The Center is pleased to announce Dr. Mahshid Abir recently joined the Board of Advisors.
Dr. Abir is an emergency physician and health services researcher with a joint appointment at the University of Michigan and the RAND Corporation. She is the director of the ACUTE Care Research Unit (ACRU) at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Dr. Abir’s research evaluates the continuum of acute care delivery in the United States, including pre-hospital, emergency, inpatient, and ambulatory care, with a focus on addressing policy-related questions pertaining to utilization, quality, efficiency, outcomes, and costs of acute care delivery in these settings during both routine and catastrophic circumstances (e.g., disasters and mass casualty incidents).