Research and Evaluation Committee (REC) Meeting – IN PERSON!

Agenda

October 20, 2017

Attendance - Voting Members (year term started)

Present / Present / Present
VotingMembers / DaveJohnson / Monique Martinez-Quiros
JodiPolaha (2014) / X / ElizabethBanks / Neftali Serrano
JenniferWray (2015) / Eliot Lopez / X / NancyPandhi
TinaStudts (2016) / X / EmileeDelbridge / Nathan Engle / X
RobynShepardson (2016) / X / EmmaGilchrist / Nate Goins / X
CRMacchi (2016) / X / GaryRosenberg / NyannBiery
PattiRobinson (2016) / X / Giuliana McQuirt / TawnyaMeadows
StephanieTrudeau (2016) / X / HalieDyer / PatrickPalmieri
JulieGass (2017) / X / IrinaKolobova / RandiDublin
JackieHahn / RebeccaAycock / X
CommitteeMembers / Jasna Haller / RodgerKessler
AlejandraPosada / JeanCobb / RolaAamar
AmberLanders / JeffGoodie / RustyKallenberg
AmeliaMuse / X / JeffShahidullah / ShaunDavis / X
AngelaGiles / X / JenniferFunderburk / X / StacyOgbeide
AngelaLamson / X / JenniferHodgson / X / SuzanneDaub
AnnAspnes / Jessica Goodman / ThabisoBatsell
AstridBeigel / JeriTurgesen / TinaRunyan
BethNolan / Jose Bayona / X / TomBishop
BillMcFeature / JoeGrasso / ToniWatt
Brian Goetsch / X / KaitlinLilienthal / VickieLynn
BrianDeSantis / X / KarenKinman / WaymonHinson
Brooke Palmer / KathrynWoods / WillLusenhop / X
CaseyGallimore / X / KatieKanzler / X / WilliamSieber / X
ChrisHunter / LaurenTolle / ZephonLister
ChristineBorst / LimorGildenblatt
ChristinaVair / LoriZeman
Cindy Michael / X / MarkVogel
CJPeek / MaryPeterson
ColleenCordes / MaryTalen
DanBlocker / MatthewTolliver
DanielleKing / X / MelissaBaker
Total Attendees / 26 (!)
  1. Approve September Minutes
  2. Minutes are approved
  1. Welcome – What do we do as a committee? (Tina)
  2. In general: Promote and support research and evaluation as a key component of CFHA
  3. Review presentation and poster abstracts for the conference
  4. Review Research Fellowship applications, select the Research Fellow, and provide constructive feedback to all applicants
  5. Traditionally the committee takes on at least one additional project each year
  6. This year, members guest-edited a special issue of FSH; guided poster submission and review processes; developed and selected winners of two poster awards; marketed posters at the conference; sponsored two webinars; provided quarterly“research update” emails to the listserv; developed the “Evidence To Go” resource to disseminate specific research/evaluation findings to CFHA members; developed new content for the Research and Evaluation section of the CFHA website; reviewed all submissions to the Training in Research and Evaluation Track; arranged a REC networking dinner at the conference; led lunch discussion tables with REC topics; piloted “Quick Notes” at the end of our monthly meetings
  7. Robyn provided extraordinary leadership in heading up the conference subcommittee this year, tackling a wide range of responsibilities ranging from organizing reviews to designing and delivering marketing strategies to publicize our training track.
  8. C.R. led our committee’s efforts to provide new R&E content and resources for the redesigned CFHA website.
  9. Stephanie guided the poster subcommittee to increase the number of poster submissions, increase the number of poster sessions at the conference, obtain Board approval for two new poster awards, and repeat the poster-presentation matching procedure to market the poster sessions during concurrent sessions.
  10. Julie kept us incredibly organized with detailed and timely minutes, agendas, and compilations of processes and to-do lists
  11. Many members reviewed conference presentation abstract submissions, poster submissions, training track submissions, and fellowship submissions – the high quality of what was accepted reflects the hard work and rigorous reviews of everyone who was so generous with their time!
  12. The quarterly research emails
  13. This quarter, Patti mentored Jasna Haller & Brooke Palmer, all did an excellent job!
  14. Evidence To Go
  15. Jen Funderburk mentored Giuliana McQuirt, Monique Martinez-Quiros, and Jessica Goodman this round, all did a fabulous job!
  16. Webinar presenters
  17. Mary Peterson and Jeri Turgesen presented a webinar for CFHA in August!
  18. Development of the Shark Tank Plenary for this year’s conference: Jodi Polaha, Jen Funderburk, and Tina Studts!
  19. Casey Gallimore for helping with evaluation feedback forms
  20. A HUGE thanks to Neftali, Jackie, and Jenna for all of the administrative support and leadership they provide on behalf of CFHA!
  1. REC Leadership Positions
  2. Leadership positions opening up for next year: Co-chair, Secretary, 4 or more voting members
