Awards
Dr. Perry Gee, Emily Stirling, and Dr. Anne Pendo received the Best Overall Poster Award for a poster titled Health System Strategies for Employee Mental Wellbeing During the Persistent COVID-19 Pandemic that they presented at the Third National Summit on Promoting Well-being and Resilience in Healthcare Professionals at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Jia-Wen Guo, Dr. Djin Tay,Sharon Weinstein, Ann Lyons, and Dr. Kathy Sward received the Best Paper Award for a paper titled Cancer Pain Trajectories in the Last Two Years of Life that they presented at the APAMI (Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics) 2022 12th Biennial Conference of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics.
Drs. Lesly Kelly, Perry Gee, and Richard Butler received the 2022 Excellence in Practice Award for their publication titled Impact of nurse burnout on organizational and position turnover. The Editorial Board for Nursing Outlook will present the award at the American Academy of Nursing 2022 Health Policy Conference – From Reflection to Impact: Positioning Nursing's Future on October 28, 2022.
Ching-Yu Wang, Laura Heermann Langford, Jim McClay, and Dr. Jia-Wen Guo received the Best Poster Award for a poster titled Identify Standard Data Elements in Social Determinants of Health for Emergency Departments that they presented at the APAMI 2022 12th Biennial Conference of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics.
Grant Award
Dr. Djin Tay and Dr. Jia-Wen Guo (MPIs), along with Dr. Xiaoming Sheng and Natalya Alekhina (co-Is) received a $25,000 Flatiron Academic Health Equity Research grant for their project titled Examining Health INequiTies in ImmunE-related adveRSe Events among Cancer paTients: The INTERSECT study. The investigators will leverage a national Flatiron Health electronic health record dataset and expand the existing Utah cancer patient population ImmPETUS (Immunotherapy, Palliative, and End-of-Life Treatment Utilization and Spousal Outcomes) dataset to: 1) identify groups of cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors at greatest risk for moderate to severe immune-related adverse events during the last two years of life, and 2) assess the mediating role of immune-related adverse events on the relationship between clinical and social determinants of health and inpatient and emergency department visits during the last two years of life. The overall objective is to characterize the development of immune-related adverse events over time to provide insight into the timing of focused clinical management and supportive care. In addition, the focus on the social and structural drivers of immune-related adverse events outcomes may provide guidance for practice and policies to address inequities.
Professional Service
Dr. Sharifa Al-Quaaydeh was elected First Vice President, and Dr. Josh Wall was elected Director at Large for the Utah Nurses Association (UNA) Board of Directors.
Dr. Kara Dassel was selected to serve as a Delegate of the Utah Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association at the Alzheimer's Community Leaders Summit, which will be held on January 26-28, 2023, in San Diego. “The Alzheimer’s Association Community Leaders Summit convenes community leaders to experience and be inspired by our shared vision of a world without Alzheimer's and all other dementia. Attending leadership volunteers and staff delegates will understand the Association’s role in communities and as the leader in Alzheimer’s care, support, advocacy, and research. Delegates will be educated and empowered to play an important role in delivering locally on the mission and leading others to help the Association increase impact within their communities and for the overall Association.”
In the Media
On behalf of the Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake, Danielle Puri attended an event with First Lady Abby Cox and Tammy Snyder Murphy, the First Lady of New Jersey. As part of the National Governor’s Association conference, the first ladies hosted a listening session with officials from Sacred Circle Healthcare to hear how governors across the United States can improve policy to support maternal and infant health, particularly for the Native American population. KSL.com summarized the event, and included Danielle in a photo. According to Danielle, the discussion was incredibly powerful and moving, and a highlight of her year.
The American Nurses Foundation, through the generous support of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Disaster Recovery Fund, sponsored the Derek Bell Wellness podcast titled American Nurses Foundation Gratitude Podcast – Creating a Culture of Self-care and Gratitude. Derek Bell and Dr. Perry Gee described the value of self-compassion as a pathway to discovering how persons can improve gratitude practices, and how this translates into a culture of self-care and gratitude at work and in life.
Publications
Kaddas HK, Ramsay JM, Ou JY, Fair D, Kepka D, Kirchhoff AC. HPV vaccination initiation and completion among pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors and a comparison population sample receiving primary care. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Reeve BB, Hernandez A, Freyer DR, Linder LA, Embry L, Leahy AB, Baker JN, Mack JW, McFatrich M, Henke DM, Mowbray C, Jacobs SS, Maurer SH, Gold SH, Hinds PS. Capturing the young child’s reports of cancer treatment tolerability: Does our practice reflect an assumption that they cannot report? Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022. Epub ahead of print.
Sharareh N, Wallace AS, Brintz BJ, Wan N, Guo J-W, Wong B. Associated factors with patient-reported unmet food needs among emergency department adult patients – A social need perspective. Prev Med Rep. 2022;29:101974.
University Service
Dean Marla De Jong and Dr. Edmund Fong are Co-Chairing the Search Committee for a new Dean for the University of Utah School for Cultural and Social Transformation.