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Implementation Science – Risk assessment with a thorough family health history is recommended by numerous organizations and is now a required component of the annual physical for Medicare beneficiaries under the Affordable Care Act. However, there are several barriers to incorporating robust risk assessments into routine care. MeTree, a web-based patient-facing health risk assessment tool, was …

Protocol for the “Implementation, adoption, and utility of family history in diverse care settings” study Read More »

Pharmacogenomics – We are contributing to the evidence based on outcomes with genotype-guided therapy through pragmatic studies of our clinical implementations. In addition, we have developed a broad array of educational programs for providers, trainees and students that incorporate personal genotype evaluation to enhance participant learning.

Baylor Scott and White Health Principal Investigator: Heather Kitzman Eskenazi Health Principal Investigator: Michael Eadon Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Principal Investigator: Carol Horowitz Indiana University Health Principal Investigator: Michael Eadon The Institute for Family Health Principal Investigator: Neil Calman Meharry Medical College Principal Investigator: Rajbir Singh Nashville General Hospital Principal Investigator: Rajbir …

GUARDD-US Clinical Sites Read More »

In this genomic medicine implementation pilot project, the team conducted a randomized trial in a network of community health centers and primary care facilities to study processes, effects and challenges of incorporating information for apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1)-attributable genetic risk for end stage kidney disease in patients of African ancestry with hypertension. Principal Investigator Carol R. …

Genetic testing to Understand and Address Renal Disease Disparities: The GUARDD Study Read More »

Professor and Chairman, Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine November 19, 2020 12 – 1 P.M. Zoom

Dr. Andrea H. Ramirez will present her research, Extracting Drug Exposure Epochs and Drug Response Outcomes from Electronic Health Records, at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium on November 18. Her research was selected out of a record number of submissions to AMIA this year — over 1,200 across all categories! Dr. Ramirez is …

Andrea Ramirez to present at the AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium Read More »

BMC Family Practice – Studies have shown that the quality of family health history (FHH) collection in primary care is inadequate to assess disease risk. To use FHH for risk assessment, collected data must have adequate detail

Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy October 29, 2020 12 – 1 P.M. Zoom

Journal of Biomedical Informatics – The promise of leveraging vast medical record data to guide clinical decision making has created growing support for the development of “Rapid Learning Systems” (RLS) that gather and leverage practice-based clinical evidence for real-time clinical decision support. The need for such systems is particularly evident within the field of oncology, where …

Toward rapid learning in cancer treatment selection: an analytical engine for practice-based clinical data Read More »

Genetics in Medicine – Here we describe the findings from the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Implementing GeNomics In pracTicE (IGNITE) Network in identifying key constructs, opportunities, and challenges associated with driving sustainability of genomic medicine in clinical practice.