{"id":19486,"date":"2024-03-11T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=19486"},"modified":"2024-03-14T22:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T02:26:06","slug":"carrie-colla-named-to-endowed-professorship-in-health-care-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2024\/carrie-colla-named-to-endowed-professorship-in-health-care-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Colla Named to Endowed Professorship in Health Care Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health economist Carrie Colla, PhD, highly respected for her research examining health system performance and the effectiveness of payment and delivery system reforms, has been named the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Colla\u2019s faculty appointment is as a professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine. She succeeds Amber Barnato, MD, MS, MPH\u2014who now serves as the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor in Health Policy and Clinical Practice and director of The Dartmouth Institute\u2014in the Levy Professorship role.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19487\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19487 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1-323x360.jpg\" alt=\"Carrie Colla\" width=\"323\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1-323x360.jpg 323w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1-117x130.jpg 117w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1-49x55.jpg 49w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1-580x647.jpg 580w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/CarrieColla24_web-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Colla, PhD. Photo by Rob Strong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to recognize Carrie\u2019s achievements by appointing her to this named professorship,\u201d says Duane Compton, PhD, dean of Geisel. \u201cHer combination of research skills, policy expertise, and experience using research to inform changes at the healthcare system level strongly aligns with the aspirations for this Distinguished Professorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professorship is intended to further the mission of Geisel by leading an interdisciplinary effort to accelerate the transformation of U.S. healthcare and healthcare systems by developing strategies to curb costs while ensuring high-quality care and access. The Distinguished Professorship is named in honor of Richard (Dick) Levy (\u201960) and his late wife, Susan, who endowed the Professorship as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/provost.dartmouth.edu\/initiatives\/academic-clusters\">Dartmouth\u2019s Academic Cluster Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to Susan and Dick Levy for this opportunity to lead the Levy Academic Cluster in Health Economics and Policy,\u201d says Colla. \u201cTo have the support of the Levys along with the college, in thinking about important policy problems and their influence on patients, will be crucial to our success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of her leadership role in developing the new Levy Academic Cluster, Colla is hiring and mentoring two new junior faculty members who will assist her in establishing a health policy center at Dartmouth, which will support policy makers with evidence-based research in areas such as rural health, health equity, and population health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to create a new research team at The Dartmouth Institute,\u201d says Colla. \u201cThe opportunity to work with new colleagues doing innovative work in this space is inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Levy Academic Cluster will also leverage the ongoing work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/levyincubator\/\">Susan &amp; Richard Levy Health Care Delivery Incubator<\/a>\u2014a joint initiative between Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Health that brings together multidisciplinary teams of researchers and frontline healthcare providers to improve patient care.<\/p>\n<p>Like Levy, Colla is a Dartmouth alumna, having graduated from the College with a major in economics and a minor in public policy from the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. She began her post-doctoral career at Dartmouth in 2010 as an assistant professor.<\/p>\n<p>Colla is returning to Dartmouth now after two years leading the Health Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, DC. She previously participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program and worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In 2020, Colla was selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Colla will continue to teach health economics and policy to undergraduate and graduate students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health economist Carrie Colla, PhD, highly respected for her research examining health system performance and the effectiveness of payment and delivery system reforms, has been named the Susan J. and Richard M. 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