JHSOM
July 10, 2018
EPC Journal Club: DistillerAI: automated reference screening
Peter O’Blenis, BCS, MBA – President, Evidence Partners
June 19, 2018
Policy Tools to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH – Professor & Director, Institute for Health and Social Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
June 5, 2018
EPC Journal Club: What’s the harm in harms? New AHRQ EPC Program guidance for selection of harms
Karen Robinson, PhD, MSc – Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy & Management, Director, JHU Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC)
May 15, 2018
Improving Patient Communication in the Toronto General Hospital Emergency Department
Ahmed Taher, MD – Certificate in Quality, Patient Safety and Outcomes Research Student
April 17, 2018
Morphine Equivalent Daily Dose Policies Evaluating a Tool to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Sara Heins, BA – PhD Candidate, Health Services Research and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
March 20, 2018
Knowledge Translation Intervention to Improve the Quality of Decision Making in Multidisciplinary Cancer Conferences
Christine Fahim, PhD, MSc – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH, and Department of Surgery, JHUSOM
March 13, 2018
EPC Journal Club: Advancing Research Methods for Evaluation of Natural Experiments in Obesity Prevention
Wendy Bennett, MD, MPH – Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Division of General Internal Medicine, JHUSOM
March 6, 2018
Engaging the unmotivated: Overcoming inherent obstacles in change frameworks for patients and providers
Thomas K Houston, MD, MPH – Professor and Chief, Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School
February 20, 2018
EPC Journal Club: Automating Systematic Reviews: Screening Tools
Lisa Wilson, ScM – Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
February 13, 2018
Johns Hopkins Clinical Data: Opportunities for Clinical and Translational Research
Christopher Chute, MD, DrPH – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics & Chief Health Research Information Officer, JHSPH, JHSOM, JHSOM
February 6, 2018
A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for the Prevention of HIV Among Los Angeles County Men Who Have Sex With Men
Emmanuel Drabo, PhD – Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University
January 30, 2018
Trends and Variation in Oral Anticoagulant Choice in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation, 2010-2017
Junya Zhu, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
January 23, 2018
The Role of Price and Convenience in Underuse of ORS to Treat Child Diarrhea: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda
Zachary Wagner, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University
January 16, 2018
The CMS Oncology Care Model: Transforming the Clinical Practice of Oncology
Ron Kline, MD – Medical Officer, Patient Care Models Group & Lara Strawbridge, MPH – Team Lead, Oncology Care Model, Patient Care Models Group, Innovation Center (CMMI), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
January 9, 2018
EPC Journal Club: Holiday Cheer
Allen Zhang, BS – Research Data Analyst, EPC
Renee Wilson, MS – Research Associate, EPC
Vadim Dukhanin, MD, MHS – Sr. Research Program Coordinator II, CHSOR
December 19, 2017
Overuse of Healthcare in Older Adults: An Update and Next Steps
Jodi Segal, MD, MPH – Professor of Medicine, Health Policy & Management, and Epidemiology, Associate Director, CHSOR
December 12, 2017
Delivering better cancer care: An overview of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program (HDRP)
Sallie Weaver, PhD, MHS – Program Director, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
November 28, 2017
EPC Journal Club: Data Linkage Strategies and Methods to Advance Youth Suicide Prevention
Holly C. Wilcox, MA, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SOM, Department of Mental Health, JHSPH
November 21, 2017
Effective Care for High-Need Patients
Danielle Whicher, PhD, MHS – Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Medicine
November 7, 2017
Exploring Data Opportunities at CPHIT: MHCC and OptumLabs Data
Jonathan Weiner, DrPH – Professor & Director
Elyse Lasser, MS – Research Associate
Thomas Richards, MS – Technical Director
Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT)
October 31, 2017
Patient Outcomes After Severe Lower Extremity Injuries: Limb Salvage vs. Amputation
Lisa M. Reider, PhD – Associate Scientist, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
October 24, 2017
EPC Journal Club: Searching ClinicalTrials.gov did not change the conclusions of a systematic review
Lisa Wilson, ScM – Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
October 17, 2017
Practice, Policy, Public Reporting, and Patient Engagement Learning from the Venous Thromboembolism Example
Elliott Haut, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, & Service Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine
October 10, 2017
CRISP Update on Health Information Exchange in Maryland and the Region: Data Access for Research
Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA – Program Director, Research and Transformation, Chesapeake Regional Health Information System for our Patients (CRISP)
and
Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, JHSPH
September 26, 2017
Data Resources: Focus on Truven Health IBM MarketScan Data
Jodi Segal, MD, MPH – Professor, Associate Director, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
September 12, 2017
EPC Journal Club: Data Abstraction Assistant (DAA): A new tool for data abstraction during systematic reviews
Ian J. Saldanha, MBBS, MPH, PhD – Assistant Scientist, Department of Epidemiology
May 16, 2017
The RAW Deal on Knee Replacements: Are you Ready, Able, Willing? Selection of ‘Appropriate’ Candidates for Surgery
Deborah Marshall, PhD, MHSA – Professor, University of Calgary, Canada Research Chair Health Services and Systems Research
May 2, 2017
Patient Reported Outcomes at Cancer Care Ontario: The program, the data, the research
Lisa Barbera, MD, MPA – Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto & Provincial Lead, Patient Reported Outcomes, Cancer Care Ontario
March 28, 2017
Enhancing Depression Care with Peer Mentors: What they do and how they do it?
