Nicholas J Cordella MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-7399ncordell@bu.edu
nick.cordella@bmc.org

Sections
General Internal 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).
Education
Medicine, MD, Boston University School of Medicine
Publications
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.
Published on 10/25/2024Wu R, Foster E, Zhang Q, Eynatian T, Mishuris RG, Cordella N. Iterative Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Enhance Naloxone Co-Prescribing. Appl Clin Inform. 2024 Oct 25. PMID: 39454643.
Published on 5/25/2024Cordella 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.
Published on 2/9/2024Kearney 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.
Published on 3/1/2023Hu 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.
Published on 9/16/2020Bala 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.
Published on 12/16/2019Walkey 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.
Published on 8/22/2018Cordella 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.
Published on 5/1/2018Walkey 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.
Published on 11/1/2016Garg A, Toy S, Tripodis Y, Cook J, Cordella N. Ameliorating Maternal Depression and Its Harmful Consequences for Low-Income Families: Primary Care to the Rescue? Acad Pediatr. 2016 Nov - Dec; 16(8):714-715. PMID: 27772696.
Media Mentions
Published on 6/9/2023
ML Provides Personalized Hypertension Treatment Recommendations
Published on 6/6/2023
New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension
Published on 10/26/2018
How EMR Interventions Helped Boston Medical Center Cut Unneeded Testing
Published on 10/22/2018
Boston Medical Center Trims Unneeded Tests With EHR-Based Prompts
Published on 10/19/2018
Study: EMR Interventions Help in Providing High-Value Medical Care
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