HHRI News & Press Releases
HHRI researchers awarded NIH HEAL Initiative funding to tackle the nation’s opioid crisis
The Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, is an aggressive, trans-agency effort to accelerate scientific solutions to stop the nation’s opioid crisis. Its research focus is on improving prevention and treatment for opioid misuse and addiction and enhancing pain management. HHRI investigators across disciplines are at…
Read More
ASPREE-XT (eXTension) study receives $42.3 million to determine longer-term effects of aspirin on health
The ASPREE-XT (eXTension)* study was recently awarded $42.3 million in funding from the National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The five-year grant enables researchers to study if there are possible long-term health benefits of being on low-dose aspirin. ASPREE-XT is led by the Berman Center…
Read More
Study shows trust is an important attribute to clinician satisfaction; identifies characteristics associated with gender, organizational climate
There is a new emphasis on clinician trust in healthcare organizations, but little data about how to build trust and what favorable outcomes might result from doing so. In a prospective study of data collected as part of a randomized control trial, researchers used a previously validated measure to assess…
Read More
CDRG Awarded United States Renal Data System (USRDS) Federal Contract
The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG) of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) has been selected to administer the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) federal contract. The USRDS is a national registry that collects, analyzes, and distributes information about chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. In…
Read More
ASPREE study – A Game Changer in Healthcare
The New England Journal of Medicine named the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) study one of the 12 most notable articles in 2018 that had an impact on medicine. Led by Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute investigator Anne M. Murray, MD, MSc, in Minneapolis and John J. McNeil,…
Read More
AAHRPP Awards Hennepin Healthcare Full Reaccreditation
On March 18, 2019 Hennepin Healthcare was notified by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) that it has been awarded full reaccreditation of its research program involving human participants for an additional five-year period. AAHRPP accreditation verifies that an organization follows rigorous standards for ethics,…
Read More
Find a dream or a goal, work towards it and lean on your community to help you
Casey Dorr, PhD, is an investigator at the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI), Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and now a student again, working on a Master’s degree in Biostatistics. A member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Dr. Dorr is featured in the February…
Read More
University of Minnesota and Hennepin Healthcare Medical experts restore movement and autonomic function in patients with complete paralysis
Study demonstrates spinal cord stimulation as a treatment for chronic spinal cord injury There are more than 290,000 people estimated to be living in the United States with a spinal cord injury. Previously, it has been shown that it is possible to restore some function to young and healthy patients…
Read More
HHRI investigators’ article is Health Affairs editor’s top pick for 2018
Each year, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief shares his “top ten” articles that focus on unique data sets, under-reported issues or a particular creative way to examine an issue. A paper by Hennepin Healthcare physician-investigators Kate Vickery, MD, MSc; Tyler Winkelman, MD, MS; and colleagues was named the Editor-in-Chief’s top pick for 2018.…
Read More