Center for Healthcare Policy and Research Seminar Series
The Center for Healthcare Policy and Research (CHPR) offers a weekly Health Services Research seminar series. This series features speakers from UC Davis and other institutions whose research and policy presentations relate to health services research. This seminar series focuses on:
- research in progress
- recently completed research
- innovative research methods
- discussions of grant proposal ideas
- practice presentations
Seminar Series Information
Location: Online via Zoom
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Wednesdays
- Seminars are held during the Fall, Winter and Spring academic quarters at UC Davis (but not on University holidays). There are no regularly scheduled seminars over the summer.
Earn CME Credit
For most seminar sessions, Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit is available to practicing physicians.
Students who register for EPI 291 earn 1 unit of course credit for regular seminar attendance.
Become A Presenter
We welcome presentations from policy and research professionals in the health services research field, both internal and external to UC Davis.
If you are interested in giving a talk or receiving seminar announcements, please contact:
Seminar Director
Jeffrey Hoch, Ph.D.
jshoch@ucdavis.edu
Seminar Assistant
Olivia Call
oacall@ucdavis.edu
2020-2021 Presentations
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October 28, 2020 |
"Precisely Practicing Medicine from 700 Trillion Points of Data" Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco
Seperate Registration Required
Registration Link: https://uccs.ucdavis.edu/events/2020-October-28-Butte
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November 4, 2020 |
“The Breastfeeding Experience in NICU Mothers Using Telehealth to Connect with their Hospitalized Infant”
Academic General Pediatrics and QSCERT-PC Fellow, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
University of California, Davis
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November 11, 2020 |
NO PRESENTATION
Veteran's Day
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November 18, 2020 |
“Virtual Family-Centered Rounds during COVID-19 in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit”
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
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November 25, 2020 |
NO PRESENTATION Thanksgiving Break |
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December 2, 2020 |
Director, Energy and Environment Program, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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December 9, 2020 |
“Hand Therapy App Video-visit Optimized Care (HAVOC) Study: Maintaining Hand Surgery Outcomes Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic” Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
University of California, Davis
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
University of California, Davis
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
University of California, Davis
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December 16, 2020 |
"Adherence to Weight Telemonitoring as a Predictor of Rehospitalization and Death for Heart Failure Patients"
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
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December 23, 2020 |
NO PRESENTATION Winter Break |
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December 30, 2020 |
NO PRESENTATION Winter Break |
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January 6, 2021 |
Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Quality and Care Transformation
Washington State Health Care Authority
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January 13, 2021 |
“Impacts of COVID-19 on the Neurodevelopmental Community and a Plan for Continued Care”
Director, UC Davis MIND Institute
University of California, Davis
Graduate Student Researcher, Graduate Group in Human Development
University of California, Davis
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January 20, 2021 |
“Researching the Effects of Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intentions: What we know and what we don't know (yet)”
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
University of California, Davis
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January 27, 2021 |
Dr. Iraklis Erik Tseregounis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
University of California, Davis
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February 3, 2021 |
Deputy Director for Implementation Science, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
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February 10, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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February 17, 2021 |
"Sacramento Area Breast Imaging Registry (SABIR): Impact of COVID-19 on Breast Cancer Screening, Surveillance, Diagnosis, and Treatment"
Professor and Division Chief of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences
University of California, Davis
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February 24, 2021 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediactrics
University of California, Davis
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March 3, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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March 10, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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March 17, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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March 24, 2021 |
NO PRESENTATION Spring Break |
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March 31, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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April 7, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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April 14, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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April 21, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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April 28, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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May 5, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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May 12, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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May 19, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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May 26, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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June 6, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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June 9, 2021 |
To Be Announced |
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Past Presentations
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October 21, 2020 |
“Community Gun Violence and It’s Prevention” Postdoctoral Fellow, Violence Prevention Research Program
