Seeking Best Practices

Research grants in the Division of General Internal Medicine continue to grow in number each year. Among our major efforts are primary care research funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In 2003, division faculty, in collaboration with OSU pediatric and family medicine physicians, received an additional $1 million HHS grant to study optimal primary care practices.

Under the auspices of the OSU Primary Care Research Institute to study primary care research, these studies include the following:

Study	Investigator
Challenging Sociocultural Health Disparities: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Model Podogeriatric Curriculum	Cynthia Kreger, MD
A Statewide Classroom to Train Tomorrow's Physicians Today	Cynthia Kreger, MD
The Ohio State Primary Care Research Initiative	James Lamb, MD; Cynthia Ledford, MD; Mitchell Medow, MD; Robert Murden, MD; Andrew Thomas, MD; Harrison Weed

Other research endeavors include the studies below:

Sponsor/Study Title	Investigator
Pfizer/Assessment of Standards in Diabetes Care in an Internal Medicine Residents' Continuity Clinic	James Lamb, MD
Center for Health Management Research/Handheld Devices  in Patient Care Delivery	Mitchell Medow, MD
NIH/ Warfarin Therapy Using Computer Assisted Guidance	Mark Wurster, MD

Ross Products Division-Abbott Laboratories/A Trial of a
Nutritional Supplement for Head and Neck Cancer Patients                               Harrison Weed, MD
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