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CHEPAR Meeting

The Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research merged our monthly meetings (formerly known as CHEPAR) with the Center for Administrative Data Research users’ group meeting to create the Health Services Research (HSR) Collaborative seminar series.

These meetings take place on the second Wednesday of the month and are open to Washington University faculty, staff, students and external collaborators.

Featured Presentations

Evaluating the Cost of Care in Value-Based Payment Programs

Alex Sandhu, MD, MS
Instructor of Medicine, Stanford University

Alex Sandhu is a cardiologist with a special interest in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. He is an active heart failure researcher who focuses on health economics, the implementation of high-value care strategies, and comparative effectiveness.


Associations between geographic residence and adolescent and young adult cancer stage and survival

Kim Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis

Kim Johnson is a cancer epidemiologist with over a decade of experience conducting cancer research. She has spent much of her research career focused on the etiology of pediatric cancer in both the general and high-risk (Neurofibromatosis Type 1) populations. 

Please contact chep.iph@wustl.edu to reserve a 20 -minute spot on the calendar to present your research, research ideas or grant applications at an upcoming CHEPAR meeting