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Kit Delgado Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation

One of Only a Few Emergency Physicians Ever Inducted into ASCI

January 27, 2025

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Hoag Levins

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Kit Delgado, MD, MS, LDI Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). He will be officially inducted at the April 25 annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians (AAP), ASCI, and the American Physician Scientists Association, in Chicago.

The ASCI is a 117-year-old nonprofit medical honor society composed of more than 3,000 physician-scientists around the world. Membership in the prestigious organization is considered a significant honor in the medical research community.

Delgado, one of the very few emergency physicians ever inducted into ASCI, is the Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, the world’s first behavioral design team embedded within a health system.

An attending physician in the emergency department at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, he is also an Associate Director at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) and Co-Chair of Penn Medicine’s Opioid Task Force.

His research focuses on interventions to curb the opioid overdose crisis, reduce trauma and firearm injuries, and decrease distracted and alcohol-impaired driving. His work blends behavioral and data science with insights gleaned from practicing emergency medicine in an urban trauma center, guiding patients and clinicians toward decisions that enhance personal safety and improve the quality of acute care.

Delgado received his MD from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and his Master’s degree in Health Services Research from Stanford University.