About Dr. Michel
Katharine is a third year resident for the Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously earned a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from Yale College and then her Medical Degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are focused in health policy and health services. While in medical school, she also obtained a Masters of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP) and wrote her final thesis examining the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion on the diagnosis and treatment of genitourinary cancers. She plans to complete a six-year residency at Penn blending clinical training with continued health policy research and pursue a career in academic Urology.
Societies
- American Urological Association
- American College of Surgeons
- American Medical Association
Awards
- Member of the Alpha Omega Alpha society, inducted in 2020
Research
Kara presented an abstract as a podium presentation, “Revisits After Ambulatory Surgical Stone Removal: An Analysis of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project,” at the American Urological Association annual meeting in May 2019.
Kara’s policy work as part of her MS in health policy focused on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on genitourinary cancers: “Changes in Insurance Status, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Genitourinary Malignancies associated with the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion”
Publications
- Strother, M.C., Michel, K.F., Xia, L., McWilliams, K., Guzzo, T.J., Lee, D.J., Lee, D.I: Prolonged Length of Stay After Robotic Prostatectomy: Causes and Risk Factors. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020. doi:10.1245/s10434-020-08266-3
- Michel, K.F., Strother M.C., Lee, D.J., Lee, D.I., ASO Author Reflections: Prolonged Length of Stay After Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy—A Separate Problem from Perioperative Complications. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020. doi: 10.1245/s10434-020-08311-1