University of California, Davis
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October 14, 2020 |
“Nursing Homes and COVID-19” Professor, Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
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October 7, 2020 |
“Reducing Maternal Health Disparities through Obesity and Diabetes Prevention” Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
University of California, Davis
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September 30, 2020 |
“Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on other Seasonal Respiratory Virus Activity in the UC Davis Health System: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of a Natural Experiment”
Professor, Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
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| March 11, 2020 |
"Chronic Medical Conditions and Late Effects Following Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in HIV-1 Uninfected and HIV-infected Adolescents and Young Adults: A Population-Based Study" QSCERT FellowUniversity of California, Davis
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February 26, 2020 |
"Medicaid and Mortality: Assistant Professor In-Residence, General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
University of California, Los Angeles
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| February 19, 2020 |
The Scholars Strategy Network (SSN) Webinar Presentation "How to Influence the California Legislative Process as a Researcher" Non-Profit Consultant and Trainer
Public Policy Advocacy and Non-Profit Organizational & Leadership Development
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February 12, 2020
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HRSA Webinar Webinar Link: https://hrsa.connectsolutions.com/bhw_nrsa_series/ Dial-in: 888-989-3386
Participant Code: 6729080
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February 5, 2020 Location Change: Room 2204 |
"Results from a randomized trial of a clinician communication training intervention to improve processes and outcomes of care related to chronic pain in primary care." Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis
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| January 29, 2020 |
"Trends and Outcomes of Dose Tapering Among Patients on Long-Term Opioid Therapy, 2008-2017"
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Public Health
University of California, Davis
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Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of California, Davis
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| January 15, 2020 |
"Negative findings in cost-effectiveness analysis of mental health interventions: How often, how wrong and how about an alternative? Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
Professor, Department of Public Health Science University of California, Davis
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January 9, 2020 Special Event **SEMINAR TO OCCUR ON THURSDAY THIS WEEK** Q&A Session to follow from 1:00pm -2:30pm |
"Alameda County Social - Health Information Exchange" Medical Director, Alameda County Care Connect
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| December 4, 2019 |
"The Green Prescription: Improving Population Health through Environmental Interventions |
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| November 20, 2019 |
"Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Health Care Issues"
UC Davis ADVANCE Social Sciences Research Initiative Postdoctoral Scholar
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| November 13, 2019 |
"Comparison of Record Linkage Software for De-duplicating Patient Identities in California’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program"
Adjunct Professor, Divisinon of Biostats, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis
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| November 6, 2019 |
"Update on OSHPD’s Healthcare Payments Data Program: An All Payer Claims Database for California" Chief Stragetgy Officer & Branch Chief, Information Services at OSHPD Ted Calvert
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| October 30, 2019 |
"Population-based Mammography Screening, Socioeconomic Status and Breast Cancer Mortality – Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ireland" John Cullinan, B.A.S.F., M.A., M.S.c., Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway Policy Editor, The Economic and Social Review |
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| October 23, 2019 |
"Zero-Inflated Count Regression with Application to Lung Cancer Incidence" Julianne Penner, M.S. |
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| October 16, 2019 |
"An Exercise in the Art of Policy Trade-offs and Decision-Making" David Panush
President, California Health Policy Strategies, L.L.C. |
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| October 9, 2019 |
"Disparities in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the United States: 2000-2016" & Alec Schmidt, M.S Associate Professor |
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October 2, 2019 |
"Prior Authorization: Political Lotions, Potions and Elixirs of the Healthcare system" Internal Medicine Physician
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September 25, 2019
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"The Science of Science Communication: Informal Strategies for Public Engagement" Community Engagement and Research Specialist
School of Nursing, PhD Candidate, UC Davis, & Principal, Malik WCC
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August 26, 2019
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"Solutions to high drug costs: Lessons from Asia" |
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June 5, 2019
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"Perspectives on pregnancy, contraception, and abortion among young men involved in the juvenile justice system" Maria Catrina D. Jaime Ph.D., M.P.H., C.P.H.
QSCERT-PC Fellow
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May 29, 2019
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"Using heart rate variability measures in research." Sarah Kahle, Ph.D.
QSCERT-PC Fellow
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May 22, 2019
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"Are Tobacco 21 Policies Associated with Changes in Tobacco Prevalence among 18-20 year olds? A Multi-State Evaluation using BRFSS 2013-2017" QSCERT-PC Fellow
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May 15, 2019
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"Medi-Cal Mailings: All Household vs. Targeted to Smokers" |
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| May 8, 2019 |
“Putting shared decision making into practice: Lessons from implementation research in Canada" Sarah Munro, PhD
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May 1, 2019
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"Which Inpatient Care Experiences Matter Most to Patients?"
