Dr. Walter’s research is focused on improving communication between healthcare providers and families of children with chronic illnesses. She is director of the Department of Medical Ethics and an attending physician with the Justin Michael Ingerman Center for Palliative Care at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Funded by a $2.1 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, CHOP's James Guevara, MD, MPH, will study the comparative effectiveness of an electronic portal vis-à-vis in-person communication for ADHD.
CHOP's Alexander G. Fiks, MD, MSCE, has been on the leading edge of shared decision-making (SDM)-related research, contributing to a total of 10 SDM papers since 2010.
Alexander G. Fiks, MD, MSCE, co-medical director of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Pediatric Research Consortium and a PolicyLab faculty member Let's face it: we live in the future. At no point in human history has so much information been so accessible to so many people. The rise of the personal computer, then the internet, and then smartphones that (in addition
