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Can we speak the same language?

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on April 2, 2012

On April 13, 2012, CHRT is sponsoring a symposium geared to health policy-makers, funders and researchers, to ask this question: can individuals from these three worlds do a better job of working together? 

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Truly Reducing Health Care Spending

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on May 2, 2011

The April 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes an important article on how comparative effectiveness research can pay for itself.  In it, the authors describe two procedures to treat osteoporotic vertebral fractures (compression fractures caused by osteoporosis): one in which cement is injected into the vertebral body to support the fractured bone; and one in which a balloon is inserted and inflated in a collapsed vertebral body, restoring the bone’s height before the cement injection.

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Research to Action

Melissa Riba

Posted by Melissa Riba on February 1, 2011

In my role at CHRT, I work daily with the best research minds in the country and I work with communities and “grass roots” groups. I often describe what I do as bridging two worlds and helping to translate and balance between them. The work engages solid research design but in ways that are practical and able to be translated into community settings.

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