Health Services Research

Justin Dimick, MD, MPH is a Past President of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS). Dr. Dimick is the Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. He completed surgical residency at the University of Michigan and a fellowship in health services research at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Dr. Dimick has an active externally funded health services research program and, prior to becoming a department chair, served as Director of the Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy at the University of Michigan. His research program is supported by R01 grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and National Institutes of Health. The goals of his research are to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for improving outcomes and reducing costs of surgical care. He has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, and Health Services Research.Carrie C. Lubitz, MD, MPH is the Recorder of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)  She received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan. She completed general surgery training at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical College. She then completed her clinical endocrine surgery fellowship in 2010 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, obtained a Master of Public Health through the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a two-research fellowship in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training. She is now an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment. In addition to her endocrine surgery practice, Dr. Lubitz has clinical and translational research interests including comparative-effectiveness research aimed to improve the quality of care of patients with thyroid cancer and other endocrine-related disorders. She is currently supported by the NIH/NCI for her research.

• ​1.An Introduction to Health Services Research,2.Comparative Effectiveness Research,3.Understanding Variations in the Use of Surgery,4.Health Policy Research in Surgery,5.Surgical Disparities: Beyond Non-Modifiable Patient Factors,6.Measuring Surgical Quality ,7.Using data for local quality improvement,8.Dissemination and Implementation Science,9.Studying organizational culture in surgery,10.PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES IN SURGICAL RESEARCH,11.Studying What Happens in the OR,12.Evaluating Non-Technical Skills in Surgery,13.Collaborative Quality Improvement,14.Machine learning and artificial INTELLIGENCE,15.Large Databases Used for Outcomes Research,16.Methods for enhancing causal inference in observational studies ,17.Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: A Clinical Exercise,18.Medical Decision-Making Research in Surgery,19.Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Research,20.Survey Research,21.Qualitative Research Methods,22.Writing scientific manuscripts,23.Disseminating Research and#VisualAbstracts,24.Engaging Policymakers to Disseminate Research,25.Being a good mentee in outcomes research,26.Finding a Mentor,27.What every outcomes research fellow should learn,28.Funding Opportunities for Outcomes Research,29.Principles of writing K and R grants,30.Choosing your first job as a surgeon and health services researcher,31.Building a Health Services Research Program.