Newsroom and Related Reading

Newsroom

Members of the press seeking information on specific projects or the work of The Beckwith Institute in general should contact: thebeckwithinstitute@upmc.edu.

Related Reading

Below is a listing of recent research papers and presentations related to innovation in patient care.

• The Value of Sharing Treatment Decision Making with Patients: Expecting Too Much?
• Shared Decision Making Presentation (PDF)
• A Shared Decision-Making Approach to Telemedicine: Engaging Rural Patients in Glycemic Management (PDF)

News

The Beckwith Institute In The News

• Beckwith Institute Gives $400,000 to Support Food Banks and COVID-19 Recovery
  From UPMC Media Relations on May 5, 2020
• Grants will help food banks and UPMC staff with innovative ideas
  From WFMJ on May 5, 2020
• Beckwith Institute to provide $400K in grants to help Covid-19 recovery
  From Pittsburgh Business Times on May 5, 2020
• UPMC Dr. Joins Sen. Toomey’s Virtual Roundtable On How To Safely Reopen Economy
  From KDKA Radio on May 6, 2020
• Food bank receives donation from Beckwith Institute
  From Cumberland Times-News on May 11, 2020
• UPMC’s Beckwith Institute provides $400,000 in grants for COVID-19 recovery efforts
  From NorthcentralPA.com on May 8, 2020
• Interview with G. Nicholas Beckwith III about grant from Beckwith Institute to support emergency food distribution and health care workers
  From KDKA-TV on May 6, 2020
• Reputation Management and Content Control: An Analysis of Radiation Oncologists’ Digital Identities (PDF)
  Published by International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics on August 9, 2017
• The Nurse Education and Transition (NEAT) Model: Educating the Hospitalized Patient with Diabetes (PDF)
  Published by Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology on January 14, 2016
• Decision Modeling Complex Health Problems
  Published by American Journal of Otolaryngology in 2016
• Demystifying Treatment and Legal Options After Sexual Assault
  From ENA Connection in September 2016
• Enhancing Shared Decision Making Through Carefully Designed Interventions That Target Patient Provider Behavior
  From HealthAffairs in April 2016
• Health Care Innovations Exchange: Innovations to Promote Shared Decisionmaking
  From Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on February 17, 2016
• Beckwith Institute Holds Inaugural Grant Symposium (PDF)
  July 2015
• If Patients Only Knew How Often Treatments Could Harm Them
  From The New York Times on March 2, 2015
• New Test Measures Doctors’ Ability to Deliver Patient-Centered Care
  From Medical Xpress on December 30,2014
• UPMC Projects Receive Grants for Health Innovation
  From HealthData Management on August 5, 2014
• Beckwith Institute awards $272,510 in grants
  From Pittsburgh Business Times on July 29, 2014
• UPMC lands grants for care, engagement
  From Healthcare IT News on July 25, 2014

Symposiums

Lifestyle Medicine: A UPMC Conversation was a day-long symposium that convened national lifestyle medicine and UPMC/University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) leaders from many disciplines to explore the growing science, research, clinical practice, business models and community linkages incorporating the foundational impact of healthy lifestyles in the prevention, treatment and reversal of disease.

The conversation’s goals were to provide a forum to begin the dialogue and define actions necessary to:

1. Explore emerging science and practice of lifestyle medicine from national perspectives and leading care systems
2. Catalyze UPMC’s and Pitt’s emergence as national leaders to prevent, treat and reverse lifestyle-related disease and costs through new clinical and business models
3. Create synergy with growing Pitt-UPMC interest in an institution-wide “Lifestyle Institute”
4. Address full range of basic science (genetic/epigenetic/proteomics), medical care treatment, and environmental/public health strategies to improve health and reduce excessive costs

The event closed with a final plenary session which featured break-out session discussion and recommendations for future directions.

Watch the presentation here.

Enhancing Clinical Care Outcomes

Watch a brief video that showcases our multidisciplinary team approach to enhance clinical care outcomes for patients receiving chemoradiotherapy to the head and neck.
Tamara Wasserman and Marci Nilson – UPMC Eye and Ear Institute 

Caring for the Community

In the light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, The Beckwith Institute contributed to UPMC communities to help fight food insecurity. Watch the video.

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