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).