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FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Cambridge Hospital
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Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
Fellowship Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Inpatient Medical Service, The Cambridge Hospital
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Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is based at The Cambridge Hospital. She has directed the General Medicine Fellowship Program at The Cambridge Hospital since 2000. She has published extensively on problems in access to care, including analyses of data from the Current Population Survey and the National Medical Expenditure Survey. Her analyses of the administrative costs of medical care, which have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health, are widely cited. She has also published studies of inappropriate medication prescribing for the elderly, the time course of emergence of previously unrecognized adverse effects of new drugs, preventive screening of adults, trends in the health care labor force, cost-effectiveness of free care, quality of care in proprietary versus non-profit HMOs and nursing homes and several other areas. She is widely known as a leading critic of market-driven health policy and advocate of universal health insurance.
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David H. Bor, M.D. 
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Medicine, The Cambridge Hospital
Community-wide approaches to prevention
David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Social and Community Medicine, The Cambridge Hospital
Health policy and financing; design and evaluation of hospital information systems
Karen E. Lasser, M.D., M.P.H.
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Quality of care in primary care for underserved populations
Danny McCormick, M.D., M.P.H.
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow
Health insurance; quality of care
Richard J. Pels, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Residency Program Director, The Cambridge Hospital
Techniques in medical education in curriculum design, focusing on undergraduate education.
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Denotes faculty who graduated from the Fellowship Program
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