This week, we are joined by Russ Phillips! Dr. Russell Phillips joins us to talk about a recent publication in JAMA IM that he wrote with a number of collaborators including other Center for Primary Care faculty, entitled: Association of Primary Care Physician Supply With Population Mortality in the United States, 2005-2015.

This week, we have two amazing guests, Cheryl Pritlove and Elizabeth Metraux. They are joining us to talk about gender disparities in medicine.

Why is change so difficult? So often, we know what needs to be done – but actually making change is where we get stuck.

Why is change so difficult? So often, we know what needs to be done – but actually making change is where we get stuck.

Utibe Essien, a Health Equity researcher, primary care physician in the VA Pittsburgh Health System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine joins us this week. Dr. Essien studies racial disparities in healthcare, and recently published a major study in JAMA Cardiology, demonstrating significant racial disparities in the management of atrial fibrillation.

This week, we have a very special collaborative show with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s podcast, This Week in Health. We are featuring perspectives on gun violence from the trauma bay of the emergency room with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway.

This week, Thomas Kim, David Rosenthal, and Audrey Provenzano bring you a journal club episode.

Difficulty accessing medical records can be extremely difficult, which we explore today with two guests: Ilana Yurkiewicz and Carolyn Lye.

In this reprise episode, our guests are Sarah Dauber, Ph.D & Lindsey Vuolo JD, MPH of Center on Addiction, a science-based non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to end addiction. They join us to discuss policies that affect how pregnant women with substance use disorders may or may not access care and how we can better align policy with evidence-based care of women with substance use disorders.

Our guest this week is Dr. Mark Friedberg. Mark’s research covers a range of topics but focuses in particular on quality measurement and pay for performance. He joins us today to talk about his work, and in particular an exhaustive report he recently published with colleagues from RAND and also the AMA, looking at the effects of alternative payment models on the practice of medicine in the US, a follow up study from work initially done in 2014.