For Donald Bourne, Alexandra Hames and Youngmin Kwon, F + R + R equals grant funding to support projects that focus on health care access and affordability.
Bourne, a third-year MD/PhD candidate, was awarded an F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. His two-year project, “Impacts of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model on Health Care Access and Utilization,” explores alternative payment models to better align patient care experience, quality and cost with institutional financial incentives.
Hames and Kwon, both fifth-year PhD candidates, were awarded R36 grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to support work toward completing their dissertations.
Hames’ project title is “Entering Medicare from High-Deductible Health Plans: Changes in Affordability and Care for Individuals with Chronic Conditions.” Kwon’s project is “Access to Care for Older Cancer Survivors: Impacts of Medicare and Supplemental Insurance Coverage.”