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Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator, Project 5.
Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Associate Professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell
University and the Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Komansky Center for
Childrens’ Health at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
She received her M.D. cum laude
from Harvard Medical School. She did her residency training at Harvard’s Brigham and
Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital, Boston and is double board certified in
internal medicine and pediatrics. After residency, Dr. Kaushal obtained a M.P.H. from
Harvard School of Public Health during a clinical effectiveness fellowship.
Dr. Kaushal
is an expert in patient safety and information technology. She performed one of the first
studies of medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitalized children. She has
studied health information technology extensively including the structure, costs and
potential societal benefits of a national health information network. Dr. Kaushal has also
performed work assessing the return on investment and patient safety implications of
specific clinical information technology applications. In her administrative role, she is
responsible for refining the computerized physician order entry and electronic health
record systems at the hospital. She currently directs HITEC, an entity that is evaluating
New York State’s
$200 million investment in health information technology from
consumer, provider, quality, safety and financial perspectives. Finally, she is an
appointed member of the NIH health services research study section.
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