Rainu Kaushal, MD to Give Keynote Address at the 14th Annual Meeting

Rainu Kaushal, MD MPH is a Staff Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Cornell Weill Medical School . She received her M.D. cum laude from Harvard Medical School .  She did her residency training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital, Boston and is double board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. After residency, Dr. Kaushal obtained a M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health during a clinical effectiveness fellowship. 

Dr. Kaushal is an expert in patient safety and information technology. She performed one of the first studies of medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitalized children. She has also been studying the financial implications of medication and medical errors, including the cost effectiveness of specific interventions. Her other interest is information technology. She has performed much work assessing the structure and costs of a national health information network.