Work In Progress Session

Title: “Internal S-SPIRE Center Round Table Check-In”

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Manali Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Stanford Health Care.
Talk Title: “Barriers and Facilitators in the Conduct of Multilevel Community-Based Cancer Research.”

Bio: Dr. Manali Patel is an Assistant Professor at Stanford in the Division of Oncology and a Staff Thoracic Oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She is a health services researcher and directs a research program that focuses on improving equitable delivery of value-based cancer care. She uses principles of community-based participatory research in her work and is the principal investigator of multiple externally funded awards such as the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Patel serves on several national committees focused on improving cancer care delivery and value-based care. She earned her MD and Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by Internal Medicine Residency, Hematology and Oncology Fellowship and several research fellowships in addition to obtaining a Masters in Health Services Research at Stanford

AcademyHealth’s Surgical and Perioperative Care Interest Group invites you to submit your surgical care-focused abstracts to their Call for Abstracts. Abstracts will be considered for oral presentations at the Interest Group Meeting to be held during the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Seattle, WA (June 25-27, 2023). An abstract can be submitted to both the Annual Research Meeting and to the Interest Group Meeting Call for Abstracts. Deadline for submission: January 31, 2023 (Thursday) at 5 pm ET.

Speaker: Liam Rose, PhD, Health Economist and Investigator with the Health Economics Resource Center at VA Palo Alto.
Talk Title: “An Introduction to Causal Inference with Observational Data.”

Bio: Dr. Rose’s research focuses on applied microeconomics with an emphasis on econometric techniques that can provide causal inference. His work focuses on access to care, utilization, and changes in health in the transitions to Medicare and retirement. Liam has a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu