Ambulatory Patient Safety and Quality Improvement w/Dr. Sonali Desai, M.D.

Dr. Desai is an Associate Physician in the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In addition to her patient care and educational duties, she serves as Associate Chief Quality Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She has served on national advisory committees with the National Quality Forum and serves as Deputy Editor for the International Journal for Quality In Healthcare – an Oxford University Press peer-reviewed publication.

Dr. Desai’s accolades include the Donabedian award for Quality and Safety in 2019 from the American Public Health Association, for her work in reducing diagnostic error through the ambulatory safety net programs. This work has been presented at several national conferences including the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Society for Diagnosis in Medicine and Vizient.

Dr. Desai is also and served as a Program Director (2015-2017) for an innovative global education, blended learning course titled Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership at HMS. She is a native of Massachusetts and attended both college and medical school at Brown University in Rhode Island. She completed her internal medicine residency and Chief residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, her rheumatology fellowship at BWH, and her Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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