Karen E. Lasser MD, MPH
Professor, General Internal Medicine
Professor, Community Health Sciences
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-6688karen.lasser@bmc.org
klasser@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Centers
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Biography
Dr. Lasser is a primary care internist, certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a health services researcher. She is a Senior Editor at JAMA.
Her primary areas of expertise and research are quality of care, interventions to reduce health disparities, health policy, smoking cessation, and primary care practice-based research.
She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications, was the former Director of Ambulatory Quality Improvement for the Department of Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, and has held several quality leadership roles at Boston Medical Center. Her research has been supported by NIDA, NHLBI, AHRQ, CDC, and the American Cancer Society.
Other Positions
Education
Medicine, MD, Cornell University Medical College
Clinical Evaluation/Research, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
History, AB, Harvard University
Publications
Law AC, Bosch NA, Song Y, Tale A, Lasser KE, Walkey AJ. In-Hospital vs 30-Day Sepsis Mortality at US Safety-Net and Non-Safety-Net Hospitals. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 01; 7(5):e2412873. PMID: 38819826.
Published on 4/5/2024Andriola 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.
Published on 2/10/2024Cole MB, Strackman BW, Lasser KE, Lin MY, Paasche-Orlow MK, Hanchate AD. Medicaid Expansion and Preventable Emergency Department Use by Race/Ethnicity. Am J Prev Med. 2024 Jun; 66(6):989-998. PMID: 38342480.
Published on 1/16/2024Taylor JL, Lasser KE. Intranasal Naloxone for Opioid Overdose. JAMA. 2024 Jan 16; 331(3):250-251. PMID: 38127361.
Published on 1/3/2024Rose SW, Strackman BW, Gilbert ON, Lasser KE, Paasche-Orlow MK, Lin MY, Saylor G, Hanchate AD. Disparities by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity in Use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Heart Transplants Among Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Jan 16; 13(2):e031021. PMID: 38166429.
Published on 11/18/2023Liebschutz JM, Subramaniam GA, Stone R, Appleton N, Gelberg L, Lovejoy TI, Bunting AM, Cleland CM, Lasser KE, Beers D, Abrams C, McCormack J, Potter GE, Case A, Revoredo L, Jelstrom EM, Kline MM, Wu LT, McNeely J. Subthreshold opioid use disorder prevention (STOP) trial: a cluster randomized clinical trial: study design and methods. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2023 Nov 18; 18(1):70. PMID: 37980494.
Published on 8/10/2023Hanchate AD, Abdelfattah L, Lin MY, Lasser KE, Paasche-Orlow MK. Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion was Associated With Reductions in the Proportion of Hospitalizations That are Potentially Preventable Among Hispanic and White Adults. Med Care. 2023 Oct 01; 61(10):627-635. PMID: 37582292.
Published on 8/4/2023Borden CG, Ashe EM, Buitron de la Vega P, Gast V, Saint-Phard T, Brody-Fialkin J, Power J, Wang N, Lasser KE. A novel pharmacy liaison program to address health-related social needs at an urban safety-net hospital. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2023 Aug 04; 80(16):1071-1081. PMID: 37210728.
Published on 7/29/2023Stulac SN, Costello E, Baker J, Elansary M, Reed K, Lasser KE. High Engagement in Care in a Pediatric Medical Home for Children Impacted By Parental Substance Use. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2024 Jun; 63(6):769-773. PMID: 37515533.
Published on 5/29/2023Shusterman S, Villarreal-Calderon R, Gunawan A, Gallardo Foreman A, O'Donnell C, Wakeman C, Javeed H, Keteyian J, Howard J, Bulekova K, de Silva S, Campbell T, Lasser K, Kathuria H. A Financial Incentives Program to Promote Smoking Cessation Among Recently Hospitalized Individuals: Feasibility and Acceptability Study. JMIR Form Res. 2023 May 29; 7:e44979. PMID: 37247216.
Media Mentions
Published on 7/15/2021
Medicaid Expansion Did Not Decrease Racial Segregation in U.S. Hospitals
Published on 7/6/2021
Is Implicit Bias Harming Hospital Integration, Health Equity Efforts?
Published on 7/1/2021
Study: Medicaid expansion didn't lead to changes in hospitalizations in safety-net facilities
Published on 5/3/2021
Reddit support groups are a safety net for the laid-off and uninsured
Published on 2/26/2020
How Accurate Are Social Determinants of Health Screenings?
Published on 2/25/2020
Hospitals May Be Missing This Social Determinant of Health, Study Suggests
Published on 2/24/2020
Published on 2/20/2020
Clinic-Based Screening Tools Don’t Capture Full Scope of Utilities Insecurity
Published on 2/11/2019
Charles River, Medical Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
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