Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP
Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP is Founder and Executive Editor of Policy Prescriptions®. A graduate of Morehouse College, Dr. Dark earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He holds a master’s degree from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He completed his residency training at George Washington University where he served as Chief Resident. Currently, Dr. Dark is an Assistant Professor in the Henry J. N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Dark is the 2017 recipient of the Texas Medical Association’s C. Frank Webber Award, a 2019 American College of Emergency Physicians Choosing Wisely Champion, one of emergency medicine’s Top 45 Under 45, and on Elemental’s List of 50 Experts to Trust in a Pandemic. He currently is on the Board of Directors for Doctors for America and is the Medical Editor-in-Chief for the monthly publication ACEP Now. Dr. Dark’s policy experience includes work for the United States House of Representatives, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Joe Biden Campaign. Among his policy interests include the study of health reform at the intersection with international health systems on which he has spoken on this topic nationwide. Dr. Dark’s media experience includes print, radio, and television – including outlets such as NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and BBC World News.
Health Policy Twitterati 2014
Two years ago, I compiled a list of the . The methodology was elegantly simple, look back several months and count up the number of times I (@PolicyRx) re-tweeted a users comments or links. I repeated the same thing about this time Continue Reading …

Health Information Exchanges
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/Episode16final.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physicians Advocates podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks with Dr. Ellana Stinson, a practicing emergency physician Continue Reading …

The Provocateurs (Episode 1)
This Wonk Wednesday we bring you the first episode of “The Provocateurs,” our new video-cast series about the evidence informing health policy. In this first episode, Dr. Andew Gonzalez educates us about his recent study “Hospital Quality: Do grades really Continue Reading …

Make it rain!
I decided to search the New York Times database to figure out how much money the contributors to this blog made off of Medicare after the uproar yesterday about overpaid doctors. I was a bit disappointed to find out that Continue Reading …

Medicare paid me $112,134
Click the image to see how much Medicare paid me in 2012. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a massive amount of information today regarding how much money it paid out to individual doctors. For the policy nerds Continue Reading …
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