Heather E. Hsu, MD, MPH Hear my name
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pediatrics

MD, Harvard Medical School
MPH, University of Pittsburgh
AB, Brown University

Pronouns: she/her/hers



Heather Hsu, MD, MPH is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She has an undergraduate degree in Gender Studies from Brown University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MPH from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Hsu's research interests center around the impact of value-based care environments on health equity and the financial well-being of the healthcare safety-net, particularly in the areas of infectious diseases and substance use. She also serves as the Scientific Director of Boston Medical Center's Clinical Data Warehouse for Research (https://www.bmc.org/research/clinical-data-warehouse-cdw).

Within the Department of Pediatrics and Boston Combined Residency Program, Dr. Hsu is a founder and lead faculty mentor for Health Equity Rounds, a solutions-oriented, resident-led, case-based conference series focused on illuminating and eliminating the impact of racism, bias, and other intersectional forms of systemic oppression on health and healthcare (https://www.bmc.org/health-equity-rounds).



Improving value-based healthcare delivery for opioid use disorder
07/01/2021 - 06/30/2026 (PI)
National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH
1K01DA054328-01

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Fund to Retain Clinician Scientists
04/01/2022 - 10/14/2023 (Subcontract PI)
PI: Heather E. Hsu, MD, MPH
Trustees of Boston University, BUMC Doris Duke Fdn

Preventing Avoidable Infectious Complications by Adjusting Payments (PAICAP) II
09/30/2018 - 06/30/2019 (PI)
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) DHHS


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  1. Nash KA, Perdomo J, Hsu HE. Health Equity Rounds - Root-Cause and Solutions-Oriented Discussions of Medical Racism. N Engl J Med. 2024 Nov 14; 391(19):1763-1765. PMID: 39530418
     
  2. Hao B, Hu Y, Adams WG, Assoumou SA, Hsu HE, Bhadelia N, Paschalidis IC. A GPT-based EHR modeling system for unsupervised novel disease detection. J Biomed Inform. 2024 Sep; 157:104706.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39121932
     
  3. Khazanchi R, Wachman EM, Schiff DM, Modest A, Saia KA, Hsu HE. Mandatory Child Protective Services Reporting for Substance-Exposed Newborns and Peripartum Outcomes: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Jul 01; 178(7):719-722.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38709513; PMCID: PMC11074925; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0903;
     
  4. Andriola 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38639980; PMCID: PMC11065160; DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0625;
     
  5. Xie W, Hsu HE, Shafer PR, Podolsky MI, Stokes AC. Metabolic Disease and The Risk of Post-COVID Conditions: A Retrospective Cohort Study. medRxiv. 2024 Mar 27.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38585713; PMCID: PMC10996723; DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.26.24304845;
     
  6. Christine PJ, Lodi S, Hsu HE, Bovell-Ammon B, Yan S, Bernson D, Novo P, Lee JD, Rotrosen J, Liebschutz J, Walley AY, Larochelle MR. Target trial emulation for comparative effectiveness research with observational data: Promise and challenges for studying medications for opioid use disorder. Addiction. 2024 Jul; 119(7):1313-1321.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38519819; PMCID: PMC11156545; DOI: 10.1111/add.16473;
     
  7. Wang RY, Anand NS, Douglas KE, Gregory JC, Lu N, Pottorff AE, Hsu HE. Formula for a Crisis: Systemic Inequities Highlighted by the US Infant Formula Shortage. Pediatrics. 2024 Jan 01; 153(2). PMID: 38196392; PMCID: PMC10827642; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-061910;
     
  8. Egan KA, Xuan Z, Hofman M, Ma Shum J, Fernández-Pastrana I, Fiechtner L, Sandel M, Buitron de la Vega P, Kistin CJ, Hsu H. Food Pantry Referral and Utilization in a Pediatric Primary Care Clinic. Am J Prev Med. 2024 Mar; 66(3):444-453.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37813171; PMCID: PMC10922354; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2023.10.006;
     
  9. Karim SA, DeCelle MG, Hale AE, Spencer DJ, Zhang YJ, Hsu HE, Ballal SA. Implementing Health Equity Huddles in Pediatric Gastroenterology Inpatient Education. Acad Pediatr. 2023; 23(8):1520-1521. PMID: 37301283
     
  10. Pandey A, Eastman D, Hsu H, Kerrissey MJ, Rosenthal MB, Chien AT. Value-Based Purchasing Design And Effect: A Systematic Review And Analysis. Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 Jun; 42(6):813-821. PMID: 37276480; PMCID: PMC11026120; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.01455;
     
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In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

Health Equity
Public Policy
Health Care Value
Infection Control
Payment policy
Substance Use Disorders

I am the lead faculty mentor for Boston Medical Center's Health Equity Rounds program, a case-based, solutions-oriented grand rounds conference series that aims to understand and mitigate the impacts of structural racism and other forms of intersectional systemic oppression on health and healthcare. I mentor approximately 25 pediatric residents in the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics in the development of this conference series annually. I have also mentored faculty and trainees at approximately 60 other institutions in Health Equity Rounds program implementation.

My research expertise is health services research and epidemiology, with a focus on the impact of value-based care on health and healthcare equity. I have successfully mentored medical students, residents, and fellows in the development and publication of research projects and the development, implementation, and publication of medical education curricula.

In mentoring, I view my role as facilitating individuals’ personal and professional growth/advancement in a manner aligned with their values and goals.

Available to Mentor as: (Review Mentor Role Definitions):
  • Advisor
  • Co-Mentor or Peer Mentor
  • Education Mentor
  • Project Mentor
  • Research / Scholarly Mentor
Contact for Mentoring:
  • Email (see 'Contact Info')
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