Welcome to the GIM Family!

Kashyap joins GIM faculty

In this issue:

• Paul W. Seavey lecture with Dr. Helene Gayle Registration 
• Bettye Rose Connell Lecture Registration
• Health Equity Day Registration
• FEED Conference Registration
• Health Services Research Day Registration
• Download the Primary Care Track Toolkit, 3rd Edition
• Kudos and Congratulations!
• Service and Education news
• Research Corner
• Faculty Publications

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Don't Miss Opportunities!

Bettye Rose Connell Memorial Lecture,
April 9, Miller-Ward House

15th Annual Faculty Education, Enrichment, and Development (FEED) Conference: April 12, 2024

8 am-noon
via Zoom

Learn about Emory's commitment to AI and how to utilize it in various settings. The agenda includes AI-focused sessions ranging from an overview of AI and resources at Emory to applications for teaching and research. Also, learn about how AI can make you more efficient! More details, agenda, and registration are available here. 

GA CTSA 10th Annual Health Services Research Day: May 7, 2024

8 am - 3 pm
Rollins School of Public Health Auditorium

The Georgia CTSA and Emory Health Services Research Center are pleased to present the 10^th annual Health Services Research Day - a symposium and networking opportunity where researchers learn about ongoing quality, effectiveness, and value-based research activities across the state of Georgia  

DOM Health Equity Day
Tuesday, May 21

RYSE and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council invite you to participate in DOM Health Equity Day on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The theme of this year's Health Equity Day is Empowering Emerging Voices. Click here to register, submit a poster abstract, submit a nomination for the 2024 Outstanding Scientific Citation RYSE Award, and/or volunteer for this year's Health Equity Day.  

Now Available! Primary Care Toolkit, 3rd Ed.

GIM faculty received three out of the eight awards recently bestowed by the Emory Alumnae Association. Dr. W. Clyde Partin, Jr. (78C 83M 86MR) received the Award of Honor; he is pictured above far left. Dr. Sarah Henn Koumtouzoua (18MR) received the Distinction in Community Service Award; she is pictured above, second from left. Dr. Jada Bussey-Jones (88C, 92M) received the Distinguished Medical Achievement Award; she is pictured above second from right. 

Higgins Receives 2024 IPECP Project Funding

Launched in 1996, the Emory Farmworker Project provides free health care to more than 2,000 farmworkers and their families annually in pop-up clinics in Bainbridge and Valdosta, Georgia. Led by the Emory University School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Program, this project will support the inclusion of DPT and MD students in the program. Read more here.

On the News:
Bergquist on Aromatherapy and Winawer on COVID

AJPH article by  Turbow and Goodman
highlights need for PHGPM Training

Dr. Sara Turbow, GIM faculty member and Program Director of Emory's Public Health and General Preventive Medicine (PHGPM) Residency and Fellowship Program, and former PHGPM Program Director Dr. Richard Goodman have an article in the American Journal of Public Health explaining the importance of increasing the workforce of physicians who are trained in population and public health. 

PHGPM residencies are available to physicians (doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine) after they have completed a minimum of one year of a clinical residency, although many PHGPM trainees have completed a full clinical residency in other specialties (e.g., internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine). Training consists of clinical rotations focused on preventive medicine, primary care, and conditions of public health significance. PHGPM trainees are also required to spend time in rotations in local, state, or federal public health settings to obtain experience in frontline public health practice. Additionally, trainees must complete coursework for a master of public health degree or equivalent. Learn more about Emory's PHGPM Program and read the full article.

The research corner is a space to share research-related opportunities, tips, and more. Please email Dr. Saria Hassan with suggestions!
 

     GIM-Wide Monthly Research Meeting

Thanks to all who attended our last monthly meeting.
Slides and recordings from the sessions can be found on the GIM Division Intranet. 
 

Next TWO Meetings: Thursday, March 21st and Friday, April 18th at 12:30 pm 

A special series of sessions by Dr. Richard Goodman: “Competencies in biomedical scientific writing and critical appraisal of the literature are complementary and reinforcing.  The following two presentations therefore focus on the needs for and approaches to strengthening competencies in both of these priorities for academic research.”

Thursday, March 21^st at 12:30pm: “A Scientific Writing Adjuvant: Critical Appraisal of the Literature”

Friday, April 18^th at 12:30pm: “Critical Appraisal Adjuvant: Pearls for Effective Scientific Writing”

Zoom Link 

Need project funding support?

• Faculty can apply for up to $1000 for project support
• Funds will be distributed on a rolling basis
• Applications will be reviewed monthly
• To access the application, click here

Need a Master of Public Health student assistant?

• MPH students can be very helpful on research projects as they bring skills they are learning in their program
• MPH students are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week as long as the work fulfills one of their MPH program competencies
• The application form will ask you what specific tasks you are looking for the student to do and which competencies the work will fulfill. Once approved we will work with you to post your position on the MPH student website.
• If you have any questions regarding the form, please contact saria.hassan@emory.edu
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis monthly
• Please note that many students are looking now for Spring semester employment so the sooner you get your request in and approved the larger the pool of students you will have to choose from.
• If you are interested in having an MPH student work with you to support a project, please complete the application form here

Does my study need IRB review?

Given much of the confusion around this topic after the November meeting, we have worked with the IRB to generate a step-by-step guide to help you answer this question. Please review the PowerPoint here which hopefully makes things somewhat more clear!

Department of Medicine publishes a weekly newsletter called What's UP in DOM Research. Subscribe by clicking HERE.

Recent Collaborative Faculty Publications

Dr. Sharon Bergquist and Dr. Miranda Moore published Effect of the Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative on Employee Health Habits and Body Weight: A 12-Month Workplace Wellness Trial with the Healthy Kitchen team.

Dr. Ted Johnson and Dr. Emily Pinto Taylor published "Call 911 - That's my [Advance Care] Plan": Factors that Inform Advance Care Planning Conversation Readiness Among Aging Persons Living With HIV.

Dr. Lesley Miller and Dr. Shelly-Ann Fluker published A contactless cure: Leveraging telehealth to improve hepatitis C treatment at a safety-net hospital and Large-Scale, Primary Care-Based Hepatitis C Treatment in an Urban, Medically Underserved Patient Population with the Grady Liver Clinic team.

Dr. Francois Rollin and Dr. Maura George published Contextualizing racial associations in prostate cancer to expose structural causes.

Dr. Francois Rollin and Dr. Mehul Tejani published The Importance of Naming Structural Racism as a Root Cause of Racial Inequities in Breast Cancer Outcomes.

Dr. Francois Rollin, Dr. Colin Washington, and Dr. Maura George published Residual confounding and misattribution of risk in sleep inequities.

Recent Faculty Publications

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