Lou Hart, MD

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

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. These unjust disparities 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 & MBA ’25 candidate at the Yale School of Management.