Jin Hui Joo, MD, MA – Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
February 28, 2017
The Evolution of Care Recommendations for Older and Complex Patients with Diabetes
Elbert Huang, MD, MPH, FACP – Director, Center for Translational and Policy Research of Chronic Diseases, University of Chicago
February 9, 2017
Patient involvement in care management programs for chronic conditions
Stephen Sutch, DrPH, MAppSc – Product Management Director, Johns Hopkins ACG System
February 7, 2017
Cost-effectiveness of Pressure Ulcer Prevention Initiated by Machine Learning
William V. Padula, PhD, MS, MSc – Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
January 24, 2017
Johns Hopkins Healthcare Medical Policy Process
Mark R. Fracasso, MD, MBA – Interim Chief Medical Officer, Johns Hopkins Healthcare
January 3, 2017
Shared Decision Making in Pediatric Otolaryngology: The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care?
Paul Hong, MD, MSc – Associate Professor, IWK Health Centre, Department of Surgery and School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University
December 13, 2016
The potential for qualitative methods to enhance health services and outcomes research: Why, when and how?
Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD – Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society
November 29, 2016
EPC Journal Club: Trial Registration & Reporting: Academic Medical Centers & the "Final Rule"
Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil – Assistant Scientist, Department of Epidemiology
and
Tianjing Li, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
November 8, 2016
Improving Long-Term Outcomes Research for Acute Respiratory Failure
Alison E. Turnbull, PhD, DVM, MPH – Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care & Department of Epidemiology
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Victor D. Dinglas, MPH – Research Associate, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
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Elizabeth Colantuoni, PhD – Associate Scientist, Department of Biostatistics
and
Dale M. Needham, MD, PhD – Professor of Medicine, Critical Care Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Program
November 1, 2016
Opportunities for improving provider communication about HPV vaccination
Melissa B. Gilkey, PhD – Assistant Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
October 11, 2016
Assessing the Effectiveness of Physician Communication
Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH – Professor, School of Medicine, Berman Institute of Bioethics
September 27, 2016
The Israeli Healthcare System - Accomplishments and challenges facing the system
Arnon Afek, MD, MHA – Associate Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health
September 20, 2016
Liver Space: A facebook health application to strengthen online communities
Douglas Mogul, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, School of Medicine
July 26, 2016
A Cluster Analysis of Longitudinal Treatment Patterns and Associated Outcomes in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Hong Kan, PhD – Associate Scientist, Center for Population Health IT (CPHIT)
July 12, 2016
EPC Journal Club: Disorganized Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses: Time to Systematize the Conduct and Publication of These Study Overviews?
Jessica Gayleard, BS – Research Assistant, Evidence-Based Practice Center
June 21, 2016
Premier Research Institute: Research opportunities, federal grants and government services
Roshni Ghosh, MD, MPH – Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer, Premier Research Institute
and
John Martin, MPH – Executive Director, Premier Research Institute & Vice President of Research Operations at Premier, Inc.
May 24, 2016
Grant proposal to promote team-based primary care using a human factors approach
Lisa Lubomski, PhD – Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Armstrong Institute
and
Romsai Tony Boonyasai, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, General Internal Medicine
May 3, 2016
EPC Journal Club: Why do we think we know what we know? A meta-knowledge analysis of the salt controversy
Renee F. Wilson, MS – Research Associate, HPM
April 19, 2016
Assessing the Relationship between Patient Safety Culture and EHR Strategy
Eric W. Ford, PhD, MPH – Professor and Program Director MHA Program & Associate Department Chair, HPM
April 5, 2016
Redefining Health Care Systems and Improving Health
Robert Brook, MD, ScD – Distinguished Chair, Health Care Services, RAND Corporation
March 8, 2016
Nonprofit hospitals' provision of charity care: Is it commensurate with the value of their tax exemption?
Darrell Gaskin, PhD – Professor, HPM & Director, Center for Health Disparities Solutions
March 1, 2016
EPC Journal Club: A taxonomy of rapid reviews links report types and methods to specific decision-making contexts
Jodi Segal, MD, MPH – Professor of Medicine & Associate Director, CHSOR
February 16, 2016
The JHU Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT): Mission, Current R&D Portfolio and Future Directions
Jonathan Weiner, DrPH – Professor, HPM & CPHIT Center Director
February 9, 2016
“Rapid Learning” Research Capabilities
Lynn M. Etheredge – Director, Rapid Learning Project, Chevy Chase, Maryland
January 12, 2016
The American College of Physicians: Strategic Clinical Priorities
Stephen D. Sisson, MD, FACP – Governor, Maryland Chapter, the American College of Physicians
October 13, 2015
Dementia, multimorbidity, high health care utilization, and unmet needs and Perspectives of patients previously treated with high-dose opioids for serious illness
Sydney Dy, MD, MSc – Associate Professor, HPM
July 14, 2015
An introduction to reimbursement science
Sean Tunis, MD, MSc – President & CEO, Center for Medical Technology Policy
May 26, 2015
JHCP Postpartum Visit Process Improvement
Pam Mercer, MSN, RN – Assistant Director, Quality & Performance Improvement, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
May 5, 2015
Center for Medical Technology Policy overview
Sean Tunis, MD, MSc – President & CEO, Center for Medical Technology Policy
April 21, 2015
Data Structures vs Study Results: Confessions of a failed epidemiologist who had an informatics epiphany
Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics & Professor, HPM
April 7, 2015
Effects of the federal mental health insurance parity law on service use and spending among children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Elizabeth Stuart, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health
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Colleen L. Barry, PhD, MPP – Associate Professor, HPM
January 20, 2015