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Dr. Katy Milkman Named One of Fortune Magazine’s 10 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health

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Congratulations to CHIBE-affiliated faculty member Katy Milkman, PhD, who was named one of Fortune Magazine‘s 10 innovators shaping the future of health. Dr. Milkman was recognized for her work as the co-founder of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. Fortune lauded her work on exercise (partnering with organizations like 24 Hour Fitness), as well as on vaccination uptake. Find an example of a recent megastudy on vaccination uptake here: A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit. Read more about Dr. Milkman’s recognition in Fortune.

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Dr. Shivan Mehta Is Promoted to Associate Professor

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Congratulations to CHIBE-affiliated faculty member Shivan Mehta, MD, MBA, who has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Mehta is the Associate Chief Innovation Officer of Penn Medicine and leads a team of managers, designers, and engineers to develop, evaluate, and implement health care delivery innovations across Penn Medicine’s health system. He has led and evaluated 20 pragmatic trials of health care delivery that leverage behavioral science, care redesign, and information technology to improve population health outcomes in areas such as colorectal cancer screening, hypertension management, breast cancer screening, hepatitis C screening, and vaccine outreach….

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CHIBE Hosts 2022 Behavioral Science and Health Symposium

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Complicity, evidence adoption bottlenecks, and individual vs system-level interventions were just a few of the varied topics discussed at the 12th annual Behavioral Science and Health Symposium held this year at the Penn Museum and Inn at Penn on November 9-10, 2022. Each year, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) symposium brings together top researchers and clinicians from around the country and the globe to discuss their latest research, develop new collaborations, and exchange ideas. This year’s event featured two keynote presentations: Max H. Bazerman, PhD, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at…

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Kevin Mahoney Named One of Philadelphia Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Philadelphia

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Congratulations to Kevin Mahoney, MBA, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and member of CHIBE’s internal advisory board, who was named one of Philadelphia magazine’s top 100 most influential people in Philadelphia. Mahoney was recognized as being “the brains behind Penn Medicine’s 1.5 million-square-foot Pavilion, which opened last October,” as well as ushering in “a new kidney-disease innovation center with CHOP and the Fund for Health, a partnership between Penn Medicine and the Wharton School to improve at-risk residents’ social determinants of health.” Mahoney was also recently named one of City & State PA’s 2022 Philly Power 100…

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Dr. Christina Roberto Wins 2022 Thomas A. Wadden Award for Distinguished Mentorship

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Congratulations to Christina Roberto, PhD, who has won the 2022 Thomas A. Wadden Award for Distinguished Mentorship from The Obesity Society. “This award is incredibly meaningful to me,” Dr. Roberto said. “Over the last decade, I have had the good fortune to work with an amazing group of trainees. Mentoring them has been a total joy, and I have learned as much or more from them as they have learned from me.” Dr. Roberto, the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine and Associate Director with the Center…

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Dr. Peter Reese wins distinguished researcher award from the american society of nephrology

Dr. Peter Reese wins Distinguished Researcher Award from the American Society of Nephrology

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Congratulations to CHIBE-affiliated faculty member Peter Reese, MD, PhD, who has won a Distinguished Researcher Award from the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Reese is an NIH-funded transplant nephrologist and epidemiologist and a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, with secondary appointments in epidemiology and medical ethics. The American Society of Nephrology noted some of Dr. Reese’s contributions including “co-leading the first kidney and heart trials of transplanting organs from donors with hepatitis C virus infection into uninfected recipients, followed by treatment with antiviral agents. This practice became widely adopted by North American…

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Dr. Kevin Volpp Named AHA Distinguished Scientist for 2022

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CHIBE Director Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, has been recognized as a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association (AHA) for 2022. This designation is given to scientists and clinicians who make important contributions to the understanding of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Dr. Volpp will be celebrated during the AHA’s Scientific Sessions in November 2022 in Chicago, Illinois, with six other distinguished scientist awardees. “This award is personally really meaningful to me,” Dr. Volpp said. “There are a number of people who have won this who are people I greatly admire. As a cardiac arrest survivor, it is humbling to have…

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Dr. Emily Largent Wins Baruch A. Brody Award and Lecture

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Congratulations to CHIBE-affiliated faculty member Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN, the Emanuel and Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Perelman School of Medicine, who has won the 2022-2023 Baruch A. Brody Award and Lecture. Dr. Largent was chosen for this award by Baylor College of Medicine Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, the Houston Methodist Hospital System, and the Rice University Department of Philosophy, who recognized her for her “skilled ability to blend conceptual and legal analysis with rigorous empirical methods to address pressing ethical challenges, including those related to aging, cognitive disability, and…

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CHIBE Q&A with Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA

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The Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) recently welcomed Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, as a member of our external advisory board. Dr. Gottlieb is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. From 2015-2019, he served as CEO of Partners In Health, a global NGO providing a preferential option for the poor in health care in severely resource constrained settings. He assumed this role after serving on the PIH Board of Directors for a decade. From 2010 until February of 2015, Dr. Gottlieb was the CEO of Partners HealthCare…

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