Nicholas J. Cordella, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Cordella is a physician leader in quality and patient safety. As Medical Director for Quality and Patient Safety at Boston Medical Center (BMC), he leads large-scale Quality Improvement initiatives across the institution and works to shape the overall hospital quality vision and strategy. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, trained in Health Services Research with an interest in rigorous, quasi-experimental evaluation of quality outcomes and development of a learning health system. His current academic and professional work is focused on leveraging technology and advanced analytics to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Dr. Cordella sits on the physician council of Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) and is a member of the MA Hospital Association Clinical Issues Advisory Council (CIAC).

Publications

  • Published 2/26/2026

    Jansen E, Shankar DA, Cherilus T, Foster E, Ben-Horin L, Cordella N, Bosch NA, Austad K. Protocol for a pragmatic trial comparing navigator and automated virtual interventions for guaranteeing adherence to fecal immunochemical testing (NAVIGATE-FIT). Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2026 Apr; 50:101546. PMID: 41800147.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/3/2025

    Hu Y, Cordella N, Mishuris RG, Paschalidis IC. Accounting for racial bias and social determinants of health in a model of hypertension control. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2025 Feb 03; 25(1):53. PMID: 39901187.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 10/25/2024

    Wu R, Foster E, Zhang Q, Eynatian T, Mishuris R, Cordella N. Iterative Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Enhance Naloxone Coprescribing. Appl Clin Inform. 2025 Jan; 16(1):215-222. PMID: 39454643.

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  • Published 5/25/2024

    Cordella N, Moses J. Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Patient Safety: GPT-4 Performance on a Standardized Test of Safety Knowledge. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2024 Oct; 50(10):745-747. PMID: 38871597.

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  • Published 2/9/2024

    Kearney LE, Jansen E, Kathuria H, Steiling K, Jones KC, Walkey A, Cordella N. Efficacy of Digital Outreach Strategies for Collecting Smoking Data: Pragmatic Randomized Trial. JMIR Form Res. 2024 Feb 09; 8:e50465. PMID: 38335012.

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Education

  • Boston University School of Medicine, MD

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