At the end of 2016, several HCP faculty were recognized for their contributions and impact in their fields and on health care in general.
Ateev Mehrotra’s article on retail clinics made Health Affairs’ list of top ten most read articles in 2016. Mehrotra and coauthors studied whether retail clinics improved spending. Contrary to expectations and hopes, the study showed that retail clinics may actually increase spending by providing patients with more options for care that they might not have used if unavailable.
Their study showed that for the Aetna data studied, 58 percent of visits to retail clinics for low-acuity (non-emergency) conditions were new utilization. Spending from retail clinic use actually increased by $14 on average.
Sherri Rose made Simply Statistics’ Awesome Things List, which highlights particularly interesting and innovative work done in the field of biostatistics in 2016. Simply Statistics, a blog of biostatistics faculty that write about how statistics can solve problems, features new concepts in the field, people doing interesting work, and articles that inspire.
Rose’s post, titled “Economic Diversity and the Academy: Statistical Science,” details her experience as a mentor in the Summer Program in Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She highlights her passion for helping underrepresented students achieve the support they need to flourish in the field, both through this program and generally.
According to Beckers Hospital Review, a hospital magazine for hospital business news and analysis, Anupam Jena is one of 60 of the most powerful people in health care in 2016. Jena’s work highlights unique natural experiments that allow for research opportunities in the real-world clinical environment. His most recent work has focused on pay disparities and quality of care.
According to the Review, Jena’s most notable achievement that earned him a spot on the list was his JAMA Internal Medicine study that showed pay disparities between male and female physicians. The review highlights subject matter experts who used their knowledge and specialty to bring about change.
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