Dr. Pooja Lagisetty with the Institue for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
at University of Michigan. Up to $455,000 in grants are available for
Michigan-based organizations willing to try new but proven approaches to
tackling a national opioid crisis. In April, the Blue Cross foundation
granted $75,000 to a University of Michigan doctor-pharmacist
collaborative that will serve about 50 patients. Dr. Pooja Lagisetty, lead
investigator for the study, said the goal is to learn whether a specialized
pharmacist at a UM primary care clinic, the East Ann Arbor Health Clinic,
can help primary care doctors and their patients better manage chronic
pain among patients who take “risky” levels of opioids.
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