DATE: June 24, 2013 NAME: Keren Ladin, PhD, MSc TITLE: Assistant Professor ADDRESS: Tufts University Department of Occupational Therapy, Program in Community Health 26 Winthrop Street Medford, MA 02155 TELEPHONE: E-MAIL: Keren.Ladin@Tufts.edu FAX: EDUCATION 2005 A.B. University of Chicago 2007 M.Sc. Harvard School of Public Health Population & International Health 2013 Ph.D. Harvard University Health Policy HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS 2007-2013 Senior Research Associate Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2004-2005 2006 2007-2008 Research Assistant Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow Visiting Research Fellow MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Board of Global Health, Institute of Medicine Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Ageing (MEA), Germany AWARDS AND HONORS 2005 Recipient Departmental and General Honors University of Chicago 1
2006 Recipient Mirzayan Science and Technology Fellowship Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science 2007 Awardee Masters Thesis Prize Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health 2007-2008 Awardee Graduate Research Award German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2008-2009 Recipient Graduate Fellowship Harvard University 2009-2010 Trainee National Research Service Training Grant Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2010 Awardee Student Paper Award Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association 2010 Awardee Nobuo Madea International Research Award Public Health and Aging Section, American Public Health Association 2010-2012 Awardee Doctoral Fellow Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, Harvard University 2010-2012 Trainee Aging and Health Economics Pre- Doctoral Training Grant National Institute of Aging; National Bureau of Economic Research 2012-2013 Recipient Dissertation Completion Fellowship Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University OTHER MAJOR COMMITEE ASSIGNMENTS: 2011- Elected Member Ethics Committee, United Network on Organ Sharing (UNOS) TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES 2007 Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health 2009-2010 Independent Study: Evolutionary Perspectives on Donation & Transplantation 2009, 2011 Business and Politics of Health Care Harvard School of Public Health Teaching Fellow (attend twice weekly 2hr lectures and lead once weekly 1hr discussion over one semester with 35 graduate students) Instructor (weekly hr meetings over 2 semesters for one senior college student resulting in publishable paper) Teaching Fellow (Developed and taught weekly discussion sections for 40 college students; Graded exams, coordinated policy exercises, and evaluated students) 2
2010, 2013 Ethics and Health Disparities 2009, 2011, 2012 Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context 2012 Research in Global Health and Policy Harvard School of Public Health Teaching Fellow (Developed syllabus, presented guest lecture, developed and taught weekly discussion sections; Graded exams and papers for masters/doctoral students) Head Teaching Fellow, (Developed syllabus and section guides, managed TFs, and oversaw grading for 270 students) Instructor (Developed syllabus and course materials for Health Policy Senior research course; Mentored 10 students and oversaw their final research papers) 2013 Clinical Research Tufts University, Occupational Therapy Professor, graduate research methods course for 25 students 2013 Health, Ethics, and Policy Tufts University Professor, undergraduate and graduate course teaching public health ethics and policy using case studies (35 students) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 2009 2008 - Gerontological Society of America Academy Health Member Member 2007 - American Public Health Association Member MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS My research interests intersect three areas: the impact of public policies on the health of vulnerable populations, disentangling the relationship between social position and health over the lifecourse, and understanding health care utilization and decision-making in vulnerable populations. I apply mixed-methods to study the dynamics of medical decision-making in high acuity situations. My past research has focused on the ability of social networks to mobilize to support organ donation. This research has highlighted the role of medical distrust and socioeconomic factors in perpetuating disparities in living-donor kidney transplantation. Applying a similar approach, I study the influence of social networks in medical decision-making related to disparities in surgical and health-seeking behaviors among immigrants. My related research has examined the role of social inequality on mental and physical health over the lifecourse, particularly among vulnerable populations, such as immigrants, and racial/ethnic minorities. RESEARCH SUPPORT 3
Grant Title: Social networks and socialized risk: Understanding and mitigating disparities in renal transplantation Funding Agency: Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant Amount: $50,000 Period: 1 year Role: Co-PI (Douglas Hanto PI) EDITORIAL BOARDS AND ACTIVITY Ad Hoc Reviewer American Journal of Public Health American Journal of Transplantation American Journal of Kidney Diseases Transplantation Journal of Health Economics Journal of Medical Ethics Social Science and Medicine Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Journals of Gerontology: Social Science International Psychogeriatrics BIBLIOGRAPHY Refereed papers 1. Ladin, K. Deconstructing the education effect: Risk of late-life depression across 10 European Union countries. Journal of Aging and Health. 2008; 20(6):653-670. 2. Ladin, K., Rodrigue, J., Hanto D. Framing Disparities Along the Continuum of Care From Chronic Kidney Disease to Transplantation: Barriers and Interventions. American Journal of Transplantation. 2009; 9(4):669-674. 3. Ladin, K, Daniels, N, Kawachi, I. Exploring the relationship between absolute and relative inequality and late-life depression: Evidence from ten European Countries. The Gerontologist. 2010; 50(1):48-59 4. Waterman, AD, Rodrigue, JR, Purnell, TS, Ladin, K, Boulware, LE. (2010) Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation: Priorities for Research and Intervention. Seminars in Nephrology. 2010; 30(1):90-98. 5. Ladin, K and D.W. Hanto. Understanding disparities in transplantation: Do social networks provide the missing clue? American Journal of Transplantation. 2010; 10(3):472-476 4
