During its annual Member Forum on May 4, the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI) announced Lewei (Allison) Lin, M.D., M.Sc., and Michael Sjoding, M.D., as the 2021 recipients of its annual Policy Impact Award.

The award recognizes IHPI researchers who have had a significant level of sustained and direct engagement with policy audiences, and a clear illustration of policy impact beyond grant work and academic publications in the past year.

Lin, an assistant professor and director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program in the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry, was honored for her work identifying disparities in substance use disorder treatment and developing and testing novel virtually-delivered interventions to improve access and outcomes for this vulnerable patient population.

Sjoding, an assistant professor of internal medicine, was recognized for his work leading a team that uncovered racial disparities in the accuracy of pulse oximeters, devices used to measure the oxygen level of the blood.

More about the award and a list of previous winners: [ Ссылка ]

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