Amber Moore MD, MPH
Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
Evans – 116 | 617 358-4350amber.moore@bmc.org
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General Internal Medicine
Biography
Amber B. Moore, MD, MPH, received her MD from Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She is Vice Chair of Clinical Operations at Boston Medical Center and a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
Dr. Moore is an academic hospitalist whose work spans clinical operations, quality improvement, transitions of care, and medical education. She is passionate about medical education and continues to teach residents and medical students while holding a leadership role in hospital operations. Her scholarly work, spanning 25 peer-reviewed publications, addresses hospital capacity management, patient safety, care transitions for older adults, opioid stewardship, and the patient experience. A central focus of Dr. Moore's career has been improving the safety of hospital-to-post-acute care transitions for medically complex patients. She served as Co-Director of Project ECHO-Care Transitions (ECHO-CT) and as Associate Inpatient Physician Director for Operations in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
She has been involved with the ECHO-CT program since 2015, leading the weekly interdisciplinary videoconference sessions and developing and implementing the transitions-of-care curriculum for the hospital medicine team. This AHRQ-funded program—the first Project ECHO initiative focused on hospital-to-skilled-nursing-facility transitions—demonstrated reductions in readmission rates, costs, and post-acute length of stay. As an inpatient leader at a large academic medical center during the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped manage one of the most acute surges experienced by any U.S. hospital system and published lessons learned from that experience. Her research also addresses capacity management strategies, delirium identification protocols, and the inappropriate use of intravenous opioids in hospitalized patients.
Other Positions
Publications
Nelson RE, Koshy JM, Moore AB, Herzig SJ, Tess AV. The immersion in hospital medicine elective: Curriculum description, evaluation, and outcomes at 20 years. J Hosp Med. 2026 Apr; 21(4):402-406. PMID: 41518098.
Published on 9/1/2024Lipten S, Jernigan M, Verma R, MacLean R, Tucker T, Moore A. AJHM. Quantifying time from Medical Clearance to Psychiatric Placement in Hospitalized patients. 2024; 8(3).
Published on 5/24/2024Beiter ER, Shanbhag A, Junge-Maughan L, Knoph K, Dufour AB, Lipsitz L, Moore A. Interdisciplinary videoconference model for identifying potential adverse transition of care events following hospital discharge to postacute care. BMJ Open Qual. 2024 May 24; 13(2). PMID: 38789279.
Published on 12/26/2023Bromberg GK, Bravard MA, Kobayashi KJ, Moore A. A Novel Role to Manage Capacity and Flow in Hospital Medicine. J Patient Saf. 2024 Mar 01; 20(2):e3-e5. PMID: 38147059.
Published on 10/10/2023Moore A, Lima JC, Patel S, Junge-Maughan L, Dufour AB, Lipsitz L. An Interdisciplinary Videoconference to Improve Transitions of Care and Reduce Readmission, Cost, and Post-Acute Length of Stay in a Teaching and Community Hospital. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2024 Jan; 25(1):84.e1-84.e7. PMID: 37832595.
Published on 2/14/2023Safavi KC, Copenhaver MS, Moore A, Bravard MA, Britton O, Dunn P. Impact of a hospital policy to redistribute admission flow across clinical services for capacity relief during COVID-19 surges. J Hosp Med. 2023 Jul; 18(7):568-575. PMID: 36788630.
Published on 4/20/2022Leslie DL, Fick DM, Moore A, Inouye SK, Jung Y, Ngo LH, Boltz M, Husser E, Shrestha P, Boustani M, Marcantonio ER. Comparative salary-related costs of a brief app-directed delirium identification protocol by hospitalists, nurses, and nursing assistants. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Aug; 70(8):2371-2378. PMID: 35441698.
Published on 3/28/2022Sun CLF, Li DK, Zenteno AC, Bravard MA, Carolan P, Daily B, Elamin S, Ha J, Moore A, Safavi K, Yun BJ, Dunn P, Levi R, Richter JM. Low-Volume Bowel Preparation Is Associated With Reduced Time to Colonoscopy in Hospitalized Patients: A Propensity-Matched Analysis. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2022 Jul 01; 13(7):e00482. PMID: 35347098.
Published on 11/9/2021Marcantonio ER, Fick DM, Jung Y, Inouye SK, Boltz M, Leslie DL, Husser EK, Shrestha P, Moore A, Sulmonte K, Siuta J, Boustani M, Ngo LH. Comparative Implementation of a Brief App-Directed Protocol for Delirium Identification by Hospitalists, Nurses, and Nursing Assistants : A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2022 Jan; 175(1):65-73. PMID: 34748377.
Published on 8/19/2021Moore AB, Wing JR, Goiffon RJ, Leaf RK, Tsao L, Misdraji J. Case 25-2021: A 48-Year-Old Man with Fatigue and Leg Swelling. N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 19; 385(8):745-754. PMID: 34407347.