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August Updates from the Mongan Institute
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Dear Colleague,
In this newsletter you will find:
Mongan Institute News and Events
- Meet the MGH COVID Corps Biomedical Internship Program's Inaugural 2020 Cohort
- Daniel Horn, MD, Joins Mongan Institute Faculty
- Awards and Honors:
- Margarita Alegría, PhD, Appointed Inaugural Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr MGH Research Institute Endowed Chair
- Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, Elected to Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Preparedness
- Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, Receives 2020 J. Kevin Tucker Award and American Society of Nephrology's Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship
- Jennifer Temel, MD, Elected Member to the Association of American Physicians (AAP)
- Erica Warner, ScD, MPH, Awarded Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award
- In the News
- Recent Publications
- Job Opportunity: Grant Administrator
- Social Media Highlight
News and Events from Our Partners
- Register: An Evening of Haitian Poetry and Culture with EPECARE
- Save the Date: Massachusetts Public Health Association Virtual Breakfast Honoring Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones
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Meet the MGH COVID Corps Biomedical Internship Program's Inaugural 2020 Cohort
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The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) COVID Corps Biomedical Research Internship pairs interested undergraduate, post-graduate, and medical students with established principal investigators (PIs) at MGH working on COVID-19-related research projects. We explicitly recruited individuals historically under-represented in research and science and asked candidates to share with our committee more about their background, prior experiences, and career goals. We received 238 applications in a short window of 6 days.
With this stated emphasis on diversity, we are pleased to welcome an inaugural class of 22 accomplished individuals, of whom 16 are female, non-binary, questioning, or transgender, 18 are first-generation university students, and 13 are immigrants/new Americans. 8 are Black or African American, 4 are Latinx, and 9 are Asian. Collectively, their average undergraduate GPA is 3.86.
Click the link below to learn about our interns and mentors.
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Daniel Horn, MD, Joins Mongan Institute Faculty
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Please join us in welcoming Daniel Horn, MD, as a Mongan Institute faculty member. Dr. Horn is Director of Population Health and Quality in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Physician Organization, and Instructor at Harvard Medical School.
Read his recent op-ed in the Washington Post, titled "Telemedicine is booming during the pandemic. But it’s leaving people behind."
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Margarita Alegría, PhD, Appointed Inaugural Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr MGH Research Institute Endowed Chair
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Margarita Alegría, PhD, was appointed as the inaugural Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair by the Research Institute Steering Committee. Thanks to a generous and visionary gift from the Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. Trust, the Research Institute has established the fifth endowed chair in the Research Institute to foster and accelerate scientific knowledge and discovery at Mass General.
Dr. Alegría joined the Mass General community as Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mongan Institute in 2015. Her career has focused on testing new models of care and interventions for improving health care and eliminating health care disparities for diverse populations.
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Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, Elected to Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Preparedness
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Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, was elected to the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Preparedness. This committee works in collaboration with public health agencies and others to prevent, prepare for, detect, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the public health consequences of health emergencies.
Dr. Levison is Co-Director of the MGH Chelsea Community Research Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, Receives 2020 J. Kevin Tucker Award and American Society of Nephrology's Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship
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Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, is a nephrology fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital and has received the 2020 J. Kevin Tucker Award, which is given to the second year clinical and research fellow whose leadership, work ethic, and generosity contribute to the esprit de corps of the Fellowship program.
He has also received the Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship award from the American Society of Nephrology, a two-year fellowship grant ($50,000 per year) for his project, “Novel Methods to Inform Health Care Policy in Home Dialysis.” The Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program supports nephrology fellows who will advance the understanding of kidney biology and disease.
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Jennifer Temel, MD, Elected Member to the Association of American Physicians (AAP)
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Jennifer Temel, MD, was elected as a member to the Association of American Physicians (AAP). The AAP is composed of members who are leading senior physician scientists and are competitively selected. The goals of its members include the pursuit of medical knowledge, and the advancement through experimentation and discovery of basic and clinical science and their application to clinical medicine.
Dr. Temel is Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Erica Warner, ScD, MPH, Awarded Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award
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Erica Warner, ScD, MPH, was awarded the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award by the Center for Faculty Development. The Award is presented to women faculty clinicians, educators, researchers and women postdocs at Massachusetts General Hospital who have shown exceptional promise as leaders in their field and whose careers would specifically benefit from speaking, mentoring and networking opportunities at the national or international level. This award will provide an opportunity to serve as “virtual” Visiting Professor to give Grand Rounds at a national or international institution, organized by the Center for Faculty Development. Moreover, a mentor at the host institution will be identified for the Scholar. The Scholar will also receive professional coaching on presentation and interview skills, as well as a virtual career development seminar series.
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Maggie Alegría, PhD, wrote a blog post titled “Centering Structural Inequities in Conversations on Mental Health Among People of Color” as part of the NIMHD National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month Blog Series.
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A recent paper co-authored by Benjamin Bearnot, MD, was covered by WBUR in an article titled “29% Of Mass. Nursing Homes Refused Patients Who’ve Used Opioids, Study Finds”.
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Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH, spoke with NPR on why Latinx people are hospitalized from COVID-19 at four times the rate of white people.
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Kim Blumenthal, MD, MSc, wrote a blog post on the Harvard Health Blog titled "How can I know if my penicillin allergy is real?"
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A recent study led by Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, was covered by Kaiser Health News in an article titled "Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19."
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Lisa Iezzoni, MD, MSc, spoke with Texas Public Radio about how COVID-19 poses new threats for medical bias and health care rationing for people with disabilities.
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Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, co-authored a blog for Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care titled, "Primary Care Transformation in a COVID-19 World." Dr. Levision also co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post regarding interest in COVID-19 vaccines in racial/ethnic minorities and how we can cultivate trust to increase vaccine acceptance.
