David A. Asch, MD, MBA is the Senior Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Perelman School of Medicine. He is the John Morgan Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School. He was Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics from 1998-2012. He created, and from 2001 to 2012 directed, the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) in the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was Executive Director of the Center for Health Care Innovation from 2012-2022.
His research is in the area of behavioral economics and aims to understand and improve how physicians and patients make medical choices. He is the author of more than 450 published papers and has won numerous awards for training and research. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Areas of Expertise | Behavioral Economics, Health Care Disparities, Health Care Innovation
Clinical Area | General Internal Medicine
Selected Publications
Asch DA, Muller RW, Volpp KG. Automated hovering in health care: watching over the 5,000 hours. N Engl J Med. 2012;367:1-3. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1203869
Asch DA, Volpp KG. What business are we in? The emergence of health as the business of health care. N Engl J Med. 2012;367:888-9. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1206862
Asch DA, Nicholson S, Vujicic M. Are we in a medical education bubble market? N Engl J Med. 2013;369:1973-1975. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1310778
Asch DA, Rosin R. Innovation as discipline, not fad. N Engl J Med. 2015;373:592-4. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1506311
Silber JH, Bellini LM, Shea JA, Desai JV, Dinges DF, Basner M, Even-Shoshan O, Hill AS, Hochman LL, Katz JT, Ross RN, Shade DM, Small DS, Sternberg AL, Tonascia J, Volpp KG, Asch DA. Patient safety outcomes under flexible and standard resident duty-hour rules. N Engl J Med. 2019;380:905-14. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1810642
Asch DA. Opening hospitals to more patients during the COVID-19 pandemic—making It safe and making it feel safe. JAMA Intern Med. 2020;180:1048-9. DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2626
Asch DA, Islam, MN, Sheils NE, Chen Y, Doshi JA, Buresh J, Werner RM. Patient and hospital factors associated with differences in mortality rates among Black and white Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with COVID-19 infection. JAMA Network Open. 2021;4:e2112842. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.12842
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