M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, and an attending physician in the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center emergency department, the Level I trauma center for West Philadelphia. He serves as an Associate Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) and leads the Behavioral Science & Analytics For Injury Reduction (BeSAFIR) lab, which applies data science and behavioral economics for preventing injuries and for improving acute care. Delgado is Co-Chair of the University Pennsylvania Health System Opioid Task Force.
Delgado’s work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. He is a senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) and a faculty member in the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research (CECPR), the Penn Injury Science Center (PISC), and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP). He previously served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Accelerating Progress to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities, and as a member of the Committee on Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain. He received his MD from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and his MS in Health Services Research from Stanford University.
