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Photo page from the poster hall of the 2023 AcademyHealth Research Meeting in Seattle

A research paper exploring the causes of racial disparities in Medicare Advantage enrollment co-authored by Rachel M. Werner, Norma Coe, and Sungchul Park has received the Health Services Research (HSR) journal's 2023 John M. Eisenberg Article of the Year award. The presentation took place at a reception at the AcademyHealth Research Meeting in Seattle on […]

SEATTLE – Forty two scholars from the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics undergraduate minority health research programs have arrived here to take part in the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM). AcademyHealth is the country's largest professional organization of researchers focused how the U.S. health care system is organized, financed, managed, and […]

The second annual J. Sanford "Sandy" Schwartz Memorial Grand Rounds event on June 8 was certainly in keeping with the kind of generational transmission the late Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Senior Fellow and Perelman School of Medicine professor was known for. The event's speaker was LDI Senior fellow Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP, […]

Olivia Mitchell, PhD, a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, has been named a 2023 Distinguished Fellow at the American Economic Association (AEA). Executive Director of the Wharton Pension Research Council and Director of Wharton's Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement […]

Long outliers in the modern world of hospital maternity care units, doulas have been making increasing inroads into those clinical spaces as the U.S. struggles to address its maternal mortality crisis. Those advances are likely to be further broadened by the March of Dimes' funding of a new University of Pennsylvania Research Center for Advancing […]

Rebecca Clark, LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, has been selected for a Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators that provides $500,000 for a three-year research project focused on improving communications within maternity medicine teams. "It was such a great and amazing surprise," said […]

"Should Hospitals be Required to Have a Certain Number of Nurses?" asks a Philadelphia Inquirer headline about the controversy brewing in Harrisburg around the latest efforts to have the Pennsylvania legislature pass a law requiring minimum patient-to-nurse ratios in its hospitals. It's the latest general media story that seems to infer that this patient-to-nurse issue […]

Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, has received the Society of General Internal Medicine's (SGIM) 2023 Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award. The award was presented on May 13 at the SGIM Annual Meeting in Aurora, Colorado. The honored paper, "Variation and Changes […]

David Grande, MD, MPA, Director of Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) and Perelman School of Medicine faculty member and researcher, has been named Special Advisor for Medicaid Innovation to Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) Acting Secretary Valerie Arkoosh, MD, MPH. An Associate Professor of Medicine and […]

A conference of academics and business executives joust over new concepts of drug pricing