Ruth Murphey Parker, MD
January 24, 2013 | Story
Ruth Murphey Parker's research has focused predominantly in two areas: medical education and health services for under-served populations.
Access and Barriers to Care
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If You Have Pneumonia, Which Emergency Department will Give the Best Care?
May 17, 2012 | Program Result
Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
Partnering Urban Academic Medical Centers and Rural Primary Care Clinicians to Provide Complex Chronic Disease Care
May 19, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO enables specialists to partner with primary care clinicians in underserved areas to deliver complex specialty care to patients.
Project ECHO
June 14, 2011 | Story
This disruptive model of health care education and delivery enables primary care doctors in underserved areas to provide top-quality care for complex conditions locally.
Expanding Access to Hepatitis C Virus Treatment
June 11, 2010 | Journal Article
Specialized treatment for chronic conditions is often available only at large academic medical centers. Project ECHO is training primary care physicians in rural areas of New Mexico to deliver best practice care for many diseases.
Project ECHO
February 15, 2011 | Story/Video
A Force Multiplier: Spreading Medical Knowledge, Expanding Health Care Capacity
A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.
As Part of RWJF's Communities in Charge Program, Collaborative in Austin, Texas, Launches New Programs to Improve Health Care for Low-Income Residents
April 5, 2007 | Program Result
The Indigent Care Collaboration, a network of safety-net health care providers and insurers in the Austin, Texas, region, launched several initiatives to improve health care for low-income residents.
Robert K. Ross, MD
May 15, 2005 | Story
Robert Ross is now the president and chief executive officer of the California Endowment, a philanthropy that focuses on advancing multicultural health issues in the state of California.