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By Michael Parchman, MD, MPH, director of the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Group Health Research Institute When, in whom, and how to lower cholesterol are long-standing questions. But this summer, new findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) brought to light evidence that it is reasonable and cost-effective to use a cardiovascular risk score...

By Dona Cutsogeorge, staff author and web content writer at the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Group Health Research Institute Healthier patients and happier docs: now it’s possible with Healthy Hearts Northwest. Healthy Hearts Northwest is a three-year initiative to help primary care practices in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho achieve better heart health outcomes, earn Maintenance of Certification...

By Julian Rogers, staff author and owner of Juju Eye Communications, LLC Helping patients get their high blood pressure under control is a challenging goal for primary care practices everywhere. For 2014 Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion award winner Peninsula Community Health Services (PCHS) in Bremerton, Wash., this goal was especially important. More than 26 percent of their patients have...

Babies born with oral clefts, in particular cleft palates, can face significant feeding challenges because their craniofacial anomaly typically makes it impossible to extract milk from a mother’s breast or from a bottle. Preterm infants face similar challenges as they are often developmentally immature and need feeding support until they can transition to breastfeeding. Newborns with clefts and those born...

Submit a Letter for a KL2 Applicant You have been selected as one of three references to be included with the prospective scholar's full application packet. Please complete all items, and upload your confidential letter of reference (two page maximum) no later than October 7, 2024 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. Type of Letter I am the applicant's...* Primary Mentor Department...

When: October 27, 2015 – October 29, 2015 all-day
Where: Bell Harbor Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98121, USA

Washington State is hosting the 17th Annual National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Conference, which will be held October 27 – 29, 2015 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. The three-day conference will provide...

[NOTE: The application period for this award is now closed] Finding enough time to dedicate to research pursuits can be a challenge for any junior faculty member. After fulfilling teaching and clinical responsibilities, free periods of time left for research are often few and far between. The Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program, which...

For 10 weeks this summer, a group of University of Washington graduate students spent more than 30 hours each week trying to answer a single question: would this product do well in the marketplace? Their answers were part of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ and Washington Research Foundation’s Summer MBA Fellowship program, which provides graduate students an opportunity to...

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