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Art Caplan, MSNBC.com, Regulating Sugar?
The proposal of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, that we regulate sugar much the same as we regulate alcohol or tobacco is partly on the right track, says LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan in his latest MSNBC.com column. The other part is trickier, he notes, because the…
VIDEO EXCERPT: Todd Park's Talk at LDI Seminar
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LDI Presentation: Feb. 3, 2012 | 1:58 Video Excerpt Above
Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Title: Unleashing the Power of Data, IT, and Innovation to Improve Health
Todd Park has served as HHS’s Chief Technology Officer since August 2009. In this role, his…
VIDEO EXCERPT: MaryAnn Stump's Talk at LDI Seminar
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LDI Presentation: Jan. 27, 2012 | 1:18 Video Excerpt Above
MaryAnn Stump, President, Global Innovation Networks
Title: Motorcycle Diaries of a Healthcare Innovator
MaryAnn Stump, President of Innovation International, joined Generate Companies, whose mission is to connect innovation leaders worldwide, in January 2011. Previous to that, she served as Chief…
David Mandell, Orlando Sentinel, Autistic Runner
LDI Senior Fellow David Mandell is featured in an Orlando Sentinel report on a Florida resident who is autistic and uses running to help manage his symptoms. "Getting these patients off the couch, getting them exercising and engaged is really important just for their general well-being," said Mandell, ScD, associate professor…
Raina Merchant, Inquirer, AED Project Goes Global
LDI Senior Fellow Raina Merchant's crowd-sourced AED directory project has gone global as university social media gurus across the U.S., England and the United Arab Emirates join the hunt for the $10,000 prize, according to a Philadlephia Inquirer story. Merchant's MyHeartMap.org online contest is now live.
Zachary Meisel, Time.com, Concierge Care vs. Medical Homes
In his latest Time.com column, LDI Senior Fellow and Penn emergency physician Zachary Meisel weighs the costs and benefits of concierge care and patient-centered medical homes. "In the coming years, it will hopefully become clearer which care-delivery model is better, more effective and sustainable in the long run. But until…
Ezekiel Emanuel, New York Times, Liberals and Health Costs
In his latest column in the New York Times, Penn vice provost and chair of the department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Ezekiel Emanuel writes about liberals and health costs. "Liberals are wrong to ignore costs," he says. "The more we spend on health care, the less we can…
VIDEO EXCERPT: Paul Starr's Talk at Samuel P. Martin Memorial Lecture
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LDI Presentation: Jan. 20, 2012 | 2:05 Video Excerpt Above
Paul Starr, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Title: Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform
Speaking to a standing room-only crowd in the Wharton…
Matthew McHugh Article Voted a RWJF Top 5 Paper of 2011
Jason Karlawish, Philadelphia Inquirer, Christopher Clark Memorial
In a Philadelphia Inquirer feature, LDI Senior Fellow and associate professor at Penn, Jason Karlawish remembered Christopher Clark as a colleague whose "research contributed to the clinical and scientific advances that moved [Alzheimer's disease] from a poorly understood and rarely diagnosed disease to a widely recognized and common cause of…
Art Caplan, MSNBC, Paula Deen's Diabetes
There's an ethically nasty hypocrisy in the timing of Paula Deen's confession about her diabetes and announcement of her new marketing deal to promote a diabetes drug, said LDI Senior Fellow and Penn bioethicist Art Caplan. Writing on MSNBC.com, Caplan said "if you are making a living promoting foods that…
Robert Field, NPR Newsworks, Transplant Controversy
The kidney transplant controversy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is all the more difficult because federal privacy laws prohibt the institution from discussing details of the specific patient, said LDI Senior Fellow Robert Field in an interview with NPR's Newsworks. Field, a professor of law at Drexel, said "CHOP is…
VIDEO EXCERPT: Janet Corrigan's Talk at LDI/CHIPS Seminar
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LDI Presentation: Jan. 13, 2012 | 2:13 Video Excerpt Above
Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum
Title: Building High Value Health Systems: The Role of Performance Measurement
Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA, is president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF), the…
Karin Rhodes, The Atlantic, Medicaid Disparities
LDI Senior Fellow and director of Penn Emergency Care Policy Research, Karin Rhodes is quoted in an article in The Atlantic about a new study showing that Ohio Medicaid patients with cancer survive less time after their diagnosis than people with private or no insurance. Last summer, she published a study…
Art Caplan, CNN, Breast Implant Ethics
As controversy grows over the British Government's plan to pay for the removal but not the replacement of tens of thousands of defective French implants, LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan appeared on CNN to discuss the ethics of the medical scandal. In an on-camera interview he suggested that purely elective cosmetic…
Art Caplan, MSNBC.com, Genetic Mapping
Despite breathless marketing predictions that a new, affordable genome mapping machine will soon revolutonize various aspects of medicine, LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan is not convinced. In his latest MSNBC article, he points out that we don't have studies of genetic risk factors involving large numbers of people or doctors…
Shreya Kangovi, Philadelphia Inquirer, Readmissions
In a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, LDI Senior Fellow Shreya Kangovi explained Penn's new outreach program designed to lower the number of hospital readmissions. The internist, who started the local Patient-Centered Transition Project, said the program targets five Philadelphia zip codes that account for 85 percent of the system's…
Karin Rhodes, Reuters, Cancer Survival Disparities
LDI Senior Fellow Karin Rhodes is quoted in a Reuters story about a new study showing that Ohio Medicaid cancer patients survive for shorter periods of time after their diagnosis than people with private or no insurance. The director of Emergency Care Policy Research in Penn's department of Emergency Medicine said…
Raina Merchant, WHYY Radio, Social Media Ethics
A WHYY radio and web feature quotes LDI Senior Fellow Raina Merchant on the new Social Media Guidelines just added to the American College of Physicians' Ethics Manual. The Penn assistant professor of Emergency Medicine has previously written about the use of social media by health care workers during disasters and other…
Scott Halpern, The Atlantic, Inappropriate ICU Care
An article in The Atlantic magazine quotes LDI Senior Fellow Scott Halpern on a new study exploring the attitudes of ICU clinicians about the medical care their patients receive. "What this study shows is that a striking number of ICU physicians and nurses on any given day are providing care they…
