Ahead of the Annual Research Meeting, AcademyHealth announced the winners of their various research awards. Included among the names were several HCP former students and faculty.
Sharon-Lise Normand was selected to give the Marvin Zelen Keynote Address at the joint meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Italian Regions of the International Biometrics Society held in May in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Michael McWilliams was the keynote speaker at the 21st Annual Kovner-Behrman Health Forum at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, with a talk titled “Accountable Care Organizations: Making Progress in a Land of Unicorns.”
In April 2017, Alan Zaslavsky was the inaugural speaker for the Will Manning Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago’s Center for Health and the Social Sciences.
Older is wiser, or so the saying goes. But senior author Bapu Jena, along with Alan Zaslavsky and Joseph Newhouse, find that older general internists have higher rates of mortality when compared with their younger counterparts.
In a paper published in the American Journal of Health Economics, Tim Layton and Tom McGuire laid out potential changes that could be made to the ACA Marketplaces to protect against high-cost cases.