Events
Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) hosts regular seminars where investigators from the Institute and our collaborating institutions present their research findings.
Upcoming seminars | Past seminars
Upcoming scientific seminars and events
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 (add to your calendar)
4-5 p.m., Room 1509, Metropolitan Park East
“Twenty years of cardiovascular disease research.”
- Susan Heckbert, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor, Epidemiology
Scientific Investigator, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington (UW) - Nicholas Smith, PhD, MPH
Professor, Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, UW
Director, Seattle Epidemiology and Information Resource Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
18th Annual HMO Research Network Conference
Learning Health Care Systems: Leading Through Research
April 29–May 2, 2012, Seattle, Washington
Hosted by Group Health Research Institute
Presentation of leading-edge population-based health and health care research is the cornerstone of the HMO Research Network conference, offering opportunities for researchers to share important findings with policymakers and providers who can put the research into action. For more details, see the HMO Research Network website.
13th Annual Hilde and Bill Birnbaum Endowed Lecture and Panel Discussion
Monday, 30 April 2012 (add to calendar)
7:30-10:45 a.m., Washington State Convention Center, 8th Ave. and Pike St., Seattle
Speaker: Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
Former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
For more details, see the Birnbaum Lecture page.
Past seminars
Wednesday 22 February 2012
“Q-learning for estimating optimal dynamic treatment rules from observational data.”
Erika Moodie, PhD, MSc, MPhil
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, McGill University.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
“The HMO Research Network: Strengths, trajectory, and the potential impact of a health system collaboratory.”
- Sarah Greene, MPH
Research Associate, Group Health Research Institute
- Eric Larson, MD, MPH, MACP
Executive Director and Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Vice President for Research, Group Health
Governing Board, HMO Research Network
- John Steiner, MD, MPH
Senior Director, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado
Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado
Vice-Chair, Governing Board, HMO Research Network
Abstract: The HMO Research Network (HMORN) was established nearly 20 years ago and has grown in terms of its size, scope, and relevance to population-based health research during that time. Given that HMORN affords a unique opportunity to close the loop between research and clinical care, we will describe the strengths, structure and potential opportunities for collaboration, and strategies to facilitate multi-site research. We will share insights from our recent work to develop a “collaboratory,” as envisioned by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, for the conduct of large-scale epidemiology studies and pragmatic clinical trials, and discuss how to attain this vision even as the NIH intentions and expectations for an HMORN-based collaboratory are evolving.
Friday, 13 January 2012
“Research across the cancer care continuum: Building a research program in comparative effectiveness research.”
Karen Wernli, PhD
Research Associate, Group Health Research Institute
Friday, 13 January 2012
University of Washington/Group Health Research Institute Mental Health Services Monthly Seminar
“Cost-effectiveness of collaborative care for patients with depression and chronic medical illness.”
Wayne Katon, MD
Professor and Vice Chairman, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
Director, Health Services Research and Psychiatric Epidemiology, University of Washington
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
“People and the health policies that affect them.”
Nora Henrikson, PhD, MPH
Research Associate, Group Health Research Institute
The Ed Wagner Seminar Series, Summer/Fall 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
“Pathways to TEAMcare: A decade of research from depression to integrated multi-conditions care guided by the Chronic Care Model.”
Abstract: The effectiveness of collaborative care for depressive illness, originally developed by our research team in research conducted at Group Health, has now been established by more than 60 randomized controlled trials.
Depression collaborative care is being widely disseminated through national efforts in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and in hundreds of health plans and primary care clinics across the United States. In order to speed large-scale dissemination of depression collaborative care, and to integrate this approach into management of other major chronic conditions managed in primary care settings, our research team developed and tested an intervention for caring for depressed patients with poorly controlled diabetes and/or coronary heart disease. The TEAMcare intervention was evaluated in a large randomized controlled trial conducted in 14 Group Health primary care clinics.
TEAMcare employs a treat-to-target approach, and is implemented by a care manager working in collaboration with the primary care physician and supervising consultant. TEAMcare develops a care plan with patients, and ensures active follow-up to adjust treatments and care plans to achieve treatment goals. TEAMcare improved outcomes for depression, and for control of three chronic disease risk factors including glycemic control, systolic blood pressure, and LDL. TEAMcare also improved functional and quality of life outcomes, with a favorable cost-effectiveness profile. In addition to presenting the results of the TEAMcare trial, we will describe initial work disseminating TEAMcare, and new directions for integration of TEAMcare into routine provision of health care for a broad spectrum of chronic disease patients.
Seminar presenters:
- Wayne Katon, MD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
Affiliate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
- Michael Von Korff, ScD
Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute - Elizabeth Lin, MD, MPH
Family Practice Physician, Group Health
Affiliate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Friday, 2 December 2011
“Post-Licensure Safety Surveillance Workshop.”
