Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics on
Healthcare Information Technology (CERT-HIT)

Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator, Project 4.

Dr. Schnipper is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Director of Clinical Research for the Brigham and Women's Academic Hospitalist Service.

His research interests focus on improving the quality of health care delivery for general medical patients. Subject areas include preventive cardiology, inpatient diabetes care, safe and effective medication use, transitions in
care, and communication among health care providers. The quality improvement interventions that he studies include the greater use of information systems, hospital-based pharmacists, case managers for patients with chronic diseases, and process redesign using continuous quality improvement methods.

Dr. Schnipper is a graduate of Harvard College. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1996. He completed a 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.