Research in CTS (formerly CROW) Meeting: March 27, 2025

 Present:    Nancy Gell, Amanda Kennedy, Juvena Hitt, Jerry Landau, Ben Littenberg, Gail Rose, Liliane Savard, Connie van Eeghen (8)

1.    Warm Up: Hard to avoid current events and there is good work to do.  
2.    Follow up on Liliane’s presentation from last week.
a.    Liliane had her interview; it went well. Thanks from Liliane for all the support from the group last week.
b.    Liliane is continuing to move her dissertation full speed ahead. She has other options in the form of post-docs and scholarships to consider, both here and in Canada.
3.    Ben is working with Jen Oshita: analyzing the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS population weighted survey) re: disability
a.    Includes mortality data for 2009-2019; COVID years are scrambled and unfinished
b.    Studying relationship between presence of disability and mortality (known to have a positive correlation)
i.    Does cause of death have a relationship with disability?
c.    Liliane: availability of data set from China on medical errors and mortality
d.    Ben is learning about “decomposition models” which distributes the association of multiple variables with an outcome using secondary data.
e.    Liliane: possibility for linkage with suicidality
4.    Connie has an upcoming manuscript on opioid prescribing patterns for the Journal of Pain
a.    Next step is NIDA grant opportunity
b.    What are the other opportunities for funding, from corporate or private foundations?
5.    Jerry working on orals: having fun with it!
6.    Gail: past talk (3 weeks ago) for Integrative Medicine and Health on group health coaching conducted at UVM for past 3 years in Seattle.  New organization, developing its research abilities and excited about new ideas. Gail was actually not 100% friendly and nice in order to help participants do science well. (Yay, Gail!)
7.    As a group, keeping each other informed about work and opportunities is valuable and important.

Recorded by: CvE