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Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
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Director of Health Equity Research & Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania
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Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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13 Education:
21 7 BS 31 (Political Science, Molecular Biology) c
28 Yale University, 2009.
21 8 MPH 29 (Chronic Disease Epidemiology) c
35 Yale School of Public Health, 2010.
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2f Harvard Medical School, 2014.
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24 45 Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School, 2014-2017.
24 55 Intern, Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2014-2015.
24 78 Resident, Internal Medicine, Management and Leadership Track, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2015-2017.
24 7d Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Division of General Internal Medicine, 2017-2018.
24 56 Chief Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2018-2019.
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28 3d American Board of Internal Medicine , 2019.
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Selected Publications

e3 Chatterjee P, Macneal E, Werner RM: Rural Health Transformation Program Allocations and Rural Health Needs in the US. JAMA 335(13): 1176-1179, April 2026.

122 Dean A, McCallum J, Venkataramani AS, Chatterjee P, Coe NB, Michaels D: The Effects Of Labor Unions On Nurse Staffing Ratios And Quality Of Care In US Nursing Homes, 2013-21. Health Affairs 45(3): 278-284, March 2026.

f2 Graves JM, Waken RJ, Wang F, Chatterjee P, Joynt Maddox KE: Characterizing Early Adopters of the Rural Emergency Hospital Designation. Health Affairs Scholar March 2026.

74 Lowenstein M, Kim S, Landon S, Xu L, Mandell DS, Perrone J, Chatterjee P e2 : Association Between Inpatient Addiction Consult Service Implementation and Hospital Length-of-stay and Thirty-Day Readmission Rates for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder. JGIM Forthcoming 2026.

12f Abernathy A, Schreiber C, Chatterjee P: Changes in Permanent Contraception Rates in Pennsylvania Associated With the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision. Obstetrics & Gynecology Open 2(5): e114, September 2025.

f8 Chatterjee P, Liao J, Amagai K, Zhao Y, Shirk T, Navathe AN. : Variation, Overlap, and Stability in Defining Safety Net Hospitals. JAMA Network Open 8(7): e2523923, July 2025.

133 Liao J, Chatterjee P, Zhao Y, Carroll I, Browne DS, Kilaru AS, Crowley AP, Pagnotti D, Shirk T, Cousins DS, Navathe AN: Ambulatory Care for Individuals Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Health Affairs Scholar 3(8), July 2025.

d3 Landon S, Chatterjee P: Deciphering Social Disadvantage in Diagnostic Error Rates. Journal of Hospital Medicine 20(7): 793-794, July 2025.

e9 Chatterjee P, Macneal E, Roberts ET.: Measurement Bias in Documentation of Social Risk Among Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Health Forum 6(7): e251923, July 2025.

d3 Burke R, Chatterjee P: Breaking hospital discharge gridlock through policy reforms. Journal of Hospital Medicine 20(4): 414-417, Apr 2025.

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