Director of Healthcare Access Initiatives, PolicyLab
Susmita Pati is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is a senior fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School, an associate scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania, and faculty mentor to Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, she was appointed Co-director and Director of Healthcare Access Initiatives of PolicyLab, a newly established center of emphasis funded by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute that focuses on child, family, and community health.
Dr. Pati received an AB cum laude in biochemistry from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992 and completed her medical education at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1996. She was a pediatric resident and chief resident at Babies and Children’s Hospital in New York where she received the Edward C. Curnen Jr. Award for compassionate clinical service. In 2002, she completed a post-doctoral general academic fellowship with a Master’s in Public Health in epidemiology from Columbia University. She received the 2001 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society for Pediatric Research for her study comparing child health expenditures in managed care and fee-for-service. In 2002, she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital. Dr. Pati is board certified in pediatrics, practices inpatient and outpatient general pediatrics, and is a member of the advisory board to the Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Program at Children’s Hospital. She specializes in health services research with a focus on investigating the impact of public policy on the health of underserved children and families. Supported by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the Commonwealth Fund, her current research projects examine predictors of Medicaid retention, the relationship between maternal health literacy and child health outcomes, and methods to tailor pediatric health supervision to individual needs. Based on her work to date, she was nominated for the 2008 Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Award at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as a member the Board of Trustees for the Medical Center Nursery School in Northern Manhattan and the Board of Directors of Public Citizens for Children & Youth in Philadelphia.
Research Interests
Child health insurance
Family health literacy
Tailored pediatric preventive care
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Select Publications
Pati S, Romero D, Chavkin W. Changes in utilization of health insurance and food assistance programs in Manhattan in the wake of welfare reform. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92(9):1441-5.
Pati S, Shea S, Rabinowitz D, Carasquillo O. Does gatekeeping control health expenditures for privately insured children? Findings from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Pediatrics. 2003;111:456-60.
Keren R, Pati S, Feudtner C. Generation gap: Differences between children and adults pertinent to the economic evaluations of health interventions. Pharmacoeconomics. 2004;22(2):71-81.
Pati S, Keren R, Alessandrini EA, Schwarz DF. Generational differences in public spending, 1980-2000. Health Affairs. 2004;23(5):131-41.
Carrasquillo O, Pati S. The role of health insurance on Pap smear and mammography utilization by immigrants living in the United States. Preventive Medicine. 2004;36(5):943-50.
Pati S, Shea S, Rabinowitz D, Carrasquillo O. Health expenditures among privately insured adults enrolled in managed care gatekeeping vs. indemnity plans: Findings from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. American Journal of Public Health. 2005;95(2):286-91.
Rubin DM, Pati S, Luan X, Alessandrini EA. A sampling bias in identifying children in foster care using Medicaid data. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2005;5(3):185-90.
Mohanty S, Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU, Pati S, Bor D. Health care expenditures of immigrants: findings from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the National Health Interview Survey. American Journal of Public Health. 2005;95(8):1431-8.
Satchell M, Pati S. Insurance gaps among vulnerable children in the United States, 1999-2001. Pediatrics. 2005;116(5):1148-54.
Elia J, Ahmed A, Balamuth N, Friedman D, Zimmerman RA, Dell ML, Pati S. PANDAS with catatonia: A case report. The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2005;44(11):1145-50.
Mandell DS, Machefsky A, Rubin DM, Feudtner C, Pati S, Rosenbaum S. Medicaid’s role in financing
health care for children with behavioral healthcare needs in the special education system: Implications of the deficit reduction act. Journal of School Health. 2008;78:532-8.
Pati S, Danagoulian S. Immigrant children's reliance on public health insurance in the wake of immigration reform. American Journal of Public Health [serial online]. 2008;98(11):2004-10.
Feudtner C, Levin JE, Srivastava R, Goodman DM, Slonim AD, Sharma V, Shah SS, Pati S, Fargason C Jr, Hall M. How well can hospital readmission be predicted in a cohort of hospitalized children? A retrospective, multicenter study. Pediatrics. 2009;123(1):286-93.
Feemster KA, Spain VS, Eberhart M, Pati S, Watson B. Identifying infants at increased risk for late initiation of immunizations: Maternal and provider characteristics. Public Health Reports. 2009;124:42-53.
Grimberg A, Ramos M, Grundmeier R, Feemster KA, Pati S, Cucchiara AJ, Stallings VA. Sex-based prevalence of growth faltering in an urban pediatric population. J Peds. 2009;154(4):567-72,e2.
