The Committee on Health Services Research of the Medical Care Section sponsors Sunday Study Group Sessions at the APHA Annual Meeting. These sessions are designed to offer interested groups the opportunity to engage in discussion about work-in-progress. They are not Scientific Sessions but are listed as Business Meetings and are set up to accommodate about 25 participants in a roundtable format. These sessions are scheduled from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. Below is a list of session topics, times, locations, and organizers. Please contact session organizers directly if you are interested in attending any of these sessions and to receive any handout materials that may be made available in advance.
1. Using Conjoint Analysis to Understand Patient Preferences for Health Care and Prevention (discussion leader: John F. P. Bridges, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).
Ø Brief Description: This Study Group will discuss conjoint analysis, a tool that has a sound theoretical foundation in economics that can measure preference.
Ø Time, Location: 2:00-3:30 p.m., Convention Center Room 301
Ø Organizer: Luisa Franzini, Luisa.Franzini@uth.tmc.edu.
Ø Appears in Printed Program under Business Meetings as: (219.0) Committee on Health Services Research Study Group #3.
2. Applications of Complexity Science in Health Care Management (discussion leader: Suzanne M. Smith, MD, MPH, MPA, Director of Programs, New England Complex Systems Institute).
Ø Brief Description: This Study Group will discuss the application of multiscale complex systems analysis to create effective health care delivery organizations.
Ø Time, Location: 2:00-3:30 p.m., Convention Center Room 304.
Ø Organizer: Bruce Davidson, Bruce.Davidson@cshs.org.
Ø Appears in Printed Program under Business Meetings as: (220.0) Committee on Health Services Research Study Group #4.
3. Is it who you are or where you go? Geographic variation as partial explanations for health care disparities, Parts I and II.
Ø Brief Description: This Study Group will discuss geographic variation as partial explanations for health care disparities.
Ø Time, Location: Part I - 2:00-3:30 p.m.; Part II – 4 to 5:30 p.m., Convention Center Room 305.
Ø Organizers: Joel Weissman, JWEISSMAN@PARTNERS.ORG, and Arlene Bierman arlene.bierman@utoronto.ca.
Ø Appears in Printed Program under Business Meetings as: (221.0) Committee on Health Services Research Study Group #5, (261.0) Committee on Health Services Research Study Group #7.
4. Drug Safety and FDA Reform, Parts I and II.
Ø Brief Description: This Study Group will discuss efforts to improve drug safety from academic, public health, and regulatory perspectives.
Ø Time, Location: Part I - 2:00-3:30 p.m.; Part II – 4 to 5:30 pm, Convention Center Room 302.
Ø Organizers: Robert Eilers, Robert.Eilers@dhs.state.nj.us, and Stan Edlavitch, edlavitchs@umkc.edu.
Ø Appears in Printed Program under Business Meetings as: (222.0) Committee on Health Services Research Study Group #6, (262.0) Committee on Health Services Research Study Group #8.
By Bruce Davidson