UChicago Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy
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Established by medical professionals, supported by experts in medical research and policy, and motivated by the best interest of the patient.
New model for how type 2 diabetes progresses validated with data from 120K patients -Aaron Winn, CDRP associate director Neda Laiteerapong, et al in Diabetes Care diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New model for how type 2 diabetes progresses validated with data from 120K patients -Aaron Winn, CDRP associate director Neda Laiteerapong, et al in Diabetes Care diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
African American patients with chronic kidney disease receive less education about their disease and progress sooner to kidney failure - CDRP's Milda Saunders, Monica Peek, et al piloted a brief educational intervention published in @journalgim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Patient Referral and Education Program Prior to Renal Replacement Therapy (PREP-RRT): A Pilot Study - Journal of General Internal Medicine
Background African American individuals with CKD are less likely to receive early CKD education and care than their White counterparts and have a more rapid progression to kidney failure. Objective To...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
African American patients with chronic kidney disease receive less education about their disease and progress sooner to kidney failure - CDRP's Milda Saunders, Monica Peek, et al piloted a brief educational intervention published in @journalgim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Good governance must align payer and provider market incentives to prioritize the long-term health and well-being of all individuals and communities | Marshall Chin, Elbert Huang, David Kim, Monica Peek, @haroldpollack.bsky.social et al in Diabetes Care diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
July 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Good governance must align payer and provider market incentives to prioritize the long-term health and well-being of all individuals and communities | Marshall Chin, Elbert Huang, David Kim, Monica Peek, @haroldpollack.bsky.social et al in Diabetes Care diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
CDRP director Elbert Huang, "Primary Care Needs to Become a Multidisciplinary Sport to Address the Obesity Epidemic" at #adascisessions @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
CDRP director Elbert Huang, "Primary Care Needs to Become a Multidisciplinary Sport to Address the Obesity Epidemic" at #adascisessions @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social
June 25: Jonathan Ozik of UChicago Public Health Sciences and Argonne National Lab delivers a plenary lecture on Agent-Based Modeling at the Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge - learn more and register at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/06/17/j... #diabetes #simulationmodeling
June 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
June 25: Jonathan Ozik of UChicago Public Health Sciences and Argonne National Lab delivers a plenary lecture on Agent-Based Modeling at the Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge - learn more and register at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/06/17/j... #diabetes #simulationmodeling
June 25: @ecpolley.bsky.social of UChicago Public Health Sciences discusses how EHR data can be used to predict the outcomes of diabetes clinical trials in a plenary lecture at the Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/06/17/e... #diabetes #simulationmodeling
June 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
June 25: @ecpolley.bsky.social of UChicago Public Health Sciences discusses how EHR data can be used to predict the outcomes of diabetes clinical trials in a plenary lecture at the Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/06/17/e... #diabetes #simulationmodeling
PITCH Fellow John "Jack" Flores has dedicated his research to reducing congenital syphilis, a preventable disease that has been on a steep rise in recent years - learn more at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/05/20/p...
May 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
PITCH Fellow John "Jack" Flores has dedicated his research to reducing congenital syphilis, a preventable disease that has been on a steep rise in recent years - learn more at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/05/20/p...
This June, the CDRP will host the Mt. Hood Diabetes Challenge, a conference for researchers and policy analysts working in health economics and disease simulation modeling on diabetes - learn more and register biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/mt-hood... #mthood
UChicago to host conference on health economics and diabetes
UChicago will host the Mt. Hood Diabetes Challenge, a conference for researchers and policy analysts working in health economics and disease simulation modeling in the field of diabetes.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This June, the CDRP will host the Mt. Hood Diabetes Challenge, a conference for researchers and policy analysts working in health economics and disease simulation modeling on diabetes - learn more and register biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/mt-hood... #mthood
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🎉 Congratulations to our #SGIM25 Award Winner! 🎉
Please join us in celebrating Mim Ari, MD, recipient of the Frederick L. Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award. Their outstanding work exemplifies excellence in general internal medicine.
