FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Brigham and Women's Hospital John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P. Fellowship Co-Director Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Dr. John Z. Ayanian is Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, Associate 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 has directed the General Medicine Fellowship Program at BWH since 1999. He teaches health services research methods to fellows in the Summer Program in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance and Committee on Cancer Survivorship. 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. Jerry L. Avorn, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Program for the Analysis of Clinical Strategies Policy, cognitive, and social determinants of physician prescribing practices; efficacy and effectiveness of specific medications; compliance by patients with prescribed regimens; pharmaceutical cost-effectiveness analysis David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care 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 JudyAnn Bigby, M.D. Director, Community Health Programs Director, Harvard Medical School's Center of Excellence on Women's Health Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Systems of care for the poor Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor of Law and Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health Quality of care and clinical ethics; health, law, and policy E. Francis Cook, Sc.D. 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. Assistant 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 Jennifer S. Haas, M.D., M.Sc.P.H. Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in access to care and health status; neighborhood characteristics and health; women's health LeRoi S. Hicks, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy Instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital Quality of hypertension care; disparities in health care and outcomes Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health Research Fellow in Medicine 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 Paula A. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Executive Director, Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology Chief, Division of Women's Health, Department of Medicine Access to cardiology care; appropriateness of care; cardiovascular disease in minority populations and women Nancy L. Keating, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant 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 Karen M. Kuntz, Sc.D. Associate Professor of Decision Science, Harvard Medical School Associate Biostatistician, Brigham and Women's Hospital Cost-effectiveness analysis; evaluation of diagnostic tests; survival analysis Thomas H. Lee, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health Medical Director, 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. Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections John Orav, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Statistical methods for the design of studies and for data analysis Eric C. Schneider, M.D., M.Sc. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Assistant 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 Instructor in 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 Thomas D. Sequist, M.D., M.P.H. Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Examination of access to care for American Indians and methods of quality improvement and their impact on existing health care disparities Denotes faculty who graduated from the Fellowship Program

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