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 Alicia Scott-Wright, MD, MPH, MSDr. Alicia O. Scott-Wright is a physician scientist with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA where she is PI on a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This project addresses the research question: Do racial or ethnic disparities exist with respect to effectiveness of computer-generated reminders? Dr. Scott-Wright, in addition to her full-time research duties, is concurrently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her interest is in translational research informatics aimed at applying informatics technologies: (1) to enhance adoption of best medical practices, (2) to improve clinical outcomes, and (3) to reduce/eliminate health disparities....not just identify racial/ethnic/geographic disparities. Her mentor and research advisor is David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, BWH. Dr. Scott-Wright received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York, a MPH from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and an MSc in Biomedical Informatics from MIT. She completed a four-year fellowship in informatics with DSG. Before coming to DSG, Alicia was an officer in the US Public Health Service where she worked with medically-underserved populations in both rural (Navajo Indian Reservation) and urban (inner-city community health clinics) areas. Alicia is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Public Health. To maintain her clinical skills she volunteers as a clinician in two very different settings: as a primary care physician delivering care to homeless women at the Women’s Lunch Place (one-half day/week) and as an urgent care clinician with the VA Boston Healthcare System in Roxbury (one-half day/week). |