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Penn LDI CICADA Initiative Names Researchers for 2025-2026 Cohort
Eighth Year of Program That Recruits, Mentors and Develops Junior Faculty for Health Services Research
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The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) has announced three new postdoctoral and junior faculty members who are the program’s eighth cohort of CICADA Scholars pursuing pilot research and receiving training and mentorship in health services research (HSR).
Established on the Penn campus within the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) eight years ago, CICADA was initially funded by a five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) as a Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR). That grant was later renewed for another five years. The RCMAR program is a multidisciplinary research initiative aimed at improving the diversity of the HSR workforce studying aging and health care issues.
The three new grantees for the 2025-2026 CICADA cohort are:
Sherif Adewale Olanrewaju, PhD, RN, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR). His CICADA pilot project is “The Association of Serious Mental Illness and Nursing Resources with Hospital Readmission Disparities Among Older Adults Hospitalized for Stroke.”
Leah V. Estrada, PhD, RN, an Assistant Professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Her CICADA pilot project is “The Health Economic Impact of Limited English Proficiency for Persons with Dementia.”
Christopher Chesley, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine and a core faculty member at the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center (PAIR). His CICADA pilot project is “Characterizing Socio-Structural Determinants of Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure Outcomes Among Older Adults: Pre-Hospital Care, Access, and Delivery.”
Launched in 1997 with centers at a handful of universities, the NIA’s national RCMAR program has 18 research and training facilities across the country. Each center focuses on a different aspect of aging and health care. Penn’s program is one of the few that focuses on the discipline of health services research and the study of how health care delivery is organized, financed, managed, quality-controlled, and regulated.
The essential goal of RCMAR is to recruit, mentor, and develop junior faculty members into accomplished research scientists, a process that begins with pilot research projects undertaken with their mentors. Since its founding 28 years ago, more than 400 research scholars have participated in the RCMAR program, most going on to academic research careers.
The CICADA program is facilitated through Penn LDI and links to all 12 Penn schools. CICADA mentors are drawn from across the University in support of an interdisciplinary approach to training.
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