"IAFP Member Physician Presenting Harvard Collaborative Study at AAFP Annual Scientific Assembly"
Reprinted with permission from IAFP e-Frontline, September 21, 2006, a publication of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians.

Indiana family physician Dr. Vipin Jain is the recipient of the Harvard scholarship last year for various chronic disease initiatives serving underserved communities. He will be presenting his study on Friday, September 29 at the 2006 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) scientific assembly in Washington, DC during the family medicine research session.

Dr. Jain implemented Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) approach in a primary care setting based on Harvard's Brigham CKD care model. In this study; CKD clinic approach resulted in aggressive disease management for patients with diabetes and improved glycemic, blood pressure and lipid outcomes. Dr. Ajay K Singh who is the clinical chief of the Renal division at the Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital is very pleased with these results and would like to further explore underlying reasons behind refractory versus positive outcomes.

Dr. Jain is a 2003 graduate of the Indiana University Family Practice Residency. Dr. Jain is pictured with Dr. Dudley Herschbach of Harvard, who is the 1986 Nobel prize winner in chemistry.

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