The Michigan Family Medicine Research Day was held May 26, 2022, as a virtual event. This event brings together family medicine practitioners and researchers from across the state including Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine and Central Michigan University College of Medicine, this year’s coordinating institutions, as well as Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, Oakland University Willian Beaumont School of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Wayne State School of Medicine, and the Family Medicine Foundation of Michigan. Out of the 61 presentations, four presentations from members of the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences received Awards for their scholarly activities.

MPH Student, Feicia Fabris, earned the Best Oral Presentation: Substance Use Disorder award for research conducted under the direction of DFMPHS faculty member, Erin Fadden: "Understanding Stigma Toward Opioid Use Disorders and Harm Reduction Through Community-Driven Ethnographic Comics".

MD Student, Sahar Elmenini, earned the Best Poster: COVID-19 award for research conducted under the direction of DFMPHS faculty member, April Idalski Carcone: "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes".

MPH program graduate, Justin Woo, MPH, earned the Best Poster: Patient Care award for research conducted under the direction of DFMPHS faculty member and interim chair, Jinping Xu: "Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Treatment Recommendations by Urologists vs Radiation Oncologists".

Research Associate, Liying Zhang, PhD, earned the Best Poster: Health Equity award for research involving several DFMPHS faculty members, Steven Korzeniewski, Rhonda Dailey, Julie Gleason-Comstock, and interim chair, Jinping Xu: "Family and community environmental factors and sleep in adolescents: A Chinese sample".

The department congratulates these awardees and their mentors and collaborators for their outstanding representation of the department at the Michigan Family Medicine Research Day! In addition to the award-winning presentations, the DFMPHS is proud to recognize the work of all our students and trainees work.

David Kazanowski, MD, Oneil Doha, MD, Rasha Abdulrhida, MD, Eleanor King, MD, Katrina Siemiesz, MD, Abraham Baidoo, MD, Lauren Hodge, MD. “An Intervention to Improve Hand-Hygiene Compliance in Enhanced-Contact Precautions”

Danny Garcia, MD, MPH, Haria Henry, MD, Matthew Ellison, DO, Mariam Japaridze, MD, Tahlianna Almonte, MD, Elizabeth Towner, PhD. “Improving Pediatric Lead Screening Exams Performed at 1 and 2 Years of Age at Community health and Social Services (CHASS) Center”

William Nham, MD. “Improving Resident Skills in Congestive Heart Failure Management with a Multidisciplinary Curriculum’

Andrea Milne, MD, MPH, Dana Achmar, MD, Sarah Farooqi, MD, Robert Richards, MD, Hanna Hanna, MD, Arshdeep Chauhan, MD, Mohamad Hamdi, MD. “Reducing Readmission Rates at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital”

Julie Gleason-Comstock, PhD, Vijaya Arun Kumar, James Janisse, Cardell Louis, Ghadir Mozeb, Sadia Yasmin, Mukta Das, Sahla Syeda, Jinping Xu “Preliminary Assessment of a Heart Health Education Intervention for African American Adults”

Siddharth Tirumala, BS, Elizabeth Towner, Anne Victoria Neale, Rachel Mahas, Zahra Dawson, Anita Friday, Jinping Xu “Using Community Engagement Strategies to Build Primary Care Capacity to Participate in Long-COVID Research”

Follow go to the event website (https://epostersonline.com/mfmrd2022/) to see for yourself the high-quality work of the department. Each presenter’s presentation and a videotaped presentation are available for review.