
Survey uncovers barriers to HCC surveillance
A new survey-based study on methods for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma early to maximize clinical outcomes
CATALYST Executive Director and Family and Community Medicine Distinguished Professor Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, will work alongside study co-leader William Grobman, MD, MBA, a maternal fetal medicine physician as well as professor and vice chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to design and test new ways to improve the health of pregnant people and their babies by targeting social determinants of health. The effort, Better birth outcomes and Experiences Through Technology, Education and Reporting (BETTER), is part of a $20 million American Heart Association (AHA) effort to build in a health equity research network to identify solutions that can improve outcomes and reduce health disparities experienced by pregnant people and infants of color or those who are born into poverty.
A project to examine the effectiveness of health system attempts to address the social needs of people facing food insecurity and, in turn, increase their diabetes control is ready to get underway. The effort is spearheaded by CATALYST faculty member and co-Principal Investigator Daniel Walker, PhD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, along with counterpart Joshua Joseph, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Internal Medicine. Their work, which is supported by a $3.32 million grant from the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, was recently profiled by the College of Medicine.
CATALYST Executive Director Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, also serves as a co-principal investigator for the Center to STOP COVID, a Serological Sciences Center of Excellence supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in the National Institutes of Health. The effort is studying the long-term effect of COVID-19 on first responders, health care workers and the general population.
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At CATALYST, our faculty and staff are always hard at work on a number of projects related to team science, analytics, and systems thinking. Our research has been published in a variety of journals, and it is regularly cited in other scholarly work.
Among our most recent publications, appearing in the American Journal of Infection Control, is "Identifying management practices for promoting infection prevention: Perspectives on strategic communication" by Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS; Sarah MacEwan, PhD; Megan Gregory, PhD; Lindsey Sova, MPH; Courtney Hebert, MD, MS; and Alice Gaughan, MS. The article details an extensive study that involved interviews of 188 administrative and clinical leaders across 18 U.S. hospitals regarding the management practices employed to help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). By identifying and describing these practices, the authors offer insight into how strategic communication can support improvement.
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A new survey-based study on methods for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma early to maximize clinical outcomes
Engaging parents of children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing
CATALYST is working in partnership with the Division of Palliative Medicine to support research
An Ohio initiative to reduce infant mortality in the state is seeing real results, an evaluation shows
Kevin Kerber, MD, and Jim Burke, MD, will lead a new Neurological Health Services Research Division
National Council on Aging planned multiple events for National Falls Prevention Awareness Week
Dr. Janet Childerhose will conduct the study with a grant from the Department of Internal Medicine