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1104 Blockley Hall
Health Policy Research Seminar: Ashwin Nathan, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Penn
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2024-11-07 12:00:00
2024-11-07 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Research Seminar: Ashwin Nathan, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Penn
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, November 7th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)
Topic: "Costs, Reimbursement, Margins and Patient Care in Cardiovascular Medicine."
Lunch will be served.
Talk Details: In this talk, Dr. Nathan will discuss research on variability in reimbursement and contribution margins in cardiovascular medicine along with effects on patient care.
Bio: Ashwin Nathan, MD, MS is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and at the Corporal Michael C. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine, and a member of the Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality & Evaluative Research Center. His clinical interests include structural heart interventions including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, transcatheter mitral valve replacement, transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement, transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, closure of atrial septal defects, PFOs, ventricular septal defects, and alcohol septal ablations. He performs outcomes and health policy research related to the emergence and use of novel technologies and pharmacotherapies, with a specific focus on matters of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in care. He is the author of over 65 original research manuscripts, reviews, and editorials. His original research has been published in JAMA, Circulation, JACC, and JAMA Cardiology, among others (Pubmed).
Dr. Nathan earned a Doctorate in Medicine from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and completed fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained a Master’s in the Science of Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
1104 Blockley Hall
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): "Values in the ICU: Ethical Acceptability of a Reserve System for Limited Intensive Care Resources", led by Elizabeth Fenton, PhD
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2024-11-12 12:00:00
2024-11-12 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): "Values in the ICU: Ethical Acceptability of a Reserve System for Limited Intensive Care Resources", led by Elizabeth Fenton, PhD
Values in the ICU: Ethical Acceptability of a Reserve System for Limited Intensive Care Resources
Elizabeth Fenton, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Bioethics Center
University of Otago
This talk reports and discusses the results from a small study conducted in New Zealand examining the ethical acceptability of a reserve bed system (RBS) to advance equity in the allocation of limited intenstive care unit (ICU) resources during a public health emergency. The RBS proposes that a proportion of ICU beds is set aside or ring-fenced for certain priority or protected groups, such as minority racial and ethnic populations, who might otherwise be disadvantaged in accessing ICU care. We interviewed ICU clinicians, nurses, and policy makers to understand whether a RBS would be ethically acceptable to them working in a New Zealand context, where significant health inequities between indigenous Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders persist.
Lunch provided for in person participants. Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Hybrid -Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Covid-19 Lessons Learned from an FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee Vantagepoint" - Paul A. Offit, MD
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2024-11-13 12:00:00
2024-11-13 13:00:00
America/New_York
Hybrid -Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Covid-19 Lessons Learned from an FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee Vantagepoint" - Paul A. Offit, MD
Covid-19 Lessons Learned from an FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee Vantagepoint
Paul A. Offit, MD
Director, Vaccine Education Center
Professor of pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Paul A. Offit, MD, is Director of the Vaccine Education Center and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Offit is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of virology and immunology, and was a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is a member of the Food and Drug Administration Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, and a founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation and the Foundation for Vaccine Research, a member of the Institute of Medicine and co-editor of the foremost vaccine text, Vaccines.
During this talk, Dr. Offit will discuss what went well and what went wrong during the Covid-19 pandemic from an FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee vantagepoint.
Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
HP/LDI Research Seminar: Edward Okeke, PhD, MD, Senior Economist; Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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2024-11-14 12:00:00
2024-11-14 13:00:00
America/New_York
HP/LDI Research Seminar: Edward Okeke, PhD, MD, Senior Economist; Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Research Seminar with Edward Okeke, MD, PhD
Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care
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Why do health facilities in developing countries do so poorly? This paper examines the role of financial constraints. I describe an experiment in which we surprised health workers in randomly selected public-sector health clinics in Nigeria with a $1600 grant paid out in installments over one year. Its administration was left entirely to health workers. I show that the award led to large productivity gains. Using expenditure data combined with novel textual data I provide an explanation for these effects. I show that the award increased investments in physical and human capital, led to lower prices for patients, and inspired health workers to do better.
Edward Okeke, MD, PhD is a senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is an applied microeconomist and a physician with training in public health. His research lies at the intersection of health and development. Specific areas of interest include the returns to health care in the formal sector, adoption of preventive health technologies, investments in health and human capital, and maternal and infant health. Much of Okeke’s work is in sub-Saharan Africa, but he also works in South Asia and Latin America.
Co-hosted with the Leaonard David Institute of Health Economics.
Please note: In-person attendance at this event is preferred. Virtual access will be provided to registrants who are unable to be on campus.
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): "Evolving Ethical Considerations In HIV Status Discussions In The Age Of HIV Treatment- As-Prevention And Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis"
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2024-11-26 12:00:00
2024-11-26 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): "Evolving Ethical Considerations In HIV Status Discussions In The Age Of HIV Treatment- As-Prevention And Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis"
Evolving Ethical Considerations In HIV Status Discussions In The Age Of HIV Treatment-
As-Prevention And Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
The HIV prevention landscape in the United States has changed drastically over the past decade with the introduction of two highly effective biomedical strategies for preventing HIV transmission during sex—HIV treatment-as-prevention and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Dr. Watson will discuss three ethical principles that have influenced changes in cultural norms related to HIV status disclosure practices among members of some communities that are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic in the United States: (1) Self-preservation in the setting of widespread stigma against people living with HIV; (2) Justice and the right to be protected under the law equally and free from discrimination; (3) Respect for autonomy and consent.
Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
1104 Blockley Hall
Health Policy Research Seminar: David McMillon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Emory University
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2024-12-12 12:00:00
2024-12-12 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Research Seminar: David McMillon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Emory University
1104 Blockley Hall
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Regulatory Experience Holding INDS for Early Phase High Risk Trials"
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2025-01-14 12:00:00
2025-01-14 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Regulatory Experience Holding INDS for Early Phase High Risk Trials"
Regulatory Experience Holding INDS for Early
Phase High Risk Trials
Amanda DiNofia, MD, MSCE
Attending Physician, Cancer Center
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Amanda DiNofia, MD, is an Attending Physician in the Cancer Center and a member of the Center Childhood Cancer Research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Areas of expertise: Immunotherapy
More details to follow.
Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Patient Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure: Exploring the Disclosure of Hospital Data Sharing Practices to Diverse Patient Populations"
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2025-02-11 12:00:00
2025-02-11 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Patient Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure: Exploring the Disclosure of Hospital Data Sharing Practices to Diverse Patient Populations"
Patient Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure: Exploring the Disclosure of Hospital Data Sharing Practices to Diverse Patient Populations
Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBE
Associate Professor
Interim Co-Director, Ctr. for Bioethics & Social Sciences in Medicine
University of Michigan
Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady is interim Co-Director at the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine. The goal of her work is improving the governance of secondary research with health data and specimens.
More detail to follow.
Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
1104 Blockley Hall
HP/LDI Research Seminar: Bocar Bo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University
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2025-02-27 12:00:00
2025-02-27 13:00:00
America/New_York
HP/LDI Research Seminar: Bocar Bo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University
1104 Blockley Hall
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Ethical Considerations in Research with Vulnerable Populations"
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2025-03-11 12:00:00
2025-03-11 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): "Ethical Considerations in Research with Vulnerable Populations"
Ethical Considerations in Research with Vulnerable
Populations
Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
Emily Largent (she/her) is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics. She holds a secondary appointment at Penn Law, is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and is affiliated with the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.
Dr. Largent’s work explores ethical and regulatory aspects of human subjects research as well the social, legal, and ethical considerations that arise when research findings are translated into care.
More detail to follow.
Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics