Susan Baggaley is the PI on a 20-month grant from Pfizer ($350K) “Connected Care for Improving Treatment of Chronic Headache: Using the Project ECHO model (Tele-health) weekly sessions of case based learning to University of Utah Community Clinic providers on headache diagnosis and management.” Co-I’s include K Digre, KC Brennan, K Pippitt, L. Gren, & S Junkins. This project seeks to use diagnostic tools in EPIC, decrease opioid prescriptions, and improve disease specific medication management in these patients. Congrats Susan et al.!
The new autonomic physiology laboratory began testing on 1/8/2015! Melissa Cortez directs this lab.
Stefan Pulst was appointed to the Deutsche Wissenschaftsrat in the working group on Academic Medicine. The Wissenschaftsrat advises the German federal and state governments on science policy.
Nick Johnson will be chairing the AAN’s Government Relations Committee, which also means that he is joining the AAN Board of Trustees.
In an effort to educate staff at the U, VA, and IHC about headache, Ligia Onofrei completed 3 lectures at these sites on “Headache-common management issues” on October 15, November 12, and January 7th.