UW DFM 50th Anniversary Speaker Series - Dr. Jennifer DeVoe

UW Department of Family Medicine

Join us August 25, 2021 at 5:30pm PDT for a lecture presented by Dr. Jen DeVoe

We are thrilled to be celebrating 50 years of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington over the coming year. Our department was formed in 1971 and has been at the forefront of the specialty since its inception. On behalf of the whole department we hope you’ll plan to join us to mark the occasion and look ahead as we journey into the future. One element of our celebration is a virtual speaker series designed to highlight the contributions and successes of the department, and of Family Medicine as a specialty.Please join us on August 25th, 2021 at 5:30pm PDT for - <h3>There&#x27;s a new National Academies&#x27; report about primary care: what does it say? And, what can we do?</h3>Presented by Jennifer DeVoe MD, DPhil, MCR, and FAAFP Primary care is the foundation of a strong health care system and essential for improving the health of the population. However, 25 years after the Institute of Medicine published its report Primary Care: America’s Health in a New Era (1996), this foundation remains under-resourced. While primary care is needed by all people and represents a large segment of the health care system, only a small percentage of health care expenditures go to primary care and unequal access to primary care pervades. In light of this, with support from a coalition of sponsors, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) organized a committee to study the state of primary care today and to develop an implementation plan that builds upon the recommendations of the 1996 report and leads to a stronger primary care foundation in the U.S., especially for underserved populations. This report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care, is extremely relevant to academic departments of family medicine. This talk will include a brief overview of the report’s conclusions and recommendations as well as an opportunity for a dialogue regarding actionable next steps.

Dr. Jennifer (Jen) DeVoe is a practicing family physician and health services researcher based in Portland, Oregon. As the Chair of the Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU) Department of Family Medicine, she oversees nearly 200 faculty, 80 resident physicians, and several of OHSU’s primary care clinics. DeVoe also serves as the inaugural director of OHSU’s new Center for Primary Care Research and Innovation and was recently awarded a P50 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop the BRIDGE-C2 Center (Building Research in Implementation &amp; Dissemination to Close Gaps and Achieve Equity in Cancer Control Center).She and her team were among some of the early pioneers leveraging electronic health record (EHR) data for use in health services research, health disparities research, and implementation science studies. She works with several teams at OHSU and OCHIN who have a portfolio of research related to identifying and addressing social determinants of health in primary care settings and utilizing novel EHR-based tools to support this work.Dr. DeVoe was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and has served on several committees at the National Academies, most recently serving on the committee that just released the report entitled, “Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care.”

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