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Penn LDI Conference
Our Mission
Penn LDI is dedicated to improving health and health care by catalyzing collaborative, multidisciplinary research that influences policy and practice.
What We Do
As Penn’s hub for health care delivery, health policy, and population health, we connect and amplify over 500 Fellows across the University, and train the next generation of researchers.
Upcoming Events
Virtual Event
Covering the Cure: Access and Payment for High-Cost Cell and Gene Therapies
A Conversation with Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, Titilope Fasipe, MD, PhD, Jarrod Henshaw, and Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, moderated by David Grande, MD, MPA
Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
Three Ways to Fix Value-Based Payments
Changing the Health Care Reimbursement Model Could Improve Quality and Lower Costs
Older Americans in Subsidized Housing Suffer More Frailty and Dementia and Are Sent to Nursing Homes More Often Than Peers
Home-Based Programs Hold Promise to Improve Their Health
Sharing Patient Narratives With Clinical Staff is Linked to Better Patient Experience
LDI Researchers Highlight the Beneficial Impacts of Sharing Patient Narratives
Two Strategies to Improve Mammography Rates
Using Nudges Like Text Messages Can Help Make Public Health Gains
How the Hidden Mechanics of Genetic Medicines Can Disadvantage Non-White Individuals
Penn LDI’s Carmen Guerra Warns a White House Forum
Penn LDI at AcademyHealth 2024 – The Photo Story
A Widespread Presence at the Country’s Largest Gathering of Health Services Researchers
Our Experts
Our 500+ Fellows are national experts and thought leaders who bridge all of Penn’s schools, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
Graham Quinn, MD
- Emeritus Director of Research, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Professor Emeritus, Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine
Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine
Luis Seija, MD
- Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Perelman School of Medicine
- Fellow, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Millan AbiNader, PhD, MSW
- Assistant Professor, Social Work & Social Policy, School of Social Policy & Practice
Ali Hamedani, MD, MHS
- Assistant Professor, Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine
Diana Montoya-Williams, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Attending Neonatologist, Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Fast Facts
$142 Million
In Research Grants Given Annually to Senior Fellows
141,957
Senior Fellow Journal Citations in 2018–2022
9,721
Articles Published by Senior Fellows in 2022