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Please join us in celebrating Mim Ari, MD, recipient of the Frederick L. Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award. Their outstanding work exemplifies excellence in general internal medicine.
👏 Help us congratulate Mim in the comments!
May 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎉 Congratulations to our #SGIM25 Award Winner! 🎉
Please join us in celebrating Mim Ari, MD, recipient of the Frederick L. Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award. Their outstanding work exemplifies excellence in general internal medicine.
👏 Help us congratulate Mim in the comments!
Please join us in celebrating Mim Ari, MD, recipient of the Frederick L. Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award. Their outstanding work exemplifies excellence in general internal medicine.
👏 Help us congratulate Mim in the comments!
Today at #SGIM25: CDRP faculty Marshall Chin, Monica Peek, and collaborators present poster 091: "Implementing Partner Perspectives on Community Health Center Response to California’s Population Health Management Initiative" in Great Hall 4-5 5:30-7pm @societygim.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Today at #SGIM25: CDRP faculty Marshall Chin, Monica Peek, and collaborators present poster 091: "Implementing Partner Perspectives on Community Health Center Response to California’s Population Health Management Initiative" in Great Hall 4-5 5:30-7pm @societygim.bsky.social
How is financialization reshaping healthcare? CDRP director Elbert Huang is speaking on a panel on The Business of Care organized by the Chicago Forum on May 22 - RSVP at chicagoforum.wufoo.com/forms/r1avxj...
May 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
How is financialization reshaping healthcare? CDRP director Elbert Huang is speaking on a panel on The Business of Care organized by the Chicago Forum on May 22 - RSVP at chicagoforum.wufoo.com/forms/r1avxj...
TODAY at 5PM: Join a virtual town hall to help shape a national plan for health equity - register at app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9c1c4...
May 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
TODAY at 5PM: Join a virtual town hall to help shape a national plan for health equity - register at app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9c1c4...
May 28 at 12PM: Austin Wesevich of @uchicagomedicine.bsky.social, "Eliciting Patient Preferences on Breast Cancer Treatment Duration in the Context of Patient Social Risk Factors" at the CDRP Chronic Diseases and Medical Decision-Making Workshop - join uchicago.zoom.us/j/9601195903... #breastcancer
May 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
May 28 at 12PM: Austin Wesevich of @uchicagomedicine.bsky.social, "Eliciting Patient Preferences on Breast Cancer Treatment Duration in the Context of Patient Social Risk Factors" at the CDRP Chronic Diseases and Medical Decision-Making Workshop - join uchicago.zoom.us/j/9601195903... #breastcancer
Join a town hall to shape the future of health equity -- May 5 and May 9 -- info and link to register at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/05/01/m...
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Join a town hall to shape the future of health equity -- May 5 and May 9 -- info and link to register at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/2025/05/01/m...
Medicare coverage of GLP-1 drugs would increase access and reduce obesity-related medical conditions -- but at a high price | Jennifer Hwang, Neda Laiteerapong, Elbert Huang, David D. Kim in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Fiscal Impact of Expanded Medicare Coverage for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists to Treat Obesity
This economic evaluation estimates the 10-year net fiscal impact of expanded Medicare coverage for glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for obesity treatment.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Medicare coverage of GLP-1 drugs would increase access and reduce obesity-related medical conditions -- but at a high price | Jennifer Hwang, Neda Laiteerapong, Elbert Huang, David D. Kim in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 18 at 10am CT: CDRP director Elbert Huang presents on "My Diabetes My Community" at the Chicago Diabetes Translational Research Seminar -- join over Zoom at lnkd.in/grqCjF5N
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April 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
April 18 at 10am CT: CDRP director Elbert Huang presents on "My Diabetes My Community" at the Chicago Diabetes Translational Research Seminar -- join over Zoom at lnkd.in/grqCjF5N
Improved access to housing, healthy food, education saved 10% in costs on diabetes patients - CDRP faculty affiliates Monica Peek and Marshall Chin, assoc dirs of MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...
April 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Improved access to housing, healthy food, education saved 10% in costs on diabetes patients - CDRP faculty affiliates Monica Peek and Marshall Chin, assoc dirs of MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...
