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Center Director Meg Gaines co-authored the article “A Social Compact For Advancing Team-Based High-Value Health Care” which appeared on the Health Affairs blog. The article is reproduced below. A Social Compact For Advancing Team-Based High-Value Health Care By Pamela Mitchell, Leslie Hall, and Martha Gaine In this post, we put forth a social compact intended …

Center Director Meg Gaines was featured in the cover story of BRAVA magazine (May 2012). Click here to download and read the article (PDF – 3.8MB).

Source: http://www.news.wisc.edu/20606 by Käri Knutson The University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer a dual degree, a combined juris doctor and master of public health, starting this fall. The dual degree, a cooperative effort between the Law School and the School of Medicine and Public Health, will offer students substantive training in both law and public health. …

Meg Gaines and Sarah Davis helped organize and participated in the “Rx for Health Care Reform” event held April 17, 2012 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.  The joint event sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters, University of Wisconsin Law School and University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public …

Rachel Grob, Director of National Initiatives at the Center for Patient Partnerships, co-authored the article entitled “Family Stories: Narrative Genetics and Conceptions of Heritability in Pregnant Women.” This article ranked #6 for the number of article downloads from the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (JMWH) in 2011.

Sarah Davis and Rachel Grob presented at the 13th Annual Patient Assistance and Access Programs Conference held March 6-7, 2012 in Baltimore, MD.  The annual conference is the largest gathering of the nation’s leading Patient Assistance and Access Programs (PAP) experts. Ms. Davis and Ms. Grob served as a distinguished speakers on the issue of …

InSpine Magazine interviews CPP Director Meg Gaines about the benefits of working with well-educated patients. The interview appears in the January 2012 issue of InSpine Magazine. Click here for full interview (PDF).

Shapiro fellows Bret Valentine and Alicia Sprecher presented their research at the 10th annual Medical Student Research Forum at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.  Mr. Valentine and Ms. Sprecher completed their research while studying at the Center during the Summer 2011. Mr. Valentine’s research was on “Examination of a National Advanced Care Planning …

We are excited to offer the workshop “Plan Beyond Cancer – Survivorship Care Planning” in partnership with Gilda’s Club of Madison and generously funded by the Susan G. Komen South Central Wisconsin Affiliate. This workshop will introduce the survivorship care planning process, demonstrate our companion website (PlanBeyondCancer.org) and additional resources, and give participants a chance …

CPP submitted comments regarding proposed rule for the Navigator programs that are mandated as an element of state-level insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. To read our comments, click here.