The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics 2008 grants were funded to the following awardees:

A Community Partnership to Assess the Health of People Undergoing Mortgage Foreclosure in Philadelphia
Principal Investigator: Julia Lynch, PhD
Co-investigator: Craig Pollack, M.D., M.H.S.

Difficult Decisions in Public Health
Principal Investigator: Carolyn Cannuscio, PhD
Co-investigators: Robby Aronowitz, MD, Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH

Rationing of Blood Products During Shortages: A Physician Survey
Principal Investigator: Rachel Cook, MD

Patient Flow in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Intensive Observation
Principal Investigator: Evan Fieldston, MD
Co-investigators: Christian Terwiesch, PhD; Mark Helfaer, MD; Richard Lin, MD; Annette Bollig, MSN, RN; Paula Agosto, Judy Verger, PhD, CRNP, CCRN; Patricia Hubbs, Heidi Martin

Shared Decision Making to Improve Treatment Outcomes in ADHD: A Qualitative Analysis
Principal Investigator: Alexander Fiks, MD, MSCE
Co-investigators: James Guevara, MD, MPH; Thomas Power, PhD;
Evaline Alessandrini, MD, MSCE; Fran Barg, PhD

The Association of Maternal Gestational Weight Gain and Childhood Obesity
Principal Investigator: David Rubin, MD, MSCE

Recruitment, Retention, and Quality Intervention Research for the Entry-Level Behavioral Healthcare Workforce: A Pilot Study
Principal Investigator: Mark Salzer, PhD
Co-investigators: Phyllis Solomon, PhD; Nancy Hanrahan, PhD

Health Related Quality of Life: Utility Preference Score for Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Principal Investigator: Judy Shea, PhD

Diffusion and Disparities in Utilization of Percutaneous Breast Biopsy
Principal Investigator: Seema Sonnad, PhD

Utilities of Claims-Based Quality Measures in Asthma in Predicting Clinical Outcomes
Principal Investigator: Pierre Yong, MD, MPH
Co-investigators: David Mandell, ScD; Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD; Rachel Werner, MD, PhD

Archive of past Pilot Grants