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MARRTC Researcher Receives $1.65 million Grant
Columbia, Mo. (Oct. 3, 2001) - John Hewett, Ph.D., a principal investigator for the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation and Research Center (MARRTC), will be a co-investigator for a $1.65 million grant.
The patient-safety grant is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Fellow co-investigator is Dan Longo, professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
In addition to being a MARRTC principal investigator, Hewett is professor and director of the biostatistics group at Integrated Technology Services at MU.
For this project, Longo and Hewett will be working with a consortium of organizations including the Departments of Health and the Peer Review Organizations in both Missouri and Utah, Utah Hospital Association, University of Utah, and MU.
The project will involve conducting an evaluation of the impact of voluntary and regulatory intervention aimed at increasing patient safety and decreasing medical errors.
For MARRTC, Hewett heads up the Center’s biostatistics core project.
MARRTC is a federally funded organization, supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). It is headquartered at MU. It is the nation's only rehabilitation research and training center dedicated to arthritis.
At MARRTC, Hewett works with other MARRTC researchers, helping them to design their experiments. Once a MARRTC researcher’s data are collected, he helps MARRTC researchers decide on an appropriate statistical approach to analyze their data.
In addition, as part of his MARRTC responsibilities, Hewett gives presentations to various national organizations on statistical methodology.
For example, in November, Hewett will present one workshop and co-present another as well as giving one expert presentation at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP). The conference will be held Nov. 11-15, 2001 in San Francisco.
The ACR and ARHP are the nation’s leading health care professional organizations dedicated to helping people with rheumatic diseases.
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