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BIDMC FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS

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MARA A. SCHONBERG, MD, MPH

Fellowship Co-Program Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS, Director of Research in Shared Decision Making in the Division of General Medicine, and a practicing general internist. Her research focuses on improving shared decision-making in older persons and has been continually funded since 2004 with 6 NIH R01s (4 as PI), 2 R21s, a NIA K24 Midcareer Investigator award, and a NIA Paul B. Beeson K23 career development award in aging in addition to numerous foundation grants. In her work, Dr. Schonberg brought together the fields of shared decision-making and geriatrics to develop a novel framework that incorporates patient life expectancy, individualized risk, and patients’ values and preferences to improve cancer screening decisions for older adults. She further developed the methods to incorporate the key parameters of her framework into practice. To estimate life expectancy, she created a novel 11-item index that predicts up to 14-year mortality in adults >65 with accuracy. She also developed an innovative model for predicting breast cancer that considers older women’s individualized competing mortality risk. In addition, she designed the first patient decision aid to consider 10-year prognosis and rigorously tested this mammography screening decision aid in a randomized trial. Her decision aid led to women >75 making more informed screening decisions and to fewer choosing screening. To help disseminate her work, she co-developed ePrognosis, an internationally used website designed to help clinicians and patients consider overall prognosis in medical decisions. In addition, Dr. Schonberg enjoys mentoring and has sponsored or co-sponsored 4 NIH K awards, 1 American Cancer Society Mentored Research Scholar Grant, 2 NIA GEMSSTARs, and 1 T32. In addition to the Harvard Research Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care, she  co-leads Harvard’s Advanced Aging Research Training Seminar Series. In recognition of her work, Dr. Schonberg received a Harvard Medical School A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring award and was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2022.

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KENNETH J. MUKAMAL, MD, MPH, MA

Fellowship Site Director

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Associate Chief, Research Section, Division of General Medicine, BIDMC

Kenneth J. Mukamal, MD, MPH, MA, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS and Associate Section Chief for Research in the Division of General Medicine. His research focuses on the behavioral and biochemical determinants of cardiovascular and neurocognitive diseases, extending from their risk factors to their prognosis in ambulatory populations. He has conducted this work primarily in large cohort studies, including the Nurses’ Health Studies, Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and the Cardiovascular Health Study, along with clinical datasets and focused clinical trials. He also has published extensively on the health effects of alcohol consumption and risk factors for suicide mortality. His current grants study the relationships of circulating free fatty acids (as by-products of adiposity) with cardiometabolic disease and dementia and the health effects of blueberry consumption among older adults. Dr. Mukamal has received HMS’s Clifford A. Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring and, on two occasions, BIDMC’s Gordon J. Strewler Award for Mentorship in Resident Research. He is a recent recipient of a NIH/NIA Mid-Career Mentoring Award (K24). He also serves as director of the Shigeaki Hinohara, M.D. Primary Care Fellowship, which supports a visiting scholar from Japan every other year.

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EDWARD R. MARCANTONIO, MD, SC

Fellowship Site Director

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Section Chief of Research, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC

Director, Aging Research Program 

Recipient of HMS A. Clifford Barger Awards for Excellence in Mentorship 

Edward R. Marcantonio, MD MSc  is a Professor of Medicine at HMS and Section Chief for Research in the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Marcantonio is an internationally recognized clinical investigator focused on developing methods to deliver high value care to older adults in multiple settings to improve quality and outcomes, and reduce costs related to delirium and cognitive dysfunction. He currently leads four NIH-funded studies (3 R01’s, 1 P01 project) focused on improving diagnosis of delirium, and testing interventions to reduce delirium and cognitive decline in older adults. His research has been continuously funded for over 25 years by the NIH, AHRQ, and several foundations. He has received national recognition for his research, including the Paul Beeson Physician Scholarship, the American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Clinical Investigation Award, and is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians. Over 70% of Dr. Marcantonio’s research portfolio is directly relevant to primary care. Dr. Marcantonio is also an active clinical general internist/geriatrician. 

