CDRP Affiliates Receive NIH Grants
Congratulations to CDRP affiliates David D. Kim, Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Harita Shah, Elizabeth Tung, and Anna Volerman on receiving grants from NIH!
Winter/Spring 2024 Highlights
New diabetes drugs prompt reassessment of care strategies for older patients Research shows GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs are effective but come with complex concerns Rising hospital closures disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities Meet PITCH Fellow...
New Diabetes Drugs Prompt Reassessment of Care Strategies for Older Adults
“For many years people have talked quite vaguely about older patients, saying, ‘This older patient is complex,’ ‘This older patient is frail. Now we have tools that are much more specific and reproducible.”
CDRP at SGIM 2024: Marshall Chin and Monica Peek receive honors
Congratulations to CDRP faculty affiliates Marshall Chin and Monica Peek on being honored at the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting May 15-18, 2024 in Boston! CDRP faculty affiliate and UChicago General Medicine Chief Deborah Burnet commends...
Meet PITCH Fellow Jennifer Hwang
A graduate of Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and a technologist in the Cytogenetics Laboratory at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine for six years, PITCH Fellow Jennifer Hwang remembers a feeling of awe when she first arrived at the University of...
Meet 2024 PITCH Fellow Chris Kaperak
The PITCH fellowship is an amazing opportunity to gain additional skills and begin projects that I hope to use and continue over the next many years to help me further our understanding of how the way we deliver HIV care can affect other aspects of people’s health.
Summer/Autumn 2023 Highlights from the CDRP
Summer/Fall 2023 Highlights from the CDRP (July-December 2023) CDRP hosts 11th Annual Symposium, Strengthening Adolescent Mental Health and Health Policy Electronic patient portals improve mental health screening efforts Guiding principles to address bias in...
CDRP Hosts 11th Annual Symposium: Strengthening Adolescent Mental Health and Health Policy
On October 30, 2023, the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy hosted its 11th Annual Symposium, Strengthening Adolescent Mental Health and Health Policy, at the Gordon Center for Integrative Sciences at the University of Chicago. With a keynote lecture by...
Electronic patient portals improve mental health screening efforts
Typically when people get sick or injured, they must seek help to get care. But a common symptom of depression and other mental disorders is social withdrawal—in other words, their sickness may prevent sufferers from seeking help. In the face of this contradiction,...