Post Doctoral Scholar, UC Davis
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April 24, 2019
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"Routine ICU Admission for Monitoring Trauma Patients" Jessica Cox, M.D.
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April 10, 2019
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"Patient Engagement with eConsults: Lessons from a Mature Safety Net System" |
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March 27, 2019
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Anne White, Ph.D.
Medical Sociologist, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research QSCERT fellow, UC Davis |
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March 20, 2019
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"Risk-stratified breast cancer screening to improve the balance of benefits and harms" Diana Miglioretti, Ph.D.
Dean’s Professor of Biostatistics, UC Davis Senior investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute |
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March 13, 2019
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"The Trajectory of my Research and Collaborations in Cognitive Aging" Laurel Beckett, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Chief, Division of Biostatistics Department of Public Health Sciences UC Davis |
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March 6, 2019
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"Minimum Wages and Public Health: Natural experiments to test for effects of income on health" |
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February 27, 2019
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"Curiosity + Passion + Skills = Research(er)" Valerie Gilchrist, M.D.
Chair of the Department of Family Medicine School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin |
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February 20, 2019
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"Healthcare Fraud 101" Joshua Frost, MSPH (HP&M), PMP, CFE, CASP
Medicaid Program Integrity Specialist Optum Government Solutions |
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February 13, 2019
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"Privacy, Ethics and Personalized Health" Nick Anderson, M.S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences Chief, Division of Health Informatics Director, Department of Public Health Sciences UC Davis |
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February 6, 2019
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"The application of trauma-informed principles while conducting research" Caroline Giroux, M.D., FRCPC
Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UC Davis |
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January 30, 2019
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"The use of Telemedicine in Emergency Departments to provide Pediatric Critical Care Consultations" James Marcin, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice Chair for Pediatric Clinical Research Director, UC Davis Center for Health and Technology Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Professor, Department of Politics UC Davis |
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January 16, 2019
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"Improving Health Outcomes Through Enhanced Patient-Clinician Relationships" Michelle L. Dossett, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School |
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December 12, 2018
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Peter Hilsenrath, Ph.D. Joseph M. Long Chair of Healthcare Management Professor of Economics |
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December 5, 2018
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Lisa Ikemoto, B.A., J.D., LL.M. Professor of Law UC Davis School of Law |
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November 14, 2018
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Su-Ting Li, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor Associate Vice Chair of Education Residency Program Director Pediatrics, UC Davis |
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November 7, 2018
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"Policy Surveillance as Public Health Tool: An Example from Tobacco Control" Diana Cassady, M.P.H., Ph.D. |
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October 31, 2018
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Prabhu Shankar, M.D., M.S., MRCP (UK) |
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October 24, 2018
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"The Ecology of Clinical Decision Making" Veena Manja, MBBS, MS |
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October 17, 2018
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"Marriage and Health over the Middle Years" Seonwha Lee QSCERT-PC Fellow |
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October 10, 2018
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"How to Get Your Paper Rejected (and Other Reflections of a Journal Editor)" Patrick Romano, M.D., M.P.H. |
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October 3, 2018
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"Outcomes of a fruit and vegetable prescription program for participating households and children" Ronit Ridberg, Ph.D., M.S. |
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Sepember 26, 2018
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“Chronic School Absenteeism and Health” Christopher Kim, M.D., M.P.H. |
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August 29, 2018
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"Love and marriage: Theoretical and empirical explanations for the marriage-health link." Patricia N. E. Roberson, PhD |
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March 14, 2018
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“Idaho’s Journey in the Development of a Ten Year Strategic Plan for Healthcare Reform and Graduate Medical Education”
President and Chief Executive Officer |
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October 18, 2017
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Mark Yarborough |
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October 11, 2017
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Ethan Evans, Ph.D. |
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October 4, 2017
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Elizabeth David, M.D., F.A.C.S. |
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September 27, 2017
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Executive Director, Health Access
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September 20, 2017
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"Outcomes of a Real-life Demonstration of Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered and Comparative Effectiveness Research Design" Katherine Kim, Ph.D, M.P.H., M.B.A. |
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January 6, 2016
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"When Does the Hospital-Attributable Quality Signal Fade? – Empirical Evidence For A Seven-Day Readmission Interval" David Chin |
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January 13, 2016
