Skip to main content
All Posts By

Meghan Ross

Jun 05 2023
Love0
carmen guerra headshot

Dr. Carmen Guerra Wins ASCO Excellence in Equity Award

By CHIBEblog

Congratulations to Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP, a CHIBE-affiliated faculty member, who won the 2023 Excellence in Equity Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in June 2023 at the ASCO annual meeting. According to ASCO’s website, the Excellence in Equity Award is bestowed upon a member who has “made significant and measurable contributions towards increasing equity, diversity and inclusion within the field of oncology, or increasing access to equitable care for cancer patients. Recipients of this award have demonstrated their dedication to activities that foster and promote equitable treatment and care for historically under-represented groups through efforts…

Read More
May 24 2023
Love0

The Gary Bisbee Show: Innovation as a Daily Practice with Kevin B. Mahoney

By In the News

From The Gary Bisbee Show: UPHS CEO Kevin Mahoney joined “The Gary Bisbee Show” to speak about his career path, leadership lessons, and innovations driven at Penn Medicine. “If innovation can be an activity in daily living, you rewire your brain to not think about the way we were doing it, but the way we could do it,” Mahoney shared. Listen to the full episode at The Gary Bisbee Show.

Read More
May 22 2023
Love0
paula chatterjee

Dr. Paula Chatterjee Wins SGIM’s Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award

By CHIBEblog

Congratulations to Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, a CHIBE-affiliated faculty member, for winning the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)’s 2023 Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award for “Variation and Changes in the Targeting of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments.” The other authors on the Health Affairs paper were Soham Sinha, Olivia Reszczynski, Anita Amin, and William L. Schpero. Please join us in congratulating Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, recipient of this year’s Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award! Congratulations, Paula! #SGIM23 @ChatterjeePaula pic.twitter.com/yxJlQX5R7E — SGIM (@SocietyGIM) May 13, 2023

Read More
May 16 2023
Love0

Philadelphia Inquirer: Water Is a Basic Human Right. So Why Is Philly Resuming Shutoffs May 24?

By In the News

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Written by Christina A. Roberto, Laura A. Gibson, and Robert W. Ballenger, During the chemical spill last March that imperiled the city’s biggest water treatment plant, nearly one million Philadelphians feared losing access to safe drinking water. Most residents are not used to living with such a threat. But many of our fellow Philadelphians will experience that fear and uncertainty every year — not because of contamination, but because of poverty. Water security — the ability to reliably access safe water — is recognized by the Pennsylvania Constitution as a basic human right, yet tens of…

Read More
May 15 2023
Love0

STAT: ‘Stunning’ Change to United’s Colonoscopy Coverage Roils Physicians and Patients

By In the News

From STAT: When gastroenterologists learned in March that UnitedHealthcare plans to barricade many colonoscopies behind a controversial and complicated process known as prior authorization, their emotions cycled rapidly between fear, shock, and outrage. The change, which the health insurer will implement on June 1, means that any United member seeking surveillance and diagnostic colonoscopies to detect cancer will first need approval from United — or else have to pay out of pocket. “It was stunning,” said Dayna Early, a gastroenterologist at Washington University in St. Louis and chair of the American College of Gastroenterology’s board of governors. “It applies to everything we…

Read More
May 09 2023
Love0
alison buttenheim

A Q&A with Dr. Alison Buttenheim on NASEM Report on Policy Impact and Future Directions for Behavioral Economics

By CHIBEblog

How has behavioral economics contributed to public policy, and what are the guiding principles for future work in this area? This was a question that a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee recently discussed, researched, and crafted a report on. The report delves into how behavioral economics has been used in health, retirement benefits, social safety net benefits, climate change, education, and criminal justice, and it considers five core behavioral principles that affect people’s decision-making in these areas: 1) limited attention and cognition, 2) inaccurate beliefs, 3) present bias, 4) reference dependence and framing, and 5) social preferences…

Read More
May 04 2023
Love0
Maura, Rebekah and Sam holding large crayons at Cradles to Crayons

CHIBE and the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy Volunteer at Cradles to Crayons

By CHIBEblog

Members of Penn’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) volunteered at Cradles to Crayons this May by cleaning and sorting books and sorting clothing. This organization provides essentials to children who are experiencing homelessness or poverty so that they can thrive at home, at school, and at play. Cradles to Crayons collects everything from clothing, to diapers, books, school supplies, shoes, and more. The Philadelphia branch serves over 200,000 children in the region annually. This volunteer day was organized by the Department’s Community Service Committee. Thanks to all those…

Read More
Apr 28 2023
Love0

Philadelphia Magazine: Are We Ready to Care for Our Aging Population?

By In the News

From Philadelphia Magazine: Of all our fears about aging, the greatest may be our fear of losing control. Having your driver’s license revoked, being forced into a nursing home — it’s unspeakably depressing to contemplate relinquishing agency over your most basic activities and independence, even when it’s for the best. In Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande describes philosopher Ronald Dworkin’s observation about autonomy and how it applies to the aging process: “Whatever the limits and travails we face, we want to retain the autonomy — the freedom — to be the authors of our lives.”…

Read More
Apr 26 2023
Love0
george loewenstein

Q&A with Dr. George Loewenstein on I-Frame, S-Frame, and the Direction of Behavioral Public Policy

By CHIBEblog

If you work in the field of behavioral economics, you have probably heard someone in the last year talk about “i-frame and s-frame.” The terms were coined by Drs. George Loewenstein (a CHIBE-affiliated faculty member) and Nick Chater, who authored the paper “The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray,” which was published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The paper argues that behavioral scientists have focused too much of their efforts on trying to solve some of society’s biggest problems by focusing on changing individual behavior — the i-frame — instead of…

Read More
Close Menu