  3. Nominations due by Friday, Nov. 3 to allow for election in mid-November.
  4. Self-nominations or nominations by others are accepted. If nominated by others, we will confirm willingness to serve with the nominee.
  5. ACTION ITEM: We will take nominations by email to
  1. Co-chair position
  2. Co-chairs serve two-year staggered terms. Incoming co-chair will work with C.R., with C.R. taking the lead in 2018 and the other co-chair taking the lead in 2019.
  3. Co-chairs must have served on the REC in the capacity of voting member prior to appointment as chair, unless no voting members wish to be nominated as Chair.
  4. Co-chairs will be responsible for developing committee meeting agendas and guiding completion of committee responsibilities.
  1. Secretary
  2. This position is appointed by the co-chairs (typically from nominations).
  3. Term is a one-year calendar year appointment (January-December).
  4. Responsibilities include: attend all REC meetings; take meeting minutes; send out meeting agendas and reminders to REC; distribute minutes from prior meetings.
  5. Often an early career professional but open to anyone.
  1. Voting members – at least 4 spots will be open
  2. Current CFHA members with a professional history that includes some aspect of research and evaluation, including but not limited to: clinical research, quantitative or qualitative evaluation, or health measurement within an integrated care system.
  3. Term is 2 years and follows calendar year appointment (January – December).
  4. Voting members whose terms are expiring can be nominated (or self-nominate) to be elected to another term.
  5. Responsibilities include: regularly attending REC meetings (at least 75% of meetings), voting on issues as needed, participate in review and scoring of REC fellowship proposals, participate in abstract review for CFHA Conference presentations, support efforts of CFHA to improve the integrity of research and evaluation related to integrated care
  1. Jodi will continue as our Board liaison (per bylaws one voting member serves as a liaison between the board and the committee)
  1. Highlight: Evidence to Go (Jen Funderburk)
  2. Jen distributed two editions of Evidence to Go that were put together with her mentorship
  3. The group overall reported that they LOVED Evidence to Go
  4. Purely based on appearance, we liked the peach-colored page best
  5. Group suggested having a clear statement on each Evidence to Go page to state in clear terms what the impact is (i.e., policy, financial, clinical, social impacts)
  6. Social justice issues in particular were emphasized
  7. CR and others wondered if we could make Evidence to Go web-based and have interactive technology options
  8. For the next edition of Evidence to Go, we will need new volunteers, ideally early career professionals
  9. ACTION ITEM: If you know anyone who may be interested, or if you are interested yourself, please email !
  1. Possible new directions for the upcoming year
  2. CFHA membership survey – we have discussed administering an electronic survey to all CFHA members including items targeting questions from the REC (i.e., training needs, mentoring needs, interest in pre-con R&E training workshop) as well as from each SIG and the Board.
  3. Continued REC website development
  4. Produce and post Evaluation Snapshots – video vignettes of providers conducting evaluations in practice settings related to dimensions of the RE-AIM framework and include links to available resources, models, tools
  5. Website enhancements - include graphics: graphs, charts, flowcharts, photos (must be high resolution); think about whether an idea might be better communicated visually
  6. Add interactive embeddable widgets (e.g., Prezi) related to members’ integrated care projects and initiatives
  7. Consider new approaches for providing targeted R&E mentoring to CFHA members
  8. Proposal from Matt Martin & Rodger Kessler: partnering with REC to survey the field (i.e., CFHA members and beyond) and determine current clinical practice of population health management tools and strategies (case management; care coordination; risk identification and stratification, etc.).
  9. TA evaluation/coordination with the Board? (Jen and Jodi)
  10. Establishing a R&E clearinghouse to link potential collaborators
  11. Identifying strategies to increase number of fellowship applications
  12. Creative ways to share findings (at conference or otherwise): data blitz, electronic posters
  13. Other ideas
  1. Meeting was adjourned, new members thanked for coming!

Next meeting: Thursday, November 2, 1:00pm EST