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The CHIRAH (Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Health Equity) has been launched.  CHIRAH is collaborative effort including investigators at Cook County's John Stroger Hospital and at Northwestern University to better understand the causes and effects of asthma in Chicago. Their main activities have been a survey of 48,917 children in the Chicago Public Schools and the Archdiocese of Chicago; a longitudinal study of 914 adults and children in the city of Chicago; and a pilot intervention study located in the Austin neighborhood.  Institute for Healthcare Studies staff members, Sarah Rittner and Chris Lyttle are both involved with CHIRAH.  You can view the CHIRAH website here:  http://chirah.cchil.org



Dr. Ruchi Gupta
was recently interviewed by Chicago Tonight regarding Chicago Neighborhood Asthma Prevalence.  You can watch her interview via Youtube.



Master's Program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
For more information please call 312-503-5533
Certificate in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
For more information please call 312-503-5533


Recent Grants / Awards

Charlesnika T. Evans, an epidemiologist and health services researcher from the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, has recently joined the Institute for Healthcare Studies as a Research Assistant Professor. Her top-rated fellowship grant entitled ‘Antibiotic prescribing for veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder (SCI&D) and clinician perceptions’ earned her the highly competitive 2008 Fritz Krauth Memorial Fellowship from the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Research Foundation. She is the first health services and VA researcher to receive this prestigious award.

Institute for Healthcare Studies Seminar Series
Every Thursday from 12:00pm-1:00pm
Weiboldt Hall 339 E. Chicago Avenue Room 421

Upcoming speakers:

September 18th, 2008 Benjamin Armbruster presents on Cost-Effectiveness Modeling of Contact Tracing.


Disclosure Symposium - Northwestern Center for Patient Safety
Date:  Friday, October 10th, 2008
Time:  8:00am-12:00pm
Location:  250 E. Superior Street, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60611.  Prentice Women’s Hospital.  Lavin Bernick Flat Auditorium (Conference Room L)

Just a few years ago, the disclosure of adverse events was a controversial and highly debated topic in the healthcare industry.  Recently, on both a local and national level, there has been an increase in the adoption of various disclosure programs.  Please save the date as later this year, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University will be hosting national experts who have aided in the advancement of the disclosure of adverse events.

The keynote speaker will be Richard Boothman, Chief Risk Officer for the University of Michigan Health Systems.

Event Contact:  Allan Doeksen, Project Coordinator 312-503-5525 Northwestern Center for Patient Safety a-doeksen@northwestern.edu

There are no registration fees for this exciting conference.  However, RSVP’s are required.  Please contact PatientSafety@northwestern.edu if you are able to attend.  For more information please visit http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/ihs/program-centers/cps/events.html

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