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
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
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John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
Fellowship Director
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
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Dr. John Z. Ayanian is Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard
School of Public Health, and a practicing general internist in the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He directed the General
Medicine Fellowship Program at BWH from 1998 through 2011. He directs a course on large database research methods in the Clinical Effectiveness Program
at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also serves as Director of the Health Disparities Research Program of the Harvard Catalyst, Leader of the Outcomes
Research Program of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and Senior Faculty Advisor in the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital. His primary research interests focus on access to care and quality of care for people with major medical conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, and renal disease, as well as racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in clinical treatments and outcomes. Dr. Ayanian has received
the Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and an elected member of
the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine.
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Jennifer S. Haas, M.D., M.Sc.P.H.
Fellowship Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
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Dr. Jennifer S. Haas is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, an Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a practicing general internist in the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was
the Associate Director of the General Medicine Fellowship Program at BWH from 2009 to 2011 and has been the Site Director of the Fellowship at BWH since
2011. She also serves as Co-Director of the Health Disparities Research Program of the Harvard Catalyst, and Senior Fellow for the Cannon Society at Harvard
Medical School. Her primary research interests focus on elucidating and eliminating disparities in health care and health status by insurance status,
socioeconomic status, and race/ ethnicity. Her recent work has focused on disparities in cancer control and outcomes, and the impact of policies related
to prescription drugs on disparities. She is particularly interested in how the social and physical environment may influence disparities in the dissemination
of information, treatments, and health status. Current interests also include examining how the development of personalized tests and treatments for cancer
(i.e., genomically targeted) may influence disparities, and in the use of health information technology to improve communication of health-related information.
Dr. Haas is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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Thomas D. Sequist, M.D., M.P.H.
Fellowship Co-Director
Associate Professor in Medicine and Health Care Policy Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
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Dr. Sequist’s research agenda focuses on three areas: 1) Native American health care, 2) ambulatory quality improvement strategies, and 3) the intersection
between quality of care and health disparities. He has been Associate Director of the General Medicine Fellowship Program at BWH since 2011. He has worked
extensively with the leadership of the Indian Health Service to study quality of care and access to care for Native Americans. Dr. Sequist is also actively
involved in the organization of federally funded randomized quality improvement trials in the outpatient setting. These trials evaluate a spectrum of
strategies including electronic medical records, decision support tools, disease registries, organizational change, and patient education to improve care
for chronic diseases including diabetes, coronary heart disease, and chronic kidney disease, as well as preventive services such as cancer screening.
Dr. Sequist is also actively working on understanding the complex relationship between quality improvement activities and racial disparities in care,
using diabetes as a model. Dr. Sequist is committed to improving the health of Native Americans through mentorship and volunteerism. He has served for
over 15 years as the Director of the Four Directions Summer Research Program at Harvard Medical School, offering American Indian undergraduate students
a summer research experience, career advice, and long term mentoring. He is also the Medical Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Physician Volunteer
Program, which sends physician volunteers to the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation, providing clinical care and teaching. Dr. Sequist has
served as a Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and as a standing member of the Health Care Quality and Effectiveness Study Section
for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Sequist received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development award
in 2004.
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Heather J. Baer, ScD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
- Obesity, prevention of chronic disease, lifestyle risk factors, electronic health records
David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Clinical decision-making and affecting physician behavior, particularly using computerized interventions
- Quality of care and cost-effectiveness in medical practice
- Technology assessment, particularly for new and expensive technologies
Asaf Bitton, M.D., M.P.H.
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Patient-centered medical homes, tobacco control policies
E. Francis Cook, Sc.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
- Epidemiologic methods, especially the multivariate control of confounding
Arnold M. Epstein, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
- Effect of changes in organization and reimbursement
- Problems of access to medical care
- Special health care problems of minorities, other underserved populations, and the elderly
Tejal K. Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Patient Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Patient safety
- Reducing adverse drug events
- Quality improvement through information technology
Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Research Fellow in Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Quality of care provided by healthcare systems, with a focus on healthcare disparities as a marker of poor care
- Information technology, report cards and other tools as potential solutions for reducing medical errors and disparities while improving over-all quality
Nancy L. Keating, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
- Access to specialty care and communication and coordination of care among generalists and specialists
- Role of organizations in influencing quality of care
- Quality of cancer care, particularly breast cancer
Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Clinical epidemiology of common problems in ambulatory medicine
- Hospital computer information systems
Thomas H. Lee, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Network President, Partners Community Health Care, Inc.
- Clinical strategies and costs in common medical conditions
Lisa S. Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Bioethics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Ethics and genetics
- Truth telling in medicine
- Physician-patient communication
- Research ethics
- Religion and medicine
Jeffrey A. Linder, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections
J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Health and economic effects of Medicare coverage
E. John Orav, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
- Statistical methods for the design of studies and for data analysis
Lipika Samal, M.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Primary care quality improvement through information technology, coordination of care, consumer health informatics.
Eric C. Schneider, M.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
- Measurement and reporting on the quality of health care
- Quality improvement
- Impact of the organization of delivery systems on quality of care
- Socioeconomic disparities in quality of care
Jeffrey L. Schnipper, M.D., M.P.H
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Prevention of coronary artery disease
- Quality of care in the hospital and after hospital discharge
- Improving medication use among hospitalized patients
- Evaluation of patients with syncope
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Denotes faculty who graduated from the Fellowship Program
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