Contact Information:
Rachel Quaden
Harvard Medical School
Fellowship in General
Medicine and Primary Care
Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
1309 Beacon Street CO-211
Brookline, MA 02446
Tel (617) 754-1434
Fax (617) 754-1440
Email: GIM Fellowship
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FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Russell S. Phillips, M.D.
Fellowship Director
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
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Dr. Russell S. Phillips is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is Chief of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is a general internist and clinical epidemiologist with extensive experience in research fellowship training. He has
led the Harvard Medical School Fellowship Program in General Medicine and Primary Care since 1998. He also directs an NIH-funded research fellowship program
for physicians on integrative medical therapies. He was awarded the A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring at Harvard Medical School in
1999 and in 2001 was awarded an NIH Mid-Career Investigator Award to support his training activities. His early research focused on primary care issues
such as screening for sexually transmitted disease in office practice. He developed a national reputation for his work on end-of-life care; Dr. Phillips
was one of the SUPPORT principal investigators and led studies on the economic impact of end-of-life care, patients' preferences and use of advance directives.
He has also completed studies on disparities in care and quality of care. His current research focuses on improving care for patients with chronic illness
and innovations in primary care. He serves as Principal Investigator for the following grants: DHHS/HRSA-funded National Research Service Award (HMS Faculty
Development and Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine), NCCAM-funded National Research Service Award (HMS Complementary and Integrative Medical
Therapies Research Fellowship Program),and an NCCAM-funded K24 “Mid-Career Investigator Award for Research in Alternative Medicine.” He serves as a co-investigator
on studies on exercise and meditation for patients with chronic lung disease, outcomes of bariatric surgery, and end-of-life care for Asian Americans.
At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Phillips co-chaired the Primary Care Advisory Group, and is now serving as an interim Co-director for the HMS Center for
Primary Care, designed to strengthen primary care education, research and innovation. Nationally, Dr Phillips is President-Elect of the Association
of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine.
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Edward R. Marcantonio, M.D., S.M.
Director of Research, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Site Director, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care
Director, Research Program for Improving Quality of Care and Outcomes of Hospitalized Older Adults
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Marcantonio is Director of Research for the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard
Medical School. Within the Division, he leads the Research Program to Improve Quality of Care and Outcomes for Hospitalized Older Adults, which defines
the broad theme of his research. He is an internationally recognized expert and clinical investigator in the area of delirium (acute confusion), in which
he has performed numerous observational and interventional research studies. He currently leads three NIH-funded studies in this area (1 P01, 1 R01, 1
R03) focusing on improving diagnostic strategies for delirium, biomarker discovery, and evaluating the role of psychoactive medications in delirium treatment.
He also leads the Epidemiology Core for the first-ever NIH Program Project focused on delirium. He has broader interests in improving quality of care
for elders, and has authored papers on predictors of hospitalization and unplanned hospital readmission, and outcomes of non-cardiac and cardiac surgery
in older adults. He is the BIDMC site director of the HMS Fellowship in General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, teaches Epidemiology in the Clinical
Effectiveness Program at Harvard School of Public Health, and has mentored over 30 students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members. Dr. Marcantonio
has authored over 90 peer-reviewed research articles, plus numerous clinical reviews, book chapters, and practice guidelines. He served for 5 years on
NIH’s Aging Systems and Geriatrics study section, which he chaired from 2006-2008. Honors include the 1999 Paul Beeson Physician Scholarship in Aging
Research, the 2003 American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Clinical Investigation Award, the 2007 BIDMC Center for Faculty Development
Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and the 2009 HMS A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Dr. Marcantonio is the recipient of a Mid-Career
Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the National Institute on Aging.
- Clinical epidemiology
- Clinical trials
- Aging research
- Delirium
- Cognitive function
- Quality of care
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Christina Wee, M.D., M.P.H.
