Lisa M. Kern, MD, MPH is an expert in quality of care and in interoperable health information technology (health IT). Dr. Kern is an Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also the Deputy Director of the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative (HITEC), an academic collaborative that has been awarded a $5.25 million contract to evaluate New York State’s investment in health IT.
Dr. Kern is a principal investigator on several grants that evaluate the effects of interoperable health IT on quality, cost, patients, providers and policy. Dr. Kern has had a long-standing interest in quality of care in the ambulatory setting, where adoption of health IT has lagged and where rapid changes are underway nationally. Dr. Kern is also evaluating the effects of related interventions, such as implementation of the patient-centered medical home. Dr. Kern has methodological expertise in quality measurement, community-based participatory research, and analysis of large datasets.
Dr. Kern has been honored with the Nanette Laitman Clinical Scholar award in Public Health. Dr. Kern has first-author publications in high-impact journals, including Health Affairs, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. She is an invited speaker at national meetings and has served as a national expert. She has been very active in the Society of General Internal Medicine, most recently serving as a regional president. Dr. Kern has extensively reviewed for several journals and has served on the editorial boards of two journals. As a director of a new fellowship program in quality and medical informatics, Dr. Kern is very involved in training the next generation of clinician-investigators.
Dr. Kern received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and then completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins, where she also earned a master’s degree in Public Health.
