Upcoming Events

November 14-18, 2009: 37th NAPCRG Annual Meeting in West Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Presentations include:

Michael D. Fetters, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., associate professor — “What Computer Games Do Medical Students Like And Why? Results of a Qualitative Assessment," and co-presenting a preconference workshop entitled, “Mixed Methods Research: Introduction, Research Questions, Study Design And Implementation.”
Caroline Richardson, M.D., associate professor — co-presenting “Workshop: Maybe It's The Egg?: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Chairs About Family Medicine Research, and How to Work, Survive and Thrive Together.”
Donald E. Nease, Jr., M.D., associate professor — “Long-term Sustainability of Depression Care Improvements Following an Improvement Collaborative Emphasizing Practice Change.”
Masahito Jimbo, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor  — “Women Adhere Less Often than Men to Physician Recommendation for Complete Diagnostic Evaluation.”

December 3-4, 2009: 18th Annual Primary Health Care of Women Conference to be held at the Towsley Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The event is hosted by the Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Presentations include:

Margaret A. Riley, M.D., lecturer — “Evidence-Based Health Maintenance in Women.”
Andrew H. Heyman, M.D., M.H.S.A., adjunct assistant professor, lecturer — “Acupuncture: Hands-on Workshop.”
Karen L. Musolf, M.D., assistant professor, & Caroline L. King, M.D., lecturer — “Vitamin D & Osteoporosis Case Studies.”
Caroline L. King, M.D. — “Vitamin D: Importance in Women’s Health.”
Karen L. Musolf, M.D. — “Screening Guidelines for Osteoporosis.”
Mack T. Ruffin, IV, M.D., M.P.H., professor — “Update on HPV Vaccinations.”
Sara L.Warber, M.D., associate professor — “Holistic Benefits of Time Spent in Nature.”
Amy B. Locke, M.D., assistant professor — “ Integrative Medicine Approach to Common Office Problems.”

Research News

October 29, 2009: Balint president visits Australia
Don Nease, M.D. will travel to Sydney Australia on November 3 to meet with the Balint Society of Australia. He is the current president of the American Balint Society.

October 6, 2009: Clinical Decision-making — Donald E. Nease, Jr., M.D., associate professor, presented “Decision Support: Using Guidelines and Specialist Interactions” at the Michigan IPIP: Learning Collaborative #2” meeting in Lansing, Michigan September 23, 2009.

October 5, 2009: Health Information Technology Presentation —
Michael D. Fetters, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., associate professor, presented a talk entitled, “Chronic Disease Management using Health Information Technology: Friend or Foe for Free Clinics” at the Free Clinics of the Great Lake Region conference in Detroit, Michigan.

October 6, 2009: Women's Health — ISSVD World Congress & Post Graduate Course in Edinburgh, Scotland September 11-17, 2009. Presentations include:

Laurie J. Legocki, Ph.D., post-doctorate fellow, James E. Aikens, Ph.D., associate professor, and Barbara D. Reed, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor, presented on “Sexual function questionnaire interpretation among women with and without vulvodynia.”
Barbara D. Reed, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor, gave presentation entitled, "World Congress: Workshop on research needs in managing localized provoked vulvodynia” and a Post Grad Course entitled “Presentation on Prevalence of VVD."

August 3, 2009: Clinical research on Type 2 Diabetes — James E. Aikens, Ph.D., associate professor, led researchers in six-month study that found diabetic patients with poor glycemic control had higher chance of experiencing depressive symptoms. He added, “Our findings suggest an opportunity for physicians to more carefully monitor these patients for intensified depressive symptoms, or perhaps to initiate treatment for depression.” This study is considered one of the few longitudinal studies relating glycemic control to depression. The study appears in the American Diabetes Association publication Diabetes Care, volume 32, number 7, pages 1177-1181. Read more about this topic on the Michigan Diabetes Training and Research Center website.

August 3, 2009: Clinical Research on Depression — Authors of article reveal “that nearly all practices that showed the greatest improvement in depression care also used more effective process for change.” Donald E. Nease Jr., M.D., associate professor, among authors of “an exploratory qualitative study [that] was conducted to examine primary care practices’ adoption of effective change processes.” The article titled “Integrating practices' change processes into improving quality of depression care” appears in Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf, volume 35, issue 7, pages 351-7.