Description of Research Expertise
Dr. Merchant is an Associate Professor (tenured) of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care. She is the Penn Medicine Associate Vice President/Digital Health. She is a Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Penn Center for Digital Health. Her research is at the intersection of digital media and health. She has specifically conducted projects evaluating health behaviors and communication using digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Instagram, Reddit, and Google. One of her projects involves “banking language” through the development of a unique longitudinal database of social media data merged with health record data. Much of her work also bridges new technologies in the fields of cardiovascular health, mental health, cancer care, disaster medicine, public health, and resuscitation science. Dr. Merchant has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2011 and her work has been published in journals such as NEJM, JAMA, Circulation, and Health Affairs. She is a member of the editorial board of JAMA. She is an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow and was recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as one of 10 young investigators likely to have a significant impact on the future of health and healthcare in the US. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Selected Publications
Anietie A, Guntuku S, Asch DA, Groeneveld PW, Adusumali S, Ungar L, Merchant RM: Predicting cardiovascular risk using data from social media JMIR Cardiology : 2021.
Merchant RM, South EC, Lurie N: Public Health Messaging in an Era of Social Media Journal of the American Medical Association : 2021.
Agarwal AK, Guntuku SC, Meisel ZF, Pelullo A, Kinkle B, Merchant RM: Analyzing Online Reviews of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities in the United States Using Machine Learning Journal of General Internal Medicine : 2021.
Agarwal AK, Guntuku SC, Meisel ZF, Pelullo A, Kinkle B, Merchant RM: Analyzing Online Reviews of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities in the United States Using Machine Learning Journal of General Internal Medicine : 2021.
Haskell SE, Girortra S, Zhou Y, Zimmerman B, DeRios M, Merchant RM, Atkins DL: Racial disparities in survival outcomes following pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest
Resuscitation : 2021.
Tecce M, Hahn L, Welch B, Okawa D, Wendler DJ, Kalva S, Balachandran M, Delgado MK, Snyder CK, Flynn D, Rosin R, Merchant RM, Servetti J, Lee KC: Value-based care transformation: How Penn Medicine reimagined breast reconstruction, eliminating clinic visits NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery : 2021.
Nolan JP, Maconochie I, Soar J, Olasveengen TM, Greif R, Wyckoff MH, Singletary EM, Aickin R, Berg KM, Mancini ME, Bhanji F, Wyllie J, Zideman D, Neumar RW, Perkins GD, Castrén M, Morley PT, Montgomery WH, Nadkarni VM, Billi JE, Merchant RM, de Caen A, Escalante-Kanashiro R, Kloeck D, Wang TL, Hazinski MF: Executive Summary: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations.
Circulation 142 (16_suppl1): S2-S27,2020.
Merchant RM, Topjian AA, Panchal AR, Cheng A, Aziz K, Berg KM, Lavonas EJ, Magid DJ: Part 1: Executive Summary: 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Circulation 142 : S337-S357,2020.
Agarwal AK, Hahn L, Rosin R, Merchant RM: Exploring digital methods to capture self-reported on-shift sentiment amongst academic emergency department physicians American Journal of Emergency Medicine : 2020.
South EC, Butler PD, Merchant RM: Toward an equitable society: building a culture of antiracism in health care Journal of Clinical Investigation 24 : 141675,2020.
Academic Contact Information
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