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Lou Hart, MD

he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine); Medical Director of Health Equity, Yale New Haven Health System

Contact Information

Lou Hart, MD

Mailing Address

  • Pediatric Hospitalist Program

    430 Congress Ave

    New Haven, CT 06510

    United States

Appointments

Biography

Lou Hart, MD is a practicing Pediatric Hospitalist, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, and the Medical Director of Health Equity for Yale New Haven Health.

His mission is to identify and eliminate unwanted variations in care and outcomes that exist within our respective systems. Today this needless waste in US healthcare costs us over $320 billion a year; it can and must be removed from our system! The US wastes more money on health system inequities than the federal government spends today on public housing and public education combined.

Dr. Hart started his clinical leadership career as Director of Equity, Quality & Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals, our nation's largest comprehensive safety-net healthcare system. Clinically he loves seeing patients and working with faculty, staff, residents, and medical students to improve the equity, quality & safety of patient care. By leveraging quality improvement and patient safety frameworks and methodologies, he confronts systems-based drivers of inequity through a just culture approach. Academically, he spends time researching and dialoguing with colleagues on the innate flaws of racial essentialism in medicine and its contribution to a lower standard of care for all patients.

Lou was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and grew up playing hockey, basketball, and golf. He studied Financial Economics, Medicine Health & Society, and Philosophy while at Vanderbilt University. He attended medical school at the University of California-San Diego and did his Pediatrics residency training at the NYU School of Medicine. After residency graduation, he completed a one year Clinical Leadership Fellowship at NYC Health + Hospitals in the system's Office of Quality & Safety. He is currently an EMBA '25 candidate at the Yale School of Management and a Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Equity Leadership.

Education & Training

  • MBA
    Yale School of Management (2025)
  • Emerging Leaders Program
    Yale School of Management (2023)
  • Clinical Leadership Fellow
    NYC Health + Hospitals (2020)
  • Residency
    New York University, Pediatrics (2019)
  • MD
    University of California, San Diego, Doctor of Medicine (2016)
  • BA
    Vanderbilt University, Medicine, Health & Society / Philosophy / Financial Economics (2010)
  • International Business & Economics Certificate
    University of Copenhagen (2008)

Certifications

  • Board Certification
    American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (2019)

Activities

  • The Use of Race in Patient ID / One-Liners
    Pittsfield, MA, United States 2023
    Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - Berkshire Medical Center
  • Race Medicine - Our Call to Action
    New Haven, CT, United States 2023
    African American Studies 170: “Sickness and Health in African American History
  • Clinical Moral Injury - Lessons Learned from Equity, Quality & Safety
    Boston, MA, United States 2023
    HRSA Workforce Change Collaborative Learning Session
  • Leveraging Systems to Advance Equity, Quality & Safety
    Kansas City, MO Kansas City, KS 2023
    Redesigning Healthcare Delivery to Improve Value
  • Medical Racism: Abolishing Race-Based Medicine
    New Haven, CT 2023
    Southern Connecticut State University MPH Invited Lecture Series
  • Integrating Equity into Quality & Safety
    Boston, MA, United States 2022
    Healthcare Equity Innovations Summit
  • Pursuing Health Equity: Lessons Learned
    Bridgeport, CT, United States 2022
    NAACP CT State Health Conference
  • Health(care) Equity: It’s Everyone's Job
    Chicago, IL 2022
    Advancing Equity Through Quality & Safety Peer Network
  • Pursuing Health Equity: Our Collective Call to Action
    Connecticut 2022
    REL Data CT Statewide Convenings
  • Health Equity & Considerations from the NICU
    Worldwide 2022
    IABLE International Breastfeeding Conference
  • Abolishing Racial Biology in Medicine
    Mt Sinai Hospital, NYC 2022
    Mount Sinai Pediatrics Health Equity Journal Club
  • Pursuing Health Equity: Our Collective Call to Action
    Connecticut 2022
    Racial Justice Workgroup
  • Pursuing Health Equity: Our Collective Call to Action
    Waterbury, CT 2022
    Department of Internal Medicine Noon Conference
  • Pursuing Health Equity: Our Collective Call to Action
    New Haven, CT, United States 2022
    Business Students for Racial Equity
  • Pursuing Health Equity - A Call to Action
    Iowa City, IA 2022
    Black History Month Lecture
  • From Theory to Impact: Ingraining Health Equity Into Quality & Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals
    Orlando, FL 2021
    2021 IHI Forum - General Conference
  • Medical Eracism: Ending Race-Based Medicine at NYC H+H
    New York City 2021
    NYC Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA)
  • Health Equity in Health Systems
    Chesterfield, MO 2021
    American College of Lifestyle Medicine Health Systems Council Board Meeting
  • Overcoming Racial Injustices in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Considerations of Equity, Quality & Safety
    New York City 2021
    Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2021
  • Overcoming Health Injustices - Considerations of Equity, Quality and Safety
    Southern California 2021
    Advancing Health Equity Training
  • Health Equity & Social Justice
    Seattle, WA 2021
    Women’s Health Summit
  • Healthcare Inequities in Communities of Color
    New York City & Connecticut 2021
    2021 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit
  • Ingraining Equity in Quality & Safety
    Los Angeles County 2021
    Cherished Futures Collaborative Workshop

Honors & Recognition

AwardAwarding OrganizationDate
Pediatric Senior Resident Clinical Teacher of the Year AwardNYU School of Medicine2019
Pediatric Junior Resident Clinical Teacher of the Year AwardNYU School of Medicine2018
Pediatric Intern Clinical Teacher of the Year AwardNYU School of Medicine2017

Professional Service

OrganizationRoleDate
Standards Review Panel (SRP) , The Joint Commission (TJC)New Requirements to Reduce Health Care Disparities - Standard LD.04.03.08 & National Patient Safety Goal 16.01.012022
Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) Pride Health NetworkChair2022 - Present
YNHHS Ending Racial Biology in Medicine TaskforceDirector2022 - Present
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)IHI Leadership for Health Equity Professional Development Program2022 - Present
Stratford Walk & Talk with a Doc Community Health SeriesVolunteer2022 - Present
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven, NHS of New HavenVolunteer Board Director2022 - Present
YNHHS Health Equity Patient Data WorkgroupDirector2021 - 2022
American Medical Association (AMA)AMA Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network2021 - 2022
YNHHS Health Equity Steering CommitteeCo-Director2021 - Present
National Organization for Arts in Health, (NOAH)Volunteer Board Director & Chair of Governance Committee2020 - Present

Departments & Organizations