April 1, 2019, JAMA Internal Medicine published research co-authored by AFAR experts Kumar Dharmarajan, MD, MBA, Harlan Krumholz, MD, and Joseph Ross, MD, MHS exploring if emergency department patients more likely to be transferred to another hospital after stabilization for common medical conditions on the basis of insurance status.
All three authors are Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76) recipients:
Dr. Dharmarajan is a 2014 Beeson scholar.
Dr. Krumholz is a 1996 Beeson scholar.
Dr. Ross is a 2008 Beeson scholar.
Read their research—"Association Between Insurance Status and Access to Hospital Care in Emergency Department Disposition”—here.
