Program Leadership
Jeanne-Marie Guise, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Jeanne-Marie Guise is Director of the Center for Learning Health Care Delivery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and Director of Mass EQLHS, a statewide multi-institutional institute of hospitals, community health centers, and safety net clinics dedicated to accelerating research and training the future workforce in equity-focused learning health system science. Prior to serving in these roles, she was Vice Provost for Mentoring and Career Development for Oregon Health & Science University, following which she was Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at Beth Israel Medical Center.
Dr. Guise is also co-founder and Executive Co-chair of the US Cochrane Network, a trusted global leader in medical evidence. She is a physician scientist, with expertise and a proven record in leading large research initiatives, multi-center studies and mentored training programs. Her research aims to improve healthcare delivery, health outcomes, and patient safety in and beyond hospitals. Her research portfolio ranges from large population-based epidemiologic quantitative studies, clinical trials, observational studies, and evidence-based reviews to clinical informatics, qualitative research, applied simulation studies, and artificial intelligence. Dedicated to mentoring, she has led numerous highly-successful institutional research career development mentoring programs.
Dr. Guise received her medical degree from the University of Washington and completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a master’s degree in public health in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina as a National Research Service Award Primary Care Research fellow, and received a healthcare MBA from Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University. Dr Guise is also a graduate of the Executive Leaders in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program.
DAvid W. Bates, MD, Msc
Dr. David Bates is the Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis at Mass General Brigham (MGB), co-Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems (CAIBILS) at MGB, and a Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). In June 2023, he stepped down as Chief of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at BWH after 25 years. Dr. Bates is also a Professor at both Harvard Medical School and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; in addition, he directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at BWH. Previously, he served as Chief Quality Officer and later as Chief Innovation Officer at BWH.
Dr. Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment. He has done work in the areas of equity and moving towards learning healthcare systems. He has served as President of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) and as the Board Chair of both ISQua and the American Medical Informatics Association. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Patient Safety and an advisor to the Leapfrog Group.
Dr. Bates is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has published more than 1,200 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited over 164,000 times; he is among the 400 most cited of all biomedical researchers and is listed as being among the top 250 medical scientists in the world.
steve Bartels, MD
Dr. Stephen Bartels is the inaugural James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health in the Department of Medicine; Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School; and Director of the Mongan Institute at MGH.
Before coming to MGH from Dartmouth in 2018, he was the Herman O. West Professor of Geriatrics, Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and Professor of Health Policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. At Dartmouth he established and directed the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and served as Co-Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s SYNERGY Clinical Translational Science Institute, Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s CDC Health Promotion Research Center, and Principal Investigator for two T32 post-doctoral research training programs.
Dr. Bartels has authored over 365 publications and has mentored over 50 early career investigators. Over the past several decades he has led productive research developing, testing, and implementing interventions focused on complex health conditions and health disparities, co-occurring physical and mental disorders, health care management, health coaching, health promotion interventions for obesity and smoking, aging and geriatrics, automated telehealth and mobile technology, population health science, applied health care delivery science, and implementation science. As a national expert on implementation research, he previously served as Chair for the National Institute of Health Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (DIRH) Study Section and currently oversees the implementation research and training program at the Mongan Institute and serves as Co-PI for the Methods Unit for a NCI P50 “Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity”.