by Irene Hsiao | Mar 20, 2025 | community, research, team members
More than medications alone, managing diabetes means mastering habits that affect day-to-day living: how to eat, how often to exercise, and how to monitor blood sugar and other markers of health. Yet under routine care, many patients with diabetes see their doctors a few times a year for just minutes. Now a team led by C3EN’s Arshiya Baig is testing how structured virtual diabetes group education visits can improve the success of patients as they learn to manage their disease.
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 20, 2025 | newsletter, research, team members
The chance to be healthy isn’t something everyone has, and that realization pulled me into public health.
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 19, 2025 | news, newsletter, pilot awards, research, Uncategorized
Chicago girls are two to three times more depressed and anxious than girls nationwide, and 40% are shouldering adult responsibilities, including financial, at a time critical to development said C3EN Pilot Awardee Melissa Gutierrez-Kapheim.
by Irene Hsiao | Jan 22, 2025 | accolades, minigrant, news, newsletter, research, town hall
Congratulations to C3EN Joyce Chapman Community Grantee John Martin, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University, on receiving an JOR Spine Early Career Research Award and a Spine Section Early-Stage Investigator Award at the Orthopedic Research Society 7th International Spine Research Symposium!
by Irene Hsiao | Jan 12, 2025 | community, news, newsletter, research, team members
Alive Faith Network’s Heart 2 Heart study, led by C3EN’s Beth Lynch, LaDawne Jenkins, and Steve Epting, is featured in “Closing the gap: How a church-hospital intervention on Chicago’s West Side is aiming to reduce hypertension,” a comic by...
by Irene Hsiao | Nov 25, 2024 | community, events, news, newsletter, pilot awards, research, team members
On September 12, 2024, C3EN held its third annual meeting at the Study at the University of Chicago, convening researchers and community-based organizations for a day of talks, posters, and networking. The day began with gatherings for C3EN Pilot and Joyce Chapman...
