Lou Hart, MD

Lou Hart, MD is a practicing Pediatric Hospitalist, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 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. Healthcare delivery organizations specifically must remain steadfast in eliminating inefficiencies in process and outcome, and do so before they manifest themselves as unjust harm and economic waste. Long term qualitative success will bring about a transformed healthcare system, and a better one for us all!

Lou was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and grew up playing hockey 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 NYU.

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 enjoys educating and learning from patients, as well as teaching peer faculty, residents, and medical students about equitable systems science. By leveraging quality improvement methodologies, he confronts systems-based drivers of inequity that permeate all sectors of our economy. Academically, he spends time researching and educating colleagues on the innate flaws of racial biology in medicine and its contribution to lower quality care for all patients.