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Health Services Research receives award

 

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Erinn Rhodes, MD, a joint fellow in Health Services Research and
Endocrinology, examines Lily Caffrey-Levine at the Joslin Diabetes Center.

n May, the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program will receive the 2003 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. The program, which is based at Children’s and directed by Don Goldmann, MD, medical director of Infection Control and Quality Improvement, allows two-year post-doctoral fellows to research issues in the delivery of health care services.

The award will be given on May 4 at the Pediatric Academic Societies meetings in Seattle. “This award underscores the importance of training young investigators to study and improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of pediatric care,” says Goldmann.

Fellows in the program come from general pediatrics, pediatric subspecialties and related fields. Erinn Rhodes, MD, a joint fellow in the Health Services Research and Endocrinology programs at Children’s, says her clinical practice has influenced her health services research on pediatric diabetes care. Similarly, the research of other Health Services Research fellows has a significant impact on innovations in patient care at Children’s and across the country. Examples include studies by Christopher Landrigan, MD, on hospitalist systems, Rainu Kaushal, MD, on reducing medical errors, and Joanne Wolfe, MD, on patient-centered end-of-life care.

The Harvard-wide program includes sites at Children’s, Mass General Hospital for Children, the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Other program leaders include site directors Jon Finkelstein, MD, Tracy Lieu, MD, and Jim Perrin, MD, and associate director Sharon Muret-Wagstaff, PhD.

 

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