Kira Ryskina, MD, MSHP

Kira L. Ryskina, MD, MSHP is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at Penn. Her research focuses on the physician and other healthcare provider workforce in primary and acute care settings. Her work explored the relationship between clinicians’ training and their knowledge and practice of high-value care, such as generic medication prescribing and evidence-based screening for cancer. Dr. Ryskina was the recipient of a Career Development Award from the NIA to study physician specialization in nursing home care as a potential mechanism to improve the outcomes of patients receiving post-acute care in nursing homes. She was among the first to describe the emergence of nursing home specialists (“SNFists”) and evaluate its effects on care quality. Dr. Ryskina’s research was published in JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Health Affairs. She completed clinical training in internal medicine and primary care at New York Presbyterian‚ Weill Cornell. She treats hospitalized patients at the University of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia and sees primary care patients in the office at the PCAM Advanced Internal Medicine practice.