Penn LDI – Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Featured in Fitness Magazine, LDI Senior Fellow discusses her study that found that exercising with a partner improves weight-loss outcomes. Kumanyika, PhD is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.

LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly has received the 2012 Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring, according to the University of Pennsylvania Almanac. Pauly, Bendheim Professor and professor of health care management in The Wharton School, has taught at Penn since 1983.

The Provost’s Award was established specifically to honor…

LDI Senior Fellow and anesthesiologist Lee Fleisher, MD, is featured in an MSNBC story about a 17-year-old girl who died during a dental procedure. Her autopsy cited "hypoxia while under anesthesia for a tooth extraction." Fleisher, a Penn professor and chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, noted safety procedures patients should…

In an op-ed article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, LDI Adjunct Senior Fellow Robert Field warns why opponents of the health-care reform law should be careful about what they wish for. He says their victory in the Supreme Court could ultimately force the federal government to play an even greater role…

When residents of an urban neighborhood are afraid of being shot, they tend not to be actively concerned about how to curb their risk of diabetes, according to LDI Senior Fellow Carolyn Cannuscio. She was speaking in a Philadelphia Daily News article about the new study that ranks Philadelphia as the…

The ABIM Foundation's new recommendation that physicians reduce the number of unnecessary tests they order for patients may not go over so well with patients, particularly those who have insurance and don't have to pay for the tests. That's according to LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly in an interview with…

Despite mass media stories that suggest the contrary, genetic testing to predict patients' probable illnesses is likely to have limited use, according to LDI Senior Fellow Timothy Rebbeck. Rebbeck, professor of Penn's Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and director of the Center for Genetics and Complex Traits, was interviewed in a Medpage Today…

LDI Adjunct Senior Fellow Robert Field, a professor in Drexel's schools of Law and Public Health, has been in a sustained media spotlight as an authority on the Supreme Court health law case. Aside from reporting from the SCOTUS hearing on the constitutionality of the individual mandate for the Philadelphia Inquirer…

Growing numbers of big employers are implementing disease-management programs that tie employee insurance costs and rewards to medical tests and lifestyle requirements, says LDI Senior Fellow Kevin Volpp in a major USA Today story about the trend. "We're seeing a big move in this direction driven by employers' concern about rising…

LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan's impending move to NYU is the subject of a major feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Bioethicist Caplan, who has been at Penn for 18 years, becomes director of a new division of medical ethics at NYU's Langone Medical Center on July 1.

The overall national annual costs of Autism total $126 billion, according to a new study by LDI Senior Fellow David Mandell. Mandell is associate director of the Center for Mental Health Policy & Services at Penn. He and the study were featured in a WHYY story. "The residential needs of…

Responding to questions on a CNN news report about whether, at age 71, Dick Cheney was an appropriate candidate for a replacement heart, LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan said "Given scare resources, given that there are not enough hearts to go around, why aren’t we trying to make sure that they…

LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly's role in originally devising the "individual mandate" for a national health insurance program is highlighted in a Washington Post article. The article points out that the mandate evolved out of conservative economists' efforts to counter government-sponsored universal health coverage. Ironically, Congressional conservatives adopted and embraced…

LDI Senior Fellow Dan Polsky's recent study of the behavior of the previously uninsured after they acquire health insurance received prominent mention in a Washington Post column about the ACA Supreme Court hearing. Professor of Medicine at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton…

Even if the Supreme Court declares unconstitutional the Affordable Care Act's insurance purchasing mandate, it will not end health care reform, says Ezekiel Emanuel in his latest New York Times column. Penn's Vice Provost and chair of the Medical Ethics and Health Policy Department notes that many health care reforms…

LDI Senior Fellow and Penn Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine Carmen Guerra is featured in a CBS3 TV feature story about the latest study data that suggests aspirin may reduce the risk of cancer.

LDI Senior Fellow, Penn Associate Professor of Medicine and staff physician at the Philadelphia VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Judith Long, is featured in a New York Times article about her new study on peer mentoring and diabetic glucose control.

U.S. families with autistic children earn nearly $18,000 less than parents of normally developing children, according to a new study by LDI Senior Fellow David Mandell. The shortfall in earnings is largely due to the mothers' inability to have a job or to work full weeks, Mandell pointed out in a…