UME MSA Project Overview

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1	FM MSA Project Overview 2019-2020
2	Family Medicine Faculty	Basic Job Description	Areas of Expertise and/or Scholarly Work	Current Specific Project Options
3	Alison Shmerling, MD MPH	FM Westminster Clinic, FM UME core faculty, FM UME Preceptor Recruitment, 4th year advising for FM	Fostering interest in family medicine, recruiting and retaining quality FM preceptors, clinic-based advisory board	(1) Ambulatory M&M: Improving safety for our outpatients (2) Improving preceptor teaching - development of tips & tricks resource or curriculum, (3) Impact of creation of teaching video from a high-quality preceptor on preceptor teaching (pre-post evaluation)
4	Bethany Kwan, PhD MSPH	FM UME Faculty, Co-Director FM UME MSA Program, Investigator -- Adult & Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research & Delivery Science (ACCORDS) Director of Dissemination & Implementation Research, CCTSI	Innovative care models in primary care, research design and consultation, diabetes self-management, social psychology, dissemination and implementation science, exercise behavior change, behavioral health and primary care, survey design, mixed methods research, pragmatic trials	(1) Large pragmatic trial evaluating implementing diabetes group visits in primary care (2) Evaluation of telepsychiatry implementation (3) Stakeholder engagement and development of a health information resource app for people who are transgender (4) Invested in Diabetes Study - qualitative evaluation fo diabetes peer mentor experience
5	Bonnie Jortberg PhD, RD, CE	Faculty Department of Family Medicine, Board of Directors Society of Teachers of Family Medicine - Medical Student Education	nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and self-management support	(1) Unhealthy Alcohol Use - Facilitating Alcohol Screening and Treatment (FAST) - supporting practices in alcohol screening and treatment (2) Integrating Dental Health into Primary Care Practices - collaboration with Denver Health to develop, implement and validate an oral health integration change package and toolkit in community health centers in CO, AZ, WY, and MT
6	Cleveland Piggott, MD MPH	FM AF Williams Clinic, FM UME Core Faulty, Phase 1-2 Electives & Programming, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion DFM	social justice, leadership	(1) Marijuana use prevention with 5th grade students in affiliation with Colorado Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) (delivering sessions, evaluation) (2) Middle School to Medical School Project (scholarly work around URM pipeline development and evaluation) (3) Climate Survey (Department or Residency Level) - key intervention to work on diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Work on survey changes, evaluation and best practices. (4) Mentoring and Promotion Process for Faculty (esp women and minorities)
7	Deb Seymour, PsyD	FM UME Core faculty, Advisory College Program, Associate Director - Foundations of Doctoring - Communications Curriculum	Integrated primary care, mental health, medical humanities, medical education, primary care, social injustice in systems of how patients are insured, workforce development	(1) Middle School to Medical School (M2M) - program run by URM students fostering interest in health professions career with Skinner Middle School, (2) Knowledge of Indigenous peoples in medical students (3) Curriculum Development for student-run communication workshop (4) Motivational Interviewing curricula for TREK (5) Happy to mentor new student projects aligning with areas of expertise
8	Don Nease, MD	Professor Vice Chair for Community, Director of Community Engagement & Research - CCTSI, Director for Practice Based Research - ACCORDS, Director - State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP)	Practice-based research, community-based participatory research and health interventions	(1) Enabling Caring Communities - building infrastructure to link community based organizations addressing social determinants and healthcare using sociotechnical design principles. Currently focused in Longmont, but may be expanding to other communities. (2) Patient Perspectives of Primary Care Team Burnout: (1) To gain a better understanding of how patients at primary care practices perceive burnout of their clinicians and other office staff members; (2) To investigate whether or not primary care clinicians and staff members rate themselves as burning out or being burned out, and their personal level of burnout - current study with a specific and active role for students right now (could assist in survey collection at practices, analysis, and write-up (3) Primary care practices as community catalysts for health - in development
9	Elizabeth Kvach, MD	Broad-scope FM at Denver Health - Lowry clinic (high refugee population), inpatient/Ob Denver Health & University hospital; Medical Director of LGBTQ Center of Excellence - Denver Health	LGBTQ Health, Immigrant Health	Would be willing to work with the DH LGBTQ Center of Excellence team and a student to identify a student project of interest that aligns with current COE research and evaluation needs. DH COE Current Projects: trans health (Dr. Kvach's personal area of interest), educational materials to support LGBTQ care (provider-facing, patient/community facing). Current long to-do list of projects that could align well with a passionate student
10	Janet Meredith, MBA	Past Executive Director, 2040 Partners for Health	community engaged research; new project ideas may be developed in conjunction with Janet Meredity & community	1) Community & Students Together Against Healthcare Racism (CSTAHR) - not enough providers of color, implicit bias in healthcare, implicit bias in education (2) Working to End Teen Obesity (communication between doctors & teens) (3) Burma Refugee Project - understand/impact alcohol use (4) Addressing Infant and Maternal Mortality (5) Iraqi Refugee Project - health education & isssues related to medications (6) Climate Change and Health Equity Project (7) American Indian Mental Health (8) Entry points to care and mental health
11	Jen Caragol, MD	FM AF Williams Clinic & FM service UC Hospital, Core Faculty UC Family Medicine Residency	mindfulness-based research in primary care, women's health including obstetrics care, FM residency education	Virtual Ob Group Visits: helping this work for patients without knowledge of how to use Zoom, use video features on phone, speak other languages and designing scholarly evaluation of the work to support MSA requirements
12	Jennifer Carroll, MD MPH	Research Professor Dept Family Medicine, Director of National Research Network - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), Research Director - UC Health Integrative Medicine Center		current project list pending
13	Jessica Wallace MPH, MSHS, PA-C	FM practice at Montbello Clinic at Denver Health, Program Manager - MEND Programs, Co-Director - Healthy World Denver Health	programs supporting multi-discipinary obesity clinics and support with a focus on pediatric populations (many projects!)	Multiple ongoing projects at Denver Health (safety net hospital system and outpatient clinics) associated with addressing pediatric obesity among underserved populations
14	Julie Herzog	Director of Operations & Programs, Colorado Association of Family Medicine Residencies		Analyzing FM applications in Colorado regarding underrepresented minorities and application data within and from outside Colorado.
