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Implementing Evidence into Practice to Improve Health and Equity

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Alex Krist, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor, Family Medicine and Population Health
Co-Associate Director, Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
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Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture

Implementing Evidence into Practice to Improve Health and Equity

Date: Oct. 1, 2024

Time: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

In-person: Room M203, 2 Riverside Circle

Virtual: Join via Zoom or live webcast.

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About this Seminar

Americans only receive half of recommended evidence-based preventive, chronic, and acute care. Despite decades of efforts to improve the quality of care, little improvement has been made over the past two decades. This deficiency has likely worsened as the scope of conventional practice has expanded to include addressing health behaviors, mental health, and social needs. Virginia’s practice-based research network, the Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network (ACORN), has fielded several statewide studies to implement evidence into practice and ensure that the people and communities we serve get the care they need. In this seminar, Dr. Krist will share a statewide practice-level randomized controlled trial to help practices improve screening and counseling for unhealthy alcohol use, a clinician-level randomized trial to test a feasible way to address root causes of poor health (health behaviors, mental health, and social needs), community assessments to promote advanced primary care and city and county spending on opioid use disorder, and future efforts to address health equity.

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This is a free event hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. The Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series hosts clinician scientists who are exploring frontiers of medicine. These lectures are principally intended for Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine students and Virginia Tech students in the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health graduate program. Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic faculty, staff, and students may also attend.

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