Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Thank you to Dr. Daniel Tomaszewski and the University of Southern California’s Health Care Decision Analysis (HCDA) program for brining me in as a guest speaker this weekend. I truly enjoyed my time with the students. As they posted on LinkedIn: Thanks to guest speaker Jason Shafrin of FTI Consulting, for joining us in the Health Economics…
That is the title of paper recently published in JMCP along with co-authors Alexis Ogdie, Mark Hwang, Phani Veeranki, Alexandria Portelli, Steven Sison, Sofia Pedro, Steven Hass, Peter Hur, Nina Kim, Esther Yi, and Kaleb Michaud. The paper abstract is below. BACKGROUND: Interventions for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have improved patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical studies. However,…
That is the title of paper recently published in JMCP along with co-authors Alexis Ogdie, Mark Hwang, Phani Veeranki, Alexandria Portelli, Steven Sison, Sofia Pedro, Steven Hass, Peter Hur, Nina Kim, Esther Yi, and Kaleb Michaud. The paper abstract is below. BACKGROUND: The Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) has been validated and widely used in…
Fortune Magazine had 3 articles providing an overview of the labor market for nurses. Here’s what nurse salaries look like in 2022 Is a master’s degree in nursing (MSN) worth it? ‘They’re making big money’: How to earn $139,000 as a nurse In each article, I am quoted. For instance, I discuss the previous trend…
That is the question I answer with my co-authors Ervant J. Maksabedian Hernandez, Marlon Graf, and Alexandria Portelli. The key finding is that at the molecule level, prices fall by only 18.6%, but this masks significant heterogeneity as the uptake of biosimilars varied dramatically across therapeutic class. The results from the paper’s abstract is below.…
Today, one of my studies was published. The title of the study was “Economic burden of antibiotic-not-susceptible isolates in uncomplicated urinary tract infection: Analysis of a US integrated delivery network database” This is work with co-authors Alen Marijam, Ashish V. Joshi, Fanny S. Mitrani-Gold, Katie Everson, Rifat Tuly, Peter Rosenquist, Michael Gillam & Maria Elena…
That is the title of a paper published today with my co-authors Felicia Forma, Kevin Chiu, Jason Shafrin, Dusica Hadzi Boskovic, and S Phani Veeranki. The subtitle is: Caregiver preferences for health technology tools to monitor medication adherence among patients with serious mental illness. The paper abstract is below: Background Adherence to antipsychotic medication is…
That is the title of my recent paper in Advances in Therapy along with co-authors Christian Jackisch, Federico Manevy, Suzanne Frank, and Nicki Roberts. This is a case study of the fixed-dose combination therapy of pertuzumab and trastuzumab as a subcutaneous injection compared to previous treatments which were administered via infusion. The abstract is below.…
If you are attending the ISPOR Europe 2021 conference, please check out my panels on the following topics: “Addressing Payment Challenges for Alzheimer’s Disease-Modifying Therapies” on December 1, 16:00-17:00 CET with Jakub Hlavka, Howard Thom, and Adrian Towse. “Challenges in Quantifying the Value of Digital Therapeutics” on December 2, 11:00-12:00 CET with Wayne Burton, Megan…
Mark your calendars and be sure to register: I will be speaking on two panels at the upcoming ISPOR Europe 2021 virtual conference. These panels include: “Addressing Payment Challenges for Alzheimer’s Disease-Modifying Therapies” on December 1, 16:00-17:00 CET and “Challenges in Quantifying the Value of Digital Therapeutics” on December 2, 11:00-12:00 CET. Further event details…