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February Updates from the Mongan Institute
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Dear Colleague,
In this newsletter you will find:
Mongan Institute News and Events
- News & Announcements:
- Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH, Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, PhD, and Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc, join Mongan Institute Faculty
- Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, to lead the new Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Gastric Cancer Interception Research Team
- Upcoming Events:
- RSVP: Blumenthal Lecture with Dr. Sandro Galea: "The Poorest 80 Percent: Health Haves, Health Have-Nots in 2020 America"
- Apply: 2020-2021 Disparities Leadership Program
- Recent Publications
- Social Media Highlight
- Job Opportunities
News and Events from Our Partners
- Apply: MGH DOM Funding to Support 2020 LGBT Health Workforce Conference
- Apply: DF/HCC: Call for Mentors for CURE Program
- Register: MGH Lifestyle Medicine Symposium 2020
- Apply: HMS Foundation Funds Spring Awards 2020
- Register: DiversityxMESH 2020 Disparities Hackathon
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Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH, Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, PhD, and Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc, join Mongan Institute Faculty
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Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH, is an Instructor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a practicing internal medicine hospitalist of the Albright Hospital Medicine Unit within the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also serves as Director of the Community CAre Transitions (C-CAT) Initiative, linking inpatients at high risk for readmission with community health workers focused on closing gaps in care driven by social determinants of health.
Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, PhD, is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Research Scientist at the Disparities Research Unit within the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a labor economist, and his research interests include understanding the mechanisms underlying racial/ethnic disparities in mental health outcomes and mental health service delivery, as well as the effects of social context, culture and minority status on depression and anxiety.
Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc, is an attending neurologist and Physician-Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She recently released her Doctors for Immigrants toolkit developed from a multi-state study that explored how healthcare facilities can protect and welcome their immigrant patients: http://doctorsforimmigrants.com/
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Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, to lead the new Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Gastric Cancer Interception Research Team
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Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, Director of the Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit at the Mongan Institute, will lead the new Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Gastric Cancer Interception Research Team, bringing together a multinational, interdisciplinary group of researchers to take a new approach to fighting the world’s third-leading cause of cancer death.
The $3 million research team will be funded over three years and is supported by generous grants from the Cless Family Foundation and Sara & Jeff Schottenstein Family Charitable Fund.
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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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2020-2021 Disparities Leadership Program Application Deadline: March 31
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The Disparities Leadership Program (DLP) is the Disparities Solutions Center's year-long, hands-on executive education program focused exclusively on helping health care leaders achieve equity in quality. The program is designed to help you translate the latest understanding disparities into realistic solutions you can adopt within your organization. The DSC has the unique advantage of 12 years of experience developing and implementing the DLP, the only program of its kind in the nation.
Through the DLP, we develop leaders prepared to meet the challenges of health care transformation by improving quality for populations who experience disparities. The program has three main goals:
- To equip health care leaders with a rich understanding of the causes of disparities, the vision to implement solutions, and the strategies to transform their organization to deliver high-value health care.
- To help leaders create strategic plans or projects to advance their work in reducing disparities in a customized way, with practical benefits tailored to every organization.
- To create a professional learning and networking environment for leaders in health care to engage in peer-to-peer learning, crowd sourcing of ideas and strategies for reducing disparities, resource sharing, collaboration, and ongoing support in the form of a national DLP alumni network.
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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. - Multisite, Randomized Trial of Early Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care in Patients with Advanced Lung and Gastrointestinal Cancer: Alliance A221303
Temel JS, Sloan J, Zemla T, Greer JA, Jackson VA, El-Jawahri A, Kamdar M, Kamal A, Blinderman CD, Strand J, Zylla D, Daugherty C, Furqan M, Obel J, Razaq M, Roeland EJ, Loprinzi C. Multisite, Randomized Trial of Early Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care in Patients with Advanced Lung and Gastrointestinal Cancer: Alliance A221303. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2020 Feb 7. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0377.
- Evaluation of Existing Patient Educational Materials and Development of a Brochure for Women with Dense Breasts
Warner ET, Kennedy M, Maschke A, Hopkins MF, Wernli K, Gunn CM. Evaluation of Existing Patient Educational Materials and Development of a Brochure for Women with Dense Breasts. The Breast. 2020 Feb 5. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.001.
- HIV Antiretroviral Therapy Costs in the United States, 2012-2018
McCann NC, Horn TH, Hyle EP, Walensky RP. HIV Antiretroviral Therapy Costs in the United States, 2012-2018. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Feb 3;. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.7108. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32011622; NIHMSID:NIHMS1063477.
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Are you following the Mongan Institute Centers on social media? The Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit just launched its Twitter account. Below are links to follow some of our other centers on Twitter!
