Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety
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
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