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June
Special thanks to Atheendar Venkataramani for being CHeRP’s Visiting Professor and for presenting “Political Power, Status Threat, and Health” to DPM!
Congrats to Taylor Montgomery for presenting “Pediatric Genomic Sequencing: Preferences and Clinical Outcomes Among Underrepresented Populations!” and for visiting DPM before ELSICon!
Congratulations to Dr. Isdin Oke on his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at DPM. Dr. Oke is a pediatric ophthalmologist at Boston Children’s Hospital who has a primary appointment as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology. Dr. Oke is a Harvard Catalyst K12/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training (CMeRIT) Award scholar, whose work focuses on vision screening, pediatric eye care, and the social determinants of vision health. Dr. Oke was a Pediatric Health Services Research Fellow at DPM from 2021 through 2023, and we are now pleased to announce his secondary appointment at DPM, where he joins the Division of Child Health Research and Policy (CHeRP) as a faculty member.
CHeRP Articles that were published featured themes on:
- Elective Genomic Testing as a Clinical Service
- Antibiotic Treatment and Health Care Use with Children who have conjunctivitis
- Vision Screening in children
- Health-Related quality of life in children with genetic conditions
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May
Welcome to CHeRP Skye Yoden! Skye is a second-year doctoral student in the Decision Sciences track of the Harvard Health Policy PhD Program. She will work alongside Dr. Davene Wright as a Summer Research Fellow.
Welcome to CHeRP Caitlyn Limanto! Caitlyn works as a programmer alongside Drs. Christensen and Smith on the PreEMPT model, which investigates the effectiveness of newborn genetic screening for rare childhood diseases.
Congrats to Davene Wright for being awarded her EBERT Award for her project “aUDIO: Understanding Diabetes Drug Initiation and Offerings”!
Congrats to Davene Wright for presenting “Optimizing Choice of Health Insurance for Diabetes” at the 5/2 Research Cafe Seminar!
Congrats to Karen Gilbert and Elena Faugno for presenting Diagnosing the Delay: Uncovering Diagnostic Challenges in Underserved Populations A Mixed-Methods Approach at the 5/16 Research Cafe Seminar!
CHeRP Articles that were published featured themes on:
- Antihypertensive Medications
- Vesicoureteral Reflux Imaging
- Perceived utility of genomic sequencing in pediatric diagnostic testing
- Genomic sequencing in pediatric cancer care
- Familial communication and cascade testing
- Association between race and age of diagnosis of retinoblastoma in children
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April
Congrats to Taylor Montgomery for attending the NHGRI Conference in Seattle! She presented a poster at the NHGRI Trainee and Career development meeting.
Congrats to Kurt Christensen for presenting Assessing Outcomes from Genomic Sequencing: Scalable Approaches at this week’s Brown Bag!
Kurt Christensen presented a poster entitled “Enrollment of a Diverse Population into a Trial of Newborn Genomic Sequencing: Preliminary Data from the BabySeq Project” at the 2024 meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics.
Hadley Smith attended the ACMG Conference in Toronto and presented 3 posters on genome sequencing in pediatric healthcare, genomic sequencing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and private payers claims data!
CHeRP Articles that were published featured themes on:
- Measuring health-related quality of life in children with suspected genetic conditions
- Machine Learning Prediction of Treatment Response
- COVID Vaccine Response in Adults with Antibody Deficiencies
- Association of Race, Ethnicity, and Insurance Status with the Visual Acuity of Retinoblastoma
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March
Congratulations to Ryan Walsh for his 5-year anniversary at DPM and HPHCI!
Congrats to Mei-Sing and team for being awarded their PCORI Supplement “Large language models for disease activity extraction from clinical narratives”!
Cheers to Davene and team for being awarded their NIH grant “InvesT1D: Promoting Adolescent Investment in Diabetes Care”!
CHeRP Articles that were published featured themes on:
- Disseminating research by utilizing social media and other forms of resources
- Patient Preferences on Imaging
- Reducing asthma related hospitalizations
- Pharmacogenomic testing on antiplatelet therapy
- Clinical research informatics application for participant recruitment
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February
Congrats to Isdin Oke and Ann Wu for their publication Gaps in the Vision Screening Pathway for School-Aged US Children featured in JAMA Ophthalmology!
Cheers to Davene Wright and team for their publication Medicare Part D Coverage of Anti-obesity Medications: a Call for Forward-Looking Policy Reform featured in the Journal of General Internal Medicine!
Congrats to Ann and peers for their publication Housing Insecurity and Asthma Outcomes featured in JACI In Practice!
Cheers to Ann Wu and colleagues for their publication Social Determinants of Health in Allergy and Immunology featured in JACI In Practice!
Wendy Chung, MD, PhD was CHeRP’s guest speaker at their February 26, 2024 Seminar!
January
Congrats to Mikaela Batista and Ryan Walsh for both being promoted to Project Coordinators!
Welcome to CHeRP Marcus Henry! Marcus joined CHeRP as a Research Assistant. Marcus completed his MPH at Brown University with a concentration in Epidemiology, where he conducted research on the implications of noise pollution in Boston using electroencephalogram (EEG) on residents with anxiety. While in graduate school, he was a Research Assistant at the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health working on multiple systematic reviews for a variety of projects.
James Buchanan, MA, DPhil was our CHeRP guest speaker for this month’s seminar on January 22! He presented on “The Health Economics of Genome Sequencing: A UK Perspective”.
Congrats to Isdin Oke, Ann Wu and colleagues for their publication Gaps in the Vision Screening Pathway for School-Aged US Children featured in JAMA Ophthalmology!
Cheers to Davene and colleagues for their publication Estimating Transition Probabilities for Modeling Major Depression in Adolescents by Sex and Race or Ethnicity Combinations in the USA featured in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy!
Congrats to Mikaela Batista for presenting at this month’s LEAD Seminar on January 26. She presented “Creating Videos for Research Dissemination”!