by Irene Hsiao | Jun 28, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
Nicole Bohr joined UChicago Medicine in 2017 as a nurse scientist. With a BSN from the University of Iowa, Bohr worked as an ICU nurse for several years before returning to the University of Iowa to pursue an MSN and PhD in nursing. In 2020, Bohr became a research...
by Irene Hsiao | Jun 28, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
Dr. Danielle Lazar is Executive Director of Research, Evaluation, and Innovation at Access Community Health Network (ACCESS), a federally qualified healthcare center with 35 sites in the Chicago metropolitan area, and ACCESS’s Center for Discovery and Learning, an...
by Irene Hsiao | Jun 28, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide
Members of the CDRP delivered talks and presented posters at the 2023 Society of General Internal Medicine Conference May 10-23 in Aurora, Colorado. (Photos courtesy of CDRP associate director and PITCH fellowship director Neda Laiteerapong)
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 26, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
Winter 2023 Highlights from the CDRP (December 2022-March 2023) Robert S. Nocon testified before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions at the hearing, “Community Health Centers: Saving Lives, Saving Money” The CommunityRx-Dementia trial...
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 25, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
On March 2, 2023, CDRP affiliate Robert S. Nocon, assistant professor of health systems science at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, was one of five expert witnesses to testify before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and...
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 25, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
In 1897, sociologist Emile Durkheim suggested that suicide is a consequence of an individual’s difficulty belonging to a group—whether a failure to fit in with others or an excessive submission to others’ goals, beliefs, and rules. Inspired by Durkheim’s seminal...
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 25, 2023 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
Audris Wong, MBA, is Chief Financial Officer of the Adler Planetarium and has been a member of the CDRP External Advisory Panel since 2016. She has a background in consulting, with expertise in healthcare, nonprofit management, technology, and education. Wong has...
by Irene Hsiao | Dec 21, 2022 | News
Dear Friends, In 2022, the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy celebrated ten years of improving the care and health of individuals at risk for, and living with, chronic diseases. As the founding director, it has been wonderful to experience the tremendous...
by Irene Hsiao | Dec 21, 2022 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MSc is the Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice in the Department of Medicine and affiliate faculty member of the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy at the University of Chicago. She was elected to the National Academy of...
by Irene Hsiao | Dec 21, 2022 | Frontpage Hero Slide, News
The Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy is excited to welcome John (Jack) Flores and Lauren Mitchell as members of the 2023 cohort of our Primary care Investigators Training in Chronic disease & Health disparities (PITCH) Fellowship! Established in 2021...
