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BWH HOSPITALIST FELLOWSHIP DIRECTOR

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Director, Harvard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine 

Director of Clinical Research, Hospital Medicine Unit 

Research Director, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care 

Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPHP, MHM is a nationally renowned expert in improving the quality and safety of health care delivery for acutely ill medical patients. Subject areas include safe and effective medication use, transitions in care, diagnostic errors, home hospital, and communication among health care providers and between patients and providers. The quality improvement interventions that he studies include innovations in health information technology, more effective use of hospital-based personnel, and process redesign using continuous quality improvement and implementation science methods. 

Dr. Schnipper is a graduate of Harvard College. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1996. He completed his residency in internal medicine and primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2001, he completed a fellowship in general internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and earned an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness. In 2021, he was inducted as a Master in Hospital Medicine by the Society of Hospital Medicine for his contributions to the field. 

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY 

Anuj Dalal, M.D. 

Fellowship Associate Director 

Associate Physician, Hospital Medicine Unit, BWH 

Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Stephanie Mueller, MD, MPH 

Fellowship Associate Director

Director of Mentorship and Promotion and Associate Director of Clinical Research, Hospital Medicine, Unit, Brigham HEalth 

Associate Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

David W. Bates, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Chief Emeritus, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH 

Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Heather J. Baer, ScD

Faculty Director, MPH in Epidemiology and MPH in Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HEalth 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD

Associate Physician, Hospital Medicine Unit, BWH 

Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, BWH 

Professor of Medicine, Harvard MEdical School 

Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences, BWH 

Director, Implementation Research and Education, Harvard Catalyst, HMS 

Cheryl R. Clark, MD, ScD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Associate Division Chief for Equity Research and Strategic Partnerships, DGIM 

Associate Physician, Hospital Medicine Unit, BWH 

Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH 

Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD

Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School 

John Orav, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School 

Associate Professor Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

 

Lipika Samal, MD 

Brigham Site Director, Harvard General Medicine Fellowship 

Associate Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Medical Director for Research, Primary Care Center of Excellence 

Gordon D. Schiff, MD 

Associate Director, Brigham and Women's Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice 

Director of Quality and Safety, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care 

Associate Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Benjamin Sommers, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Joel Weissman, PhD 

Deputy Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Center for Surgery and Public Health, BWH 

Professor of Surgery in Health Policy, Harvard Medical School 

Co-Chair, Patient-Centered and Comparative Effectiveness Research Center, BWH 

©2025 by Harvard Medical School Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care

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