Muscio Kit Delgado, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).
The ASCI, a prestigious nonprofit medical honor society founded over a century ago, comprises more than 3,000 physician-scientists worldwide. Delgado will be officially inducted at the 2025 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago (April 25-27, 2025) and will be among one of the very few emergency physicians ever inducted into the ASCI.
In addition to serving as an attending physician in the emergency department at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Delgado is the Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit—the first behavioral design team embedded within a health system—and the Associate Director of the Center for Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE). He is also the Co-Chair of the Penn Medicine’s Opioid Task Force and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI).
His research blends behavioral and data science with insights gleaned from practicing emergency medicine in an urban trauma center to help promote smarter health choices and policy. Recent work by his teams includes increasing treatment for patients with opioid addiction, understanding racial disparities with firearm injuries and suggesting solutions for gun safety, and decreasing distracted driving. His work has been recognized with the Academy Health Publication-of-the-Year Award, the Society for Medical Decision Making Lee Lusted Prize for Outstanding Research, the Penn Medicine Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Research Award, and being named a Philadelphia Citizen Generation Change Fellow.