Wyatt P. Bensken PhD

Dr. Wyatt P. Bensken is an investigator at OCHIN. In this role, he is the dual principal investigator (PI) of the ADVANCE Clinical Research Network (CRN), co-director of the AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship, co-lead of the Quantitative Sciences Core, and the research policy liaison. His research focuses on using quantitative methods to understand the mechanisms of policies and care on outcomes among populations with complex social and medical needs. 

Wyatt oversees a variety of studies that use a range of large health care data, such as Medicaid claims, administrative discharge data, electronic health records, and cancer registry data, independently and integrated together. This work has focused on conditions where the nexus of social and medical needs results in differentials in health and health outcomes including cancer, multimorbidity, seizures and epilepsy, and other conditions. His work has also examined drivers of health and their relationship with health and health care utilization. An additional component of his work is understanding how health care policies further interact with these social and medical needs to influence outcomes. He is currently funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.