LDI research Seminar featuring John Ayanian, MD, MPP

John Ayanian, MD, MPP
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Health Consequences of Uninsurance:
Research Findings and Policy Implications

January 16, 2004
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium

Abstract Slides Paper

Biosketch:
Dr. Ayanian's research focuses on the effect of patients' race, gender, insurance coverage, and socioeconomic characteristics on access to care and clinical outcomes, as well as the impact of physicians' specialty and organizational characteristics on the quality of care. He is the principal investigator of studies funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Cancer Institute. In collaboration with the California Cancer Registry, he is evaluating the quality of care for patients with colorectal cancer using registry data and surveys of patients and physicians. He also leads the Harvard research team participating in the NCI-funded Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (CanCORS) Consortium, a multi-regional initiative to evaluate the experiences and outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer and lung cancer.

In Dr. Ayanian's recent research, he has studied the effect of Medicare coverage on previously uninsured adults, the impact of ambulatory care from primary care physicians and cardiologists on the outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries who have survived a heart attack, and the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs among people who have had heart attacks. His previous research includes studies of the effects of race and gender on access to kidney transplants and cardiac procedures, and the quality of care for common medical conditions in teaching and nonteaching hospitals. He serves as director of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Co-Chair of the NCI CanCORS Consortium, and a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance.

Dr. Ayanian received his B.A. degree from Duke University, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Abstract:
Dr. Ayanian will highlight key research on the health consequences of uninsurance and benefits of coverage, discuss methodological challenges in observational studies of this topic, and review findings and recommendations from the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance.