Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Dori Rosenberg, PhD, MPH, Assistant Scientific Investigator, KPWHRI, Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Department of Health Services
Summary
In this talk, Dr. Rosenberg will describe the current field of sedentary behavior research. She will then describe several studies she developed to reduce sedentary time in older adults. The focus will be on her recently completed pilot randomized controlled trial which sought to better understand the cardiometabolic health impacts of reducing sedentary time among older adults with obesity.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speakers: Gaia Pocobelli, PhD, Research Associate, KPWHRI; Onchee Yu, MS, Biostatistician, KPWHRI; Sharon Fuller, Programmer, KPWHRI; Susan Warwick, MD, Obstetrician/Gynecologist, WPMG Medical Director of Professional Development and Wellness, Kaiser Permanente Washington
Summary
Routine screening for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in pregnancy reduces risks of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes but the best screening approach remains unclear. The traditional approach is a two-step process: a screening test followed by a diagnostic test in women who screen positive. In 2010, a key international organization endorsed a one-step process: a diagnostic test given to all women. This approach has a lower threshold for diagnosis but whether it improves outcomes for women and their infants is not yet settled. In 2011 Kaiser Permanente Washington (KPWA) issued a new clinical guideline recommending providers switch from the two-step to the one-step approach. We conducted a before-after cohort study of women enrolled in KPWA who had a singleton live birth delivery during 2009-2014. We compared a wide range of perinatal outcomes before (01/2009-03/2011) and after (04/2012-12/2014) the guideline change among women who received prenatal care from providers internal to KPWA. We also made this comparison among women who received prenatal care from external providers (not exposed to the guideline change) to control for time trends in the outcomes that were unrelated to the guideline change. In this seminar, we describe our findings and our delivery system’s response to them
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Brian Clark, Experience Designer, Kaiser Permanente’s National Marketing & Digital Services Experience Design Group (Oakland, CA).
Summary
Starting with a high-level orientation on how Human Centered Design (HCD) is integrated & supported across Kaiser Permanente’s national & regional groups. We will review a few specific case studies that highlight how HCD has been able to positively impact our members’ care experiences. Lastly, we will have a chance for discussion on possible opportunities for HCD research collaboration & consultation related to KPWHRI health research.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Hyatt Olive 8, Seattle
This symposium will bring together biostatisticians, health informaticists, epidemiologists, and other data scientists to discuss health research and methods that involve large health care databases. Expert speakers will share their research on statistical approaches to learning from electronic health care data, methods for precision medicine, and health policy:
Students and those new to the field of health care data analytics are especially encouraged to attend. On Monday, October 22, we are also offering two short courses on data adaptive causal inference in observational taught by Mark van der Laan, PhD and Susan Gruber, PhD and randomized studies and data visualization taught by Michael Jackson, PhD.
The Symposium is sponsored by the Biostatistics Unit at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) and the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington.
Our website is now live. Register here for the 2018 3rd Seattle Symposium on Health Care Data Analytics.
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Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Janelle S. Taylor is Professor in (and was formerly Chair of) the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, where she has researched and taught medical anthropology since 1999, and is an Affiliate Investigator at KPWHRI. She is the author of one scholarly book, and co-editor of another, and has published widely in medical journals as well as social science journals.
Summary
This presentation will offer an overview of research questions, methods, and possibly some tentative initial findings from an NIA-funded R21 secondary study of ACT data, on "Health Outcomes for Patients with Dementia without Family," on which Marlaine Gray is site PI for KPWHRI. Taylor will discuss how this mixed-methods project is informed by concepts and questions from medical anthropology, and how ACT study data can be used to address critically important questions about dementia caregiving.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Wylie Burke, MD, PhD, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington
Summary
Research participants often value the opportunity to receive personal results obtained as part of their participation in research, and some results may offer important health information. However, research results may be uncertain or preliminary, and researchers may not have the appropriate skills or resources for returning them. A recent report from the National Academy of Medicine offers recommendations for addressing this challenge.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Katherine Un, Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology Master’s Candidate, Royal Veterinary College of London
Summary
More than ever, we are required to acquire and transfer knowledge across disciplinary boundaries and collaborate on innovative projects to keep up with the ever-evolving field of health care. Crossdisciplinarity and innovation are trendy ideas, yet their real-life application to solve complex societal issues has been challenging. We would like to share our experience of accompanying networks of accomplished actors who, in spite of their individual expertise, failed to achieve their collective objectives because they lacked a cohesive management strategy. Our work is grounded in Concept-Knowledge theory (CK), a management framework known for facilitating innovation in complex, cross-disciplinary contexts. CK theory has been successfully used by a number Global Fortune 500 companies, but we were the first to adapt it to answer societal challenges. I will first give a brief overview of CK theory, what it is and how it works, followed by two case studies drawn from my work. We were able to use CK theory to not only simplify the structure of the concepts and solutions but also improve their completeness and evidence base. This approach helped to breakdown intellectual and creative barriers of the various stakeholders and promoted more effective communication. Hopefully, it will also improve public spending. Our experience highlights the value of CK theory to clarify design and management decisions around complex and cross-disciplinary, societal issues—typical of the healthcare challenges taken on at an institution like KPWHRI.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Salene M. W. Jones, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Summary
This presentation will cover the basics of patient-reported outcome (PRO) development and use as well as the current research directions of the field. Examples will mainly come from mental health and cancer care but the principles of PRO use in research and clinical practice can be applied to many other chronic conditions such as neurological conditions and heart disease.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Where: Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington
The Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is the gathering place for individuals leading the charge to transform delivery systems and health care in a rapidly changing landscape. Over the course of this three-day conference, more than 2,500 individual attendees work together to share and strengthen the evidence needed to inform the decisions that affect the health of individuals and communities.
KPWHRI faculty participating in panels
For more information, visit the AcademyHealth 2018 Annual Research Meeting website.
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speakers: Jane Anau, Yates Coley, Jane Grafton, Dianne Johnson (patient partner), Karen Wernli (Elena Kuo also contributed to the presentation)
Summary
This seminar came about in response to a September 2017 Nature editorial (view PDF [114 KB]). The editorial starts with the vandalization of a statue in Central Park that honored a U.S. medical researcher who conducted experiments on enslaved women in the 1800s. It cites other times medical research was done on non-consenting people, in particular in people of color and vulnerable populations, and gives examples of how professional organizations have handled recognition of researchers whose valuable scientific findings were made possible only by knowingly harming people. Broadly, the editorial was not well received by current medical researchers. It was revised by the Journal, with an acknowledgement that the original was “offensive and poorly worded.”
In this seminar, we’ll take a deeper-dive into the issues raised by the editorial, discussing the lasting consequences that actions described in the editorial have had on health research. We will give examples from study teams at KPWHRI on how we can conduct research that is focused on the rights of participants, acknowledging the history of other researchers. We will also touch on involvement of patients as researchers.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Patient-Centered Research for Standards of Outcomes in Diagnostic Tests: The PROD Study
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speakers
Summary
Current methods for evaluating and reporting imaging tests are inadequate. They focus primarily on accuracy, with little known about other outcomes of imaging tests that are important to patients. The PROD study aimed to use qualitative and systematic literature overview methods to understand patient and provider experiences with different imaging tests then compare those experiences to what is being reported in the literature. The researchers identified the patient-centered outcomes important to patients and where gaps exist in current radiology research.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Expanding Use of Real-World Evidence, a National Academies Workshop Series
Where: Online webinar
Speaker: Gregory E. Simon, MD, MPH, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Psychiatrist, Washington Permanente Medical Group
To join the online meeting:
Go to https://dukemed.webex.com/dukemed/j.php?MTID=m1a4a0665a615ae0382440edecedbdd33
You must log in to the URL first.
