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Mar 02 2023
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Two CHIBE Affiliates Named Hastings Fellows

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Congratulations to CHIBE-affiliated faculty members Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN, and Peter Reese, MD, PhD, who were named Hastings Center Fellows. Drs. Largent and Reese are two of 12 new fellows named by the center. Hastings Center fellows are recognized for their work, which has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health. Dr. Largent is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, and her work is focused on ethical and regulatory issues arising in human subjects research, with a focus on…

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Mar 02 2023
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Dr. Alison Buttenheim’s Paper Selected for 2022 American Journal of Health Promotion’s Editor in Chief Award

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Congratulations to CHIBE Scientific Director Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, whose paper was selected for the 2022 American Journal of Health Promotion’s Editor in Chief Award. The paper is titled: “Fight Like a Nerdy Girl: The Dear Pandemic Playbook for Combating Health Misinformation.” The paper offers a framework with shared language for tackling health misinformation. See the full author list below: Lindsey J. Leininger, PhD Sandra S. Albrecht, PhD Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD Ashley Z. Ritter, APRN, PhD Amanda M. Simanek, PhD, MPH Mary-Jo Valentino, MFA Malia Jones, PhD The American Journal of Health Promotion noted that…

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Mar 02 2023
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Vote for Dr. Eugenia South’s Research in the STAT Madness Contest

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Eugenia South, MD, MS, a CHIBE-affiliated faculty member, and her team have been recognized in the STAT Madness contest for the best innovation in science and medicine. The research that made it into the bracket-style contest is the team’s JAMA Internal Medicine paper: “Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods.” Vote for the Penn team in the 19th matchup! The research is summarized by STAT Madness below: “Abandoned houses are stressful reminders of neglect in communities, potentially contributing to poor health and safety. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied…

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Feb 22 2023
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I-frame, S-frame, and the Use of Behavioral Economics in Government: A Q&A with Cass Sunstein

I-frame, S-frame, and the Use of Behavioral Economics in Government: A Q&A with Cass Sunstein

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Drs. Nick Chater and George Loewenstein created quite a stir in the behavioral economics world when they argued in a recent paper that some behavioral scientists have mistakenly focused their efforts on trying to solve society’s biggest problems by focusing on changing individual behavior instead of by addressing systemic or structural issues. Drs. Chater and Loewenstein believe that individual-level interventions (i-frame) often have modest effects and posit that these efforts might deflect attention and support from how system-level interventions (s-frame) could tackle these issues. For example, they write: “[W]e doubt that the problem of reducing carbon emissions can be solved…

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Jan 26 2023
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Apply to Penn’s Master of Health Care Innovation Program

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Passionate about health care? Penn’s online Master of Health Care Innovation (MHCI) program forges a diverse network of innovative thinkers and leaders passionate about improving health care. Expert faculty lead a multidisciplinary curriculum that builds your skills for facing urgent needs and addressing long-term challenges. Learn online alongside physicians, nurses, executives, entrepreneurs, and researchers in a cohort-based program. Curious about how an MHCI might be the right experience to advance your work and career? Learn more. Early access application deadline for Fall ’23 enrollment is February 15.

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Jan 23 2023
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5 Examples of How Behavioral Economics Can Influence Clinician Behavior

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Behavioral economics is a useful tool that can be leveraged to help clinicians make decisions that are in the best interests of their patients. Peer feedback, opt-out messages, and defaults are a few of the ways in which health systems can make the right choice the easy one to make for clinicians. See five examples below of how behavioral economics principles were used to influence clinician behavior. This nudge quadrupled advance care planning conversations between clinicians and patients with cancer. In this 2023 JAMA Oncology paper, the study authors tested a machine learning-based clinical care delivery intervention in cancer care…

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Jan 19 2023
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Joint Research Practices Group Receives Honorable Mention for Penn’s Champion in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award

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The Joint Research Practices (JRP) working group, an effort led by members of CHIBE and PAIR, has received an honorable mention for Penn Medicine’s Champion in Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Award, which was doled out at the Office of Inclusion and Diversity’s Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. JRP is a group working on developing and disseminating best practices and guidelines for the conduct of inclusive and anti-racist research that advances the science and practice of health equity. Its work is evidence-based, community-informed, and programmatically focused with the aim of building digital resources and codes of conduct detailing best practices…

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Jan 09 2023
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Dr. Amol Navathe Joins SCAN’s Board of Directors

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Congratulations to CHIBE Associate Director Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, who has been named to SCAN’s board of directors. The SCAN Group is a not-for-profit health care company, and SCAN Health Plan is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage health plans. Dr. Navathe will help these groups reduce health disparities and improve health care. Also joining the board of directors alongside Dr. Navathe is Benjamin K. Chu, MD, MPH, MACP.“We are honored to welcome these two exceptional leaders to the SCAN Board of Directors,” said SCAN Board Chair Linda Rosenstock, MD, in a press release. “As SCAN continues to…

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Jan 04 2023
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Two Papers with CHIBE Authors Named in Applied Clinical Informatics’ Top 10 Papers in 2022

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Two papers with CHIBE-affiliated authors made the list of a journal’s top 10 most talked about papers in 2022. Congratulations to Roy Rosin, MBA; Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD; and Srinath Adusumalli, MD, MSHP, MBMI, who were involved in the papers recognized by the journal Applied Clinical Informatics. See the two papers and the authors below: Design, Implementation, and Validation of an Automated, Algorithmic COVID-19 Triage Tool By Elana A. Meer, Maguire Herriman, Doreen Lam, Andrew Parambath, Roy Rosin, Kevin G. Volpp, Krisda H. Chaiyachati, John D. McGreevey III This paper described the design, implementation, and validation of a COVID-19 triage…

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Dec 19 2022
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Dr. Kevin Volpp Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee on ‘Food as Medicine’

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CHIBE Director Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, appeared before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry’s subcommittee on food and nutrition on December 12 to talk about the connection between chronic disease and nutrition and to call for continued federal support for nutrition research and “Food as Medicine” programs. Senator Cory Booker, chairman of the subcommittee, opened the hearing highlighting some of the consequences that unhealthy, processed diets lead to—for example, half of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes and half of all children today are estimated to be obese by the time they turn 35 years old. “The effects of…

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