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January Updates from the Mongan Institute
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Dear Colleague,
Happy New Year! We're kicking off 2020 with some exciting news and announcements, which you can find below, including our first Mongan Institute Annual Report.
In this newsletter you will find:
Mongan Institute News and Events
- News & Announcements:
- Mongan Institute 2018-19 Annual Report
- Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, accepts position as Co-Director of Medical Practice Evaluation Center
- Carlos Camargo, Jr., MD, DrPH, receives the 2019 John T. Potts, Jr., MD, Faculty Mentoring Award from the MGH Center for Faculty Development
- Upcoming Events:
- RSVP: MGH Health Policy Rounds with Timothy Ferris, MD, MPH
- RSVP: Innovators in Research Methods Series with Dr. Christine Ritchie: "Online Resources for Research Methods in Aging and Serious Illness: An Overview and Crowd-Sourcing Exercise"
- RSVP: Haddad Lecture with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein: "Mission Impossible? Asking Healthcare to Improve the Health of the Population"
- Save the Date: Blumenthal Lecture with Dr. Sandro Galea: "The Poorest 80 Percent: Health Haves, Health Have-Nots in 2020 America"
- Listen to the new Disparities Solutions Center's podcast episode featuring Dr. Alden Landry: "Dismantling the Barriers to Diversity in the Health Professions"
- Recent Publications
- Social Media Highlight
- Job Opportunities
News and Events from Our Partners
- Upcoming Events:
- RSVP: Coffee with Dr. Joseph Betancourt, MGH Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer
- Save the Date: Stand Against Racism: Dr. Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility
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Mongan Institute 2018-19 Annual Report
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The Mongan Institute Annual Report provides an overview of the mission and goals of the Mongan Institute, as well as major accomplishments established over the course of the year.
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Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, accepts position as Co-Director of Medical Practice Evaluation Center
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The Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) at MGH Mongan Institute is pleased to announce that Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, has accepted the position to become the next Co-Director of MPEC as of Monday, January 6, 2020. This is particularly exciting as MPEC expands its research portfolio further into implementation science, epidemiology, and global health.
Dr. Bassett’s accomplishments are widely recognized and include, among many others, an extensive research portfolio that has focused on improving HIV testing and TB diagnosis, as well as linkage to and retention in care, with particular focus in Durban, South Africa. She is internationally recognized for her leadership in these and other areas of implementation science, serving on the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council, as well as with leadership in IDSA and the CFAR nationally. She is famous for her mentorship capabilities. She currently serves as Director of the Harvard CFAR Development and Mentoring Core and unofficially as the ‘go to’ mentor for dozens of emerging investigators.
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Carlos Camargo, Jr., MD, DrPH, receives the 2019 John T. Potts, Jr., MD, Faculty Mentoring Award from the MGH Center for Faculty Development
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Please join us in congratulating Carlos A. Camargo Jr., MD, DrPH, for receiving the 2019 John T. Potts, Jr., MD, Faculty Mentoring Award from the MGH Center for Faculty Development! This award honors Dr. Potts’ outstanding achievements in faculty mentoring and recognizes senior faculty members’ commitment to developing a culture of mentoring at MGH.
Dr. Camargo is the Alasdair K.T. Conn, MD, Chair in Emergency Medicine, a Professor of Emergency Medicine & Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a faculty member of the Mongan Institute.
An excerpt from his nomination: "Perhaps the greatest quality that Dr. Camargo possesses is his humanistic approach to supporting those around him that I can only hope to emulate. He is proof that physicians can succeed in academics while simultaneously being a role model."
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MGH Health Policy Rounds with Timothy Ferris, MD, MPH
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Monday, January 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Thier 101
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lunch will be served.
The Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center presents MGH Health Policy Rounds with Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH, who will give a presentation titled "Can We Decrease Administrative Costs in Healthcare?" Dr. Ferris is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.