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"Testing for Godot: An explanation of the paper, "If nothing goes wrong, is everything all right?" by Hanley and Lippman-Hand published in JAMA (1983)" Jeffrey Hoch |
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January 20 , 2016
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"Can we BEAT heart failure? Results of the Better Effectiveness after Transitions for Heart Failure(BEAT-HF)trial of patient education and home telemonitoring" Patrick Romano |
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January 27, 2016
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"A Work In Progress: Examining Hospital Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) receiving Dialysis" Lorien Dalrymple |
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February 3, 2016
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"Provider Birth Attitudes and Cesarean Section Rates: Convergent Validity of a Measure of Birth Culture" Emily White VanGompel |
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February 10. 2016
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" A CDC Regional Center of Excellence in Refugee Health at UC Davis in Times of Political Uncertainty" |
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February 17, 2016
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"An overview of Diagnosis Related Groupers/ICD 9& 10 coding relevance to Healthcare policy research" Oluseun O Atolagbe |
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February 24, 2016
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"The application of net benefit regression to do cost-effectiveness analysis with patient data" Jeffrey Hoch |
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March 2, 2016
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“What data sets are available in OSHPD and what could they be used (or have they been used) to investigate?” Merry Holliday-Hanson |
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March 9, 2016
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"L-carnitine for valproic acid overdose: an instrumental variable analysis" James Chenoweth |
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March 16, 2016
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"Finding solutions to urban violence: using evidence to inform intervention" Magdalena Cerda |
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March 23, 2016
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"Doing What Works: The Public’s Perspectives on Reducing the Overuse of Unnecessary Healthcare" Susan Perez/ Marge Ginsburg |
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March 30, 2016
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"The issue about bench science" Yin Chen |
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April 6, 2016
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"Preliminary results from a mixed-methods study of patient-clinician communication about opioids & chronic pain" Stephen Henry |
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April 13, 2016
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"Access to Primary Care Providers for Medi-Cal Patients: A Secret Shopper Pilot Study" Joy Melnikow |
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April 20, 2016
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"The Eight Basic Payment Methods in Health Care" Kevin Quinn |
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April 27, 2016
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Misty Humphries |
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May 4, 2016
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"Use of Abdominal Ultrasonography (FAST) in Pediatric Blunt Trauma Patients" Jim Holmes |
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May 11, 2016
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"One or more HEC projects" Debra Oto-Kent |
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May 18, 2016
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"Ideas for a 'physician report' card project he is developing at UCD." Mithu Molla |
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May 25, 2016
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Rob Dorion |
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June 1, 2016
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"Talk about how you’ve approached a single issue using different methods." Janet Coffman |
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June 8, 2016
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Jessie Pintor |
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September 2, 2015
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"Towards Evidence-Based Family Planning Policy" Bimla Schwarz |
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September 9, 2015
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"Reconciling Best Evidence and Stakeholder Preferences: Methologic Challenges and Opportunities" Sonal Singh |
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September 16, 2015
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"Using Public Deliberation to Tackle Complex Issues in Healthcare" Susan Perez |
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September 23, 2015
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"Forecasting the Economic Burden of Autism in 2015 and 2025 in the United States" Paul Leigh |
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September 30, 2015
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"Economic Evaluation of Telemedicine for Patients in Intensive Care Units" BK Yoo |
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October 7, 2015
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"SEER-linked Virtual Tissue Repository" Rosemary Cress |
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October 14, 2015
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"Supplemental Screening for Breast Cancer in Women with Dense Breasts: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force" Joy Melnikow |
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October 21, 2015
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"The Effect of Medicaid Managed Care on the Vitality of Safety-Net Hospitals: Evidence from a Florida pilot program" Lindsey Woodworth |
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October 28, 2015
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"Latino Children at the Intersection of Immigration and Healthcare Policy: Insurance Disparities by Parental Documentation Status" Jessie Pintor |
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November 4, 2015
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"The next generation of guidelines for authors: The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Stateme" Patrick Romano |
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November 18, 2015
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"Research on Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care" Cynthia Campbell |
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December 2, 2015
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"The Affordable Care Act: Support Infrastructure and the American Welfare State" Ethan Evans |
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December 9, 2015
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"CA’s general implementation of the ACA" Anthony Wright |
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