Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

BIDMC FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delirium
Gerontology
Late life health

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

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