Congratulatory announcement for Kenneth M. Langa with a portrait and University of Michigan logos. Text: CONGRATULATIONS Kenneth M. Langa Cyrus Sturgis Research Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Medical School, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health Regula Herzog Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine and Survey Research University of Michigan Board of Regents October 17, 2025 ISR Survey Research Center UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

UM Board of Regents has honored Kenneth M. Langa with a Distinguished University Professorship.

His research shapes our understanding of #aging, #CognitiveImpairment & #dementia. He is co-director of the NIH-funded #HealthAndRetirementStudy, the largest, most influential study of aging in the U.S.

The name of the town that I grew up in has gone from Delmar to Old Delmar. Ruthless.

Sorry we can’t make it this year, but we did use the IHPI pickleball paddles a bunch this summer!

Deirdre, this is so awesome! Congratulations! I’ll be sure to lose at Oh, Hell to congratulate you!

3 papers being presented. 4th Annual JGIM Webinar Dedicated to Quality Improvement Science and Implementation Science (QIS/IS) This special presentation features the three top rated QIS/IS articles of the past year, with an introduction by Lenny López, MD, MPH, MDiv, FAHA, Co-Editor-in Chief of JGIM and panel discussion led by Nathalie Moise, Director of the ImSci Lab at Columbia University. These three studies highlight the work that is much needed to improve the delivery of health care and the translation of evidence-based medicine into general medicine practice. Date: June 20, 2025 | 1:00-2:30PM ET Register Here Moderated Discussion by Nathalie Moise, MD, MS, FAHA Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, ImSci Lab, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Decision Support and Behavioral Health for Reducing High-Dose Opioids in Comorbid Chronic Pain, Depression, and Anxiety: Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial Impact of Evidence-Based Quality Improvement on Tailoring VA's Patient-Centered Medical Home Model to Women Veterans' Needs Factors Affecting Post-trial Sustainment or De-implementation of Study Interventions: A Narrative Review

The papers this year are all great:

Please join us at the Annual JGIM Webinar on Quality Improvement Science and Implementation Science. We'll have presentations of three top QIS/IS articles, an intro by Lenny López, & a discussion led by Nathalie Moise of Columbia University. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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<em>Health Services Research</em> | AcademyHealth & HRET Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective To estimate the effect of Community Health Center (CHC) site losses on county-level mortality rates. Study Setting and Design We conducted a natural experiment study using difference-in-...

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Totally. For these GLP trials the key Q is no longer if it works. It’s does it lead to an FDA indication and do the insurers feel obligated to cover it. (In America at least.)

YouTube video by CineStream Hotel Transylvania 3 | La Macarena | CineClips

Do Gen Xers even know about Hotel Transylvania 3? It’s also a staple of class parties, kiddy dance lessons, etc. It will outlast us all. m.youtube.com/watch?v=GLcr...

Meta’s income statement (via @simongerman600.bsky.social), their R&D budget, for VR glasses, the metaverse, and to show you 0.2% more effective adds, is nearly equal to the NIH budget…

Effects of Testosterone Treatment in Older Men | NEJM Serum testosterone concentrations decrease as men age, but benefits of raising testosterone levels in older men have not been established. We assigned 790 men 65 years of age or older with a serum ...

No, but I've heard crazier things. academic.oup.com/jcem/article...
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Also, probably the first time I've been described with a dude in leather and no shirt hitting people with a chair. It's a new me.

It's true for all mentors! It's kind of the job! I'm not accusing your claws of being any sharper than others'.

True. For mentees you’re the bear lol.

Do you know any clinical study that makes Lp(a) testing seem really valuable? One where it increases overall risk prediction in any population for example?

Clinical Utility of Lipoprotein(a) and LPA Genetic Risk Score in Risk Prediction of Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease This study investigates whether a genetic risk score comprising 43 variants at the LPA gene, which encodes apolipoprotein(a), has clinical utility in assessing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease r...

Not sure why we're seeing Lp(a) treated as though it's valuable for regular use. The clinical data is unimpressive. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

So sorry to see this. Best of luck on next steps.

Jeff Buckley

Man, I totally saw a joke like that coming and almost used a different word. I should trust my juvenile instincts.

Uninformative priors create uninformative posteriors.

In-Basket Message Volume in Primary Care: A Cross-sectional Analysis by Gender and Specialty - Journal of General Internal Medicine Journal of General Internal Medicine -

Our new research: primary care docs manage 15 portal messages/tasks for every hour of patient facing care. 17/hr for family med docs/ doi.org/10.1007/s116... #medsky #primarycare #familymedicine

Agreed. Primary Care-Mental Health is a national program where you're supposed to have a mental health expert (usually psychiatric social work) available for real-time handoffs straight from clinic for evaluation. Here it works quite well.

Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
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Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In. Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The…

Lincare is paid to rent oxygen equipment to patients, with HHS covering most of the monthly bills. But those rental fees often add up to many times what it would cost simply to buy the equipment.

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Coming up with grant name acronyms: www.google.com/search?clien...

AI in medicine: preparing for the future while preserving what matters 2025 is here and medicine has continued to move away from the utopian vision of our admission essays for medical school. We are spending countless hours on electronic health records scrolling through ...

Published an opinion piece in @bmj.com with @raj-mehta.bsky.social. I bet no one has opinions about the topic.

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

The biggest limitation of AUROC is it is nonparametric, so it does not evaluate calibration at all. When applying risk tools, that’s a huge problem. Some of the technical issues (“not proper”) are described in that paper.

Performance evaluation of predictive AI models to support medical decisions: Overview and guidance A myriad of measures to illustrate performance of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models have been proposed in the literature. Selecting appropriate performance measures is essential for predi...

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