NEWS
Cancer Survivorship in Primary Care Website Now Available
This site (http://cancersurvivorshipprimarycare.org/) serves as a resource for primary care providers who treat survivors of cancer. With the increase in the number of cancer survivors in the U.S., research shows that primary care providers can improve their skills and comfort levels when it comes to cancer related issues. The site, created by Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a general internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, is designed specifically for medical professionals, not patients. It contains links to a number of resources, including clinical, research, and educational opportunities, as well as resources for survivors and caregivers. To suggest links, articles, or conferences that will be useful for the site, send an email to info@cancersurvivorshipprimarycare.org.
The GEM-Care Planning Initiative (GEM-CP)
From NCI--The GEM-Care Planning Initiative (GEM-CP), a project initiated by the National Cancer Institute's Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) and Office of Cancer Survivorship, is intended to build consensus in the survivorship community around high-priority process and outcome measures for use in studies of survivorship care planning. This is an essential first step towards the use of shared measures across care planning research efforts. Increased use of shared measures will enable comparability across studies and facilitate expeditious identification of strategies to implement optimal care planning - or barriers to that planning - for cancer survivors. To visit the GEM-CP site, click here. For additional information and to view the GEM-CP timeline, click here.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health: Translating Science to Practice
This book, which was featured at the 5th annual NIH D&I conference, focuses on propelling the field of D&I research forward. Contributors to the book from the Institute for Health Research (KPCO) include Borsika Rabin, Jim Dearing, John Steiner, and Bridget Gaglio. Click here for more information.
New Book on eHealth Featuring Contribution from KPCO
eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change features a chapter from Dr. Borsika Rabin (KPCO) and Dr. Russell E. Glasgow (NCI). The book provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. Drs. Rabin and Glasgow's chapter centers on Dissemination and Implementation of eHealth Interventions. Click here for more information.
Congratulations to Dr. Borsika Rabin
Dr. Borsika Rabin, staff researcher at KPCO, co-authored "Providing Care for Cancer Survivors in Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems: Practices, Challenges, and Research Opportunities." The article was recently published in the Journal of Oncology Practice. Click here to read the abstract.
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February 9, 2012
By Jim Dearing, KPCO
Research about sustainability is becoming a hot topic. The Brown School of Social Work at Washington University hosts a sustainability research conference beginning today, February 9. This is a topic that has never achieved much attention on the agendas of researchers or funders, but that condition may be shifting. Read more
January 25, 2012
By Alanna Kulchak Rahm, KPCO
Training in Dissemination and Implementation Research
Recently, the NIH sent out a call for applications to attend the second annual Training Institute in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (click here to visit the website). This is a week-long intensive training in...Read more
December 28, 2011
By Paula Baldwin, 2011 Doctoral Fellow
Research, Theory and Reality
For the past five years, I have spent my time studying the intersection of health and communication. I have used theory as the lens with which to examine patient-provider interaction, medical adherence, breaking bad news, grief and end-of-life issues. I have read hundreds of journal articles based on studies done on...Read more
CHECK THIS OUT
JNCI Call for Papers: Cancer Prevention and Control in the Changing Communication Landscape
Letters of intent for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute are due September 1, 2012. Click here for more information.
Cancer Patients Rarely Speak Up About Care Problems
Click here to read the article from Reuters, featuring a study conducted by Kathy Mazor from Meyers Primary Care Institute.
Funding Opportunity from the UM Center for Health Communications Research (CHCR)
The CHCR has announced their 2012-2013 Developmental Projects Grants Program. Abstracts are due May 21 at 5 PM ET. Click here for more information.
Training Opportunity--QUERI Enhancing Implementation Science Course
The QUERI Enhancing Implementation Science (EIS) Cyber Seminar Series includes separate collections of presentations related to the CIPRS "Enhancing Implementation Science in VA" training programs. Click here for more information.
"Survivorship Care Plans in Research and Practice"
Click here to read this article from Salz et. al in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol. 62(2), 101-117.
"What Did the Doctor Say? Health Literacy and Recall of Medical Instructions"
Click here to read this article from McCarthy et. al in Medical Care, Vol. 50(4), 277-282.
Articles on Patient Centered Care and Goal Oriented Patient Care
Click here to read these articles.
New Job Announcements!
Click here to check out who is hiring!
Learning Opportunities Available in Social Marketing
Click here to learn more about the workshops available this June.
6th Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference: Translating Science to Care
The conference will be held from June 14-16, 2012 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. Click here for more information.
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