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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.
- 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.
- Post-Doctoral Fellow - Medical Practice Evaluation Center - ID# 3112800
The MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) is seeking a highly qualified, post-doctoral researcher with experience in field epidemiology and a career interest in global aging research to lead implementation of an innovative, multidisciplinary, and NIH R01-funded research program focused on the effects of HIV on aging in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Grant Coordinator - Medical Practice Evaluation Center - ID# 3111004
The MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) is seeking a full-time Grant Coordinator to facilitate the management of the Center's sponsored research portfolio throughout the award life-cycle.
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MGH DOM Funding to Support 2020 LGBT Health Workforce Conference
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The Department of Medicine’s Diversity and Inclusion Board (DIB) is requesting applications from DOM faculty, fellows, or residents for funding to attend the 8th annual LGBT Health Workforce Conference at the Belfer Research Building in New York City from Thursday, April 23, to Saturday, April 25. The DIB will cover the costs of conference registration, lodging, and travel. For more information about the conference, visit their website: http://bngap.org/lgbthwfconf/
To apply, please submit the following in one PDF:
- A letter outlining the conference or trainng and describing how the experience will impact your clinical care and/or scholarly work
- An updated CV
Applications are due by Friday, February 21. Applications selected for sponsorship will be notified by Friday, February 28.
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DF/HCC: Call for Mentors for CURE Program
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Join the effort to foster the next generation of STEM Leaders! The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center is looking for mentors to host a CURE (Continued Umbrella of Research Experiences Program) student in your research environment for 8-12 weeks this summer.
Mentor expectations include: attending mandatory mentor orientation, overseeing student creation of learning plan, abstract, and final presentation, and providing access to space and resources necessary for student to succeed. Student stipends are covered by the CURE Program.
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MGH Lifestyle Medicine Symposium 2020
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Wednesday, March 18
8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Simches Conference Room, 185 CRP 3-3110
185 Cambridge Street
The inaugural MGH Lifestyle Medicine Symposium will be an opportunity for all members of the MGH community interested in healthy lifestyle change to convene and learn from each other. The event will highlight current programming utilizing healthy lifestyle change for improved health by representatives from cardiology, oncology, primary care, and psychiatry. As an initial step towards organizing hospital wide, participants will also share perspectives on best steps for connecting, communicating, and collaborating to expand lifestyle interventions at MGH.
Lifestyle Medicine, as defined by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, is the evidence-based practice of helping individuals and families adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that affect health and quality of life. Examples of target patient behaviors include, but are not limited to, eliminating tobacco use, improving diet, increasing physical activity, and moderating alcohol consumption. To learn more, visit www.lifestylemedicine.org.
Click below to register using Registration Code: A4515G288. CMEs are offered and this event is free to MGH clinicians.
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HMS Foundation Funds Spring Awards 2020
Each year, several foundations invite HMS faculty and postdocs to apply for their fellowships and grants. Interested investigators must first apply for the HMS nomination through the HMS Foundation Funds, and a committee will select the final candidates to submit applications to the foundations.
Faculty interested in applying for any of the awards listed can apply for the HMS nomination by submitting an application online by Monday, March 23. (Note: the Hebert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship is due on Monday, March 3, by 11:30pm.)
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DiversityxMESH 2020 Disparities HackathonIn Collaboration with the MGH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
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Friday, May 1 - Sunday, May 3
5:00pm Friday - 3:00pm Sunday
Massachusetts General Hospital
Suggested Attendees: Physicians, Support Staff, Technologists, Nurses, Entrepreneurs, Researchers, Engineers, prior participants in MESH programs.
What is a Hackathon? A hackathon is a portmanteau of “hacking” and “marathon”, where hacking refers to the idea of developing novel approaches to a problem. A hackathon is an event where groups of participants with diverse backgrounds/skillsets come together to solve real world problems with innovative solutions. Typically held over a 2-3 day period of time, the event provides attendees the opportunity to identify a problem, form a team with talented individuals with different skill sets, and then come up with an innovative solution. Part networking, part conference, part career development, hackathons have become a fun and favorite way to identify and solve problems.
A Diversity Hackathon? Whether it is people of color, gender diverse individuals, economically disadvantaged people, or non-English speakers, every healthcare system has populations that do not receive the appropriate level of care. Despite initiatives on improving the patient experience from a hospital-wide prospective, the patient experience in radiology has remained the same. As such, barriers to imaging continue to exist and lead to imaging missed care opportunities which disproportionately affect under-served populations. The purpose of this event is to identify those barriers and develop solutions to ensure everyone has access to the care they deserve.
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