Congratulations to CDRP faculty affiliate Megan Huisingh-Scheetz on receiving the 2024 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research from the American Federation for Aging Research and the Mid-Career Innovation Award from the Gerontological Society of America!
Congratulations to CDRP faculty affiliate Anna Volerman on being named Director of Research and Assessment at the Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute for Clinical Excellence! Listen to an interview with Volerman on the Clinical Excellence podcast
PITCH alumnus Nathaniel Glasser’s recent JAMA Network Open study, “Male Gender Expressivity and Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease Risks in Men,” coauthored by CDRP faculty affiliates Elbert Huang, Stacy Tessler Lindau, Monica Peek, Elizabeth Tung, and Harold Pollack, was featured on CBS News Boston on October 28, 2024.
All of the issues that we struggle with in our health care system in general are magnified within kidney disease.
My lab has been examining the current kidney allocation system and its algorithm from various angles and trying to advocate for improvements to make the system more efficient and more equitable.
Kidney disease contains all the problems of the American healthcare system, just more intensely.
Most people with kidney disease don’t know they have it. This is because there is no routine screening for it, even for patients who are high-risk. Then there are issues of disparities in access to care across the continuum of kidney disease, along racial/ethnic, as well as socioeconomic, and in some cases geographic lines. Fortunately, in part thanks to advocacy efforts to raise awareness about these disparities, they are receiving more attention today, from both scientists and policymakers who are looking to develop innovative solutions and tackle root-cause drivers.
Congratulations to CDRP affiliates David D. Kim, Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Harita Shah, Elizabeth Tung, and Anna Volerman on receiving grants from NIH!
