Our team unequivocally embraces inclusiveness and equity. We pledge to continue through our work and actions to shine a light on racial disparities in health access and outcomes, and to identify solutions for positive change. We commit ourselves to being anti-racist, challenging the status-quo and striving for a just world.
Our Team
Brett Carroll, MD
Brett Carroll, MD is the Director of the Section of Vascular Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He directs the BIDMC pulmonary embolism response team, is the medical director of the BIDMC Aortic Center, and director of lymphatic medicine. His research interests include venous thromboembolism, aortic disease, and lymphedema. He utilizes large administrative datasets to evaluate vascular diseases.
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Mabel Chung, MD
Mabel Chung, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and intensivist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is currently a T32 trainee and research fellow at the Smith Center investigating perioperative outcomes in heart failure patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Her clinical area of expertise is in cardiothoracic anesthesia and critical care with a focus on mechanical circulatory support, including ventricular assist devices and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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Kosuke Inoue, MD, PhD
Kosuke Inoue, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Social Epidemiology at Kyoto University, Japan. Since July 2024, he has been working as a visiting scientist at the Smith Center and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He obtained his MD from the University of Tokyo in 2013 and Ph.D. (Epidemiology) from UCLA in 2021 after clinical training as an endocrinologist. His research interest is the application of causal inference methods and machine learning in chronic disease epidemiology. More recently, his research has focused on estimating heterogeneous treatment effects to establish best clinical practice and patient care in future precision medicine and public health. Website:
Darae Ko, MD, MSc
Darae Ko, MD, MSc is Assistant Scientist II at Marcus Institute for Aging Research/Hebrew SeniorLife, BIDMC, Member of Faculty at Harvard Medical School, and practices as a general cardiologist at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Ko is dedicated to generating evidence for and implementation of safe and effective novel cardiovascular therapies in medically complex older adults. She is an expert in geriatric pharmacoepidemiology and leads Medicare Data- Atrial Fibrillation Outcomes Research Program at Marcus Institute.
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Dhaval Kolte, MD, PhD
Dhaval Kolte, MD, PhD is a Structural Interventional Cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kolte’s research focuses on understanding the reasons underlying hospital-level variation in outcomes of transcatheter heart valve interventions and identifying modifiable practices and processes of care associated with improved outcomes. He is also interested in comparative effectiveness of transcatheter heart valve therapies. His clinical area of expertise is in interventional cardiology, with an emphasis in structural heart disease and transcatheter aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve interventions.
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Anica Law, MD, MSc
Anica Law, MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University. She is a pulmonary-critical care physician and a health services researcher with a focus on improving outcomes of critically ill patients. Her research leverages large clinical and administrative databases to characterize the effects of external (e.g. legislation), internal (e.g. hospital and provider), and patient drivers on practice patterns, as well as to determine how practice pattern variations affect long-term outcomes of the critically ill.
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Azariah Boyd
Zimetbaum Fellow, Health Policy and Equity Section
Katerina Dangas, BMBCh
Research Fellow
David Feldman, MD, MPH
Research Fellow
Enrico Ferro, MD
Research Fellow
Research Interest(s): Intersection of clinical outcomes and health policy, cardiovascular disease and care
Jingyi Gong, MD
Research Fellow
Daniel Johnson, BA
Sarnoff Fellow
Joseph Kim, MD
Research Fellow
Research Interest(s): Clinical trial design and cardiovascular outcomes research
Christina Lalani, MD
Research Fellow
Michael Liu, MPhil
Research Student
Research Interest(s): Access to care and quality of care within safety-net hospitals and disadvantaged communities
Lucas Marinacci, MD
Research Fellow
Research Interest(s): Impact of healthcare interventions and state policy on neighborhood level cardiovascular care delivery, outcomes, and disparities
Frank Medina, BA
Sarnoff Fellow
Stephen Mein, MD
Research Fellow
Research Interest(s): Health equity in cardiopulmonary conditions
Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD
Research Fellow
Research Interest(s): Effects of federal health policy on cardiovascular care outcomes and health disparities
Nicholas Spetko, MD
Research Fellow
