2024 Junior Investigator Award
The Junior Investigator Award winner's work has had important policy impact on both the state and national levels and she has testified before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Health regarding payment policy.
Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine and director of Health Equity Research at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is a hospitalist and health policy researcher whose work focuses on ensuring the viability of the health care safety-net for low-income patients. She conducts rigorous empirical work on safety-net hospital financing and quality of care and the role of health policy in mitigating population health disparities.
Dr. Chatterjee's research and viewpoints have been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, Journal of Hospital Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health. Her work has had important policy impact at both state and national levels. Dr. Chatterjee has testified for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Health on the role of payment policy in ensuring hospital viability and conducted research with state policymakers to measure the administrative burden associated with a Medicaid work requirement.
Nationally, her work on safety-net hospital financing has influenced discussions held by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment & Access Commission, both of which advise Congress on health care payment policy. Dr. Chatterjee completed her residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MPH and undergraduate degrees from Yale University.
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