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Innovators in Research Methods Series with Dr. Christine Ritchie: "Online Resources for Research Methods in Aging and Serious Illness: An Overview and Crowd-Sourcing Exercise"
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| Wednesday, January 15
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The Mongan Institute
100 Cambridge Street, 16th Floor
Airport & Stoeckle Conference Rooms
Please join us and engage in a discussion with Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH, who will be giving a presentation titled "Online Resources for Research Methods in Aging and Serious Illness: An Overview and Crowd-Sourcing Exercise" as part of the Mongan Institute's Innovators in Research Methods Series (IRMS). Dr. Ritchie is the Director of the Center for Aging & Serious Illness at the Mongan Institute.
NIH supports research methods dissemination in many forms, including a number that are online. However, some of these are either hard to find or unknown by many. This session will review online research methods resources related to aging and serious illness that Dr. Ritchie currently uses or has assisted in creating, and engage in a crowd-sourcing exercise to discover others. Her one-hour presentation will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.
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Haddad Lecture with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein: "Mission Impossible? Asking Health Care to Improve the Health of the Population"
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| Thursday, February 6
8:00 am - 9:00 am
O'Keeffe Auditorium
Massachusetts General Hospital
The Mongan Institute is pleased to announce that Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, will be presenting the annual Haddad Lecture at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday, February 6, 2020, from 8–9am in the MGH O’Keeffe Auditorium. Named in honor of Ernest M. Haddad, who served for 21 years as general counsel at the MGH and Partners HealthCare, the annual lecture features speakers who are experts on topics related to ethics, health policy, the health care environment, and health care delivery.
Dr. Sharfstein is the Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Sharfstein served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City, and Congressional staff for Congressman Henry A. Waxman. He is the author of Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times (2018) and the co-author of The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019).
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Blumenthal Lecture with Dr. Sandro Galea: "The Poorest 80 Percent: Health Haves, Health Have-Nots in 2020 America"
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| Thursday, March 26
8:00 am - 9:00 am
O'Keeffe Auditorium
Massachusetts General Hospital
The Mongan Institute is pleased to announce that Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, will be presenting the annual Blumenthal Lecture at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday, March 26, 2020, from 8-9am in the MGH O’Keeffe Auditorium. The Blumenthal Lecture was created in 2014 by the Mongan Institute to honor Dr. David Blumenthal, the founding Director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy, which eventually led to the Mongan Institute, and highlights leaders in public health, health policy, and health care delivery science.
Dr. Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Dr. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
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Listen to the new Disparities Solutions Center's podcast episode featuring Dr. Alden Landry: "Dismantling the Barriers to Diversity in the Health Professions"
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Episode 3: Dismantling the Barriers to Diversity in the Health Professions
This episode is a conversation with Dr. Alden Landry, the Assistant Dean of the Office for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School. In this month’s podcast, we explore why, despite many national efforts and focus on diversity, it is still so challenging to diversify our workforce, in particular for people of color.
About "Dismantling Disparities in Health Care"
A groundbreaking podcast with unfiltered, honest conversations about structural racism in health care and what we can do about it. We bring you interviews with experts in health care who speak candidly about the historical basis of racism in health, current events, and strategies for dismantling disparities. Created by the Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Hosted by Aswita Tan-McGrory. Produced by Karey Kenst. "Dismantling Disparities in Health Care" is available across podcast-streaming platforms.
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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. - “Cure” Versus “Clinical Remission”: The Impact of a Medication Description on the Willingness of People Living with HIV to Take a Medication
Fridman I, Ubel PA, Blumenthal-Barby J, England CV, Currier JS, Eyal N, Freedber KA, Halpern SD, Kelley CF, Kuritzkes DR, Le CN, Lennox JL, Pollak KI, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Scherr KA. “Cure” Versus “Clinical Remission”: The Impact of a Medication Description on the Willingness of People Living with HIV to Take a Medication. AIDS and Behavior. 2020 Jan 4; 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02769-1.
