
David A. Asch, MD, MBAProfessor of Medicine
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania
Executive Director, Penn Medicine Center for Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
1223 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive Philadelphia, PA 19104 Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-746-2705
Email:
ASCH@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
Graduate Group Affiliations
Publications
Education:
A.B. (Philosophy) Harvard University, 1980. M.D. (Medicine) Cornell University, 1984. M.B.A. (Decision Sciences and Health Care Management) The Wharton School, 1989.
Post-Graduate Training
Resident in Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1984-1987. Clinical Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-1989. Fellow in General Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1987-1989.
Certifications
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Internal Medicine , 1987. Description of Research ExpertiseClinical EconomicsMedical Decision Making Bioethics Health Policy Survey Research Description of Clinical ExpertiseInternal MedicineSelected PublicationsBernhardt BA, Zayac C, Trerotola SO, Asch, DA, Pyeritz RE: Cost savings through molecular diagnosis for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Genetics in Medicine 14: 604-10, 2012.Asch DA, Muller RW, Volpp KG: Automated hovering in health care: watching over the 5,000 hours. N Engl J Med 367: 1-3, 2012. Halpern SD, Asch DA, Volpp KG: Commitment contracts: The way to health? BMJ 344: 1-4, 2012. Schenker Y, White DB, Asch DA, Kahn JM: Health care system distrust in the intensive care unit. J Crit Care 27(1): 3-10, 2012. Pagán JA, Brown CJ, Asch DA, Armstrong K, Guerra C: Health literacy and breast cancer screening among Mexican American women in south Texas. J Cancer Ed 27(1): 132-7, 2012. Cannuscio CC, Bugos E, Asch DA, Weiss EE: Using art to amplify youth voices on housing insecurity. Am J Pub Health 102: 10-12, 2012. Merchant RM, Asch DA: Can you find an AED if a life depends on it? Circulation: Cardiovascular and Quality Outcomes 5: 1-3, 2012. Loewenstein G, Asch DA, Friedman JY, Melichar LA, Volpp KG: Can behavioural economics make us healthier? BMJ 2012. Loewenstein G, Volpp KG, Asch DA: Incentives in health: Different prescriptions for physicians and patients. JAMA 307: 1375-6, 2012. Halpern SD, Kohn R, Dornbrand-Lo A, Metkus T, Asch DA, Volp KG: Lottery-based versus fixed Incentives to increase clinicians' response to surveys. Health Services Research 46(5): 1663-74, Oct 2011.
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