FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Department of Population Medicine (DPM) at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Dr. Gillman is a Professor and Director of the Obesity Prevention Program in the DPM. His research interests include early life prevention of obesity,
asthma, and adult chronic disease; behavior change interventions to prevent obesity; and childhood cardiovascular risk factors. He directs Project Viva,
an NIH-funded cohort study of pregnant women and their offspring, focusing on effects of gestational diet and other factors on outcomes of pregnancy and
childhood. He participates in several other federally-funded studies of diet, activity, obesity, and cardiovascular risk in children and adults. He has
served in leadership roles in several professional societies related to his research. Dr. Gillman has won the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring
Award from Harvard Medical School and the Faculty Mentoring Award from Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as a primary care internist and pediatrician,
Dr. Gillman's clinical work is in preventive cardiology among children. He is a graduate of the Harvard GIM Fellowship Program.
Emily Oken MD, MPH
Fellowship Site Director
Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Oken’s research interests include the influence of nutrition during pregnancy and early childhood on maternal and child health. She has published
widely on predictors and sequelae of maternal weight in the peripartum period, and leads studies examining the effects of maternal fish consumption during
pregnancy on child health, incorporating both the risks of contaminant exposure and the benefits of the healthful nutrients within fish. Trained in med/peds,
she practices primary care at the Gretchen and Edward Fish Center for Women's Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she pursues her interest in
medical care for women before, during, and after pregnancy. In 2009, Dr. Oken was awarded the inaugural Rising Star Award by the Society for Paediatric
and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research. She is a graduate of the Harvard GIM Fellowship Program.
Jason Block, MD
Instructor, DPM
- Psychosocial and contextual factors associated with weight gain
- Population-level interventions to induce behavior change and weight loss
Jeff Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor, DPM
- Evaluating the clinical, safety and economic consequences of the adoption and diffusion of new medical technologies
Marguerite Burns, PhD
Instructor, DPM
- Health care financing and organization for adults with disabilities
- The effects of Medicaid-Medicare interactions on health care efficiency and quality
- Employer-driven interventions to improve the cost-effectiveness of employer-sponsored health insurance
Emma Eggleston, MD
Instructor, DPM
Associate Director, Center for Population Health Education
Associate Director, Harvard Catalyst and Health Systems Research Program
Jonathan Finkelstein, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, DPM
Director, Center for Population Health Education
Associate Director, Center for Child Health Care Studies at DPM
- Care improvement strategies for childhood asthma
- Changing patterns of antibiotic use for children
Muriel Gillick, MD
Clinical Professor, DPM
- Health care policy and ethical issues near the end of life
Michael Klompas, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, DPM, BWH
- Novel applications of electronic health information to improve public health surveillance
Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH
Professor, DPM
Director, Center for Child Health Care Studies at DPm
- Primary care delivery
- Family-centered outcomes
- Cost-effectiveness
Gordon Moore, MD, MPH
Professor, DPM
- Educational strategies in health care
- Management of health care organizations
- Ambulatory health services
- Health policy
- Effectiveness of primary care
Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, DPM
- Breast cancer, particularly on improving women's decision making and quality of life
- Improving the care of cancer survivors
- The interplay between primary care and oncology care
Richard Platt, MD, MSc
Professor and Chair DPM
- Developing multi-institution automated record linkage systems for use in pharmacoepidemiology
- Population based surveillance, reporting, and control of both hospital and community acquired infections, including bioterrorism events
Dennis Ross-Degnan, ScD
Associate Professor, DPM
Director of Research, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Factors underlying use of medicines
- Impacts of pharmaceutical policies on utilization and clinical outcomes
- Interventions to improve quality of care
- Appropriate methods for pharmaceutical research
Jim Sabin, MD
Clinical Professor, DPM, HMS
Psychiatry Professor HMS
Director HPHC Ethics Program
- Organizational ethics
- The clinical and theoretical aspects of fair resource allocation
- The role of consumers in overseeing health policy and practice
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, DPM
Co-Director, Obesity Prevention Program
- Nutrition and physical activity as they affect child health and childhood obesity prevention.
James Frank Wharam, MB, BCh, BAO
Instructor of Medicine, DPM
- Examining effects of health policy trends on patients, ethical components of health system reform, and international health ethics
- Health impacts of high-deductible health insurance plans
Denotes faculty who have graduated from the Fellowship Program
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