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Lauren Doctoroff, MD Hospitalist Medical Director, PACT Transitional Care Program Medical Director of Utilization Management, BIDMC Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

About the Speaker:

Dr. Lauren Doctoroff is a hospitalist and the medical director for utilization management and the PACT transitional care program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical Shool.

She completed medical school at the University of California at San Francisco in 2003, and a primary care internal medicine internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2006.

Her clinical responsibilities include hospitalist work on a teaching and a non-teaching service at the BIDMC. In addition, she was the founding medical director of the Healthcare Associates Post Discharge Clinic, a hospitalist-staffed, primary care-based post hospitalization clinic from 2009-2015. She also serves as the medical director of the PACT Transitional Care Program. She serves as the Medical Director for Utilization Management for the BIDMC, and chairs the Utilization Review Committee, and leads multiple initiatives on hospital utilization and complex patient management. She is a fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine and serves on the SHM Public Policy Committee.

She is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Her academic interests include transitions in care and post discharge care, and prolonged hospitalizations. She has published on post discharge care and prolonged hospitalizations and has spoken locally and nationally on topics of transitions of care and post discharge care.