The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research recently announced the Dr. Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH is one of 37 researchers selected to receive the Academy’s 2019 Distinguished Investigator Award. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their accomplishments in the field of medical imaging.
In radiology and radiation oncology women represent one in four physicians and underrepresented minorities make up one in 14 physicians, rates that indicate unsuccessful recruitment strategies, according to the authors of a recent Journal of the American College of Radiology study. Researchers sought to better understand how physicians perceive attributes of their work environment and workplace relationships in … Read more
Two things are not so incidental about incidental findings, aka “incidentalomas.” One is the general way today’s radiology community tends to regard anatomic abnormalities detected by chance in the course of looking for something else. This could rightly be called a widespread if unspoken strategy of cautious proactivity. The other is the array of specific … Read more
VIENNA — A new, open-access simulator gives providers the tools to show natural progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease to their patients using personalized factors, according to an expert at the International Liver Congress.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Bariatric surgery could extend life expectancy and quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) cost-effectively in overweight and obese patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a new modeling study suggests.
“Our study provides strong evidence that bariatric surgery could be a promising option and we need more studies in this area, especially ones that can provide direct evidence about the effectiveness of this intervention,” Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment in Boston told Reuters Health by phone. “This will be an important population to consider.”
By Anne C. Spaulding and Jagpreet Chhatwal / JANUARY 9, 2019 Across the United States, about 1 of every 7 individuals in jail or prison has chronic hepatitis C. In some states, such as New Mexico, it’s closer to 1 in 3. With approximately 9 million people spending time in prison or jail over the course of a year, … Read more
Several media sites are reporting on a new study conducted by ITA staff and colleagues as published in JAMA. The study projects that the country’s opioid death toll could top 700,000 over the next decade and shows going after prescription painkillers alone will barely make a difference.
“People who start using prescription opioids, at some point, may transition to the next stage, (and) as the supply-side shifts happen, we see increased availability of illicit opioids,” says Jagpreet Chhatwal, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital‘s Institute for Technology Assessment. He is a co-senior author of the study, published Friday in JAMA Network Open.
The Journal of Clinical Pathways recently discussed a study by ITA Associate Director Chung Yin Kong, PhD and a team of researchers from the ITA, MGH Cancer Center, and Harvard Medical School. Recently published in JAMA Oncology, the study utilized a decision analytic microsimulation model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of durvalumab as a consolidation therapy after … Read more
Jovan Julien, MS received a Lee B. Lusted Prize for Student Research award at the 2018 Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM). This award is given annually in recognition of outstanding presentations of research at the Annual Meeting. Jovan is a mentee of Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal at MGH ITA and Dr. Turgay … Read more
J. Shannon Swan, a senior scientist at the MGH-ITA and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, has published a health-related quality of life (HrQoL) index for lung cancer in the open access journal: Medical Decision Making Policy and Practice, affiliated with the Society for Medical Decision Making.
