Harvard Medical School Students

Founders
Sachin Jain
Kiran Kakarala

2004 - 2005 Project Directors
Lauren Goldsten
Cindy Lin

2005 - 2006 Project Directors
Ingrid Ganske
Vivek Garg

2006 - 2007 Project Directors
Jordan Bohnen
Michael Farias
Nir Harish
Vinod Nambudiri
Dellie Sorel

2007 - 2008 Project Directors
Chitra Akileswaran
Craig Szela
Rocky Samuel
Lior Braunstein

2008 - 2009 Project Directors
Kristin Castilll
Lindsay Cole
Sarah Kimball
Shereef Elnahal

2009 - 2010 Project Directors
Omar Badri
Gretchen Fuller
Jessica Hohman
Ian Metzler
Sam Takvorian

Webmaster
Omar Badri

Project Advisor
Barbara McNeil, MD, PhD
Ridley Watts Professor and Chair of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Project Sponsor
Steven Schoenbaum, MD
Senior Vice President
Commonwealth Fund

Link to authors and reviewers

Dept. of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115


Introducing the Multi-School Case Teaching Collaborative
We would like to welcome the newest members of our Student Advisory Committee:
  • Dartmouth Medical School - Narath Carlile, Tivon Sidorsky, Raj Mukherjee
  • Harvard Medical School - See Staff List (left)
  • Harvard MIT Health Science and Technology - Asad Moten
  • Jefferson Medical College - Ellen Plumb, Ashok Gowda
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - Kristin Kan
  • Michigan State University School of Medicine - Swati Batki
  • New York Medical College - Meagan McBryde, Natasha Shimmoeller
  • Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine - Ajay Jetley, Priya Kumthekar
  • Rush Medical College - Sachin Jain, Eric Gantwerker
  • Stanford University School of Medicine - Aabed Meer
  • University of Chicago: Pritzker School of Medicine - Stephanie Albin
  • University of Massachusetts Medical School - Andrew Gara, Stephanie Galica, Jay Lawrence
  • University of Oslo - Jo-Inge Myhre
  • University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Dave Perlmutter, Jonathan Black
  • University of Tennessee Memphis College of Medicine - Whitney Cesari and Sumeet Vaikunth
  • University of Texas Medical Branch - Vika Stager
  • University of Washington School of Medicine - Phuong Luu
  • Yale University School of Medicine - Ben Falit, Thomas Morland, Alexi Nazem
We look forward to working together to promote health policy education among all health professionals!
Multi-School Teaching Collaborative Materials:
Surgical Errors (Case with Discussion)
Surgical Errors Teacher's Edition
Collaborative Survey

About Us:
The Harvard/Commonwealth Health Policy Education Initiative (HCHPEI) is a group of students and faculty of Harvard Medical School committed to improving physician literacy of health care policy. HCHPEI developed and maintains ImproveHealthCare.org and has the following goals:
  • To assess the current state of literacy of American health care policy.
  • To create interactive resources to stimulate interest in health care policy.
  • To develop and disseminate a case-based curriculum to educate medical students,
    residents, and physicians nationwide about health care policy.

Our Funding:
Our project is housed in the Harvard Medical School's Department of Health Care Policy and is funded by a generous grant from The Commonwealth Fund

ImproveHealthCare.org in the News:
June 12, 2006: "Spotlight - Students Take Health Policy to the Web" in Web Weekly
June 9, 2006: "Policy and Practice" in Focus Online

Our Affiliates:


The AMA-MSS will work to publicize the HCHPEI to "MSS Chapters, individual students, medical school deans/curriculum committees." HCHPEI has already benefited from insightful comments on the cases provided by members of the AMA-MSS Healthcare Access Committee.

The New England Journal of Medicine has generously agreed to provide direct links to a selection of articles on health care policy published in the Journal. This partnership allows us to assemble these important articles in one place and eliminates the need for users to login to obtain access.