15	Kari Mader, MD MPH	Full-scope FM at Aurora Community Healh Center & University FM Inpatient service, Chief Operations Officer - DAWN Clinic, Director of Clinical and Education Innovation - Aurora Community Health Commons, Salud Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) Director	community-based interventions, innovative models of care for underserved patients, healthcare leadership & professional identity development, innovative interprofessional health education programs	Many active opportunities for students: (1) Evaluation of the DAWN SRFC Community Leaders of DAWN group (2) Evaluation of FM Resident PHACE curriculum(Community Engagement, Advocacy & Public Health curriculum), (3) Evaluation of family medicine student advising program (4) Specialty care/procedural care needs assessment and solution generation project in Aurora (5) Prehealth program at DAWN - conducting needs assessment and evaluation of intervention to improve prehealth student mentorship at DAWN, focusing on URM students (6) Evaluation of key clinical and educational outcomes at DAWN SRFC (critical evaluation for funders), (7) Important outcomes for evaluation in SOM Curriculum Reform, Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LIC), (8) Multiple project opportunities related to Aurora Community Health Commons (ACHC) project
16	Mark Deutchman, MD	Endowed Chair, Rural Health. Director of Rural Track	rural health research	contact Mark D for projects
17	Melissa Johnson MD	FM Westminster Clinic, FM UME core faculty, PAE Course Director	education	would be open to supporting general projects if a student has a project interest and needs a mentor to support
18	Michael Matergia, MD	full-scope family medicine, core faculty St. Joseph's FM residency. Investigator, Center for Global Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. Executive Director, Broadleaf Health and Education Alliance	Global Health, Social Determinants of health, complex patients, medication assisted treatment curriculum in residency program	(1) Community health worker project evaluation at Saint Joes (2) School health in India - developing intervention protocols utilized by our school health workers (3) Medication Assisted Treatment clinic at Saint Joe's (development? eval?) (4) Potential for more global health projects if specifically passionate
19	Morteza Khodaee, MD MPH	FM AF Williams Clinic, Core Faculty Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, Team Physician	sports medicine related research; case study reports about FM cases	contact for possible projects - open to taking passionate, driven students on a case-by-case basis
20	Sarah Brewer, PhD MPA	Associate Director of Colorado Children's Outcomes Network (pediatric practice-based research network)	many community and practice-based research projects with an equity lens	Primary care based prevention of perinatal depression (great for students interested in prevention and maternal health equity)
21	Shandra Brown Levey PhD	Director of Behavioral Health & Integrated Programs DFM, Team Psychologist - Denver Nuggets	Behavioral & Mental Health	(1) An adult adhd protocol for primary care, (2) PCMH projects related to smoking cessation, maximizing BH access, diabetes management, depression management, (3) biofeedback implementation (paused due to COVID), (4) BH screning strategies, (5) Health Coaching, (6) Comparing outcomes for integrated vs non-integrated care, (7) Virtual reality in primary care, education & provider wellness (paused due to COVID), (8) BH within the PCMH, (9) Telepsychiatry, (10) BH elements of medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opiate use disorder (OUD) (paused due to COVID)
22	Tamara Oser, MD	Director, High Plains Research Network	community and practice-based research	(1) Collaboration with Dr. Brewer - Primary care based prevention of perinatal depression (great for students interested in prevention and maternal health equity) (2) Practice-based diabetes research (always happy to combine interests of specific students - ex: Worked with a sports medicine interested student in at Penn State who developed a survey looking at certified athletic trainers as an unrecognized partner to identify Type 1 DM in kids prior to presenting with DKA
23	Kenyon Weidle, MD & Carmen Vandal, MD	Core Faculty Swedish Family Medicine Residency	Core FM projects	(1) Hepatitis C treatment in our clinic (2) Point of Care U/S- there are a group of residents currently working on developing a residency curriculum for this
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