University of New Mexico Health Sciences researcher Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD, has received the 2024 Senior Investigator Award from the AcademyHealth Health Equity Interest Group.
The award was presented on June 29, 2024, at the group’s annual research meeting in Baltimore during a panel session titled, “Health Equity Interest Group: What does it mean to be a Health Equity Researcher?”
A lot of the health services research I do is to improve practice in the clinical setting.
Myaskovsky is a professor in the UNM Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Nephrology who serves as director of the Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease. She was a longtime faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh before coming to UNM in 2017.
Since the early 2000s she has been a member of the Health Equity Interest Group within AcademyHealth, a national organization of health services researchers, health policy analysts and health practitioners that advances research and health policy.
“AcademyHealth has been an early academic home for me where I’ve always shared my science,” Myaskovsky said. “I have a lot of great training from leaders in the field in the early 2000s and have been involved in presenting my scientific work there over the years.”
After completing her PhD, she did a health services research fellowship that studied the health care system, the patient and the provider.
“The focus is to do it from a research perspective, studying innovations and testing them using rigorous research methods at the level of improving patient care and improving patient outcomes,” she said. “A lot of the health services research I do is to improve practice in the clinical setting.”
Myaskovsky said her role within AcademyHealth has shifted over time. “As an assistant professor I learned a lot from the organization, and over the years I tried to share the knowledge with the next generation,” she said.
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