Laura A. Petersen, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Director
Ad Interim Chief, Health Policy and Quality Program
Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas
Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief
Section of Health Services Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, VA Center of Inquiry to Improve Outpatient Safety through Effective Electronic Communication
E-mail: laura.petersen@.va.gov
Research Interests
- Assessment of the influence of the organization and financing of health care services (structure) upon the quality (process and outcome) of health care
- Assessment of the causes of variation in physician decision making, procedure utilization, and test utilization
- Application of clinical epidemiology methods to quality of care research, particularly iatrogenic disease
- Application of systems analysis methods to health services research
Education
- St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K., Undergraduate Honours Program
- University of California, Davis, California, B.S. with Honors
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, M.D.
- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, M.P.H.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Residency in Medicine
- West Roxbury Division, Brockton/West Roxbury VA Medical Center, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Chief Medical Resident
- Harvard Medical School Faculty Development Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Awards and Activities
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, 2005
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award, 2002
- Society of General Internal Medicine, Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year, 2001