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Research Projects
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The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Division of CME contributes in several community collaborations and grant projects. Some participants in these collaborations are recruited from the Alabama Practice-Based CME Network. Click on the link(s) following the project description for more information.
| Obesity Quality of Care |
In collaboration with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, the UAB Division of CME is introducing a new initiative to assist Alabama physicians in the management of patients who are obese. The purpose of this activity is to review your charts of 10 obese patients under your current care. This will take approximately 2 hours. For this effort you will receive:
- Recognition as a participant in "Obesity Quality of Care" (acknowledgement in a framed certificate)
- Six AMA PRA Category 1 CME creditsTM at no cost
- unique opportunity to reflect on population trends in your practice and in Alabama.
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| http://www.qualityofcare.cme.uab.edu/obesity/login.aspx | |
| Colorectal Cancer Screening Decisions in Primary Care |
| PI: Emily Boohaker, MD |
A multi-center initiative sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
For more information, contact Sherry Pigford 205-934-2687 or spigford@uab.edu | |
| Equipping Primary Care Physicians to Improve Care for Children (EPPICC) |
| PI: Wendy Marsh-Tottle, MD |
| Jointly sponsored by the University of Alabama, Alabama Medicaid, and the National Institutes of Health. |
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| Initiative for Decreasing Disparities in Depression (I3D) |
| Developed by the Praxis Partnership, a co-operative consortium of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Vanderbilt University, and Indicia Medical Education, LLC designed to resolve the significant gap between the mental health care services that ethnic and racial minority groups are receiving and those they could be receiving. Funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. |
| www.i-3d.org | |
| The Marketing of Medicines: Development, Dissemination and Evaluation of a Critical Skills Curriculum for Prescribers |
| PI: Maribel Salas, MD |
| Developed by the Division of Preventive Medicine—University of Alabama School of Medicine. Funded by The Public Health Trust. | |
| MI-Plus: Web-Enhanced Post MI + Co-morbidity Guidelines |
| PI: Catarina Kiefe, PhD, MD |
| Cosponsored by the Division of Preventive Medicine—University of Alabama School of Medicine, Division of Continuing Medical Education—University of Alabama School of Medicine, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, The American Heart Association, and Medscape . Made possible by Grant Number HL70786 from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. |
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| Rural Diabetes Online Care Project (RDOC) |
| PI: Jeroan Allison, MD |
| Developed by the University of Alabama Institute for Rural Health and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases. |
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| Patient Safety and Medication Use Study (NSAIDS) |
| PI: Jeroan Allison, MD |
Developed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Education & Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders.
For more information about this study, contact Sherry Pigford at mailto:%20spigford@uab.edu. | |
| VA MI Plus: Web-Enhanced Guideline Implementation for Post MI CBOC |
| PI: John I. Kennedy, Jr., MD |
| Sponsored by the VA Deep South Effectiveness Research Targeted Research Enhancement Program and the Division of Preventive Medicine—University of Alabama School of Medicine. |
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