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Inclusive partnershipNational 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.
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A proactive, comprehensive, and continuous appraisal of how equity may disproportionately affect oppressed people
“We just don’t make it easy for people to be healthy in the United States,” says Dr. Andrea Nederveld.
That’s why Nederveld, a University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine assistant professor and researcher, is acting as a principal investigator on a research project which aims to find what works best in primary care settings to deliver effective weight management care to patients.1. Working with 30 practices across the country (most are in Colorado)
2. Providing two approaches to provided weight management in primary care
3. Practices get to choose which of those two approaches they wish to use
4. HOPE provides training, support, and materials to get startedTraining starts immediately with practices and includes – the introduction to program, goals and objectives, weight related stigma, setting stage for this to be a health intervention and not so much a quick-fix weight loss solution.
Patient recruitment begins in early 2024.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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