Principal Investigators

Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA

Dr. Baugh recently completed a 5-year term as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and he is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Baugh researches the clinical and administrative aspects of accelerated diagnostic pathways in the ED, focusing on cardiovascular conditions, cancer emergencies, and observation care. In addition to cardiology and observation medicine, Dr. Baugh’s research interests also include healthcare finance, policy, and quality.

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Peter R. Chai, MD, MS

Dr. Chai is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist. He conducts translational research surrounding the application of ubiquitous technologies to discover and respond to changes in human health at a personal and population level.

His research focuses on social determinants of health, medical toxicology, and mechanisms to improve medication adherence. Dr. Chai’s primary research investigations have been his work in ingestible electronic sensors, robotic health systems, and wastewater-based epidemiology. His work is funded through the National Institutes of Health is currently pioneering the use of digital pills to measure real-time medication ingestion.

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Charlotte Goldfine, MD

Dr. Goldfine is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist. She conducts translational toxicology research focusing on substance use disorders.

Dr. Goldfine has previously worked on studies that assess drug users’ perception of naloxone. She conducts investigations at Brigham and Women’s tertiary-level care facility as well as Faulkner community hospital. She is currently investigating patients; perception of digital health inverventions for alcohol use disorder treatment. Dr. Goldfine’s FDA drug toxico-surveillance study is spearheading a timely investigation of missed opportunities in preventing drug overdose.

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Peter C. Hou, MD

Dr. Hou is a dual board-certified emergency and critical care medicine physician. His clinical and research interests are in sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), COVID-19, and patient care improvement processes for critically ill patients being admitted from the ED to the ICU.

Dr. Hou has contributed to sepsis and ARDS management throughout his career. Dr. Hou’s work on the NIH-sponsored Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock has had significant clinical impacts world-wide. He is currently working with a private sponsor to assess the efficacy of a novel blood culture test which uses whole genome sequencing to produce results in 7-8 hours instead of the typical 1-3 days.

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Dana Im, MD, MPH, MPHIL

Dr. Im is an emergency physician with an academic interest at the intersection of quality improvement and emergency psychiatry. In July 2020, Dr. Im joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the Director of Behavioral Health.

Dr. Im is currently working on providing trauma and bias-informed care to acutely agitated patients in the Emergency Department, defining quality measures specific to emergency care for behavioral health patients, and incorporating patient perspectives into quality improvement initiatives related to behavioral health care in the ED.

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Regan H. Marsh, MD, MPH

Dr. Marsh is an emergency medicine physician and a leader in global health and health equity. She conducts public health and health equity research at our main campus and Faulkner community hospitals.

Dr. Marsh’s primary research investigation is an NIH-sponsored study that is evaluating the best approach to connect patients to social and dental resources. Dr. Marsh’s research and programmatic interests are in health systems strengthening after emergenceis, the development of emergency medicine services in resource-poor countries, and structural approaches to address inequities in healthcare delivery.

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Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH

Dr. Ouchi, MD, MPH is a practicing emergency physician and a home hospital physician engaged in clinically oriented research. As a physician board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, Dr. Ouchi sees a gap in the quality of end-of-life care for seriously ill older adults and their goals.

The Emergency Medicine specialty is already experiencing a shift from providing only acute, disease-oriented care to include patient-centered, goal-concordant care (e.g., end-of-life care), yet lacks scientific evidence to implement effective goal-concordant care for seriously ill older adults. Dr. Ouchi’s research aims to leverage the ED visit as a sentinel moment to formulate goals for medical care in seriously ill older adults. Dr. Ouchi envisions a future where our specialty will embrace the principles of geriatrics and palliative medicine to provide end-of-life care concordant with patients’ goals.

For his academic work, Dr. Ouchi has received numerous awards, including the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging from the National Institute on Aging, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Sojourns Scholars Leadership Award from the Cambia Health Foundation.

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Scott G. Weiner, MD, MPH

Dr. Weiner is the McGraw Distinguished Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Weiner is board-certified in emergency medicine and addiction medicine. Dr. Weiner is an active researcher, including working on multiple grant-funded projects that focus on safe opioid prescribing, and prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.

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Research Director

Guruprasad Jambaulikar, MBBS, MPH

Dr. Jambaulikar is the BWH EM’s Director of Research. He earned his medical diploma from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in India. He has an MPH from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Epidemiology and Biostatistics). He also completed a fellowship in cancer epidemiology (comparative effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening modalities) from University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA and the University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Jambaulikar’s research interests are screening and population health, telemedicine, and the role of technology in healthcare, and health disparities.

Our Research Team

M Adrian Hasdianda, MD, MMSc

Senior Research Manager

Nikita Umale, MBBS, MPH

Research Assistant III

William Keay

Grant Administrator

Mark Fallon

Grant Administrator

McAllister Bianchi

Research Assistant II

Harvard University, BA

Research Interests: social determinants of health, addiction medicine, medical device trials

Samuel Caplan

Research Assistant II

Cornell University, BS

Research Interests: Identity-based care disparities, trauma, innovative device trials

Lucy Kiernat

Research Assistant II

Hamilton College, BA

Research Interests: public health, healthcare accessibility

Saaya Morton

Research Assistant II

Emory University, BA, BS

Research Interests: global health, epidemiology

Youkie Shiozawa

Research Assistant II

Brown University, BA, MPH

Research Interests: patient/physician communication, chronic diseases, nutrition

Eugenia Lee

Research Assistant I

Columbia University, BA

Research Interests: microbiology, social determinants of health

Isabella Nazario

Research Assistant I

Providence College, BA

Research Interests: cancer research, women’s health, public health

Michael Calixto

Research Assistant I

Brown University, BS

Research Interests: patient/physician communication, chronic diseases, nutrition

Dhruv Nimbalkar

Research Assistant II

SMIMER, MBBS; BUSPH, MPH

Research Interests: infectious diseases, global health, oncology

Samuel Ross

Research Assistant I

Miami University, BA

Research Interests: global health, genetics, and cancer research

Noah Sharbani

Research Coop

Northeastern University

Research Interests: oncology, medical devices, patient care

Sophia Cvrk

Research Coop

Northeastern University

Research Interests: POCUS, maternal health disparities, emergency airways management

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