Roth receives travel award for TIDIRH

Isabel Roth, DrPH, MS, postdoctoral research fellow, has been accepted to the prestigious Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) for 2019-2020. The training institute combines a 5-month online course and a 2-day in-person training with leading experts in theory, implementation, and evaluation approaches to D&I; creating partnerships and multidisciplinary teams; and conducting research at different levels of intervention. Roth received a travel award from NC TraCS for the in-person training to be held in Bethesda, MD in January 2020.

Roth’s focus throughout TIDIRH will be to write a grant application to develop and test an implementation plan for Integrative Group Medical Visits, an evidence-based model with the potential to extend the reach of Integrative Pain Management Techniques.

Integrative Pain Management techniques such as mindfulness, acupuncture, yoga, and others offer a compelling alternative to opioid pain management. These techniques are now included in clinical guidelines for certain chronic pain conditions, but research into the Integrative Group Medical Visits model has primarily focused on population health outcomes rather than on how to adapt the model for diverse clinical settings, implement it with enough fidelity to retain the positive health outcomes, and sustain the program over time.

Roth will be mentored by Jennifer Leeman, DrPH, MDiv, faculty expert in Implementation Science at NC TraCS and an associate professor in the UNC School of Nursing; and Susan Gaylord, PhD, associate professor and director of The Program on Integrative Medicine in the UNC School of Medicine.