Physician and health economist. Assistant prof at @VA_CSHIIP and @UCLA_GIMHSR. Working to understand doc behavior and health care disparities.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2009
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🚨New paper!🚨Who orders more testing: male physicians or female physicians? And what are the implications on patient outcomes? We examine these questions in the emergency department (ED) in @JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/
Star Trek: TNG was a formative part of my childhood. Thanks for the memories, Patrick Stewart. Rest in peace.
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Our new working paper, studying the value of informal caregiving among the elderly, is featured on the @nberpubs website this morning. You can access the paper here (nber.org/papers/w35784), but a short thread:
Joint with @timothyjlayton, @talgross, and Itzik Fadlon
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Sold a Story Season 2 is out. features.apmreports.org/sold…
You can hear episodes 1 and 2 today.
Then it's one episode a week, on Thursdays, through Nov 19.
Seems like JAMA is okay with use of AI for searches that are integral to a manuscript's research process (not just literature searches). Interesting!
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Interesting paper by @claireeboone in @JAMAInternalMed. When faced with incentive to "control" hypertension, docs more likely to recheck BP, choose the lower reading, document BP as controlled, and less likely to intensify BP meds. This results in⬆️hospitalizations for CV events!
New diff-in-diff paper in @JAMAInternalMed: we document some unintended consequences of a hypertension control quality metric and financial incentive -- one that's widely used in US healthcare. In the overall population there were almost no impacts, but..
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NIHCM’s September Newsletter is here 🗞️
This month, we are exploring GLP-1s, prescription drug affordability, postpartum mental health, vaccines, and more. We also have an exclusive Q&A on diabetes preventive therapies with @meddly
Read the full newsletter here: bit.ly/NIHCMSept26newsletter
#NIHCMnewsletter #glp1s #mentalhealth
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In the US Veterans Affairs system, female emergency physicians modestly increased testing and hospital admissions compared with male colleagues, with no difference in 30-day mortality or short admission rates. ja.ma/45twklY
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💬 Editorial: Female physicians in VA emergency departments ordered more diagnostic tests and admitted more patients than male physicians, but test appropriateness and outcomes were similar. ja.ma/4fxdcbu
Results suggest that while female docs order more tests and admit more patients, this additional care may be clinically appropriate. These diffs may arise from diffs in risk aversion or, as Sarsons has found, diffs in peer judgment after bad outcomes. 6/ drive.google.com/file/d/1YQF…
Thank you to my coauthors @LauraBurke20 and @stephencoussens. Paper link below. @UCLA_GIMHSR @VA_CSHIIP @LosAngelesVA @vahsrd @DOM_UCLA @UCLAHealth
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Thank you @NIHCMfoundation for your support!
Read @meddly's work on the racial and ethnic disparities that exist in receiving diabetes care: bit.ly/44nO0Pu
#chronicdiseaseday #diabetescare
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Session recs for #ASHEcon2026: *Mon 330-5pm Lakeshore B* w/ Maya Roy presenting our work on hospice care @YunanJi @ashdgandhi & *Tues 1015-1145am* in Greenway B where I'll be presenting on antibiotic stewardship & innovation, w/ discussion by @parker_rog cc: @LucyXiaolu_Wang
Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including Aaron Schwartz, Vini Singh, @danzeltzer, and @ml_barnett!
If you're buying plane tickets to ASHEcon 2026, make sure you stay for our session (last of the conference) of 3 RDs studying heuristics, stigma, and guideline thresholds. With Aaron Schwartz, Vini Singh, @danzeltzer, and @ml_barnett! ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2…