Recognition September 2024
- McClure appointed VP and director
- Williamson presents at national statistics meetings
- Shortreed and Simon present at NIH Collaboratory Grand Rounds
- Richards speaks at Epic meeting
- Green speaks to American Heart Association and Kaiser Permanente
McClure appointed VP and director
Congratulations to Jennifer McClure, PhD, on her new role as vice president for health research and director of the Center for Health Research with the Kaiser Permanente Northwest region. McClure has been a scientific investigator with Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) for the last 26 years and has also held leadership roles, most recently as director of the Investigative Science Division. KPWHRI wishes her well as she starts her new position.
Williamson presents at national statistics meetings
In August, KPWHRI Assistant Biostatistics Investigator Brian Williamson, PhD, spoke at 2 national meetings. He presented on “Subgroup Analyses in Cluster-Randomized Trials Based on Aggregated Predictors” at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon. He also spoke on "Inference for Model-Agnostic Longitudinal Variable Importance” at the 24th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability in Corvallis, Oregon.
Shortreed and Simon present at NIH Collaboratory Grand Rounds
The National Institutes of Health Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory strengthens our capacity for research that engages health care organizations as research partners. KPWHRI Senior Investigators Susan Shortreed, PhD, and Gregory Simon, MD, MPH, gave the Collaboratory's Grand Rounds webinar in August, titled "Does Starting Buprenorphine Prevent Suicidal Behavior: What Trial Should We Emulate?"
Richards speaks at Epic meeting
The Epic electronic health record system — used by many health organizations including Kaiser Permanente — holds an annual meeting in Wisconsin every August. Assistant Investigator Julie Richards, PhD, MPH, presented last year and was invited to speak again at the 2024 meeting, giving a talk on "Optimizing Firearm Suicide Prevention in Health Care."
Green speaks to American Heart Association and Kaiser Permanente
In September, KPWHRI Senior Investigator Bev Green, MD, MPH, gave 2 presentations on her research on blood pressure measurement and hypertension. She spoke in Chicago to the American Heart Association Hypertension Annual Meeting. She also presented in Pasadena, California, at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Department of Health Systems Science.
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