HMS Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care

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

FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Boston Veterans Administration Healthcare System

Steven R. Simon, M.D., M.P.H.

Fellowship Site Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine (VA, Jamaica Plain)
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine in the VA Boston Healthcare System and Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on interventions to improve the quality and safety of health care, with special emphases on the use of educational programs and healthcare information technology to improve the delivery and receipt of care for common primary care conditions. A practicing internist, Dr. Simon is a member of Harvard’s Academy of Medical Educators and serves on the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Medical Education.

J. Michael Gaziano, M.D., M.P.H.
Fellowship Co-Director
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), West Roxbury VA
Co-Director, Cardiovascular and Epidemiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

J. Michael Gaziano, M.D., M.P.H., MAVERIC (Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research & Information Center) Director and Director of Education, is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with more than 15 years of research experience. He received an M.P.H. at the Harvard School of Public Health while a trainee in the Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he continues to conduct research. For the past four years he has been on staff at the Brockton-West Roxbury VA Medical Center as a preventive cardiologist and is currently Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation. As MAVERIC Director, he is based at the West Roxbury VA where he oversees the statistical, data coordination, and project coordination officers, and serves as the training program director. He directs and assists the administrative officer in interactions with the technical staff and principal investigators.

Mark Bauer, M.D., MSc
Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, COLMR

Person-centered care models for individuals with major mental illnesses, particularly bipolar disorder; controlled clinical trials with an effectiveness-oriented design Mary Brophy, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Director, MAVERIC Core Laboratory

Hematology/Oncology; clinical trials Martin Charns, D.B.A
Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health
Director, COLMR

Organization and management research in health care and as educator to health care professionals Louis D. Fiore, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Program Co-Director, MAVERIC
Director, MAVERIC Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center

Hematology/Oncology; clinical trials Eric Garshick, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Projects, MAVERIC

Epidemiology research on the health effects of diesel exhaust exposure and its relationship with lung cancer; risk factors for pulmonary disease in spinal cord injury John Hermos, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Consultant, MAVERIC
Co-Chair, Institutional Review Board, Boston VA Healthcare System

Pharmacoepidemiological research in psychoactive medications, pain management, substance abuse, and digestive diseases Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Staff Physician, VA Boston Healthcare System
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Quality of care provided by health care systems; Information technology; care for minorities and underserved populations and the role clinical information systems can play in improving their care Nancy Kressin, Ph.D
Professor of Medicine, Boston University
Investigator, COLMR

Health and health care disparities; hypertension; Chronic illness; Information technology Elizabeth Lawler, M.P.H.
Instructor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
Project Director, MAVERIC

Cardiovascular and geriatric epidemiology, exceptional longevity, race and health disparities Edward Lew, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Gastroenterology and Epidemiology, MAVERIC

Clinical epidemiology research focusing on acid peptic diseases and gastrointestinal cancers Matthew Liang, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Director Special Projects, Robert B. Brigham Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Research Center
Chief, Section of Rheumatology, Boston VA Healthcare System
Study Director, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System
Director, Center for Advanced Methodological Support for Innovative SLE Trials

Clinical trials; cardiovascular disease epidemiology and SLE research Mark Meterko, Ph.D
Investigator COLMR

Instrument development, psychometric assessment, and statistical analysis Amy Rosen, Ph.D
Professor of Health Policy and Management at Boston University
Investigator, COLMR

Risk-adjustment models used to compare quality of care delivery in different settings: hospital, long-term care, and ambulatory care

Denotes faculty who graduated from the Fellowship Program