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Laura A. Petersen, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.

Laura A. Petersen, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.

Center Director, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Associate Chief of Staff for Research (ACOS/R), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Professor, Department of Medicine, Chief, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine

Board Certified Internist

Email: laura.petersen@med.va.gov (for primary VA business)
Email: laurap@bcm.edu

Phone: 713-440-4499
Phone: 713-791-1414 ext. 230314
Phone: 713-440-4449

Research Interests

  • Assessing how health care policy, organization, and financing affects the quality and safety of health care
  • Development of state-of-the-art methods for assessing the quality of health care
  • Using novel data sources to measure health care quality in the learning health care system

Education

  • Harvard Medical School Faculty Development Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Chief Medical Resident, West Roxbury Division, Brockton/West Roxbury VA Medical Center, West Roxbury, Massachusetts
  • Residency in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
  • M.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Undergraduate Honours Program, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K.
  • B.S. with Honors, University of California, Davis, California

Awards and Activities

  • Member, Baylor College of Medicine Learning Health System Planning Committee, 2023-present
  • Member, Performance Measurement Committee, American College of Physicians, 2018-2019
  • VA Undersecretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research, 2017
  • Inducted into Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, 2015
  • Elected Member, American Clinical and Climatological Association, 2013
  • Elected Member, Association of American Physicians, 2011
  • Invited Fellowship, American College of Physicians, 2008
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

Dr. Petersen's PubMed Link*

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