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Programs’ Progress Volume 2, Number 5 — September/October 2010

Clinical Scholars Program

Foundation Focus
Announces Partnership with

Health Services Research to

For at least a decade, the United States has experienced worsening workforce shortages in the
Publish Special Issue
health professions. By 2020, analysts say, we may face a nationwide shortage of almost 100,000

The Clinical Scholars program is proud to physicians, as many as 1 million nurses, and 250,000 public health professionals. A key mission for

announce a partnership with Health Services several of the Human Capital programs is to help reduce these alarming workforce gaps.

Research to publish a special issue on how to

For example, tens of thousands of qualified nursing school applicants are turned away each year due
inform health policy through research. The
to a lack of enough faculty to teach them. Earlier this month, The Center to Champion Nursing
special issue, “Bridging the Gap Between
in America—a joint initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and RWJF—convened leaders from
Research and Health Policy—Insights from the

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 11 states for “The Nursing Education Redesign Conference.” Attendees learned about innovative

models of nursing education that are already helping to increase the numbers of new nurses.
Clinical Scholars Program,” will be published

online in advance of the February 2012 print

In addition, several Executive Nurse Fellows are piloting innovative solutions to the personnel
publication. Current Clinical Scholars and
shortage including: using collaborative partnerships among local and state organizations and
program alumni will serve as the lead and/or
addressing the interrelated factors (retirement, funding, salaries and benefits) that are contributing to
senior authors of articles published in the
the attrition of workers in health and health care.
supplement. The deadline for submissions is

December 12, 2010. Visit this page for more The country also needs millions of frontline heath workers: paramedics, health educators, public
information. health social workers, nursing and home care aides, and many others. Yet those positions aren’t

Read More Programs’ Progress » always well paid. Jobs to Careers is a project of RWJF in collaboration with the Hitachi

Foundation and the U.S. Department of Labor, which provides work-based learning for frontline
● Community Health Leaders Announces
health workers, accelerating their ability to gain knowledge and earning capacity.
2010 Recipients

● Community Health Leaders’ Research Every one of the Human Capital programs in this issue is making a difference, empowering grantees

and Evaluation Work Group Hosts Webinar to build knowledge, skills and professional connections.

● Executive Nurse Fellows Releases

Best Regards,
Summary of February Forum

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Linda Wright Moore

● Executive Nurse Fellows Releases Call
Senior Communications Officer
for Applications for 2011 Cohort

● Harold Amos Medical Faculty

Research Roundup
Development Program to Hold Annual

Meeting Cross-Program

New research and analysis by RWJF scholars and colleagues, published in a September 2010
● Health Policy Fellows Releases Call for
special issue of Health Affairs, explores a number of issues at the heart of the debate over health
Applications for 2011–2012 Class
care cost containment. The studies were the subject of a September conference at the National
● Investigator Awards in Health Policy
Press Club in Washington, D.C. One of the studies, led by Investigator in Health Policy
Research Moves National Program Office
Research Michelle Mello, J.D., Ph.D., M.Phil., (’07) quantified a range of costs related to the

medical liability system. The estimate included the cost of “defensive medicine,” as well as payments

to malpractice plaintiffs, lawyers’ fees, lost clinician work time and more. The Health Affairs issue
Inside Intelligence
also features research by Investigator and Clinical Scholars alumnus Thomas Gallagher, M.D.,
Like to create a buzz through social media?
(’07) examining state apology and disclosure laws, and a study by Clinical Scholars and Health
Looking for tips on how to write a newspaper
Policy Fellows alumnus Arthur Kellerman, M.D., M.P.H. and Health Policy Fellows alumnus
editorial? Check out archived recordings of
Eugene Rich, M.D., (’06) that looks at the overuse of emergency rooms for care that could be more
Human Capital’s monthly communications
appropriately delivered elsewhere. Also included is a study co-authored by Investigator Aaron
webinars on these and other topics, on the
Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., (’09) about bacteria that have grown resistant to modern antibiotics.
“Resources” page of RWJFLeaders.org.
Read more about the studies here. Media coverage of the studies included articles in the New York

Times, U.S. News & World Report and the Wall Street Journal, among others.
Communications
Corner Read More Research Roundup »

Building Relationships with

● Clinical Scholars
Reporters
● Health & Society Scholars
Reporters today are deluged with requests (or

“pitches”) asking them to write a story on a ● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research

particular subject. They need help in the form of

● Physician Faculty Scholars
expert analysis, commentary and background.
● Scholars in Health Policy Research
Offering your services as a trustworthy source—

even before you have a story of your own to pitch

—is the best way to initiate a positive relationship

Achievements & Accolades
with reporters. As you contact reporters, keep
Community Health Leaders
these tips in mind:
Roseanna Means, M.D., (’10) was interviewed by the Boston Globe and by Boston's WBUR

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● Be a resource. Start by identifying the CommonHealth Blog on providing free health care to homeless women in Boston area shelters.
most promising local, regional and national In the Boston Globe interview, Means was asked what inspired her to create a network of
media outlets. If you don’t already know who physicians to go into homeless shelters to provide care to these vulnerable women. She replied: “I

covers health and health care for an outlet, was medical director of Boston Health Care for the Homeless. They were probably one of the most

call between 11 a.m. and noon to find out generously funded and resource-rich homeless programs in the country. And here we are in Boston

(most reporters are working against a with some of the wealthiest and resource-rich medical institutions in the world, and yet the women

deadline in the afternoon). Let them know that I was taking care of in the shelters did not have their voices heard.”

you’re available to help with stories on a

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particular issue, and what your credentials

are. You could also offer to take a reporter to

● Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College
lunch or coffee to discuss developments in
● Clinical Scholars
your field.
● Community Health Leaders

● Executive Nurse Fellows

Read More Communications Corner»

● Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program

● Health & Society Scholars

Follow us on Twitter: RWJF_HumanCap

● Health Policy Fellows

Do you have an article that will be published in a

● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
journal within the next 30 to 60 days? Would you
● New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
like ideas, suggestions or support to promote the

research presented? Contact ● Physician Faculty Scholars

humancapital@iqsolutions.com. ● Scholars in Health Policy Research

Have you taken a new job? Released a new

publication? Received an award? Or have some

other piece of news to share with the network?

Please submit your suggestions for the next

edition of Leaders’ Link by November 10,

2010, to humancapital@iqsolutions.com.

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About these Robert Wood Johnson Annual Meetings and Seminars

Foundation (RWJF) Human Capital programs:

● Nurse Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting, Washington,

● Harold Amos Medical Faculty D.C., November 30–December 2, 2010

Development Program ● Clinical Scholars Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga.,

● Investigator Awards in Health Policy November 2–5, 2010

Research ● Physician Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting, Fort

● Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Lauderdale, Fla., December 8–10, 2010

Next Generation of Community Health

Are you using these free resources?
Leaders

● New Connections: Increasing Diversity ● RWJF “Daily Clips” service:

of RWJF Programming humancapital@iqsolutions.com to sign up

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● Media Interview Guide

Center for Health Policy at the ● Media Tip Card: humancapital@iqsolutions.com for a

University of New Mexico PDF or hard copy

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Center for Health Policy at Meharry

Medical College

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Clinical Scholars®

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Community Health Leaders

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Executive Nurse Fellows

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health & Society Scholars®

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Health Policy Fellows

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Nurse Faculty Scholars

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Physician Faculty Scholars

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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