Elizabeth Cox awarded American Diabetes Association grant

Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD was recently awarded a 3-year Innovative Translational Science Award from the American Diabetes Association for her project, “Identifying Actionable Self-Management Barriers for Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.” Building upon her prior work developing PRISM (Problem Recognition in Illness Self-Management), a 10-minute survey to identify diabetes self-management barriers among youth, the newly… Read more »

 

New website a powerful resource for African American young adults with depression

African American young adults who have depression often suffer alone and lack the support and resources to manage their condition. In recent article in Ebony magazine discussing these issues, HealthExperiencesUSA.org is highlighted as a powerful resource that can help everyone better understand depression in diverse young adults. “An international movement is underway to provide a… Read more »

 

HIP welcomes Edmond Ramly

We’re excited to welcome Edmond Ramly, PhD as a new faculty member at HIP! Edmond is a health systems engineer and new Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His work focuses on designing best practices for ambulatory care that balance standardization and local adaptations. Recently, he has worked closely with… Read more »

 

Collaborative to improve screening for intimate partner violence approved for PCORI funding

Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison, in collaboration with Laurie Thompsen, MSW from the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Danielle Davidov, PhD, assistant professor of emergency medicine at West Virginia University, recently received approval for a Pipeline to Proposal Tier II award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).… Read more »

 

Heather Johnson discusses masked hypertension

Dr. Heather Johnson was recently featured in a local news story on “masked hypertension,” a condition where blood pressure readings are normal when they are measured at the doctor’s office, but are actually high in non-clinical settings due to stressful or fast-paced daily living. Masked hypertension is the opposite of “white coat hypertension,” where anxiety… Read more »