Huge congratulations for a well deserved Excellence in Research award for Robert Burke at #SHMConverge24 Penn Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine

Fentanyl complicates hospital OUD care. Its high potency intensifies pain and withdrawal increases overdose risk. A new review in JAMA Internal Medicine by LDI Fellow Ashish Thakrar (pan Mariusz Pitura📵📯6) analyzes the challenges and solutions: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

NEW: In our Q&A, LDI Fellows @ElinoreJKaufman and @AustinKilaru discussed their findings from two studies that looked into how emergency departments (EDs) connect patients from the ED to public benefits. Read more on our blog: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

At the 2024 J. Sanford “Sandy” Schwartz Memorial Grand Rounds, LDI Fellow Florence Momplaisir spoke about how anti-DEI movements threaten the health care workforce, and about areas where DEI plays a pivotal role in academic medicine. Read more here: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

How a rising wave of anti-DEI politics harms patients & health workers ft. Florence Momplaisir (@Penn_ID) & Judith Long (Penn Division of General Internal Medicine) Penn LDI tinyurl.com/2s8rcvrf

Surveys on your hospital experience are common, but are they the best way to gain feedback? In a new blog, LDI experts suggest a new way forward by centering patient perspectives. Read more here: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

TODAY AT 3:30PM "Measuring Physician Financial Incentives to Serve Different Racial Groups" co-authored by Rachel Werner is being presented at #ARM24 in 318-320 Lvl 300 BCC (Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center) academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/…

#ARM24 If you’re heading to the poster session, check out some work by the amazing Eliza Macneal feat. Eric T. Roberts & me. It's about the financial precarity of Medicare beneficiaries at risk of living in poverty after the expenses of 1 hospitalization. Poster B-235!

LDI Fellow Eric Roberts (Eric T. Roberts) presented sobering work on the impact on full benefit dually eligible individuals when the low income subsidy (LIS) is lost: ⬇️ reduced access to Part D ⬆️ increased mortality #ARM24 #LDIatARM24

PHOTO: Here’s Aaron Schwartz (@A_Schwa) presenting his research! #LDIatARM24 #ARM24

State Medicaid policies may be a useful tool to improve racial & ethnic representation in cancer clinical trials. In Journal of Clinical Oncology, we take a deep dive into the ACA & state Medicaid policies that covered costs of clinical trial enrollment pre-2022. ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

A recent viewpoint from Eric T. Roberts (Penn Division of General Internal Medicine/ The Parity Center | Health Equity - Payment Reform) & colleagues out in JAMA identifies inadequate support for dual-eligible beneficiaries navigating complex Medicare-Medicaid coverage options tinyurl.com/5y9shwvj

I was honored to receive the Early Achievement Award from UPenn FOCUS on Health & Leadership for Women at the 2025 FOCUS conference! Thanks to all the amazing women who inspire me every day Penn Medicine!

Race & ethnicity & clinician linguistic expressions of doubt in hospital admission notes ft. Courtney Lee, MD, MPH, Xinwei Chen (Penn Division of General Internal Medicine), Jaya (Penn Medicine Center for Health Equity Advancement), Eden Addisu (Penn LDI), Ari Klein, Davy Weissenbacher (Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics) & Gary Weissman (PennPulmonaryFellowship) tinyurl.com/yhn76kzj

The purpose of health insurance is to protect patients from financial ruin in the event that they need to use health care. This is a story of how insurance is not "insurance-ing" in America. shorturl.at/xL8dW

Congratulations to Andrew Maier (Penn Division of General Internal Medicine), recipient of the Sylvan Eisman Outstanding Primary Care Physician Award! Learn more about Dr. Maier & his work here➡️ tinyurl.com/3v3tk48h #PSOMAOE

Congratulations to Marilyn Schapira (Penn Division of General Internal Medicine/ VA Philadelphia), recipient of the Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award! Learn more about Dr. Schapira & her work here➡️ tinyurl.com/6d4zm7xc #PSOMAOE

New research from LDI Fellows @ElinoreJKaufman and Paula Chatterjee reveals that rural non-trauma centers provide essential initial care for over half of injured rural residents. Read the full study to learn more about trends in rural trauma care: journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Congratulations to Jennifer S. Myers (Penn Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine) & Kira Ryskina (Penn Division of General Internal Medicine), recipients of the 2024 Penn FOCUS Program Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine & Early Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine, respectively! tinyurl.com/yfcyhspp