Erica Spatz
Erica Spatz | |
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Born | Staten Island, New York, US |
Academic background | |
Education | BS, Human and Organizational Development, 1997, Vanderbilt University MD, 2003, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Yale University School of Medicine |
Erica S. Spatz is an American general cardiologist. She is an associate professor and clinical investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Early life and education
Spatz was born and raised in New York where she attended Curtis High School in Staten Island. In her senior year of high school, she received a Posse nomination from the Posse Foundation to attend Vanderbilt University. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree with honors in human and organizational development from Vanderbilt in 1997 and enrolled at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for her medical degree.[1] Spatz returned to North American following her medical degree and she finished her residency at Montefiore Medical Center and fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital.[2]
Career
Following her residency, Spatz was referred to the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale School of Medicine, run by Harlan Krumholz.[3] During her time with NCSP, Spatz co-founded Project Access-New Haven, a health nonprofit network of physicians, hospitals and community organizations who have donated speciality healthcare to patients in New Haven.[1]
Spatz continued her research into heart attacks by tracking Medicare patients across the United States. Alongside Adam Beckman, she calculated hospitalization and mortality rates amongst those suffering heart attacks from 1999 to 2013. The results of their analysis concluded that low-income communities required targeted approaches to reduce incidents of heart attacks.[4] Continuing with this idea, she collaborated with members of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Study to explain why Caribbean adult populations experience higher rates of hypertension, stroke, and heart disease.[5] In 2018, Spatz and Krumholz were co-recipients of a $1.2 million, four-year grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop a wrist-worn, cuffless blood pressure monitoring system.[6] She also led another study which concluded that taking a pill or drinking a daily cup of tea were more effective methods of reducing high blood pressure than exercise.[7]
In 2019, Spatz led the first study focusing on the effect motivation text messages had on providing additional support to Chinese patients with heart disease.[8] She also published a study sponsored by Women's Health Research at Yale which showed that a sex-specific classification system could define and group types of heart attacks that were more common for women.[9] During the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, Spatz's Project Access-New Haven helped launch a mHealth platform to assist low-income communities with accessing their health records and increase their participation in clinical studies.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Cardiologist reaches globally and locally, brings heart to Yale". possefoundation.org. Posse Foundation. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ "Erica Spatz, MD, MHS". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Parry, Julie (November 26, 2019). "Meet Yale Internal Medicine: Erica Spatz, MD, MHS, Associate Professor (Cardiovascular Medicine)". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Peart, Karen N. (May 11, 2016). "Heart attacks trending down, but low-income communities still lagging behind". news.yale.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Belli, Brita (October 17, 2019). "Study Explores Why Caribbean Adults Have Higher Hypertension Rates". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ "Krumholz, Spatz receive funding to develop new 24/7 blood pressure monitor". news.yale.edu. November 27, 2018. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ O'Riordan, Michael (April 9, 2018). "Pills or Even Tea More Palatable Than Exercise for the Treatment of Hypertension, US Adults Say". tctmd.com. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Teare, Kendall (April 8, 2019). "Text Messages Show Promise as Next Step for Improving Heart Health in China". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Harrison, Rick (May 1, 2019). "A better way to classify young women's heart attacks". news.yale.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Wicklund, Eric (September 24, 2020). "Study Finds Underserved Communities Are Receptive to mHealth Tools". mhealthintelligence.com. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
External links
Erica Spatz publications indexed by Google Scholar