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    Lou Hart, MD

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    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine)
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    Medical Director of Health Equity, Yale New Haven Health System

    Contact Info

    lou.hart@yale.edu
    475.837.1246

    Pediatric Hospitalist Program

    430 Congress Ave

    New Haven, CT 06510

    United States

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    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine)

    Medical Director of Health Equity, Yale New Haven Health System

    Biography

    Lou Hart, MD, hospitalist, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine, and system medical director of health equity for Yale New Haven Health is on a mission. His goal is to improve the American health care system.

    In his role at Yale New Haven Health, Dr. Hart leads efforts to improve the equity, quality & safety of care by highlighting and eliminating costly, unwanted and unnecessary variations in clinical operations and management. Unjust and pervasive variabilities in care and coordination harm the health and prosperity of all Americans.

    Dr. Hart studied financial economics, medicine health & society, and philosophy while at Vanderbilt University. He attended medical school at the University of California-San Diego and completed his residency training in Pediatrics at NYU. He was an inaugural Clinical Leadership Fellow in Quality & Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals and is now a Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow & EMBA ’25 candidate at the Yale School of Management.

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    Education & Training

    MBA
    Yale School of Management
    Emerging Leaders Program
    Yale School of Management
    Clinical Leadership Fellow
    NYC Health + Hospitals
    Residency
    New York University, Pediatrics
    MD
    University of California, San Diego, Doctor of Medicine
    BA
    Vanderbilt University, Medicine, Health & Society / Philosophy / Financial Economics
    International Business & Economics Certificate
    University of Copenhagen

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Lou Hart's published research.

    Publications

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven

      Advisory BoardsBoard of Directors
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      Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

      Professional OrganizationsFaculty Member
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      Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) Pride Health Network

      CommitteesFounder
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      YNHHS Ending Racial Biology in Medicine Taskforce

      CommitteesDirector
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      Stratford Walk & Talk with a Doc Community Health Series

      Public ServiceVolunteer
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    Clinical Care

    Overview

    Lou Hart, MD, is a pediatric hospitalist, which means he cares for hospitalized children.

    “It’s a fast-paced environment and I love building relationships with kids and families,” Dr. Hart says. “What’s so great about young people is their strength and courage in times of despair. A child’s emotions can swing from so scared to so happy in the blink of an eye, which speaks to their resiliency.”

    When he was 10, Dr. Hart wrote a note to his mother telling her that he planned to become a pediatrician when he grew up.

    “My grandmother was a registered nurse in the traumatic brain injury and burn units at our public hospital for over 26 years. I remember her teaching me about things like hemophilia in her textbooks, and it fascinated me and sparked my life long curiosity about medicine,” he says. “And then when my father died during my senior year of college of a preventable illness, it shook me to the core and regrouped my focus to dedicate myself to a career in medicine to end this type of human suffering.”

    At the time, Dr. Hart had been studying financial economics and philosophy, two areas that now serve him well in his position as medical director of health equity for Yale New Haven Health System. His mission in this inaugural role is to acknowledge and eliminate institutional bias, structural racial inequity, and unjust social barriers that all drive devastating health disparities for patients and communities.

    “It’s a data-informed approach to normalize the idea of health equity being a fundamental pillar of quality and safety systems in healthcare,” he explains. “Inequities are unwanted variations in care processes and outcomes for our patients, and they need to be addressed and eliminated from our system. It’s about collecting patient social identity data and using an equity lens to root out any unjust disparities that exist in our collective measures of access to care, patient experience, quality and safety outcomes, and community engagement.”

    When it comes to his one-on-one time with patients and families, Dr. Hart says he lets his natural curiosity, kindness, and empathy lead the way.

    “I tell all my patients and families that I will serve them with respect, integrity, and accountability throughout our journey together. I remind them that it is my responsibility to build trust in our relationship and my distinct privilege and pleasure to be able to serve them and advocate on their behalf,” Dr. Hart says. “Ultimately, I treat all my patients how they want to be treated, and not simply how I might want to be treated.”

    Clinical Specialties

    Pediatrics

    Board Certifications

    • Pediatrics

      Certification Organization
      AB of Pediatrics
      Original Certification Date
      2019

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    Pediatric Hospitalist Program

    430 Congress Ave

    New Haven, CT 06510

    United States