- Multimodal psychosocial intervention for family caregivers of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A randomized clinical trial
El-Jawahri A, Jacobs JM, Nelson AM, Traeger L, Greer JA, Nicholson S, Waldman LP, Fenech AL, Jagielo AD, D’Alotto J, Horick N, Spitzer T, DeFilipp Z, Chen YA, Temel JS. Multimodal psychosocial intervention for family caregivers of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A randomized clinical trial. Cancer. 2020 Jan 3. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32680.
- Hospital Factors Associated With Interhospital Transfer Destination for Stroke in the Northeast United States
Zachrison KS, Onnela J, Reeves MJ, Hernandez A, Camargo CA, Zhao X, Matsouaka RA, Goldstein JN, Metlay JP, Schwamm LH. Hospital Factors Associated With Interhospital Transfer Destination for Stroke in the Northeast United States. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2019 Dec 31; 9(1). doi: 10.1161/JAHA.118.011575.
- Association between poverty and appropriate statin prescription for the treatment of hyperlipidemia in the United States: An analysis from the ACC NCDR PINNACLE registry
Tanguturi VK, Kennedy KF, Virani SS, Maddox TM, Armstrong K, Wasfy JH. Association between poverty and appropriate statin prescription for the treatment of hyperlipidemia in the United States: An analysis from the ACC NCDR PINNACLE registry. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine. 2019 Dec 27. doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2019.12.026.
- Potentially burdensome end‐of‐life transitions among nursing home residents with poor‐prognosis cancer
Lage DE, DuMontier C, Lee Y, Nipp RD, Mitchell SL, Temel JS, El-Jawahri A, Berry SD. Potentially burdensome end‐of‐life transitions among nursing home residents with poor‐prognosis cancer. Cancer. 2019 Dec 20. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32658.
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Job Opportunities
Below are a few job opportunities at the Mongan Institute and its centers and partners. For more details or to apply to any of the opportunities listed below, please click here and search the ID# listed. Please find a complete list of opportunities on our website.
- Grant Coordinator - The Mongan Institute - ID# 3116391
The MGH Mongan Institute in the Department of Medicine seeks a detail oriented, organized, and self-directed individual to work with investigators throughout the research funding application and administration processes.
- Research Assistant, Health Policy - Disparities Solutions Center - ID# 3116597
The Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) within the Mongan Institute of the Massachusetts General Hospital, is seeking a full time research assistant to assist with the day-to-day duties of a variety of projects.
- Executive Staff Assistant - Equity and Inclusion - ID# 3107584
The MGH Office of Equity and Inclusion is hiring an Executive Assistant to provide support to the Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, as well as to the Administrative Director.
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Coffee with Dr. Joseph Betancourt, MGH Vice President & Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer
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Tuesday, February 4
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
North Garden Room (across from Eat Street Cafe)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Join Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH, Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer of Massachusetts General Hospital, as he hosts a series of coffee chats that aim to engage the MGH community in lively discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Stop by to ask your questions, share ideas, and network with others. Dr. Betancourt can answer questions in English and Spanish. Your input will help shape this important work in the years ahead.
Please note: This event is for MGH employees only.
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Stand Against Racism: Dr. Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility
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Monday, February 10
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Simches Research Center, Room 3.110
185 Cambridge Street
In collaboration with Partners HealthCare Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, the MGH Stand Against Racism Committee invites you to attend the live streamed presentation and facilitated discussion on white fragility (Note: live stream is for MGH employees only). Dr. Robin DiAngelo received her PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she is currently an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education. She has taught courses in Multicultural Teaching, Inter-group Dialogue Facilitation, Cultural Diversity & Social Justice, and Anti-Racist Education. Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, explicating how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.
Dr. DiAngelo is a two-time winner of the Student’s Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. She has numerous publications and books, including Is Everybody Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education, which received both the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018). In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article, which influenced the national dialogue on race. Dr. DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism, was released in June 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Seating for this event is limited and registration is required. To register, please use the link below.
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