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Mercedes Carnethon testifies before U.S. Senate on how to mitigate impact of COVID-19 on minority older adults

Northwestern epidemiologist and IPHAM member, Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, testified virtually before the U.S. Senate July 21 at the hearing on “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Seniors: A Look at Racial Health Disparities.”

The focus of the hearing was on COVID-19’s disproportionate health impacts on Black and Latino seniors, as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority communities.

At the hearing, Carnethon made several recommendations to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on minority older adults, based on her experience as a populations science researcher.

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Shortened Resident Shifts Didn’t Decrease Errors

Eliminating 24-hour shifts for pediatric resident physicians did not decrease serious errors, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Residents working shifts of 16 hours or less actually made more errors than residents assigned to 24-hour shifts, indicating that resident medical errors are not simply about sleep deprivation, according to Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD, the Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor of Neurology and a co-author of the study.

“The results were unexpected, but highlight that there are multiple interacting factors in the setting of resident schedules, education and patient care that influence performance and specifically medical errors,”
—Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD

Northwestern Medicine has launched a COVID Prevention Trials Registry for people who are interested in participating in COVID-19 clinical trials to prevent infection from the virus.

The research is being sponsored by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Deadline: Friday July 31st

Applications are now being accepted for Northwestern's two-year scholars program that provides training in the theory of bioethics and its application to clinical medicine.

Through monthly didactic sessions and asynchronous learning, participating scholars will achieve the following program objectives:

Understand the moral, philosophical and historical basis of bioethics
Understand the basic principles of bioethics
Identify ethical features of a clinical encounter and develop critical skills necessary to evaluate ethical claims
Address ethical challenges and conflicts through defending a particular position on an ethical issue
Develop awareness of ethical issues that may occur across subspecialties
Develop scholarly products that allow the learner to increase their understanding of the ethical challenges in their own subspecialty

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Events Listing

Virtual Training: Evaluation and Equity
July 31 at 10:30 AM

CHET 13th Documentary Discussion
August 3 at 12 PM

More Events

More Public Health News, Media, and Research from Northwestern

“If somebody isn’t wearing a mask, you should leave” via WGN -TV featuring Robert L. Murphy

Regularly Eating Chocolate Is Linked to an 8 Percent Lower Heart Attack Risk | Everyday Health via Everyday Health featuring Mary McDermott

Shut down the country and start over to contain Covid-19, US medical experts urge political leaders via CNN featuring Seth Trueger

White House is Encouraging Pooled Testing But Will it Work? via Newsy featuring Sadiya Khan

Career Opportunities

Please see the IPHAM Careers page to see all current openings within the Institute for Public Health and Medicine. To apply for jobs, please go to the Northwestern Careers page. Select whether you are an internal or external candidate, choose the Advanced Search option and enter the appropriate job ID number. Contact Kara Pederson, Associate Professional Affairs Administrator, at kara.pederson@northwestern.edu with any questions.

Faculty Positions

Buehler Center for Health Economics and Policy

Health Economist - Associate or Full Professor

Center for Behavior and Health

Assistant or Associate Professor

Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHIP)

Assistant or Associate Professor

Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes

Team Scientist

Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC)

Assistant or Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Bone and Mineral Metabolism with Dr. Nicolae Valentin David.
Disability and Employment Research Fellowship with Dr. Allen Heinemann.

Staff Positions

IPHAM Research Administration-Department of Preventative Medicine (DPM)

Senior Research Administrator

Center for Applied Health Research on Aging (CAHRA)

Research Study Coordinator with Dr. Mike Wolf.

Center for Community Health (CCH)

Evaluation and Implementation Coordinator with Dr. Darius Tandon.
Evaluation and Implementation Assistant with Dr. Darius Tandon.

Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research (CFAAR)

Research Data Analyst with Dr. Ruchi Gupta.
Project Manager with Dr. Firas Wehbe.

Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHIP)

Research Study Coordinator with Dr. Theresa Walunas.
Research Study Coordinator with Dr. Theresa Walunas.

Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research (CHSOR)

Research Study Assistant with Dr. Elisa Gordon.
Research Project Manager with Dr. Elisa Gordon.
Research Study Coordinator Senior with Dr. Elisa Gordon.
Research Data Analyst with Dr. Andrew Naidech.
Research Project Coordinator with Dr. Ann Borders.

Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes

Research Study Assistant with Dr. Patricia Franklin.

Center for Translational Metabolism and Health (CTMH)

Research Technologist 2 with Dr. Nicolae Valentin David.

Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC)

Research Project Coordinator with Dr. Karl Bilimoria.
Senior Statistician with Dr. Karl Bilimoria.
Statistical Analyst with Dr. Karl Bilimoria.

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Mercedes Carnethon testifies before U.S. Senate on how to mitigate impact of COVID-19 on minority older adults

Shortened Resident Shifts Didn’t Decrease Errors

“The results were unexpected, but highlight that there are multiple interacting factors in the setting of resident schedules, education and patient care that influence performance and specifically medical errors,”
—Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD

Northwestern launches COVID-19 registry for vaccine trials to prevent infection

Northwestern Clinical Bioethics Scholars Program

Deadline: Friday July 31st

Events Listing

More Public Health News, Media, and Research from Northwestern

Career Opportunities

Faculty Positions

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Staff Positions

Mercedes Carnethon testifies before U.S. Senate on how to mitigate impact of COVID-19 on minority older adults

Shortened Resident Shifts Didn’t Decrease Errors

“The results were unexpected, but highlight that there are multiple interacting factors in the setting of resident schedules, education and patient care that influence performance and specifically medical errors,” —Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD

Northwestern launches COVID-19 registry for vaccine trials to prevent infection

Northwestern Clinical Bioethics Scholars Program

Deadline: Friday July 31st

Events Listing

More Public Health News, Media, and Research from Northwestern

Career Opportunities

Faculty Positions

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Staff Positions

“The results were unexpected, but highlight that there are multiple interacting factors in the setting of resident schedules, education and patient care that influence performance and specifically medical errors,”
—Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD