Podcast appearances and mentions of John D Bower

Hosts Gregg Masters and Fred Goldstein meet Thomas E. Dobbs, MD, Dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and Melissa R. Stephens, MD, Associate Dean of GME and Population Health and Professor of Clinical Sciences at the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. They discuss the intersection of public health, population health and the retooling of the acute care health system to remedy the many disparities in evidence in the United States. In addition to his role as Dean, Dr. Dobbs serves as the executive director of the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities. He has a clinical position within the Division of Infectious Disease, working specifically in the fields of HIV and sexually transmitted infections with a focus on the intersection of disease and the social determinants of health. Dr. Dobbs has a long career working at the crossroads of clinical medicine and public health as a physician, researcher and public health leader. He has held numerous leadership roles within the Mississippi State Department of Health including State Epidemiologist and State Health Officer (a role through which he directed the state's response to the COVID pandemic). In his role as State Health Officer, Dr. Dobbs focused the agency on addressing the numerous health inequities that plague the state. Additionally, he has worked in leadership roles nationally and internationally in the fight against diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis.

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Leigh Ann Ross who is the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. She previously served as the Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and currently serves as Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UM. Dr. Ross also works with the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as a Professor in the Department of Population Health Science. Dr. Ross received a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Ole Miss. She completed a Primary Care Pharmacy Residency at UMMC. Since joining the faculty in 2009, Dr. Ross has led practice initiatives to implement medication management services at the Medical Center and in communities through UM's Community-Based Research Program. In addition to her work in pharmacy, Dr. Ross completed a 2-year Congressional Fellowship in the Office of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran where she served as policy advisor on health care and also worked on labor, housing, and economic development. Dr. Ross is a graduate of Leadership Mississippi and has been actively involved in professional organizations at a state and national level. She is a Past President of the Mississippi Pharmacists Association and current President- Elect of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Ross is passionate about leadership development and advocacy within our profession. Key points: Service - I love professional service and I feel it is important to encourage our students and early career pharmacists to be involved in professional organizations. I have worked with most all professional organizations over the last 20 years, but my current focus is as President-Elect of ACCP and member of their Board of Regents. Leadership - I am passionate about leadership development. I appreciate the mentorship provided to me in this area and have tried to incorporate this into our curriculum for both students and residents. Advocacy - I feel advocacy to move pharmacy forward is very important. I have enjoyed building on my experience as a Health Policy Fellow and working with others to better understand legislative processes and how to advocate for our profession. Practice Advancement / Community-Based Research - I had the opportunity early in my career to lead the Pharmaceutical Care Clinics at UMMC, comprised of pharmacist-run clinics and interprofessional clinics and later to work with colleagues to implement a Community-Based Research Program to implement medication management services (like those in the Pharmaceutical Care Clinics) in community pharmacy and clinic settings. Through the Community-Based Research Program, we have established a number of partnerships, such as the Mississippi State Department of Health. Research - Most recently, I worked with colleagues to establish a Center for Clinical and Translational Science in our Research Institute. This Center is structured to facilitate research across the translational spectrum from basic research to clinical trials to communities. Our community research is now housed in this Center. Guest - Leigh Ann Ross, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FCCP, FAPhA, FNAP Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA www.hillaryblackburn.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/ @talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook @HillBlackburn Twitter

On today's episode of PopHealth Week our guest is Leandro Mena, MD, MPH, a clinician-researcher and public health advocate with expertise in the prevention and clinical management of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and STD/HIV prevention research. We explore the many layers of public health within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the many insights offered Dr. Mena reminds us that public health encompasses more than the lessons of the recent pandemic emphasizing the continued prevalence of STD/HIV threats, progress and prospects. Dr. Mena is the founding chair of the department of population health science at the University of Mississippi Medical Center John D. Bower School of Population Health and Professor of Medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases, Directs the Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education & Policy at the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for Elimination of Health Disparities, and serves as the STD Medical Director for the state of Mississippi.  

Today I speak with Fred Goldstein. Fred knows a lot about population health. His credentials, in fact, are about as long as my arm, so I’m just going to call him president and founder of Accountable Health, LLC and also co-founder and lead co-host at PopHealth Week—a podcast you should check out. Today Fred and I get into not just what ‘good’ looks like when it comes to population health, but also the six steps to achieve it. If you are looking to deploy some population health or if you are currently engaged in pop health and are looking to evaluate or benchmark what was done and how it was done, then, yeah, you might find this conversation helpful. You can learn more by contacting Fred at Accountable Health LLC, via email,  or on Twitter. Fred Goldstein is the president and founder of Accountable Health, LLC, a health care consulting firm focused on population health, health system redesign, new technologies, and analytics. He has over 30 years of experience in population health, disease management, health maintenance organization (HMO) and hospital operations. Fred is considered an expert in population health, care management, behavioral health, risk management, health information technology (HIT), and health system design and development. During his career, he founded a disease management company that provided services to employer groups and ten state Medicaid programs, operated a Medicaid/commercial HMO that was ranked the highest-quality Medicaid health plan in Florida, developed an award-winning mobile health app, and worked with employers, health systems, and vendors to develop population health programs, services, and platforms. He was also directly responsible for the inclusion of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit in the Affordable Care Act. Fred is an instructor at the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and an adviser to the Validation Institute. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Population Health Management and the founding advisory board of Population Health News and is past chair of the board of directors of the Population Health Alliance. Fred has testified before the legislature in the states of Alaska, Florida, Kentucky, and Texas on disease and population health management and their application to state employees and Medicaid. He is also the co-founder and lead co-host of PopHealth Week, a weekly podcast featuring thought leaders and companies working in population health. Fred received his master’s degree in health care administration from Trinity University and a BA in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. 01:20 Population health vs precision medicine. 02:46 “What precision medicine allows us to do in population health is to get an even more precise and better intervention.” 03:16 Pop health as precision medicine. 03:30 “We need to first note who our population is... and we take that group and we then assess them.” 04:57 The variation in care, and how this effects outcomes and care. 05:46 How assessing individuals has improved over the years. 06:28 What the goal of assessment is. 06:46 “What does ‘good’ look like?” 09:18 The purpose of stratifying individuals. 10:50 The impact of social determinants and how this is being incorporated into individual assessment. 11:15 How the use of behavioral economics has helped. 11:37 “It’s really about changing the culture.” 12:57 Interventions and what these look like in population health. 17:03 Measurement in population health. 18:45 Population health outcomes, and what these might look like to patients. 19:38 Promising population health outcomes. 21:10 The importance of patient-reported outcomes. 24:47 How providers can tell if they’re doing population health well. 26:15 Fred’s advice to payers. 27:29 “Forget pilots, build something scalable.” You can learn more by contacting Fred at Accountable Health LLC, via email,  or on Twitter. 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In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Abigail Gamble joins the show to talk about her community engaged research that focuses on healthy maternal and child outcomes for teenage mothers in the Mississippi Delta. Dr. Gamble is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with faculty appointments in the Department of Preventive Medicine, John D. Bower School of Population Health, and the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Science Director for the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities; and investigator in the Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research (MCCTR).