Nicholas J Cordella MD, MSc

Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine

801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-7399
ncordell@bu.edu
nick.cordella@bmc.org

Sections

General Internal Medicine

Biography

Nicholas Cordella, MD, MSc, is a physician executive focused on quality, patient safety, and healthcare delivery improvement. As Associate Chief Quality Officer for the Boston Medical Center Health System (BMCHS), he leads large-scale quality improvement initiatives across the institution and helps set the system's quality vision and strategy.

Dr. Cordella is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Trained in health services research, he uses quasi-experimental methods to evaluate quality outcomes and to build toward a learning health system. His work applies advanced analytics and emerging digital tools to make care safer and more effective for patients.

Dr. Cordella serves on the Physician Council of Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) and on the Clinical Issues Advisory Council (CIAC) of the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association.

Websites

BU Profile

Boston Medical Center Provider Profile

ResearchGate

Education

Medicine, MD, Boston University School of Medicine

Publications

Published on 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.

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Published on 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.

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Published on 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 on 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 on 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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Published on 3/1/2023

Hu Y, Huerta J, Cordella N, Mishuris RG, Paschalidis IC. Personalized hypertension treatment recommendations by a data-driven model. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2023 Mar 01; 23(1):44. PMID: 36859187.

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Published on 9/16/2020

Bala W, Steinkamp J, Feeney T, Gupta A, Sharma A, Kantrowitz J, Cordella N, Moses J, Drake FT. A Web Application for Adrenal Incidentaloma Identification, Tracking, and Management Using Machine Learning. Appl Clin Inform. 2020 08; 11(4):606-616. PMID: 32937677.

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Published on 12/16/2019

Walkey AJ, Bor J, Cordella NJ. Novel tools for a learning health system: a combined difference-in-difference/regression discontinuity approach to evaluate effectiveness of a readmission reduction initiative. BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 02; 29(2):161-167. PMID: 31843880.

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Published on 8/22/2018

Cordella N, Trinquart L, Hochberg S, Jacobson BC, Mishuris RG. Effect of a Hospitalwide Quality Improvement Initiative to Promote High-Value Care. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2018 10; 44(10):623-625. PMID: 30143446.

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Published on 5/1/2018

Walkey AJ, Drainoni ML, Cordella N, Bor J. Advancing Quality Improvement with Regression Discontinuity Designs. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 05; 15(5):523-529. PMID: 29466673.

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