 

In addition to leading several career development programs for junior researchers, Dr. Marcantonio has personally mentored over 60 students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members. Several of his former mentees now lead their own independent research programs, such as Dr. Schonberg. Dr. Marcantonio has received numerous mentoring awards including BIDMC’s Center for Faculty Development's Excellence in Mentoring Award, the HMS A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and currently holds a Mid-Career Mentoring Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) from the National Institute on Aging. He is a Core faculty member of the Clinical Epidemiology Course in the Program of Clinical Effectiveness at HSPH.  

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY

Roger B. Davis, Sc.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Recipient of HMS A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentorship

  • Health services research

  • Clinical trials

  • Clinical epidemiology

  • Biostatistics

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Tom Delbanco, M.D.
Richard and Florence Koplow-James Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
Co-Founder, OpenNotes

  • Quality of care

  • Medical education

  • Patient education

  • Health services research

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Catherine M. DesRoches, Dr.PH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
Executive Director, OpenNotes

  • Health services research

  • Survey research

  • Health Information technology

  • Delivery system organization

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Mary Beth Hamel, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Executive Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine

  • Health services research

  • Clinical decision marking in geriatrics and end-of-life care

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Shoshana Herzig, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Hospital Medicine Research Program

  • Hospital-based pharmacoepidemiology focusing on the association between commonly used medications and nosocomial complications

  • Interventions to enhance the safety and appropriateness of prescribing in the hospital setting

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Stephen Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care

  • Orthostatic hypertension

  • Cardiovascular disease

  • Diabetes

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Ted Kaptchuk
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for Mind-Body Therapies

  • Placebo effects

  • Patient-clinician relationship

  • Acupuncture and Complementary Therapies

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Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A. *
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

  • Health services research and quality of care

  • The influence of physician and organizational factors on delivery of health care services

  • Physician social networks

  • Improving value of care

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Long Ngo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School

  • Delirium

  • Breast cancer

  • Cardiology

  • Air pollution

  • Clinical Trials

  • Statistical methodology and applications in completing risks

  • Marginal structure models

  • Model selection

  • Longitudinal data analysis

  • Diagnostic accuracy

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Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care

  • Delirium

  • Gerontology

  • Late life health

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Jan Walker, R.N., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Research Associate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Co-Founder, OpenNotes

  • Patients’ perspective on quality of care

  • Patients’ use of health information technology

  • Opening records to patients

  • Preparing professionals to care for the underserved

  • Qualitative research, including focus groups

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Christina Wee, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Obesity Research Program
Recipient of the SGIM Midcareer Research and Mentorship Award and the HMS A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentorship

  • Obesity

  • Cardiovascular Health

  • Health Outcomes & Disparities

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Gloria Yeh, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Mind-body therapies

  • Complementary Medicine

  • Preventive care

  • Stress management

  • Cardiopulmonary disease

  • Clinical trials

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Sigall Bell, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

  • Medical Errors 

  • Electronic Health Records

  • Patient Participation

  • Truth Disclosure 

  • Patient Access to Records 

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Kristen Kraemer, PhD *

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

  • Health Behavior Change 

  • Mind-Body Interventions 

  • Emotional Health in Chronic Illness

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Russell Phillips, MD 

William Applebaum Professor of Medicine, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-Principal Investigator, Director of the Center for Primary Care 

  • Primary Care Innovation 

  • End of Life Care 

  • Integrative Medicine 

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Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD, MPH, RN, FNP-BC

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Health Disparities and Outcomes 

  • Cardiovascular Health 

  • Hypertension 

  • Wearable Devices 

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Mingyu Zhang, PhD, MHS

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

  • Air Pollution and toxic metal exposures 

  • Cardiometabolic health across the life force 

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* Denotes faculty who have graduated from the Fellowship Program

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