Varsha Vimalananda, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Dept of Medicine
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition

MD, Drexel University College of Medicine
MPH, University of California, Berkeley



Bedford VA - Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hosp



2017-2022 VA Health Services Research & Development: Career Development Award - Measuring and Improving Specialty Care Coordination in VA
2014-2016 Veterans Affairs: VISN 1 Career Development Award
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  1. Afable MK, Gupte G, Simon SR, Shanahan J, Vimalananda V, Kim EJ, Strymish J, Orlander JD. Innovative Use Of Electronic Consultations In Preoperative Anesthesiology Evaluation At VA Medical Centers In New England. Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 Feb; 37(2):275-282.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29401018.
     
  2. Chen J, Druhl E, Polepalli Ramesh B, Houston TK, Brandt CA, Zulman DM, Vimalananda VG, Malkani S, Yu H. A Natural Language Processing System That Links Medical Terms in Electronic Health Record Notes to Lay Definitions: System Development Using Physician Reviews. J Med Internet Res. 2018 Jan 22; 20(1):e26. PMID: 29358159.
     
  3. Vimalananda VG, Dvorin K, Fincke BG, Tardiff N, Bokhour BG. Patient, Primary Care Provider, and Specialist Perspectives on Specialty Care Coordination in an Integrated Health Care System. J Ambul Care Manage. 2018 Jan/Mar; 41(1):15-24.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29176459.
     
  4. Horný M, Glover W, Gupte G, Saraswat A, Vimalananda V, Rosenzweig J. Patient navigation to improve diabetes outpatient care at a safety-net hospital: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 Nov 21; 17(1):759. PMID: 29162073.
     
  5. Vimalananda VG, DeSotto K, Chen T, Mullakary J, Schlosser J, Archambeault C, Peck J, Cassidy H, Conlin PR, Evans S, McConnell M, Shirley E. A Quality Improvement Program to Reduce Potential Overtreatment of Diabetes Among Veterans at High Risk of Hypoglycemia. Diabetes Spectr. 2017 Aug; 30(3):211-216. PMID: 28848316.
     
  6. Strymish J, Gupte G, Afable MK, Gupta K, Kim EJ, Vimalananda V, Simon SR, Orlander JD. Electronic Consultations (E-consults): Advancing Infectious Disease Care in a Large Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Apr 15; 64(8):1123-1125.View Related Profiles. PMID: 28158475; DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix058;.
     
  7. Vimalananda V, Damschroder L, Janney CA, Goodrich D, Kim HM, Holleman R, Gillon L, Lutes L. Weight loss among women and men in the ASPIRE-VA behavioral weight loss intervention trial. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Sep; 24(9):1884-91. PMID: 27488278; DOI: 10.1002/oby.21574;.
     
  8. Gupte G, Vimalananda V, Simon SR, DeVito K, Clark J, Orlander JD. Disruptive Innovation: Implementation of Electronic Consultations in a Veterans Affairs Health Care System. JMIR Med Inform. 2016; 4(1):e6.View Related Profiles. PMID: 26872820; DOI: 10.2196/medinform.4801;.
     
  9. Vimalananda VG, Gupte G, Seraj SM, Orlander J, Berlowitz D, Fincke BG, Simon SR. Electronic consultations (e-consults) to improve access to specialty care: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. J Telemed Telecare. 2015 Sep; 21(6):323-30.View Related Profiles. PMID: 25995331; PMCID: PMC4561452; DOI: 10.1177/1357633X15582108;.
     
  10. Vimalananda VG, Ruiz-Narváez EA. Response to Comment on Vimalananda et al. Depressive symptoms, antidepressant use, and the incidence of diabetes in the Black Women''s Health Study. Diabetes Care 2014;37:2211-2217. Diabetes Care. 2015 Feb; 38(2):e24.View Related Profiles. PMID: 25614697; DOI: 10.2337/dc14-2409;.
     
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In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

Care Coordination
Health Services Research
Survey Methods
Veterans Health
Quality of Health Care
Electronic Consultations (e-consults)
Telehealth
Health Communication
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