BMC’s Yawkey building doors are now closed as an entrance as part of our ongoing efforts to enhance our campus and provide you with the best clinical care.

All patients and visitors on our main campus must enter our hospital via Shapiro, Menino, or Moakley buildings, where they will be greeted by team members at a new centralized check-in desk before continuing to the hospital. We are excited to welcome you and appreciate your patience as we improve our facilities.

Asthma Research

The Pediatric asthma program aims to deliver systematic, evidence-based high quality asthma care to children in the BMC Pediatric Primary Care practice through a lens of health equity. The research arm of the Pediatric asthma program includes retrospective and prospective evaluations of service delivery and implementation as well as asthma health outcomes for patients in the practice.

Contact

Robyn Cohen, MD, MPH: Robyn.Cohen@bmc.org

Rachel Sagor, MD: Rachel.Sagor@bmc.org

Investigators

Robyn Cohen, MD, MPH

Rachel Sagor, MD

Giovannie Bejin, NP

Michelle Stransky, PhD

Research projects

  1. Studying the impact of a comprehensive primary care asthma QI initiative on health care outcomes for children with asthma
  2. The Acute Asthma Pathway: studying the implementation and outcomes of an acute asthma exacerbation clinical pathway designed for the primary care setting
  3. SMART Therapy: A Path To Health Equity for Children with Asthma: studying the implementation of guideline-preferred SMART therapy for pediatric patients with persistent asthma in pediatric primary care
  4. Inner-City Asthma Consortium, N01AI90052