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Be Active, Live Healthy, Lose Weight, 06/24/2010 Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Health Incentives at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, is interviewed by NBC News discussing companies using financial incentives for weight loss. "The ideal incentive system is likely not one where we're continuously paying people, but one in which we help people transition to a healthier state, help them develop better habits and ways that might be more sustainable than continuously paying them incentives," says Volpp. The story aired on nearly 20 NBC affiliates nationwide, in cities including Washington, DC, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Cincinnati. |
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Medical Home Competitive Pilot Funding Opportunity, 05/03/2010 The VISN 4 Medical Home Evaluation Center (MHEC) invites applications from VISN 4 investigators for pilot project support from the MHEC Competitive Pilot Program. The VISN 4 MHEC’s mission is to evaluate the effects of the VA Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and concurrently evaluate and improve its implementation. The primary purpose of the VISN 4 MHEC Competitive Pilot Program is to support the implementation and evaluation of focused and innovative pilot interventions designed to advance PCMH goals for selected vulnerable populations. |
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CHERP Investigators Win Presitigious National Awards at SGIM Annual Meeting, 05/03/2010 Five investigators from the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion received prestigious national awards at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). The 33rd annual meeting, co-chaired by a CHERP investigator, was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 28 – May 1, 2010. |
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CHERP Investigators Win Presitigious National Awards at SGIM Annual Meeting, 05/03/2010 Five investigators from the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion received prestigious national awards at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). The 33rd annual meeting, co-chaired by a CHERP investigator, was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 28 – May 1, 2010. |
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Team led by Kevin Volpp wins BMJ Getting Research into Practice Award, 04/09/2010 The team led by CHERP Core Investigator Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD won the BMJ Award for Getting Research into Practice for creating a partnership with The General Electric Corporation to test financial incentives to help smokers quit and convincing the company to implement this approach for all its 152,000 US employees this year. More than 200 projects were nominated for this award. |
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CHERP Faculty Honored with Awards for Teaching and Research, 11/12/2009 David Asch, MD, MBA, was presented the 2009 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association American of Medical Colleges (AAMC) at their annual meeting. Peter Groeneveld, MD, MSc and Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD, received Awards of Excellence from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
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CHERP FY2010 Pilot Funding RFP, 08/04/2009 CHERP invites applications from VISN4 researchers for pilot research proposals that seek to identify, understand or intervene to promote equity and quality in health and healthcare among Veterans. The deadline is Tuesday, September 15, 2009. |
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CHERP Investigator Rachel Werner Receives National Award, 07/01/2009 Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, a Core Investigator at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP, received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. This prestigious award recognizes scholars early in their careers as health services researchers who show exceptional promise for future contributions. |
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CHERP Investigator Featured in CNN story, 05/14/2009 David Casarett, MD, MA, CHERP Core Investigator and Staff Physician, Philadelphia VA Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, is quoted by CNN in this report about families preparing for the death of a loved one. |
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CHERP Investigator Honored by National Hispanic Medical Association, 03/26/2009 Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE, a Core Investigator for CHERP, a Staff Physician and Research Associate at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was recognized for her leadership in advocacy at local, state and national levels on issues of importance to the health of the Hispanic community by the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA). |
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