 | Dr. Harlan Krumholz |
Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz, newly designated as the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine, is noted for research aimed at determining optimal clinical strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement in the prevention, treatment and outcome of cardiovascular disease. His research, which has resulted in more than 300 publications, has improved clinical practice and the ability of the health care system to provide high-quality, high-value care, with particular emphasis on vulnerable populations.
With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, Dr. Krumholz has led efforts to define measures of quality that are now reported publicly. His research group has pioneered innovative methodological approaches to identifying key success strategies for top performing health care organizations -- strategies that are being disseminated by national health care organizations. With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, his research group has developed outcomes measures, recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum, which will enable the profiling of hospitals. Dr. Krumholz and his group has also defined approaches to the study of disparities and provided key insights that are guiding national efforts to ensure that all patients have access to high-quality care. In large national collaborative studies, he has evaluated the therapeutic effectiveness of coronary revascularization, aspirin, heparin and beta-blockers in older patients. Several important studies have provided guidance on the allocation of scarce resources and highlighted strategies to improve the efficiency of health care delivery. With support of the Department of Defense, his team conducted a novel trial of a decision support system that set the standard for the evaluation of health information technology.
Dr. Krumholz has led many national committees on quality of care and outcomes research. With the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute he chaired a panel commissioned to define future research directions for outcomes research. He founded and chaired the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, the leading forum for cardiovascular outcomes research. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Krumholz has received numerous honors, including designation as one of the "Best Doctors in America."
A 1980 graduate of Yale College, Krumholz earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and an SM from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and was chief resident at Moffitt Hospital there. He was a cardiology fellow at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston before joining the Yale faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1992. He founded the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), which is devoted to improving quality of care, and served as its director since 1992. He has led the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale, one of four national sites devoted to training future physician leaders, for the past eight years. Krumholz was named a full professor in 2002.
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Dr. Harlan Krumholz named as Hines Professor
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