Heather Hsu, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
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).
Education
- Harvard Medical School, MD
- University of Pittsburgh, MPH
- Brown University, AB
Publications
- Published on 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 on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2024
Khazanchi R, Wachman EM, Schiff DM, Modest A, Saia KA, Hsu HE. Mandatory Child Protective Services Reporting for Substance-Exposed Newborns and Peripartum Outcomes: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Jul 01; 178(7):719-722. PMID: 38709513.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/5/2024
Andriola C, Ellis RP, Siracuse JJ, Hoagland A, Kuo TC, Hsu HE, Walkey A, Lasser KE, Ash AS. A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm for Creating Risk-Adjusted Payment Formulas. JAMA Health Forum. 2024 Apr 05; 5(4):e240625. PMID: 38639980.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/27/2024
Xie W, Hsu HE, Shafer PR, Podolsky MI, Stokes AC. Metabolic Disease and The Risk of Post-COVID Conditions: A Retrospective Cohort Study. medRxiv. 2024 Mar 27. PMID: 38585713.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/22/2024
Christine PJ, Lodi S, Hsu HE, Bovell-Ammon B, Yan S, Bernson D, Novo P, Lee JD, Rotrosen J, Liebschutz J, Walley AY, Larochelle MR. Target trial emulation for comparative effectiveness research with observational data: Promise and challenges for studying medications for opioid use disorder. Addiction. 2024 Jul; 119(7):1313-1321. PMID: 38519819.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2024
Wang RY, Anand NS, Douglas KE, Gregory JC, Lu N, Pottorff AE, Hsu HE. Formula for a Crisis: Systemic Inequities Highlighted by the US Infant Formula Shortage. Pediatrics. 2024 Jan 01; 153(2). PMID: 38196392.
Read at: PubMed
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