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Valerie Press featured in The Hospitalist
“Most individuals would benefit from better attention from clinicians in the health system on health literacy—most would benefit from better communication on our end,” says CDRP faculty affiliate Valerie Press in Society of Hospital Medicine’s The Hospitalist. “We owe it to our patients to do everything we can to help them understand and identify if they need additional resources.”
New model for how type 2 diabetes progresses validated with data from 120K patients
Members of the CDRP, including CDRP director Elbert Huang and associate director Neda Laiteerapong, have created a new model for how type 2 diabetes progresses with information on 17 distinct diabetes-related outcomes. Diabetes Outcome Model of the U.S. (DOMUS) can help scientists, policymakers, and health system managers understand diabetes progression and its relationship to social determinants of health and better understand how their choices can affect population health and health disparities.
2025 PITCH graduate Lauren Mitchell studies integrating social care into health care
Lauren Mitchell, MD, MS, a 2025 graduate of the CDRP PITCH fellowship, researches how CHWs help communities and how to implement programs to provide social care within the healthcare system