CHI Seminar - Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH, MBA

Center for Health-System Improvement (CHI) "Works-in-Progress Seminar"

Tuesday March 5, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Attendance: Jennie Sealy 2.506B or Zoom
Presenter: Dr. Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH, MBA

“Working at the interface of population health and learning health systems science to improve the care of vulnerable adults”

Bio: Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH, MBA is a tenured Professor Medicine, the inaugural Vice Chancellor for Population Health at Rutgers Health, and the Henry Rutgers Professor for Population Health Innovation. In this role, he aims to advance Population Health initiatives in research, education, and clinical care across the Rutgers schools of medicine, public health, nursing, pharmacy, health professions, dentistry, and graduate studies, and our affiliated clinical partners. He is also the Deputy Chief Population Health Officer for the RWJBarnabas Health System, a 12 hospital regional healthcare network that is the leading academic health system in NJ. He is an experienced clinical and scientific leader, researcher, and mentor. Dr. Halm has 26 years of experience conducting federally funded outcomes, health services, comparative effectiveness, applied informatics, and population health research and has over 258 peer-reviewed publications. He has been a PI/MPI on over $26 million in grants from NIH, AHRQ, and national and state foundations and agencies. His research focuses on: 1) improving cancer screening and chronic disease management; 2) understanding the patient, provider, system, and community factors that influence the quality, outcomes, and equity of care; and, 3) implementing interventions to improve population health and health equity, and 4) developing clinical prediction models and population health analytics using electronic health record data.

Dr. Halm received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, and M.P.H. from Harvard University. Following an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, he completed a general internal medicine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also has a M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business.