This spring, CHAMPP moved offices from the McKee Professional Building up the hill to a brand new space on the fourth floor of Schenley Place!
Schenley Place is located at the intersection of Bayard Street and Bigelow Boulevard and is home to numerous University of Pittsburgh offices. CHAMPP shares the fourth floor with the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Family Medicine. Our new address is Schenley Place, 4th Floor, 4420 Bayard St., Pittsburgh PA 15213.
CHAMPP is Green!
Since CHAMPP has moved into our own dedicated space within Schenley Place, we are now able to take part in the Green Office project - part of the University of Pittsburgh's Sustainability Plan. We have been officially designated a Sapling Level Green Office!
Welcome to New CHAMPP Staff!
A huge welcome to our new Clinical Research Coordinator Alexandra Florescu Eubank! Alex is a coordinator for the BEST study and Dr. Merlin's K24, as well as a few other projects that are finishing up. Prior to her current role, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Head and Neck Cancer Center.
CHAMPP Affiliate Faculty Dr. Shari Rogal has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study implementation strategies for improving cancer screening for veterans. Rogal will investigate how to choose among evidence-based approaches to improve liver and colon cancer screening at 48 Veterans Health Administration sites. The study looks to increase both the number and the diversity of veterans who receive lifesaving screenings and provide useful information to optimize screening.
Notable Recent CHAMPP Publications
CHAMPP Affiliate Faculty Dr. Katie Fitzgerald Jones, CHAMPP Director Dr. Jessica Merlin, and CHAMPP Project Coordinator Sarah Orris are among the authors of a new article in JAMA Internal Medicine evaluating the efficacy of a novel behavioral pain self-management intervention called Skills to Manage Pain (STOMP) for reducing chronic pain in people with HIV. The results demonstrated STOMP as an efficacious chronic pain intervention for people with HIV with potential for widespread implementation. These results were also reported in an article in MedPage Today.
Following up from May's newsletter in which we reported the publication of Bulls et al.'s article in Cancer:a reply by Kollas and Kollas was published, also in Cancer. Further, Cancer has published another commentary from Bulls et al. in reply to this. Goodlev has also replied to the original article.
