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Inclusive partnership
Research and Innovation
National leaders in practice-based, community participatory, and practice redesign and improvement research.
Jodi Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
Vice Chair for Research
Welcome to the Department of Family Medicine - Research & Innovation.
Our research mission is simple: To improve community health and well-being through high-quality research in patient-centered family medicine using holistic and integrative models of health.
We are innovators and experts in the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge through translational and practice-based research.
We serve as the primary resource for family medicine practices, by providing knowledge, health information technology and practice transformation tools and guidance to satisfy the Quadruple Aim of improving the health of populations, enhancing the experience of care for individuals, reducing the per capita cost of health care, and attaining joy in work.
We continuously push to expand the reach of our practice-based research networks to more effectively support practices, share information, develop and sustain a dynamic learning community and bring value to our stakeholders by answering their questions.
We are here for you, your community, and your health.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Health Equity Research
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Moving from documenting to dismantling health inequities____
Use of appropriate theoretical models and frameworks, such as a public health critical race praxis
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A proactive, comprehensive, and continuous appraisal of how equity may disproportionately affect oppressed people
NEW – CU Medicine Today
Farley Center Gun Safety and DFM Fellow Profiled
Robert | Family Medicine Nov 13, 2019
The Fall 2019 edition of the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s, CU Medicine Today, is out and the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) figures prominently.
Shale Wong, MD, MSPH, and director of the Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center offers up a Faculty Matters essay on the Farley Center’s recent policy brief on Protecting Colorado Youth from Gun Violence.
And, in the Student Voice section, Kyle Leggott, MD, and DFM fellow extends thanks to both teachers and patients as he exits residency.
Find the CU Medicine Today web page here.
Read the publication, in its entirety online, here.
Contact:
Jodi Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
Vice Chair for Research
jodi.holtrop@cuanschutz.edu
Carlee Kreisel, MPH
Research Services Specialist
carlee.kreisel@cuanschutz.edu
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