The film "No Family History," directed by LDI Senior Fellow and RWJ Health and Society Scholar Sabrina McCormick, PhD, recently won the Best Real Time Documentary award at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. McCormick also published a book investigating the enviornmental links to breast cancer.

LDI Senior Fellow and RWJ Health and Society Scholar Mehret Mandefro, MD, MSc was recently selected as one of 15 White House Fellows in a competitive national competition. The White House Fellows Program was created in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to give promising American leaders "first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government, and to increase their sense of participation in national affairs."

LDI Senior Fellow Rachel Werner, MD, PhD is the 2009 recipient of the AcademyHealth Alice Hersh New Investigator Award. The award recognizes scholars early in their careers as health services researchers who show exceptional promise for future contributions. Past recipients include LDI Senior Fellows Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD and Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, as well as Executive Director David Asch, MD, MBA.

We are delighted to announce that LDI Senior Fellow and former Director of Research Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, been selected to receive the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research. This is AFMR's highest research honor. The award is extremely well-deserved and reflects well on her accomplishments and on Penn.

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LDI Senior Fellow David Casarett discusses how patients and family members react to terminal illness (CNN, 5/12/09)

LDI Senior Fellow David Grande talks about the impact of pharmaceutical company gifts on medical students (Globe and Mail, 5/11/09)

LDI Senior Fellow David Mandell points out the benefits of early diagnosis and intervention in autism (WBBM Chicago, 5/11/09)

Kevin Volpp, Director of the LDI Center for Health Incentives, is widely cited on his study showing that financial incentives help workers quit smoking (for example, Wall Street Journal, 2/12/09)

LDI Senior Fellow David Grande urges readers not to let fear tactics delay American health care reform (Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/26/09)

LDI Senior Fellow Jalpa Doshi comments on her findings that many veterans forgo needed medications when copayments rise. (Washington Post, 1/12/09)