FEATURE STORIES

Transplant Waitlist Disparities 

Marina Serper and Therese Bitterman found significant racial disparities in liver transplant wait lists related to psychosocial factors. 

LDI Fellow Received Policy Research Award

Zachary Templeton has been named the 2023 winner of Penn LDI's William L. Kissick Health Policy Research Award.

Patients and Doctors Overlook the Best Hospitals

Caitlin Finn and Rachel Kelz discussed their economic evaluation on the benefits of patients receiving care from the highest-performing hospitals.

Inside the DIY Medicine Movement

Research by Anna Wexler explored how a lack of access to health care is supporting a growing do-it-yourself medicine movement and described popular DIY treatments.

Incomplete Electronic Health Records Can Exacerbate Bias

Emily Getzen and Qi Long discussed their research finding that missing EHR data can cause predictive models to perform poorly, and further exacerbate health inequities.

SEMINAR RECAPS

How Underfunded Public Health Systems Worsened COVID Outcomes

Joneigh S. Khaldun delivered the 2023 Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture on how health disparities existing before the pandemic affected the nation's response, and gave recommendations for how to address them.

EVENTS

Research Seminar with Liam Rose, PhD

Tuesday, April 4, 2023
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET

Health Insurance and Access to Care for the Near Elderly

Open to Penn affiliates.

Co-sponsored with the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion and the Division of General Internal Medicine.

Emerging Scholars Exchange Program with Erica Farrand, MD

Thursday, April 20, 2023
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET

Open to Penn affiliates.

Co-sponsored with the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care and the Interstitial Lung Disease and Sarcoidosis Program at Penn Medicine.

A Prescription for the Future of Drug Pricing

Friday, May 5, 2023
9:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. ET

Penn LDI Conference

Sponsored by Arnold Ventures, the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) and the Department of  Medical Ethics and Health Policy (Penn MEHP).

Research Seminar with Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD

Thursday, May 11, 2023
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET

Increasing Physician and Pharmacist Collaboration to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes

Co-sponsored with the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy.

IN THE MEDIA

“Depression Can Get Better. These Four Philadelphians Are Living Proof.” David Mandell. Philadelphia Inquirer

“New Study Finds Stress Can Impact Memory and How Well You Think.” Lily Brown. Prevention

“Black and Latino Homeless People Rank Lower on L.A.’s Housing Priority List.” Dennis Culhane. Los Angeles Times

PUBLICATIONS

“Home Owners' Loan Corporation Maps and Place-Based Injury Risks: A Complex History.” Sara F. Jacoby. American Journal of Public Health

“Developing a Nursing Dashboard to Align Nursing Care Delivery With Patient and Family Needs.” Halley Ruppel, Margaret McCabe, Maria Tickner, Lou Ventura, Sandhya Chandrasekhar, et al. Journal of Nursing Administration

“Variations in Care for Early Pregnancy Loss Across Clinical Settings.” Zachary F. Meisel, Courtney A. Schreiber. JAMA Network Open 

“Patient-Oriented Tools for Communicating Lung Cancer Screening Results: The First of Many Critical Components.”  Katharine A. Rendle, Anil Vachani. Chest

“Redefining Multimorbidity in Older Surgical Patients.” Omar I Ramadan, Paul R. Rosenbaum, Joseph Reiter, Jain Siddharth, Alexander S. Hill, et al. Journal of the American College of Surgeons

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