Harlan M. Krumholz, MD

Dr. Harlan Krumholz is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and an SM in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He did his training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and in cardiology at Beth Israel in Boston. He serves as Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale and Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).

Dr. Krumholz’s research is focused on determining optimal clinical strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement in the prevention, treatment and outcome of cardiovascular disease with emphasis on under-represented populations. Using methods of clinical epidemiology and health services research, he has sought to illuminate the balance of risks, benefits and costs of specific clinical approaches. The research efforts are intended to provide critical information to improve the quality of health care, monitor changes over time, and guide decisions about the allocation of scarce resources.

Dr. Krumholz is currently leading initiatives through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop national measures for public reporting of hospital performance. In an effort to investigate ways that hospitals can improve outcomes through decreasing door-to-balloon times, he initiated and chaired the steering committee of D2B: An Alliance for Quality, an international campaign launched by the American College of Cardiology to implement key evidence-based strategies to achieve guideline recommended door-to-balloon times. He also serves as Principal Investigator on two multi-center projects sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: the VIRGO study, an investigation of issues surrounding the care and outcomes of young women with acute myocardial infarction; and a study examining the effect of a telemonitoring strategy on the outcomes of patients with heart failure.

Dr. Krumholz is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Institute of Medicine. He is also the author of the book The Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease.