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Ashley Kyalwazi, MD, MPP, Harvard Medical School, Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP, BIDMC Smith Center and + coauthors examine trends in thirty-day mortality at hospitals participating in the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program and caring for high proportions of Black adults. hubs.la/Q02hk05-0

Belal Suleiman Allison Levin, MD MSc Amanda Garfinkel, MD David E Wang, MD Orly Leiva, MD Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD Maxwell Coll, MD Tracy TM, MD, MPH Enrico Ferro, MD Check out this resource and spread the word!

New Health Affairs study led by Ashley Kyalwazi, MD, MPP We explore the equity-implications of Medicare's Value-Based Purchasing program (VBP), which financial rewards or penalizes ≈3,000 hospitals based on performance measures BIDMC Smith Center (Thread) healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

A fantastic BIDMC Smith Center Health Policy Section research team dinner. Celebrating a year of impactful work, life wins, Danish culture ("Skål"), and new collaborations and beginnings over non-stop sushi.

Tour de force BIDMC CVI grand rounds by Alka Kanaya: # U.S. South Asians are not a monolith # ⬆️⬆️CV risk driven by diabetes + beta cell dysfn + ins resistance # low exercise + sarcopenia # similar LDL-C but ⬆️ Lp(a) # Tight social network-activate for lifestyle change #MASALA

A clinical consensus statement on ANOCA from the BIDMC Cardiovascular Division, put together by Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD, mentored by Connie Tsao, MD, MPH and Eric A Osborn MD PhD - the result of a fantastic discussion at our regular Clinical Consensus Conference at BIDMC CVI BIDMC CV Fellowship

An end-of-the-year clinic celebration for some of our general cardiology fellows & their clinic preceptors ft. candlepin bowling & lots of delicious pizza 🥳 Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD @NicolasIsazaMD

Fantastic team dinner with the health policy research section BIDMC Smith Center Very fortunate to work with incredibly talented medical students, residents, & post-doctoral fellows whom are leading impactful research at the intersection of health policy, equity, & cardiology BIDMC CVI

Our new study in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine projects that the Inflation Reduction Act's spending cap & low-income subsidies will ⬇️ out-of-pocket prescription drug spending for >500,000 adults w/ COPD & asthma link.springer.com/article/10.100… Led by ⭐️ fellow Stephen Mein w/ Mary Rice Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD

A group of our F2’s hiking and enjoying the beautiful fall weather during the long weekend!

We are so thrilled to welcome this truly exceptional group of cardiology fellows to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center!!!

We’re so proud of our F2’s for representing BIDMC at Massachusetts ACC jeopardy last night! 🎉 Katie V Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD Adam Alhassan MD, MPH Joe Kannam

Post-work Women in Cardiology hang in honor of National Women Physicians Day #WIC Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD Katie V Leah Kosyakovsky Christina Lalani

Congratulations to our F2 class on a hilarious & well-done skit night! Every year at skit night, the F2 class creates a series of skits making fun of the highs & lows of their first year of fellowship🫀

That’s a wrap on #ACC25 with this exceptional group of BIDMC Smith Center research trainees and BIDMC CV Fellowship

One of our favorite #ACC traditions is an annual dinner with our fellowship program director #ACC25

Fellow representation at #ISHLT2025

Our new JAMA study finds that the end of the largest-ever increase in SNAP benefits led to a rapid ⬆️ in food insecurity and poor physical health Grateful to lead this with @LiuMichaelON under 🌟 mentor Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP and team Dr. Sara Bleich Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD Camilla Bjorck-Posson Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH

Congress has proposed deep cuts to SNAP, which provides food benefits to >40 million Americans Our new JAMA study finds that ⬇️SNAP benefits not only ⬆️ food insecurity, but also leads to significant ⬆️ poor physical health BIDMC Smith Center jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

At the end of every academic year, the F1’s and F2’s have a half day retreat with our program leadership to share feedback on the program and ideas for improvement. One of the highlights of the day is post-retreat sushi 🍣 with our program leadership and division chief!