Research Partner Individuals

Assistant Professor, Division of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine As Director of Transitions of Care and Patient Engagement for the nation’s second-largest municipal health system, Anshu leads patient engagement initiatives serving more than 600,000 patients in the safety net, including language diverse, homeless, and/or disabled patients and families, 80% of whom receive public insurance. Anshu…

Patient advocate and collaborator with OpenNotes Rosie is a widow, mother, grandmother, and educator who draws upon her story as a survivor of serious medical errors as a passionate patient advocate. She serves on numerous national and local patient-family advisory councils and collaborates with medical professionals and researchers on projects to improve patient safety and…

Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital Fabienne is a pediatric hospitalist and physician lead for patient-facing applications at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she has been involved with the development and implementation of the patient portal for the past 15 years and leads the OpenNotes initiative. Her specific interests are related to privacy and…

CMIO, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Lauren Bruckner has been at the forefront of enhancing patient engagement since 2009 when she became the principal physician champion for URMC’s patient portal and was subsequently named the organization’s first Medical Director of Patient Engagement. She has worked closely with OpenNotes since 2017 when she was the co-PI on a New York State…

Senior Manager, Health Information System Project Management Office, University Health Network Selina oversees the HIS Project Management Office as part of UHN’s initiative to transform patient care, clinical education, research, and quality of work life. Selina was formerly the Program Lead of Digital Patient Experience at UHN. Her healthcare and digital innovation experience position her as one of Canada’s leading…

Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine Steve’s research interests include suicide prevention; approaches to integrating psychiatric and primary medical care; treatment of chronic conditions including chronic pain in primary care, and patient engagement in care. Over the past several decades, he has provided clinical care in primary care settings and…

Assistant Scientist, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Vadim is passionate about authentic patient engagement in healthcare, including meaningful patient and public voices in healthcare priority-setting and resource allocation, patient-reported outcomes, and experience measures for diagnostic excellence. Vadim is collaborating with the OpenNotes team on a John A. Hartford Foundation-funded initiative to develop health systems-based…

Director, Patient Engagement, Healthcare Associates Member, Beth Israel Lahey Health Diversion, Equity & Inclusion Council Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Leonor Fernández is passionate about health equity and humanizing the healthcare experience for patients and the health care team. She believes deeply that health care is a partnership that benefits from all patients having access to meaningful and empowering healthcare…

Medical Director, Adult Medicine Clinic, Harborview Medical Center Associate Professor, University of Washington Medical School Sara is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She has been engaged in patient care and research related to open notes in a safety-net setting for the last 10 years.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Chair, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Associates, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gila Kriegel is an academic primary care physician whose career has focused on quality improvement efforts in general medicine. She was an early participant in the OpenNotes program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is the clinical…