David W. Bates, M.D., M.SC.
Dr.
Bates is Chief, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and
Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partner's Healthcare
Systems. He is an Associate Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School and works in the Division of General
Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he a practicing general
internist. Trained as a clinical epidemiologist, his main interest has been the
use of computer systems to improve patient care. He has done extensive work on evaluating the
incidence and preventability of adverse drug events, or injuries due to drugs.
He
has received a number of awards, including the first John M. Eisenberg Award
for Excellent in Patient Safety Research from the National Quality Forum, the
Henry Christian Award for Excellence in Research from the American Federation
for Clinical Research, the Young Investigator of the Year Award from the
Society for Medical Decision-Making, and the Clinical Investigator of the Year
Award for the Northeast Region from the Society for General Internal Medicine.
Other leadership roles include serving as the
co-Director of the Clinical Effectiveness Program, a joint program between
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health; the
Principle Investigator of the Harvard Center of Excellence in Patient Safety;
the editor-in-chief of JCOM--the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management;
the chair of NAPCI, the National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics, the
chair of a Massachusetts task force on developing best practices for improving
the response to critical laboratory results; and the chair of the Quality and
Safety track for the NHII, the National Health Information Infrastructure.
Dr.
Bates is a graduate of