Our Faculty
Allan Walkey, MD, MSc
Division Chief, Health Systems Science
Research focus:
- Sepsis
- Acute lung injury
- Atrial Fibrillation occurring during critical illness
Stephen Erban, MD
Section Chief, Clinical Informatics
Research focus:
- Using the electronic health record to improve quality of care
- Improving reconciliation of medications and allergies
- Patient and provider engagement using patient portals
- Telehealth and remote patient monitoring
Mitchell Gitkind, MD
Interim Advisor, Health Systems Science Education and Quality Scholarship
Focus areas:
- Development and delivery of HSS curricular material for medical students
- Quality improvement and patient safety training for students, residents, and faculty
- Assessment of learner competency in HSS
Varun Ayyaswami, MD
Research focus:
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Adult Primary and Preventive Care
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Cholesterol
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Chronic Disease Management
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Hyperlipidemia
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Hypertension
Elena Byhoff, MD, MSc
Research focus:
- Screening for social needs in clinical settings
- Implementation of health care and community organization partnerships
- Stakeholder engagement methods
Mara Meyer Epstein, ScD
Research focus:
- Cancer Epidemiology, Screening, and Survival
- Use of databases derived from electronic health records and health claims for population-based cancer research
- Hematological cancers and precursor conditions
Kimberly A. Fisher, MD, MSc
Research focus:
- Communication in healthcare
- Clinical practice guideline implementation
- Patient safety and quality improvement
Mayuko Ito Fukunaga, MD, MSc
Research focus:
- Health informatics
- Lung cancer and lung cancer screening
- Shared decision making
- Technology-assisted implementation
Jerry H. Gurwitz, MD
Research focus:
- Improving the health and healthcare of older adult populations
- Advancing the science of multiple chronic conditions
- Improving medication safety in older adults
- Deprescribing potentially inappropriate medications in older adults
Abigail Helm, MS, PhD
Research focus:
- Chronic pain
- Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
- Cognitive psychology and neuroscience
Alok Kapoor, MD, MSc
Research focus:
- Anticoagulation use and underuse, especially in patients from underserved populations
- Medication safety
- Transitions of care
- Clinical decision support tools to improve care for patients with cardiovascular disease
Honghuang Lin, PhD
Clinical Informatics Section
Research focus:
- Bioinformatics analysis of multi-omics data
- Statistical genetic study of complex diseases
- Exploration of wearable technologies for health monitoring
- Development of machine learning models for early disease diagnosis
Kathleen Mazor, EdD
Research focus:
- Provider-patient communication
- Health literacy
- Patients' perspectives and experiences with healthcare
- Measure development and survey design
Paige Shaffer, PhD, MPH
Research focus:
- Psychiatric and social epidemiology
- Epidemiology and measurement of psychiatric multimorbidity
- Treatments for psychiatric multimorbidity
- Health services research
- Research using claims-based data
David Smelson, PsyD
Research focus:
- Community-based treatment for addiction and mental health
- Treatment development
- Adapting treatment for special populations
- Large-scale implementation trials
Apurv Soni, MD, PhD
Clinical Informatics Section
Research focus:
- Risk prediction and stratification models
- Digital site-less trials and implementation science
- Pragmatic trials and health equity
Mayra S. Tisminetzky, MD, PhD, MPH
Research focus:
- Epidemiology of aging
- Multiple chronic conditions/multimorbidity: Epidemiology and measurement
- Best approaches to measuring frailty using electronic medical records
- Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease
Biqi (Becky) Wang, PhD
Clinical Informatics Section
Research focus:
- Statistical genetics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Multilevel data integration
- Machine learning and disease diagnosis