HPI Seminar Series Archive 2018-2019

 

Date  Speakers Seminar Title
September 12

Lauren Wisk, PhD

Assistant Professor

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

An Update on Health Insurance and Access to Care for Young Adults Post Health Reform: Policy Gains and New Opportunities

September 25

Dennis Ross-Degnan, ScD

Associate Professor

Harvard Medical School Deparment of Population Medicine

Director of Research at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Interrupted Time Series
October 10

Mara Murray Horwitz, MD

Research Fellow

Department of Population Medicine

Variation in Primary Care Quality Measures: A Multi-Level Analysis
October 17

Jaime Espin, PhD

Visiting Professor

Andalusian School of Public Health

How Europe is facing the high cost medicines challenge? 
October 24

Anna Sinaiko, PhD

Harvard School of Public Health

Department of Health Policy and Management

Use of reference-based pricing benefit design to steer patients to low-price imaging providers
November 14

Oreofe 0. Odejide, MD

Medical Oncology

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Why are Patients with Blood Cancers Less Likely to Receive Quality End-of-Life Care?
November 28

Huseyin Naci, PhD

Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Evidence standards for approving cancer medicines in Europe
December 12

Kenneth Kehl, MD

Medical Oncology

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Rapid innovation in the treatment of lung cancer: Real-world impact

January 23

Scott Weiner, MD, MPH

Attending Emergency Physician

Director, Brigham and Women's Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Program

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic with Policy and Technology
January 30

Ed Silverman

Pharmalot Columnist

Senior Writer

STAT News

Connecting the dots across the many aspects of US and global drug pricing
February 13

Jeanne Madden, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacy & Health

System Sciences

School of Pharmacy

Northeastern University

Food Insecurity among Medicare Beneficiaries, and More
March 13

Alessandra Ferrario, PhD

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inst.

Deptartment of Population Medicine

Using Claims Data to Study the Intensity of End-of-Life Care in Commercially Insured Patients
March 27

Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD

Associate Professor, Health Policy

Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Improving Access to Prescription Drugs through Policy Change
April 3

Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS

Professor

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice

Novel Interventions to Modify Physician Decision Making
April 10

Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Policy

Duke Cancer Institute

Intervening on the Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care
April 24

Robin Yabroff

Strategic Director

Economic Burden of Cancer

American Cancer Society

Financial Hardship Among Cancer Survivors in the United States
May 8

Saumya Chatrath, PhD Candidate

Research Fellow

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inst.

Department of Population Medicine

Effect of PCP-Specialist Referrals on Spending and Health
May 22

Amir Meiri, MD 

Harvard Medical School Fellow in General Medicine and Primary Care

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Department of Population Medicine

Implications of Insulin Costs and Utilization Trends among a Commercially-Insured Diabetes Population

June 5

Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHsc, MSc, MA

Pyle Fellowship Awardee

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Deptartment of Population Medicine

Opportunities and Challenges to Implementing Genetic Testing for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in the United States
June 12

Xiaodong Guan, PhD

Research Fellow

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Department of Population Medicine

Effect of physicians' knowledge on antibiotics rational use in China's county hospitals
June 26

Unni Gopinathan, MD, PhD 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Department of Population Medicine

Impact of high-deductible health plans on health care utilization and outcomes among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
July 17

Cecilia Kallberg, MD

Research Fellow 

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Department of Population Medicine

Analyzing the immediate and long-term effect of an educational intervention targeting antibiotic prescribing practices of Norwegian GPs, using interrupted time series analysis
July 30

Adam Dunn, PhD

Affiliate Faculty, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)

Visiting Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Harvard Medical School

Can social media research play a practical role in mitigating misinformation and promoting vaccines?
August 7

Huseyin Naci, PhD

Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Risk of bias of randomised controlled trials supporting European Medicines Agency approvals of cancer drugs