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Giselle Perez, PhD, presented during the ASCO20 Virtual Education Program Session “Taboo Topics in AYA Cancer Care” to offer tools and support for broaching these difficult issues as well as discussions about end-of-life care.
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Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc, co-wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about the lack of evidence behind the diagnosis “excited delirium,” used by law enforcement to justify police violence and deaths occurring in police custody such as that of George Floyd.
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Recent Publications
Below are a few publications recently published by Mongan Institute investigators. Please find a more comprehensive list of publications from the past 3 months on our website.
- Cost-effectiveness of frequent HIV screening among high-risk young men who have sex with men in the United States
Neilan AM, Bulteel AJB, Hosek SG, Foote JHA, Freedberg KA, Landovitz RJ, Walensky RP, Resch SC, Kazemian P, Paltiel AD, Weinstein MC, Wilson CM, Ciaranello AL. Cost-effectiveness of frequent HIV screening among high-risk young men who have sex with men in the United States. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 30:ciaa1061. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1061. [Epub ahead of print]
- Estimating Shortages in Capacity to Deliver Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Reddy YNV, Walensky RP, Mendu ML, Green N, Reddy KP. Estimating Shortages in Capacity to Deliver Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Am J Kidney Dis. 2020 Jul 27. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.07.005. [Epub ahead of print]
- Outside Our Walls: the Case for City-Wide Collaboration to Reduce Disparities
Haas JS, Lemon SC, Freund KM, Battaglia TA; Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Consortium Writing Group. Outside Our Walls: the Case for City-Wide Collaboration to Reduce Disparities. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Jul 27. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06006-7. [Epub ahead of print]
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Job Opportunity: Grant Administrator
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The MGH Mongan Institute in the Department of Medicine seeks a detail oriented, organized, self-directed individual to work with investigators throughout the research funding application and administration process. The candidate will be responsible for assisting investigators from various centers and units in the preparation and oversight of research grants, including both pre and post award processes.
The candidate will need to be highly organized and goal-oriented, with the ability to work both collaboratively and independently under deadlines, and comfortable working with faculty at all levels. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are necessary, as are a willingness to take on new challenges and an openness to change. While experience in research grant administration is preferred, as are a working knowledge of NIH and other federal, state, and foundation grant regulations and requirements, this is an excellent opportunity for a motivated, detail oriented individual interested in working in an academic medical research environment.
Specific pre-award responsibilities may include:
- Independently oversee all aspects of the grant application process, working with investigators to develop all grant proposal elements, including budgets, budget justifications, and all required documents per sponsor guidelines, ensuring timely submission to both internal review processes and sponsor deadline
- Serve as a primary contact for collaborating sites regarding development of subcontract budgets and required materials, addressing budgetary and compliance issues as needed
- Understand and conform with the administrative, budgetary, and financial compliance regulations of all sponsors as well as with Partners fiscal policy; stay current and up-to-date on all policy changes
- Serve as a liaison between investigators, Partners Research Management, and various sponsors as required throughout the award life cycle
Specific post-award responsibilities may include:
- Assist investigators with progress reports and continuing applications, utilizing internal systems and consulting the DOM Research Administrator to obtain budgetary information needed for progress reports, and to ensure compliance with all guidelines
- Monitor fund expenditures, subcontract spending and invoicing, advise on the allowability of costs per sponsor guidelines
- Work with investigators and research management to prepare prior approval requests to funding agencies (i.e., effort reduction, re-budgeting, no-cost extensions, etc.)
- Facilitate the implementation of industry grants and contracts, clinical trials, billing agreements, material transfer agreements and data use agreements and other awards as needed
- Work with Research Finance to resolve complex accounting issues as they arise
- Coordinate bi-annual investigator time and effort certification process
- Attend meetings and training sessions to remain current with sponsor requirements and policy issues
- Process cost transfers as needed
- Generate fund balance and projection reports bi-monthly (or upon request) for administrative leadership and investigators
- Submit salary allocation changes utilizing Peoplesoft
- Assist with bi-annual time and effort certification process
- Attend meetings and training sessions to remain current with sponsor requirements and policy issues
- Complete project fund closeout documents as needed
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Register: An Evening of Haitian Poetry and Culture with EPECARE
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Thursday, August 13
7:00 - 8:00pm ET
Virtual Fundraiser
Introducing EPECARE’s first Haitian poetry and culture fundraiser! Join us online to listen to modern Haitian literature while supporting EPECARE’s first-responder training initiatives.
EPECARE’s mission is to proactively prepare the next generation of responders by providing multi-disciplinary training in resource-limited communities globally. We support the creation of emergency preparedness infrastructures while building sustainable response networks.
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Save the Date: Massachusetts Public Health Association Virtual Breakfast Honoring Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones
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Friday, September 18
9:00 - 10:00am ET
Virtual Fundraiser
Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) is thrilled to announce our Virtual Breakfast on September 18, 2020, to honor Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones! During the event, we will hear from this public health luminary and present her with MPHA's Paul Revere Award for her unwavering commitment to eradicate health inequities and structural racism. Dr. Jones' legacy inspires MPHA's work every day, and we are excited to hear from her during such a crucial time, as we fight for both public health and racial justice.
This event is an excellent opportunity for public health students, professionals, and activists from across MA to come together to be energized by each other and by Dr. Jones' words as we face two public health crises: structural racism—a crisis 400+ years in the making—and COVID-19. There has never been a more crucial time to stand with MPHA in our work for health equity. If you have questions about the event or are interested in sponsorship, please contact Veronica Cañas at vcanas@mapublichealth.org or 857-930-4369.
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