Dr. Carlos Oronce Awarded Best Published Research Paper of the Year from SGIM
Dr. Carlos Irwin Oronce, member of our UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program, received the Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award from the Society for General Internal Medicine. His manuscript: https://bit.ly/3tNpJ42 demonstrated that the use of low value care (that offer no net benefit in specific clinical scenarios as defined by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), with a Grade D recommendation), cost nearly $480 million dollars in Medicare costs in the 10-years between 2007 and 2016. Learn more here.

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