CHIBE in the News

Source: strategy+business, September 16, 2014 Strategy+business recently conducted a video interview with Wharton Professor Katherine Milkman about motivating people to achieve their goals. The key to achieving our goals throughout the year, shes says, is leveraging fresh starts–moments when we wipe the slate clean and are motivated to work harder.

Source: The Washington Post, August 18, 2014 A Washington Post Article references Judd Kessler’s latest research on organ donor registration. He found that just simply asking again for organ donation generated more organ donors.  This suggests that policymakers should look for more opportunities to keep asking this question, like on income tax forms, as the researchers said some states are considering.

Source: Strategy+Business, August 8, 2014 Wharton Professor and CHIBE faculty member Katherine Milkman recently spoke with strategy+business about her research on the “fresh start effect” with Hengchen Dai and Jason Riis.

Sources:  Penn Medicine News, WHYY Newsworks, July 30,  2014 Coinciding with the IOM’s report on the governance and financing of medical education, David Asch proposes recommendations for the future of medical education in a Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine. The recommendations include defining better measures of training success, testing fundamental changes to the structure and content of medical education and testing new approaches for financing medical education.  

Source: Penn Medicine News, HealthDay, July 9, 2014 A study conducted by Peter Reese and colleagues recently found that kidney donors 55 and older had similar life expectancy and cardiovascular health as very healthy older people who did not donate their kidneys. “Our results provide valuable new data that can be used by transplant centers and physicians, and may well affect the decision-making for older patients considering donation,” says Reese.