Fellowship Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director of Research, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
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Dr. Christina C. Wee is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-site Director of the General Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship
Program. She is also Co-Director of Research in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where she directs
the Health Services and Behavioral Research Program in Obesity and co-directs that the Division's Health Behaviors Research Program. Dr. Wee’s research
interests in obesity primarily focuses on questions of particular relevance to public health and primary care and can be characterized by three overarching
goals: 1) to understand racial and ethnic differences in the costs and health outcomes of obesity; 2) to identify and address the stigma associated with
obesity, particularly as it relates to disparities in healthcare and in medical decision-making; and 3) to define and promote the role of primary care
physicians in the management of obesity. Dr. Wee is currently engaged in several ongoing projects. She is the Principal Investigator of two R01 projects
funded by NIDDK. The first project uses data from several large nationally-representative samples to better understand the influence of race and obesity
on health outcomes such as mortality, cardiovascular risk, health disparities, and health care cost. In her second R01 project, she is following a cohort
of 500 bariatric surgery patients and interviewing a cross-sectional sample of 350 primary care patients to better understand patient perspectives and
their effect on preferences for weight loss and decision-making related to weight loss treatments. In addition, Dr. Wee is broadly interested in health
disparities and health promotion research and has mentored several fellows in areas such as immigrant and women’s health, cancer screening, and medical
decision-making. Dr. Wee was a former deputy editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and currently serves on several national scientific review
committees including as Co-Chair of the Research Committee for the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Wee has received several awards for excellence
in mentoring including the 2010 A. Clifford Barger Award from Harvard Medical School and the 2011 Midcareer Research and Mentorship Award from the Society
of General Internal Medicine.
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Roger B. Davis, Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
- Health services research
- Clinical trials
- Clinical epidemiology
- Biostatistics
Tom Delbanco, M.D.
Richard and Florence Koplow-James Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
- Quality of care
- Medical education
- Patient education
- Health services research
Lachlan Forrow, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Ethics Support Service, BIDMC
Director, Palliative Care Programs, BIDMC
President, The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
President, Albert Schweitzer Hospital (Lambarene, Gabon, West Africa)
- Clinical ethics
- End-of-life care
- Health professional education in underserved communities
- Health care quality improvement in Africa
Mary Beth Hamel, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine
- Health services research
- Cost-effectiveness research
- Clinical decision marking in geriatrics and end-of-life care
Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
- Health services research and quality of care
- The influence of physician and organizational factors on delivery of health care services
- Physician satisfaction
- Value-based purchasing
Suzanne G. Leveille, R.N., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Epidemiology of aging
- Disability, pain, chronic conditions in older adults
- Disease self-management
- Patient internet portals
- Research study design
Ellen P. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Racial/ethnic and age-related disparities in cancer screening, treatment and outcomes
- Clinical decision-making and treatment choices at the end of life
- Cancer screening and outcomes in the very elderly
- Public use databases
Murray A. Mittleman, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, BIDMC
- Clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases including studies of behavioral Dietary and environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease incidence
and prognosis
Kenneth J. Mukamal, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Lifestyle and nutritional factors, cardiovascular risk factors, and incidence
- Prognosis of cardiovascular diseases
Long Ngo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
- Clinical trials
- Epidemiology
- Statistical methodology and applications in completing risks
- Marginal structure models
- Model selection
- Linear mixed-effects models
- Diagnostic accuracy
Mara A. Schonberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Women's health and decision-making
- Breast cancer among older women
- Preventative health for older adults
William C. Taylor, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Master, W.B. Castle Society, Harvard Medical School
Program Director, Residency Program in Primary Care and Population Medicine, BWH, Harvard
Vanguard Medical Associates, and DPM, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
- Medical education
- Clinical prevention
- Patient-doctor communication
- Critical appraisal
- Decision analysis
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
Jan Walker, RN, MBA
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Research Associate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Patients’ perspective on quality of care
- Patients’ use of health information technology
- Preparing professionals to care for the underserved
Gloria Yeh, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Mind-body therapies
- Complementary Medicine
- Preventive care
- Stress management
- Cardiopulmonary disease
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