
BWH GENERAL MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS
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Fellowship Site Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical director for Research, Primary Care Center of Excellence
Lipika Samal, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS, an Associate Physician in the DGIM at BWH, and a general internist. She is Board-certified in Clinical Informatics and holds certifications from Epic for Clarity Ambulatory Data Model and Research Informatics Innovator. She has completed multiple studies examining technology-based approaches to improving healthcare access including: 1) a survey of women visiting the Baltimore city sexually transmitted infections clinic exploring internet and text message use, 2) a survey of HIV patients exploring internet use, 3) a survey of diabetes patients exploring willingness to use the internet for healthcare, and 4) a federally funded systematic review of the literature about consumer health informatics. Currently, the majority of her time is devoted to research on primary care clinical decision support in the area of chronic kidney disease. Her research has been funded by the NIDDK through a K23 award and an R01. She has authored a suite of papers related to telehealth and the digital divide.

Fellowship Site Director
Associate Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Medical Director of Strategy and Innovation, Brigham & Women's Home Hospital
David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, is an internationally renowned expert in designing and implementing advanced home-based care, using digital health technology to drive health outcomes, and evaluating the quality, safety, and experience of health care. He is a practicing general internist and clinician-investigator at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he founded and co-directs Brigham’s home hospital program and co-directs the general internal medicine fellowship. He co-founded and co-chairs the Hospital at Home Users Group, a collaborative of home hospital programs throughout the US and Canada. He is core faculty at Ariadne Labs, a center for health systems innovation at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham, where he studies rural home hospital and scaling home hospital. To optimize quality time at home, shift care home, and decentralize care, his team examines and implements novel treatment pathways at home, machine learning and robotics approaches to care at home, and the quality and experience of these models at home. His vision is for all patients to achieve the right care at the right time in the right place by designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative interaction spaces among the care team, technology, caregiver, and patient.
David received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in biology and politics. He earned his master of arts in teaching in special and secondary science education and served as a high school chemistry teacher and science department chair in Chicago Public Schools. He received his medical degree from Washington University in St Louis and completed his residency at New York University and Bellevue Hospital in internal medicine – primary care. He completed a general internal medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received his master of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY
David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. *
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate faculty, Ariadne Labs
Associate Director, Informatics & Innovation, Harvard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine
Director Patient Safety Learning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Program Director of Research, Center for Patient Safety, Research and Practice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Health Innovation Platform, Mass General Brigham
Stephanie Mueller, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Havard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine
Associate Director of Clinical Research, Hospital Medicine Unit, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director of Mentorship and Promotion, Hospital Medicine Unit, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Faculty Development Director of Programs, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Clinical Director, Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
E. John Orav, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program
Director, BWH DGM Med-Peds Unit
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director/Principal Investigator of the MTERMS Lab: http://mterms.bwh.harvard.edu/
* Denotes faculty who have graduated from the Fellowship Program