Mike's Blog

This second year of the new CTSA suite of awards we welcome two new CTSAs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine, to the consortium in addition to 9 UM1 CTSAs that transitioned from UL1s. Those 9 UM1 CTSAs that were awarded during FY24 have an...

While academic medical centers may be the source for next generation health care interventions and solutions, dissemination and implementation (D&I) of those interventions require a health care infrastructure that can efficiently absorb and deploy those interventions in a manner that can offer patients the opportunity to reap the benefits of...

Last month I highlighted a myriad of initiatives and other efforts concerning drug prices. Some of these efforts are focused on the most upstream and earliest phases of drug development, emphasizing future licensing deals that include language concerning accessibility clauses. Recently, attention has also focused on a major downstream component...

Health care reform efforts comprise a disparate array of activities over and above the routine evolution in health care and health care delivery due to progress in terms of advancing science and technology. While these activities may focus on increasing health care accessibility or addressing provider burnout, the vast majority...

While we’re not sure what they teach in civics class today (do they even still teach civics?), there was a time when a major topic was how an idea became a bill and subsequent law. In the biomedical field, most can outline the steps from concept to grant to published...