Erica Spatz
{{short description|American general cardiologist}}
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- Nonprofit speciality healthcare
- Heart attack research in low-income and other communities
- Research in phenomena of "convenience" in medical care
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| workplaces = Yale University School of Medicine
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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 scholarship 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 Medical School for International Health of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for her medical degree.{{cite web |title=Cardiologist reaches globally and locally, brings heart to Yale |url=https://www.possefoundation.org/shaping-the-future/meet-our-alumni/cardiologist-reaches-globally-and-locally-brings-heart-to-yale |website=possefoundation.org |publisher=Posse Foundation |access-date=November 24, 2020}} Spatz returned to North America following her medical degree and finished her residency at Montefiore Medical Center and fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital, obtaining a Master of Health Science from Yale School of Medicine in 2010.{{cite web |title=Erica Spatz, MD, MHS |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/profile/erica_spatz/ |website=medicine.yale.edu |access-date=November 24, 2020}}
Career
Following her residency, Spatz was referred to the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale School of Medicine, run by Harlan Krumholz.{{cite web |last1=Parry |first1=Julie |title=Meet Yale Internal Medicine: Erica Spatz, MD, MHS, Associate Professor (Cardiovascular Medicine) |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/21947/ |website=medicine.yale.edu |access-date=November 24, 2020 |date=November 26, 2019}} During her time with NCSP, Spatz co-founded Project Access-New Haven, a nonprofit community-based organization whose mission is to improve access to care for patients in New Haven.
Spatz' research focuses on individual- and community-based strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease and advance health equity. She is a principal investigator of Pressure Check,{{cite news |title=Pressure Check |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-study-compares-approaches-to-control-high-blood-pressure/ |publisher=Yale School of Medicine}} a study comparing strategies to address disparities in hypertension control. Funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the study is built on community partnerships - screening for hypertension in community organizations and connecting people with remote monitoring and telehealth care for hypertension. She is testing whether adding a community health worker to this model of care improves outcomes.
Spatz's research also focuses on women's cardiovascular health. She was a co-Investigator on VIRGO, a study of sex differences in young adults with myocardial infarction. She 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.{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Rick |title=A better way to classify young women's heart attacks |url=https://news.yale.edu/2019/05/01/better-way-classify-young-womens-heart-attacks |website=news.yale.edu |access-date=November 24, 2020 |date=May 1, 2019}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Wicklund |first1=Eric |title=Study Finds Underserved Communities Are Receptive to mHealth Tools |url=https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/study-finds-underserved-communities-are-receptive-to-mhealth-tools |website=mhealthintelligence.com |access-date=November 24, 2020 |date=September 24, 2020}}
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Category:21st-century American women physicians
Category:21st-century American physicians
Category:American cardiologists
Category:American women cardiologists
Category:Yale School of Medicine faculty
Category:Vanderbilt University alumni
Category:Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
Category:Curtis High School alumni