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Aaron L. Schwartz, MD, PhD

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CHERP Core Investigator

  • Staff Physician, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC)
  • Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Ethics and Policy, University of Pennsylvania
  • Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

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Aaron Schwartz, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding and improving health care efficiency and quality. Recent projects have examined the use of low-value care in Medicare, the incentive properties of hospital performance measures, and the role of private and public insurer coverage rules. Dr. Schwartz pursued combined MD-PhD training at Harvard, where he obtained a PhD in Health Policy (Economics) in 2015 and MD in 2017. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine (Primary Care Track) at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2020.

Research Areas
Health Policy
Health Economics
Low-Value Care

Awards
2024, Philadelphia VAMC Local HeRO Award
Rappaport Award in Clinical Innovation, Brighham and Women's Hospital
Daniel Ford Award, Johns Hopkins Department of General Medicine
Rose Seegal Prize, Harvard Medical School
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