Scholar Connect CSP Winter 2013 Newsletter Now Available

RWJF Clinical Scholars Health Policy Podcast

Call for Papers Clinical Scholars Special Issue at Annals.org

Kavita K. Patel (UCLA CSP 03-05), Fellow and Managing Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Medicare Physicians Payments. Watch or read her testimony here. 

Nathaniel DeNicola (Penn CSP 11-13, VA Scholar), in a recent study presented at the annual clinical meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, discovered "nearly two-thirds of all U.S. hospitals that handle non-emergency births have instituted policies to eliminate non-medically indicated deliveries prior to 39 weeks’ gestation" according to the article on Nurse.com. 

Rhonda J. Mattox (UCLA CSP 08-11) has been selected as the 2013 American Psychiatry Association Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellow. Mattox is the medical director of United Family Services. She completed a psychiatry residency at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences in Little Rock and was a National Institute of Mental Health Services Research Fellow.