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Erin Isenberg
NCSP Scholar and General Surgery Resident
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
About
Erin Isenberg, MD, MSc is a general surgery resident at UT Southwestern and a National Clinician Scholar at the University of Michigan. She completed her undergraduate in Health Policy and Management and medical school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing the impact of payment models and quality initiatives on health equity.
Current Work
Dr. Isenberg's scholarship is focused on understanding how the way we design, deliver, and pay for healthcare impacts equity. She has projects focused on how insurance design, pay-for-performance programs, and quality collaboratives can contribute to structural inequities and impact vulnerable patient populations undergoing surgery. Additionally, she has developed and studied a curriculum for surgical trainees and faculty for improving structural competency, i.e. the ability for providers to understand health and illness as a product of upstream societal structures and policies.
Research Area Keyword(s)
health equity, Surgical disparities