Q. Lina Hu-bianco, MD

Dr. Hu-Bianco is an academic endocrine surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as well as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She received her Doctorate in Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her General Surgery residency at the University of California, Los Angeles and her Endocrine Surgery fellowship at Columbia University. During her training, she completed a competitive two-year research fellowship at the American College of Surgeons while simultaneously obtaining a Master’s in Health Services and Outcomes Research from Northwestern University. Dr. Hu-Bianco’s project seeks to characterize the multi-level factors that influence the receipt of guideline-concordant care in thyroid cancer management to ultimately inform interventions to improve access to guideline-concordant care. Her long-term career goal is to become an independent clinician investigator with expertise in learning health systems and implementation science to improve evidence-based care practices in surgery.

Project Title: Factors Influencing Access to Guideline-Concordant Care in Thyroid Cancer

Student Scholars Supporting Dr. Hu-Bianco’s Project:

• Rafael Martin

• Madeleine McGlynn

Ashley o’donoghue, PhD

Dr. O’Donoghue is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Economist at the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science at BIDMC, where she leads the data analytics team and specializes in quasi-experimental designs and econometric methods for causal inference. Dr. O'Donoghue is a Senior Editor for Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science. She also serves as a Volunteer Case Reviewer for the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families (DCF) Foster Care Review Unit to help plan for the future of children placed in foster care. She received a PhD in economics in 2020 and a BA in economics and mathematics in 2015. Dr. O'Donoghue works on a variety of healthcare delivery research projects. Her primary research interests are improving access to outpatient care and reducing barriers to safe transitions between inpatient and outpatient settings, especially for behavioral health and perinatal patients. Her research has been featured in National Geographic, NPR, Forbes, and Freakonomics Radio, among other outlets.

Project Title: Quantifying the Impact of Provider and Insurance Churn on Mental Health Care

TAYlor freret, md

Dr. Freret received her Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Brigham & Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Integrated Residency Program, followed by maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at MGH (2021-2024). The goal of her Mass EQLHS project is to improve provider recommendation of low-dose aspirin for preeclampsia prevention through an electronic health record-based smart checklist. Her long-term career goal is to become an independent clinician investigator with expertise in learning health systems as applied to prenatal and postpartum care.​

Project Title: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Recommendation for Low Dose Aspirin to Reduce Preeclampsia

Neonatologist

Home Institution: UMass Memorial Health Children’s Medical Center

Health System: UMass Memorial Health

Nikita Kalluri, MD, MPH

Dr. Kalluri is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School and an attending neonatologist at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center. She received her Medical Degree from Boston University, and completed her pediatrics residency in the Urban Health and Advocacy Track of the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She continued her clinical training in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship, during which she completed the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship and a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kalluri is a neonatal health services researcher with an interest in the understanding the role of social factors in neonatal family engagement and care delivery through multiple methodologies. She has received national research awards from the Academic Pediatric Association and the Society of Pediatric Research. Her current work is focused on the measurement and improvement of communication between clinicians and parents in the neonatal ICU.

Project title: Development and validation of a quantitative measure of NICU clinician-family communication