Lou Hart, MD

Lou Hart, MD, pediatric hospitalist, medical director of Health Equity for Yale New Haven Health and assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine is on a mission. He is passionate about improving the equity, quality, safety, and cost of the US healthcare system.

In his role at Yale New Haven Health, Dr. Hart heads efforts to eliminate healthcare disparities driven by unnecessary variability and low value clinical care. These costly variations in care lead to differences in treatment and outcomes for patients based on culture, race, ethnicity, insurance status, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and other socially driven factors. His research also reveals that the current misuse of racially biased tools, tests, and guidelines that recommend caring for patients differently based on their race alone leads to less-effective diagnosis, treatment, and worse healthcare outcomes for all patients.

By leveraging quality improvement and patient safety methodologies and infrastructures, Dr. Hart works to address the systems-based drivers of health and quality disparities, including the innate flaws of race-based medicine and its contribution to a lower standard of care for all patients.

Dr. Hart studied financial economics, medicine health and 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 began his clinical leadership career at NYC Health + Hospitals and is now a Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow & MBA ’25 candidate at the Yale School of Management.