Lipika
Samal
MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital
Lipika Samal completed an NIH-funded fellowship and a Masters of Public Health at Johns Hopkins with additional coursework in a National Library of Medicine-funded training program in Biomedical Informatics.
During her fellowship she assisted colleagues with numerous articles about the use of health information technology (HIT) by patients including: 1) a survey of women visiting the Baltimore city sexually transmitted infections clinic, 2) a survey of HIV patients, 3) a survey of diabetes patients, and 4) a federally funded systematic review of the literature about consumer health informatics.
After fellowship, she joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) as a clinician investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine. In keeping with the reason that she came to BWH, she sought to study the impact of HIT on quality of care. She examined the relationship between HIT use and racial/ethnic disparities was published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Another article in the same journal examined the lack of association between Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical quality measures.
As her research interests have become more focused, she has begun to study the impact of HIT on chronic kidney disease (CKD). She has been awarded a K23 award by the NIDDK to develop and test an HIT tool which calculates risk of progression to end stage renal disease and prompts referral from primary care to specialist care. As PI or co-Investigator on several NIH-funded grants, she has laid the groundwork for the proposed research by 1) developing a software application that can calculate the 5-year risk of developing kidney failure using clinical data, 2) validating the clinical data extracted from electronic health records, 3) becoming an expert in automated data extraction from EHRs, and 4) performing qualitative research to improve the acceptance of the tool in routine primary care.
During her fellowship she assisted colleagues with numerous articles about the use of health information technology (HIT) by patients including: 1) a survey of women visiting the Baltimore city sexually transmitted infections clinic, 2) a survey of HIV patients, 3) a survey of diabetes patients, and 4) a federally funded systematic review of the literature about consumer health informatics.
After fellowship, she joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) as a clinician investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine. In keeping with the reason that she came to BWH, she sought to study the impact of HIT on quality of care. She examined the relationship between HIT use and racial/ethnic disparities was published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Another article in the same journal examined the lack of association between Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical quality measures.
As her research interests have become more focused, she has begun to study the impact of HIT on chronic kidney disease (CKD). She has been awarded a K23 award by the NIDDK to develop and test an HIT tool which calculates risk of progression to end stage renal disease and prompts referral from primary care to specialist care. As PI or co-Investigator on several NIH-funded grants, she has laid the groundwork for the proposed research by 1) developing a software application that can calculate the 5-year risk of developing kidney failure using clinical data, 2) validating the clinical data extracted from electronic health records, 3) becoming an expert in automated data extraction from EHRs, and 4) performing qualitative research to improve the acceptance of the tool in routine primary care.