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Photo Report: Poster Hall at AcademyHealth ARM 2022

Scientists Return to In-Person Presentation of Their Research

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Marking its return as an in-person event, the 2022 four-day AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting featured three different sprawling poster sessions in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center’s massive exposition hall. LDI Senior and Associate Fellows were part of all of them. (Photos: Hoag Levins CLICK FOR LARGER)
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Kira Ryskina, MD, (right) LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine discusses her poster and study of potentially harmful medication prescribing practices for dementia patients in nursing homes with Cindy Thomas, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Brandeis University.
Gary Weissman, MD, LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine takes Ivana Vaughn, PhD, of the Ford Health System through his poster study that explored the use of an online peer crowd-sourcing approach to identifying primary care diagnosticians.
Sasmira Matta, MS, (right) LDI Associate Fellow and PhD student in Health Care Management and Economics at Penn’s Wharton School talks with Noël Smith, MA, Senior Director of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, about her project focused on whether the use of patient narratives is associated with better patient experience survey scores.
William Schpero, PhD, an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, explains the project that studied the association between state Medicaid policies and the recruitment of Black patients for cancer clinical trials. He was co-author of the work with LDI Senior Fellows Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH; Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE; Samuel Takvorian, MD, MSHP; and LDI Executive Director Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD.
Nate Apathy, PhD, (right) LDI Associate Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Perelman School of Medicine talks with Mark Friedberg, MD, Vice President of Performance Measurement and Improvement at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The poster study analyzed the changes in clinical documentation as physicians shorten their notes.
Clinical Research Assistant Nurah Koney-Larea of the Perelman Division of General Internal Medicine discusses the work she co-authored with LDI Senior Fellow Kira Ryskina, MD, MSHP. It looks at the association of state spending on home and community-based services (HCBS)and nursing home use by children, adolescents and young adults with disabilities.
Elizabeth Salazar, MD, LDI Associate Fellow and Fellow of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia answers questions about her study of how care quality differs for moderate and late preterm infants in the NICU from Ciaran Phibbs, PhD, Veterans Administration Associate Director of the Geriatrics and Extended Care Data Analysis Center.
Andrew Becker, MD, MPH, LDI Associate Fellow and Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine, explains the findings of a study that focused on how the distance a patient has to drive to a hospital can affect readmission risk to Kelsey Chalmers, PhD, a data scientist from the Lown Institute in Massachusetts.
Seiyoun Kim, PhD, LDI Health Economics Analyst, explains the changes in rehospitalization rates that occurred in nursing homes from 2012-2019 as a result of the shift toward using more “SNFists” — or clinicians who concentrate their practices inside skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) much like “hospitalists” do inside hospitals.
Emily Vail, MD, MSc, LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine, discussed her findings with Aidan Crowley, an MD candidate at the Perelman School. The work was focused on models of centralized deceased organ donor management across the U.S..
Sara Handley, MD, MSCE, LDI Associate Fellow and Attending Physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia goes over a study entitled: “Deconstructing the Maternal Vulnerability Index: Examining Associations of the Six Themes With Preterm Birth” with Leigh Goetchius, PhD, a Data Scientist at the Hilltop Institute of the University of Maryland.
In her second poster at AcademyHealth 2022, Sasmira Matta, MS, LDI Associate Fellow and PhD Student in Health Care Management and Economic at The Wharton School, looked at changes in health care workers’ incomes since passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
In her second poster at the conference, Elizabeth Salazar, MD, LDI Associate Fellow and Fellow of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks with Penn Medicine undergraduate researcher Luis Muñoz-Negrón about the data work on “The Association between the Material Vulnerability Index and Preterm Birth in the U.S.”
In his second poster, Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP, (right) LDI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, details the work on “Predictive Performance Algorithmic Equity of a Proprietary Population Health Stratification Model by Race and Insurance” with Junling Wang, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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