Outreach: National Meetings, Exhibits and Presentations

ResDAC outreach and training will help researchers become aware of the strengths and limitations of CMS databases, and how claims-based studies might explore important health care issues.

Outreach presentations at national meetings and basic, intermediate, and advanced workshops offered several times throughout the year.
Development and evaluation of enhanced CMS databases and curriculum development in academic institutions including training databases and academic courses on the use of administrative data.
Help in building the research and data capacities of small schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

For questions about our Outreach presentations, or any other workshops, please contact ResDAC at 1-888-9RESDAC or beaud005@umn.edu

Outreach Events

AcademyHealth: Seminar in HSR Methods, Sat., June 23, 2012 in Orlando, 9am-1pm

Using Medicare Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Marshall McBean, M.D., M.Sc.
- Dr. McBean is a faculty member at the University of Minnesota and Principal Investigator for ResDAC.
Paul Hebert, Ph.D.
- Dr. Hebert is a currently a faculty member at the University of Washington and at the VA in Seattle and his areas of research include racial disparities in health, chronic disease management, and comparative effectiveness analysis.
Matthew Maciejewski, Ph.D.
- Dr. Maciejewski is Head of Health Economics and Policy Unit, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center. His research interests include cost barriers to medication and health care use, evaluation of programs and interventions for improving chronic disease care and obesity, and Medicare beneficiaries' and veterans' preferences of usual source of outpatient care.

Last Modified February 6, 2012