Racial Disparities in Opioid Prescribing in Large RCT
Former Medical Student Fellow Eden Engel-Rebitzer led a secondary analysis of data from the Life STORRIED study to understand the role of...
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The Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease or Cancer
Austin Kilaru, MD and Zack Meisel MD were part of a team that studied the impact of using Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) on...
State Legislators’ Social Media Posts About the Opioid Epidemic
Medical Student Fellow Dan Stokes led a recent study looking at the social media posts of state legislators to learn more about how they...
Eden Engel-Rebitzer Wins Medical Student Paper Prize
Medical Student Fellow Eden Engel-Rebitzer won the 2021 Medical Student Research Paper Prize at the University of Pennsylvania. Eden was...
COVID-19 Pandemic May Have Exacerbated Disparities in Overdose Deaths
Utsha Khatri, MD was recently featured in WHYY's article examining the concerning increase in overdose death among Black Philadelphians...
Zachary Meisel, MD Recipient of SAEM 2020 Research Achievement Award
CECPR Director Zachary Meisel, MD was recently awarded the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2020 Research Achievement Award for...
Methadone Clinics, Policing, and the Role of Nurses
Shoshi Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP reflects on the ways that the current methadone system asks nurses to police the behavior of their patients....
How the USPS Crisis Impacts the Opioid Crisis
Shoshi Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP co-authored a piece that reflected on the ways that the current postal service crisis has negatively impacted...
Telehealth Policy Suggestions to Increase Buprenorphine Access
Deaths likely attributable to opioid overdoses have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, healthcare providers have...
Opioid Prescription Rates After Knee Surgery
A recent study by Kit Delgado, MD and colleagues found that rates of opioid prescriptions following knee surgery varied widely by state,...
Challenges of Seeking Treatment for OUD During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unexpected challenges for many populations, and people with opioid use disorder are no exception....
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD Leader in MOUD Study
Starting in September 2020, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD will serve as site PI at Penn for the Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine...
COVID-19 and the Opioid Crisis
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD moderated an LDI panel on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the opioid crisis. Zachary Meisel, MD was one of...
Racial Disparities in Treatment Following Nonfatal Overdose
In a study looking at claims data, CECPR researchers found that following a nonfatal opioid overdose, the majority of individuals did not...
Incentives and X-Waiver Trainings
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, Margaret Lowenstein, MD, and Utsha Khatri, MD were members of a team who evaluated an incentive program aimed at...
Vivien Wong, Former CECPR Student Fellow, Wins Research Prize
Vivien Wong, former CECPR Student Fellow, recently won the 2020 Robert M. Toll Research Paper Prize awarded by the Perelman School of...
Public Health Benefits of Overdose Prevention Sites
In an opinion piece featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD CECPR Clinical Research Coordinator Brittany Salerno...
Racial Bias Leads to Underprescribing of Opioids for Black Patients
Utsha Khatri, MD and Shoshi Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP discussed their recent piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer on WBUR's Here and Now...
WHYY Covers Recent CECPR Study
Austin Kilaru, MD, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, and Zachary Meisel, MD collaborated with other researchers to evaluate Pennsylvania's program...
Debra Houry, MD, MPH, John Pryor Visiting Professor
Debra Houry, MD, MPH is the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at CDC. In this role, Dr. Houry...
Gina South, MD and Zachary Meisel, MD Awarded CDC R01 Grant
Gina South, MD and Zachary Meisel, MD were recently awarded a CDC R01 grant for their study titled SPARROw (Studying the PhilAdelphia...
Policy Solutions to the Opioid Crisis: CECPR Weighs In
CECPR's Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, Kit Delgado, MD, and Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MPhil spoke with UPenn's Knowledge @ Wharton about policy...
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD Testifies in U.S. v. Safehouse
On August 19th, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD testified in Philadelphia's federal courthouse in U.S. v. Safehouse. The case will determine if the...
How These Community Members Saved a Man's Life Serves as an Example for Policymakers
In May of this year, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD encountered a young man experiencing an opioid overdose on a Philly train. She administered...
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