Summer Medical Student Fellows

Pictured above, Robin Wang (second from right) and Parth Shah (far right), completed summer fellowships through MSHP's Medical Student Health Services and Policy Research Summer Research Fellowship . Robin investigated spillover effects of Medicare’s bundled payment programs among commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients with Amol Navathe, MD, PhD .She was involved in all aspects of the research process, from methodology/study design to data management, statistical analysis/coding, to manuscript writing. As part of her fellowship, she also completed HPR 501, Economics of Health Care Delivery, with Professor Mark Pauly.

Parth worked with Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP to develop a sequence-to-sequence autoencoder, which is a deep unsupervised neural network method used to model large-scale clinical time series data. He worked with a novel dataset of UPHS electronic health records, and developed neural network models to capture dynamic patient states. The two hope that these models can be used in a wide variety of supervised learning tasks for which accurate labeling is difficult (e.g. prediction of sepsis).

Alumni Highlights

Sarah Traxler '15, pictured left, was interviewed on NPR speaking about the downside of Planned Parenthood leaving the federal Title X program, which gives money for family planning to clinics that serve low-income communities. Dr. Traxler is the Chief Medical Officer for Planner Parenthood's North Central States (the Dakotas, Iowa, and Nebraska)

Chethan Bachireddy '18 , asks whether it is more effective to disburse fixed total financial incentives at a constant, increasing, or decreasing rate to encourage physical activity in his latest piece for JAMA Network Open . Dr. Bachireddy was newly appointed Chief Medical Officer of Virginia Medicaid.