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Peter Cram, M.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Iowa College of Medicine
peter-cram@uiowa.edu
2007-2010 Cohort
Project Title:  "The Impact of Specialty Hospitals on Delivery of Care to Financially Vulnerable Populations"




About the Project:

Dr. Cram’s Physician Faculty Scholars Program project was entitled "The Impact of Specialty Hospitals on Delivery of Care to Financially Vulnerable Populations."  In this work he used a mixed-methods approach to examine how specialty hospitals impacted the delivery of care to underinsured populations and minorities.  Among other things, these studies demonstrated that specialty hospitals tended not to compete directly with general hospitals and that specialty hospitals often obtained better insured patients by locating in wealthy suburban neighborhoods.

Biosketch:

Peter Cram, M.D., M.B.A. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and Acting Division Director for General Medicine. Dr. Cram received his M.D. degree from Wake Forest University. He completed his internal medicine residency, general medicine research fellowship, and received his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Cram joined the Division of General Medicine at the University of Iowa in 2002 where he works as a hospitalist at both the University of Iowa and Iowa City VA. 

His current research includes:  1) evaluating the impact of mailing patients their test results on quality of care and patient satisfaction; 2) assessing the impact of tele- ICU monitoring programs on patient outcomes and staff satisfaction; and 3) evaluating trends in joint replacement volume and outcomes using administrative data.  His work is funded by both the NIH and VA.

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