Platt Named Chair of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
Harvard Focus, August 29, 2003
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HMS dean Joseph Martin has announced the appointment of Richard Platt as chair of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. Platt, HMS professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, had been acting head of the department. He is a distinguished scholar of population-based medicine, an outstanding teacher and mentor, and an accomplished internist and infectious disease clinician. Platt chairs the executive committee of the HMO Research Network and is a member of the board of scientific counselors of the CDC's Center for Infectious Diseases, the Association of American Medical Colleges' advisory panel on research, and the national steering committee for the Centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is the former chair of the NIH study section, Epidemiology and Disease Control 2, and former chair of the CDC Office of Health Care Partnerships' steering committee. His research focuses on improving population health, principally through health plans' providers and data, and through health plans' ability to communicate with their members. Examples include the use of automated record linkage systems to improve the safety and assess the effectiveness of prescription drugs and for detection and control of both hospital and company-acquired infections. |