Click ‘Audio Conference’
Choose ‘I will call in’, select the Toll Free number.
Dial in using the information from the dialog box that appears.
Be certain to use the Access Code AND the Attendee ID.
Troubleshooting
If the URL above does not work, go to dukemed.webex.com and enter:
Meeting Number: 739 348 059
Meeting Password: 1234
For Audio only:
Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-855-244-8681
Access code: 739 348 059
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Dashboard Design and Exploratory Data
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Laura Ichikawa, Biostatistician III, KPWHRI
Summary
Data dashboards can be a useful tool for exploring data and sharing information with project teams. This seminar will cover lessons learned on dashboard design and give some examples of dashboards set up to help projects better understand their data.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
The Pathogenesis of Research Misconduct
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Ferric C. Fang, MD is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology and Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is a clinician-scientist, educator and journal editor who has authored a series of articles on the contemporary scientific enterprise and opportunities for reform.
Summary
Dishonest research practices threaten the integrity of the scientific enterprise. This lecture will examine the problem of research misconduct, focusing on retracted publications in the scientific literature. The underlying factors contributing to the recent apparent increase in misconduct will be discussed, along with potential strategies for reform.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Combining Data Sources via Probabilistic Record Linkage
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speaker: Mauricio Sadinle, Genentech Distinguished Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Summary
The availability of multiple data sources containing complementary information on a common population is a common feature of today’s data world. In this talk Mauricio Sadinle will present methodologies for combining data sources at the individual/unit level. The goal of record linkage is to merge two disparate datafiles containing information on two overlapping sets of entities. This is challenging in the absence of unique identifiers (e.g., SSNs) due to missingness, errors in the data, and the existence of different individuals with legitimate similar information (e.g., individuals in the same family). From a statistical point of view, we are interested in developing methodologies that properly quantify the uncertainty in this linkage process. Sadinle will review traditional record linkage methodologies and present some advances and challenges.
Discussion with Eric Larson—Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Senior Caucus Meeting, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Presenter: Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, MACP, Vice President for Research and Health Care Innovation, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington, Executive Director and Senior Investigator, KPWHRI
Summary:
Dr. Eric B. Larson will discuss his book Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life on Friday, March 2 at Kaiser Permanente Capitol Hill Main Building, Room D649, 201 16th Avenue E., Seattle, Wash.
Webinar: Overview of the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net
Register: http://bit.ly/2Dnhsen
Time: 9 to 10 a.m. Pacific
Presenters: Katie Coleman, MSPH, research associate, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute's MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, and representatives from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Council on Behavioral Health, and National Association of Community Health Centers
Summary:
The Delta Center will provide technical assistance to ten state primary care associations and behavioral health state associations, who will be selected through a competitive grant process to participate in a Learning and Action Network. The Delta Center aims to inspire innovation and change in value-based care and payment, through both policy and practice.
Please join this informational webinar at 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, to learn more about the Delta Center and this funding opportunity.
Learning Health System Program: Leveraging research capabilities to accelerate impact
Where: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 4–5 p.m., Room 1509A
Speakers:
Summary:
Kaiser Permanente Washington is investing in a Learning Health System (LHS) program to leverage the capabilities of our region’s Research Institute and enable KPWA to accelerate progress toward delivering on its strategic goals. The LHS team will present the background and context for this program, share data and stories from our 2017 work and describe goals for the LHS Program in 2018 and beyond.
Discussion with Eric Larson—Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life
Where: Barnes & Noble, Clackamas Town Center, Portland, Ore, 7 p.m.
Presenter: Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, MACP, Vice President for Research and Health Care Innovation, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington, Executive Director and Senior Investigator, KPWHRI
Summary:
Dr. Eric B. Larson will discuss his book Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life on Tuesday, Jan. 2 in Portland, Ore.
Land Acknowledgment
Our Seattle offices sit on the occupied land of the Duwamish and by the shared waters of the Coast Salish people, who have been here thousands of years and remain. Learn about practicing land acknowledgment.