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Dan Polsky, Philadelphia Inquirer, Health Insurance Exchanges
LDI Senior Fellow and Executive Director Dan Polsky is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' extension of the deadline for the submission of state health insurance exchange blueprints. He said that despite the current sense of confusion, he is optimistic that the…
Barbara Kahn, USA Today, Marketing Psychology
LDI Senior Fellow Barbara Kahn is featured in a USA Today article about J.C. Penny's strategies for luring and motivating shoppers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Kahn, PhD, MPhil, MBA, is a Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School.
Ezekiel Emanuel, Philadelphia Magazine, Smartest List
Philadelphia Magazine has named LDI Senior Fellow Ezekiel Emanuel one of the city's ten smartest people. The annual magazine feature offers readers a chance to "Meet the brains behind the brightest ideas in Philly right now." Emanuel, MD, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Penn's…
Linda Aiken, Penn News, Patient Satisfaction
A new study by LDI Senior Fellow Linda Aiken and a team of researchers from the Penn School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research has found that the long working shifts that lead to nurse burnout are also linked to patient satisfaction levels. The findings are particularly relevant…
VIDEO EXCERPT: Allyson Schwartz's Talk at LDI Seminar
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LDI Presentation: Nov. 9, 2012 | 3:21 Video Excerpt Above
Allyson Schwartz, Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania 13th District
Title: Health Policy After The 2012 Election
Three days after she was reelected to a fifth term in Congress, Allyson Schwartz appeared at this LDI Health Policy Seminar to discuss…
Zachary Meisel, Hell for Leather Magazine, Motorcycle Crash Injuries
Since July, LDI Senior Fellow Zachary Meisel's Time.com article about Penn's interactive trauma map has become a permanent online resource for readers of Hell for Leather magazine. The national biker publication caters to readers at high risk of head trauma, particularly those who fail to wear helmets; the map…
Jason Karlawish, Raleigh News and Observer, Votes of the Disabled
In a Raleigh News & Observer op-ed piece, LDI Senior Fellow Jason Karlawish is critical of North Carolina laws that preclude many disabled long-term care patients from voting. Those laws prohibit nursing home employees from assisting the patients in reading and filling out absentee ballots. Karlawish, MD, a Professor of Medicine…
Raina Merchant, Penn News, AED Accessibility Problems
In a presentation to the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012 in Los Angeles this week, LDI Senior Fellow Raina Merchant detailed how automated external defibrillators are inaccessible in many Philadelphia buildings. Drawing on data collected by hundreds of volunteers in the "My Heart Map Challenge" and another study last winter,…
Dan Polsky, IOM Report, Community-Based Prevention Framework
LDI Senior Fellow and Executive Director Dan Polsky, PhD, MPP, is a member of the 15-person study committee that produced the just-released Institute of Medicine framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention.
Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the California Endowment and the de Beaumont…
Carolyn Cannuscio, WHYY Newsworks, Urban Health Research
LDI Senior Fellow Carolyn Cannuscio's urban health disparities studies are the subject of a multimedia report on WHYY's Newsworks site. Cannuscio, ScD, ScM, an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, notes that her field of research "is not funded to the degree…
Katrina Armstrong, TIME, Genetic Testing
LDI Senior Fellow Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, is featured in a TIME magazine article about the cost and ethical issues of current genetic testing technologies. She is a Professor and Division Chief for General Internal Medicine at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.
"Most of the people who talk about cost implications…
VIDEO EXCERPT: Amy Finkelstein's Talk at LDI Seminar
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LDI Presentation: Oct. 19, 2012 | 2:04 Video Excerpt Above
Amy Finkelstein, PhD , Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity, Competition and Resource Allocation in the U.S. Health Care Sector
In her LDI seminar appearance, Dr. Amy Finkelstein, who is well known for her work…
Ezekiel Emanuel, New York Times, Physician-Assisted Suicide
The widespread belief that patients who seek physician-assisted suicide are suffering excruciating pain is false, writes Ezekiel Emanuel in his latest New York Times 'Opinionator' column. The article notes that only 22% of patients who died between 1998 and 2009 by assisted suicide in Oregon (where it's legal) were in…
Scott Halpern, Raina Merchant Honored as Two of Nation's Top Ten Young Health Leaders
LDI Senior Fellows Scott Halpern and Raina Merchant have each won the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's first ever RWJF Young Leader Award. The award recognizes leaders younger than 40 for their exceptional contributions to improving the nation's health care.
Dan Polsky, Philadelphia Inquirer, Policy Research Dissemination
The Philadelphia Inquirer's PhillyDeals blog by Joseph DiStefano features an article on LDI Senior Fellow and new Executive Director Dan Polsky discussing the institute's plans for broader dissemination of its researchers' findings. Named to succeed David Asch as the head of LDI last week, Polsky, PhD, is a Professor of both…
Ralph Muller, American Public Media, Patient Satisfaction
In an appearance on American Public Media's Marketplace radio show, LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Ralph Muller discussed the new importance of patient satisfaction. The program explored the financial penalties hospitals now face for poor patient satisfaction scores. In addition to financial incentives for patient satisfaction,…
Brian Strom Keynotes Asian Pharmacoepidemiology Conference
The theme of…
Ezekiel Emanuel, New York Times, Gum Chewing
In his latest New York Times "Opinionator" column, Ezekiel Emanuel explains why elementary schools should encourage young students to chew xylitol gum on a regular basis. He points out that approximately 17 million U.S. children don't get basic dental care and that although the fact has been largely ignored by…
Jason Karlawish, The Atlantic, Voting and Mental Incompetence
LDI Senior Fellow Jason Karlawish, MD, is featured in an article in The Atlantic exploring the voting rights and restrictions of people judged to be "mentally incompetent." Thirty states have laws that can bar people with mental disabilities from voting if they have been ruled "mentally incapacitated" by a court. Karlawish,…
Dan Polsky Named New LDI Executive Director
Dan Polsky, who has served as LDI's Director of Research since 2008, has been named to replace David Asch as the Institute's Executive Director, according to an announcement from University of Pennsylvania Provost Vincent Price.
"The relationships between health care and economics -- which LDI has been investigating for 45 years…
