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May 18, 2021
In about a third of all patients prescribed medications to lower elevated blood pressure (BP) levels, the drugs do not work or patients fail to take them as directed.
“There are a variety of effective medications for lowering blood pressure, but many people need to take several drugs to control their hypertension, which can have side effects. In addition, many people simply don’t want to take additional medications and are poorly adherent to them,” says Ajay Kirtane, MD, professor of medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an interventional cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir. Photo by Jörg Meyer.
Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD, a nationally recognized asthma researcher and rising leader in pediatric pulmonary medicine, has been named director of pediatric pulmonology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Starting July 1, 2021, she will begin a transition to her new post while completing important research objectives. Starting Jan. 1, 2022, Lovinsky-Desir will assume full responsibilities as director of the Division of Pulmonology in the Department of Pediatrics. She is currently assistant professor of pediatrics at VP&S.
Lovinsky-Desir’s research focuses on disparities in health outcomes for underrepresented minorities, urban environmental exposures, and the association between air pollution exposure and physical activity patterns among young people.
By Alfred I. Neugut | May 13, 2021
Behavioral economics has acquired a certain degree of mystical respect in our intellectual lives with the writings of Gladwell and others two recent Nobel Prizes in Economics were awarded for this subject. It advises us on how to place objects in grocery stores (candy near the cash register) and similar behavioral recommendations, among them the use of incentives to motivate behavior.
During the Bloomberg administration, the New York City Department of Education utilized cash incentives in inner city failing schools to motivate grade school students to do better on the annual standardized tests. The program was a stunning success; children, in exchange for $30 or $40, achieved much improved test scores the teachers were also rewarded with small cash bonuses for the improvements in their students’ scores. Similar programs were utilized nationwide to motivate minority underserved high school students to take advanced placement cours