Abstract: Gaps in medical product safety evidence have led to national calls for improved post-licensure surveillance. This afternoon workshop will highlight recent data and methods activities of two active surveillance systems that have emerged in the U.S.: the Vaccine Safety Datalink and the Mini-Sentinel pilot project. Workshop presenters:
- Denise Boudreau, PhD
Associate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
- Andrea Cook, PhD
Associate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute - Jennifer Nelson, PhD
Associate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute - Susan Shortreed, PhD
Assistant Investigator, Group Health Research Institute - Robert Wellman, MS
Biostatistician, Group Health Research Institute - Onchee Yu, MS
Senior Biostatistician, Group Health Research Institute
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Topics in Women's Health Seminar and Discussion Series: “Urinary tract infections in women.”
Ann Stapleton, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington
The “Topics in Women's Health Seminar and Discussion Series” is sponsored by Group Health Research Institute NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant (T32): “Health Care Improvement for Aging Women.”
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Topics in Women's Health Seminar and Discussion Series: “New reports about bone diseases.”
Susan Ott, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Washington
The “Topics in Women's Health Seminar and Discussion Series” is sponsored by Group Health Research Institute NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant (T32): “Health Care Improvement for Aging Women.”
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
“Bringing Group Health's e-BP intervention into the community: A collaboration with the WWAMI region practice and research network.”
- Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, MPH
Director of Research, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine
- Bev Green, MD, MPH
Affiliate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Family Physician, Group Health
Abstract: Over the past 5 years, investigators from the Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington’s Department of Family Medicine have lead the Community Outreach and Research Translation Core as part of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS). The ITHS is one of 60 NIH-funded Clinical Translational Science Awards across the U.S. whose goal is to speed the translation of scientific discovery into practice. In this seminar, Dr. Baldwin described the Department of Family Medicine's ITHS-funded efforts, including the development of a new practice-based research network across the five-state WWAMI region, the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN). Drs. Baldwin and Green discussed how they have collaborated with practices within the WPRN to plan an adaptation of e-BP, Group Health's successful Web-based pharmacist collaborative care model to improve hypertension control, to community settings.
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
“Cincinnati Children's Journey to Improving Care and Outcomes.”
Maria T. Britto, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Adolescent Medicine, James M. Anderson Center
Assistant Vice President, Chronic Care Systems, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
“Increased use of computed tomography and associated radiation exposure and cancer risk—a Cancer Research Network pilot project.”
Diana Miglioretti, PhD
Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Principal Investigator, Statistical Coordinating Center, National Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
“Tobacco control research and practice: The Group Health Story.”
Jennifer McClure, PhD
Senior Investigator and Associate Director
Group Health Research Institute
Abstract: Group Health has a long history of conducting tobacco control research, starting with our first smoking cessation trial in the late 1980s, on which Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, was site-Principal Investigator, and continuing until today. The Institute’s body of work includes 20 clinical trials focused on tobacco prevention or cessation, as well as numerous studies on the cost-effectiveness of treatment. Findings from this work have directly influenced policy and practice at Group Health and beyond. In this seminar series honoring the legacy of Dr. Wagner’s work, we will review Group Health’s tobacco control research over the years, discuss the impact of this work, highlight key success stories (e.g., the Free & Clear story), and take a look at future directions for this research program.
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
“Integrated behavioral health care: Closing the gap between what we know and what we do.”
Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH
Vice-Chair, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington (UW)
Chief of Psychiatric Services, UW Medical Center
Adjunct Professor, Health Services, UW School of Public Health
Affiliate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Special seminar: “History of the Chronic Care Model.”
Ed Wagner, MD, MPH
Director, MacColl Institute and Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
“Interrupted time series designs and segmented regression analysis.”
Fang Zhang, PhD
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Monday and Tuesday 23–24 May 2011
Security Roundtable for Cloud-Deployed Clinical Natural Language Processing
Tuesday 24 May 2011
“Estimating trends in health care costs: the impact of examining shorter periods”
Paul Fishman, PhD
Scientific Investigator
Group Health Research Institute
Wednesday 11 May 2011
12th annual Hilde and Bill Birnbaum Endowed Lecture
“Paradise lost, Paradise deferred? The role of integrated health plans in today’s changing health care system”
Speaker: Robert G. Evans, PhD
Professor of Economics, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
Thursday 3 March 2011
“Co-occurring alcohol misuse and mental health problems: interventions and future directions for implementation in health services.”
Ursula Whiteside, PhD
Research Associate, Group Health Research Institute
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Topics in Women's Health Seminar and Discussion Series: "Longitudinal analyses—overview and innovation.”
Mary Sammel, ScD
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
The "Topics in Women's Health Seminar and Discussion Series" is sponsored by Group Health Research Institute NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant (T32): "Health Care Improvement for Aging Women".
Tuesday 22 February 2011
“Integrating geriatrics into comparative effectiveness research: Views of an aging epidemiologist.”
Andrea LaCroix, PhD
Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
Co-Principal Investigator, Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington
Wednesday 16 February 2011
“Multilevel intervention approaches to promote activity across the lifespan.”
Dori Rosenberg, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington
Tuesday 8 February 2011
“Research and evaluation: Same destination, different routes.”
Allen Cheadle, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Scientific seminars are held at the Metropolitan Park East Building (MPE), 1730 Minor Avenue, in Seattle. For directions to GHRI and contact information see our Contact Us page.