Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Policy Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To read our full Nondiscrimination Statement, click here.

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