Research in Progress Seminars

Thursdays from 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Online seminars

The Department of Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences' biweekly research-in-progress seminar is a venue where trainees, local and visiting faculty, health system leaders, and representatives of community-based organizations and industry have the opportunity to present ongoing and planned research projects.

These seminars generally consist of presenting to 15-30 people representing DHDPS faculty and staff, clinical faculty, trainees, and health system leaders, and are informal, lively, and fun. You may also be interested in scheduling a Research Help Session.

We provide constructive feedback for projects at all stages of development, from study conception to analysis to presentation of results for conferences or manuscripts.
Feedback is given with the aims of teaching and learning about study design and analysis, improving the project being discussed, and giving presenters an opportunity to find collaborators within and beyond DHDPS.

How to Attend

If you would like to receive an email reminder about upcoming events or have an interest in sharing your work at one of these meetings, please contact us at DHDPS@Baystatehealth.org

Meeting Schedule

Upcoming Sessions

November 9th, 2023	William Soares, MD, MS, Director of Harm Reduction Services, Emergency Medicine, Baystate Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and DHDPS, UMass Chan-Baystate	SPOiLER - Safer Prescribing of Legal Opioids from the Emergency Room: Results, Lessons Learned and Next Steps
November 30th, 2023	Cristina Huebner Torres, MA, PhD	Topic TBD
December 7th, 2023	Mat Goebel, MD	Topic TBD

Past 2023 Sessions

Date	Presenter	Topic
January 12, 2023	Ajay Bhasin, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine) and Pediatrics, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine	“A Plague of Malnutrition?”
January 26, 2023	Amy LeClair, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center's Center for Health Equity Research	Using Implementation Science to Increase Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data in Clinical Settings
February 9, 2023	Todd Brown, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the UAB Division of Cardiovascular Disease	The National AACVPR Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Registries: Opportunities for Research and Future Collaborations
March 9, 2023	Apurv Soni, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director, Program in Digital Medicine; Physician Champion for Digital Health; UMass Memorial Health Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School	Novel approaches for Translational Research through Digital Medicine
April 6, 2023	Kimberly Fisher, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Pulmonary, Allergy And Critical Care Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School	COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
April 13, 2023	Mayuko Ito Fukunaga, MD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School	Technology-assisted implementation of lung cancer screening
May 4, 2023	Karin Johnson, MD, Professor of Neurology and Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate; Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Neurology, UMass Chan-Baystate; Medical Director, Baystate Regional Sleep Medicine Program; Facility Director, Baystate Medical Center Sleep Laboratory	How to study the long-term effects of artificial time including daylight saving time
May 11, 2023	Lawrence King, PhD, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics at the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UMass Amherst	Understanding the opioid epidemic: Are prescription rates really exogenous?
June 8, 2023	Lauren Westafer, DO, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate	De-Implementation of Low Value Imaging in Pulmonary Education (DELVE PE) - Study Update
June 22, 2023	Bruce Landon, MD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine and Practicing Internist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Medicare Advantage: is it all smoke and mirrors?
June 29, 2023	Ben Bovell-Ammon, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston Medical Center	Understanding & Addressing Health Disparities Related to Mass Incarceration
July 13, 2023	Ben Gerber, MD, Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School - Worcester	Team Support to Improve Glycemic Control Using CGM in Diverse Populations (TEAM CGM) and Ambulatory Research Consortium (ARC)
July 27, 2023	Rebecca Baron, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate	Acute sexual assault care in the ED
September 7, 2023	Julia Soulakova, PhD, Biostatistician and Professor of Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Central Florida	Substance Use Among Marginalized Populations: Analysis of Nation-Wide Health Surveys
September 14, 2023	Cheryl Ackridge, Lead Clinical Researcher at Cerner Corporation	Overview of Learning Health Network
October 5th, 2023	Ken Kleinman, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts	Cluster-Randomized Trials: Applications in Infection Prevention
October 12th, 2023	Laurel O'Connor, MD, FACP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School	Implementation and Evaluation of a community-based Mobile Integrated Health Program for the Management of acute COPD exacerbation
October 26th, 2023	Shankar Viswanathan, DrPH, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury: Evidence of a Hidden Epidemic? -India Study