6. Rodrigue JR, Ladin K, Pavlakis M, and Mandelbrot DA. Disclosing recipient information to potential living donors: Preferences of donors and recipients, before and after surgery. American Journal of Transplantation. 2011;11(6):1270-8. 7. Ladin, K and DW Hanto. Rational rationing or discrimination: Balancing equity and efficiency in kidney allocation. American Journal of Transplantation. 2011; 11(11): 2317-2321 8. Ladin, K. Decomposing differences in utilization of health services between depressed and non-depressed elders in Europe. European Journal of Ageing. 2012; 9(1): 51-64 9. Ladin, K. and D.W. Hanto. The Role of Family Physicians in Discussing Organ Donation with Patients and the Public: Ethical and Practical Considerations. AMA Virtual Mentor. 2012; 14(3):194-200. 10. Kher, A, Rodrigue JRR, Ajaimy M, Wasilewski M, Ladin K, Mandelbrot DA. Reimbursement for Living Kidney Donor Follow-up Care: How Often Does Donor Insurance Pay? Transplantation. 2012; 94(10): 1049-1051. 11. Ladin, K. and S. Reinhold. The healthy migrant effect in late-life? Implications for physical and mental health of migrants across 11 European countries. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences.2013; 68(2): 298-309. Editorials 1. Ladin K and DW Hanto. Informed consent: Is more (information) always better? American Journal of Transplantation. 2011; 11(12):2547-2548. 2. Hanto DW, Ladin K. Re: Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR? New England Journal of Medicine. 2010; 361(21) 2034-5. 3. Ladin, K. and D.W. Hanto. Rationing Lung Transplants Procedural Fairness in Allocation and Appeals. New England Journal of Medicine. Online First: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1307792?query=featured_home. Books chapters 1. Sepulveda J, Carpenter C, Curan J, Holzemer W, Smits H, Scott K, Orza M (Editors). PEPFAR Implementation: Progress and Promise. 2007. Washington, DC. Institute of Medicine; National Academies Press. (Chapter 2: The U.S. Global AIDS Initiative: Context and Background, p 33-64.) 5
2. Ladin, K, Wang R, and DW Hanto. National Healthcare Policy and the Future of Organ Transplantation. In Textbook of Organ Transplantation. Kirk et al. (Editors). Wiley Blackwell. Forthcoming. 3. Daniels N and K Ladin. Immigration and Access to Health Care. In Routledge Companion to Bioethics. Arras K, Kukla R, and E. Fenton (Editors). Taylor & Francis/Routledge. New York. Forthcoming. 4. Ladin, K. Absolute Deprivation and Relative Deprivation. In The Wiley- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society. Cockerham, W.C., Dingwall,R. & Quah, S. (Editors). Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming. Theses Masters Thesis: Social Inequality and Depression: Causal Pathways and the Influence of Absolute and Relative Position in Determining Health Outcomes (Advised by Norman Daniels and Ichiro Kawachi) Dissertation: Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation (Committee: Norman Daniels, John Ayanian, Nicholas Christakis, Amartya Sen) Published abstracts and conference presentations 2007 Chilean primary healthcare reform: Health worker satisfaction assessment (Abstract), American Public Health Association Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. 2007 Social Inequality and Depression: Causal Pathways and the Influence of Absolute and Relative Risk in Determining Health Outcomes (Abstract), American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2007 Educational Attainment: A Protective Factor in Late-Life Depression (Abstract), Oral presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting:, Washington, D.C. 2008 Professionalism in Consult Practices, New England Surgical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, (with Susana Wishnia) 2009 Cross-National Differences in Compensation for Organ Donation: Barriers and Interventions to Legislative Process (Abstract), American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA 2009 Minding the Gap: Decomposing Differences in Utilization of Health Services Between Depressed & Non-Depressed Elders in Europe (Abstract). AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Chicago, IL 2010 The healthy migrant effect in late-life? Implications for physical and mental health of migrants across 11 European countries (Abstract), Oral presentation Aging Award Session, American Public Health Association Conference, Denver, CO 6
2010 Disparities in living donor kidney transplantation- The potential role of social network (Abstract), Oral Presentation, International Congress of The Transplantation Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada Highly Scored Abstract. 2010 What Are My Chances? Age-based Disparities In Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (Abstract), Poster presentation, American Public Health Association Conference, Denver, CO 2010 What Are My Chances? Age-based Disparities In Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (Abstract), Oral Presentation, International Congress of The Transplantation Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2010 Racial Disparities in Living Donor Rates: What Predicts the Likelihood of Receiving a Donor? Oral presentation, American Public Health Association Conference (Abstract), Student Paper Award, Medical Care Section, Denver, CO 2010 Racial Disparities in Living Donor Rates: What Predicts the Likelihood of Receiving a Donor? (Abstract) Oral Presentation. International Congress of The Transplantation Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2010 Differences in Health Services Utilization among Depressed and Non-Depressed Elders in Europe (Abstract), Oral Presentation. Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA 2012 Reimbursement for Living Kidney Donor Follow-up Care: How Often Does Donor Insurance Pay? (Abstract, with Ajay Kher et al), Poster presentation, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA 2012 Do social capital and racial composition predict organ donation? (Abstract) Oral Presentation. International Congress of The Transplantation Society. Berlin, Germany. 2012 Do social capital and racial composition predict organ donation? (Abstract) Poster Presentation, American Public Health Association Conference. San Francisco, California. 7