April 30, 12PM CT: Julia Slejko, associate professor at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, presents "Health Inequality Aversion in the United States" - join virtually at uchicago.zoom.us/j/9785464076...
March 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
April 30, 12PM CT: Julia Slejko, associate professor at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, presents "Health Inequality Aversion in the United States" - join virtually at uchicago.zoom.us/j/9785464076...
ICYMI: Jong-Wook Ban's "Systemic Reviews in Decision-Making," presented at the CDRP Chronic Diseases and Medical Decision-Making Workshop on 3/25 is live on our YouTube channel youtu.be/fN7Xm7Xbv-A
Chronic Diseases and Medical Decision-Making Workshop: Jong-Wook Ban
YouTube video by Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy
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March 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
ICYMI: Jong-Wook Ban's "Systemic Reviews in Decision-Making," presented at the CDRP Chronic Diseases and Medical Decision-Making Workshop on 3/25 is live on our YouTube channel youtu.be/fN7Xm7Xbv-A
A generation of early career researchers at risk from current disruptions to NIH funding | @annavolerman.bsky.social and Valerie Press in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/e...
Five years ago, early career researchers needed help to survive the pandemic. Now they need it again
A generation of scientists and their future work will be lost if the U.S. doesn’t act now.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A generation of early career researchers at risk from current disruptions to NIH funding | @annavolerman.bsky.social and Valerie Press in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/e...
Cases of syphilis particularly affecting the central nervous system, vision, and hearing are rising in heterosexual men in Chicago observes this new CDC report coauthored by PITCH fellow John "Jack" Flores www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Notes from the Field: Neurosyphilis ...
This report describes neurosyphilis, ocular syphilis ...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Cases of syphilis particularly affecting the central nervous system, vision, and hearing are rising in heterosexual men in Chicago observes this new CDC report coauthored by PITCH fellow John "Jack" Flores www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Benefits of weight loss drugs are not worth the high prices - @jama.com paper by Jennifer Hwang, Neda Laiteerapong, Elbert Huang, and David D. Kim cited in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/h...
How Much Should Weight Loss Drugs Like Wegovy and Zepbound Cost? (Gift Article)
A new study found that fair prices for medications like Wegovy and Zepbound would be hundreds less per month than they are now.
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March 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Benefits of weight loss drugs are not worth the high prices - @jama.com paper by Jennifer Hwang, Neda Laiteerapong, Elbert Huang, and David D. Kim cited in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/h...
CDRP faculty affiliate Monica Peek of @uchicagomedicine.bsky.social discusses barriers to care for Black patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Sheila Harmon, Director of Provider Practice at @uihealthcare.bsky.social, on @medscape.com Care Cues www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
March 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
CDRP faculty affiliate Monica Peek of @uchicagomedicine.bsky.social discusses barriers to care for Black patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Sheila Harmon, Director of Provider Practice at @uihealthcare.bsky.social, on @medscape.com Care Cues www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
CDRP faculty affiliate David D. Kim was quoted in the @washingtonpost.com on the new lower prices for @novonordiskcom.bsky.social weight loss drug Wegovy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Novo Nordisk slashes Wegovy price for patients lacking insurance benefits
Novo Nordisk said it will offer all doses of Wegovy for $499 a month to patients paying cash, a bid to reach consumers who can’t get the blockbuster drug through insurance.
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March 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
CDRP faculty affiliate David D. Kim was quoted in the @washingtonpost.com on the new lower prices for @novonordiskcom.bsky.social weight loss drug Wegovy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICYMI: the panel @haroldpollack.bsky.social moderated on Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Individuals is available to stream at www.milbank.org/event/milban...
Milbank Quarterly Webinar: Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Individuals | Milbank Memorial Fund
What: Several states have extended Medicaid coverage for prerelease and transition services to people in prisons and jails through program demonstrations. These services are associated with improved r...
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March 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
ICYMI: the panel @haroldpollack.bsky.social moderated on Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Individuals is available to stream at www.milbank.org/event/milban...