Heather Hsu, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Heather Hsu, MD MPH is a pediatric hospitalist and health services researcher focused on advancing the quality, efficiency, and equity of healthcare delivery across the life course. Her research leverages observational data and quasi-experimental study design to inform health policy, healthcare delivery, and resource allocation decision-making. She has a particular interest in understanding how value-based care models affect health equity and the financial well-being of the healthcare safety-net, especially in the areas of infectious diseases and substance use. In addition, as Scientific Director of Boston Medical Center's Clinical Data Warehouse for Research, she leads health system efforts to improve the quality and availability of administrative and electronic health records data for research.

Dr. Hsu completed her undergraduate training in Gender Studies at Brown University, medical training at Harvard Medical School, pediatric residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center, a health services research fellowship within Harvard Medical School's Department of Population Medicine, and graduate training in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She has received research funding from NIDA, AHRQ, and PCORI and her scholarship has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Health Affairs, and Addiction, among other journals.

Within the Department of Pediatrics and Boston Combined Residency Program, Dr. Hsu is a co-founder and lead faculty mentor for Health Equity Rounds, a solutions-oriented and resident-led case-based conference series that addresses racism, bias, and other forms of systemic oppression and their impacts on health and healthcare (https://www.bmc.org/health-equity-rounds).

Publications

  • Published 3/19/2025

    Lodi S, Yan S, Bovell-Ammon B, Christine PJ, Hsu HE, Bernson D, Novo P, Lee JD, Rotrosen J, Liebschutz JM, Walley AY, Larochelle MR. Comparative effectiveness of extended-release naltrexone versus buprenorphine-naloxone on treatment interruption: Comparing findings from a reanalysis of the X:BOT RCT and harmonized target trial emulation using population-based observational data. Addiction. 2025 Mar 19. PMID: 40104887.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/1/2025

    Wang R, Anand NS, Hsu HE. Infant Feeding Disparities Amid the Formula Shortage: Where Do We Go From Here? Pediatrics. 2025 Jan 01; 155(1). PMID: 39729398.

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  • Published 11/9/2024

    Nash KA, Perdomo J, Hsu HE. Health Equity Rounds - Root-Cause and Solutions-Oriented Discussions of Medical Racism. N Engl J Med. 2024 Nov 14; 391(19):1763-1765. PMID: 39530418.

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  • Published 11/1/2024

    Hsu HE, Cohen RT, Galbraith AA. Accounting for Children in Accountable Care Organizations. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Nov 01; 178(11):1099-1101. PMID: 39348137.

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  • Published 8/8/2024

    Hao B, Hu Y, Adams WG, Assoumou SA, Hsu HE, Bhadelia N, Paschalidis IC. A GPT-based EHR modeling system for unsupervised novel disease detection. J Biomed Inform. 2024 Sep; 157:104706. PMID: 39121932.

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Education

  • Harvard Medical School, MD
  • University of Pittsburgh, MPH
  • Brown University, AB