Rinad Beidas, PhD
Rinad Beidas, PhD, a professor of Psychiatry, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Medicine, and director of the Nudge Unit, has been selected to be a fellow in the 28th class of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program at Drexel University. The program provides a year of training in leadership and strives to “expand the national pool of qualified women candidates for leadership in academic medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy.” Beidas is one of 72 fellows chosen for this year’s class.
Kit Delgado, MD, MS
Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology and deputy director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, has received the 2022 AcademyHealth Publication of the Year Award for the paper Comparative Effectiveness of an Automated Text Messaging Service for Monitoring COVID-19 at Home that appeared in the February edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. The article recaps the creation, testing, and successful use of the Penn Medicine-developed algorithm-driven text messaging app COVID Watch. The system was pioneered at the pre-vaccine height of the pandemic in 2020.
Susan Ellenberg, PhD, emerita professor of Biostatistics, Medical Ethics and Health Policy,has received the 2022 Karl Peace award from American Statistical Association (ASA) for “activities and research to benefit both research and broad patient communities. For leadership in developing best practices for Data Monitoring Committees in clinical trials. For improving vaccine safety; for helping future scientists.”
Joel Gelfand, MD, MSCE
Joel Gelfand, MD, MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology, has been honored with the Founders award from the American Dermatoepidemiology Network, given annually at the Society for Investigative Dermatology annual meeting to a senior dermato-epidemiologist whose work has advanced the care of dermatological diseases and has inspired and mentored junior dermato-epidemiologists.
Wei-Ting Hwang, PhD, a professor of Biostatistics, and Knashawn Morales, ScD, an associate professor of Biostatistics, have been named Fellows of the American Statistical Association, the world’s largest community of statisticians.
Nandita Mitra, PhD, has won an American Statistical Association Mentoring Award.
Eugenia C. South, MD, MSPH
Eugenia C. South, MD, MSPH, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and director of the Urban Health Lab, has received the Early Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). This award recognizes those SAEM members who have demonstrated commitment and achievement in research during the early stage of their academic career. South’s research investigates the impact of vacant lots, blighted houses, and lack of trees and other greenspaces on rates of violence and poor health outcomes in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods.
Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, has received the 2022 AcademyHealth HSR Impact Award. The honor from the AcademyHealth Board of Directors recognizes a body of research that “has had a significant impact on health care and health by successful translation and adoption of research findings into health policy and delivery.” Venkataramani is director of the Opportunity for Health Lab, and his recent research examines the effect of economic opportunities – and the policies that influence them – on health behaviors and outcomes, the early life interventions on adult health and well-being, and the role of social policies and structural factors shaping population health.
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