Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM
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Biography
Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and scientist at Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital. He is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine. He is a leading expert in the science to improve the quality and efficiency of care, eliminate disparities and promote equity, improve integrity and transparency in medical research, engage patients in their care, and avoid wasteful practices. Recent efforts are focused on harnessing the digital transformation in healthcare to accelerate knowledge generation and facilitate the delivery of care aligned with each patient’s needs and preferences.
Dr. Krumholz is director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), an organization dedicated to improving health and health care through research, tools, and practices that produce discovery, heighten accountability and promote better public health and clinical care. He co-founded and co-leads the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project, designed to increase access to clinical research data and promote their use to generate new knowledge. He also co-founded and co-leads medRxiv, a non-profit preprint server for the medical and health sciences. He was a founding faculty co-director of the Yale Center for Research Computing.
Dr. Krumholz has been honored by membership in the National Academy of Medicine, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He was named a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association and received their Award of Meritorious Achievement and their Clinical Research Prize. He served as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Krumholz received the Friendship Award from the People’s Republic of China in recognition of his collaborative efforts to develop a national cardiovascular research network and was named by the Chinese Society of Cardiology as a Top-10 Distinguished International Cardiologist for his contributions to the development of cardiovascular medicine in China. He founded the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council and co-founded their annual conference. He was the founding editor of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes; founding editor of CardioExchange, a social media site of the publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine; and editor of Journal Watch Cardiology of the New England Journal of Medicine. He was a founding Governor of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. He is a co-founder of medRxiv, a preprint server for clinical medicine.
He is a co-founder of HugoHealth, a patient-centric platform to engage people as partners in research and clinical care, facilitate the secure acquisition and movement of digital health data, and promote learning health communities. He is a co-founder of Refactor Health, an enterprise healthcare AI-augmented health data management company.
Before joining the Yale faculty in 1992, Dr. Krumholz received a BS (Biology) from Yale, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and a Masters in Health Policy and Management (SM) from the Harvard University School of Public Health. At Yale, he directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program from 1996-2017 and serves as Director Emeritus of the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program. Dr. Krumholz has published more than 1400 articles and three books and has an h-index of more than 220.
Education & Training
- FellowBeth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1992)
- SMHarvard, Health Policy and Management (SM) (1992)
- Chief ResidentMoffitt Hospital/University of California, San Francisco (1989)
- ResidentUniversity of California, San Francisco (1988)
- MDHarvard University (1985)
- BSYale College, Biology (1980)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Clinical Research Prize | American Heart Association | 2019 |
Top-10 Distinguished International Cardiologists (for contributions to the development of cardiovascular medicine in China) | Chinese Society of Cardiology | 2018 |
Advisory Committee to the Director | National Institutes of Health | 2015 |
China Friendship Award | People's Republic of China | 2014 |
Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Outstanding Achievement Award | American Heart Association | 2013 |
Distinguished Achievement Award | American Heart Association | 2011 |
Board of Trustees | American College of Cardiology Foundation | 2010 |
Board of Directors | American Board of Internal Medicine | 2010 |
Distinguished Scientist Award | American Heart Association | 2010 |
Elected member | Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering | 2008 |
Elected member | Institute of Medicine of the National Academies | 2007 |
Award of Meritorious Achievement | American Heart Association | 2007 |
Elected member | Association of American Physicians | 2004 |
Elected member | American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2000 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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American College of Cardiology | Steering Committee of the Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative | 2009 - Present |
Institute of Medicine | Evidentiary Recommendations for Qualification of Surrogate Endpoints for Chronic Disease Risk Committee | 2008 - Present |
National Cardiovascular Data Registry | International Strategy Work Group | 2008 - Present |
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association | Methodology for the Selection and Creation of Performance Measures for Quantifying the Quality of Cardiovascular Care Writing Committee | 2008 - Present |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | Expert Panel on Integrated CVD Risk Reduction in Adults and the Guidelines Implementation Work Group | 2008 - Present |
National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine | Committee on Human Rights | 2008 - Present |
American Heart Association | Standards for Measures Used for Public Reporting of Efficiency and Value in Health Care Writing Group | 2007 - 2009 |
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association | Writing Group to Update the 2004 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, of the June 2007 Focused Update of the 2004 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction | 2007 - 2009 |
American Heart Association | Implementation and Integration of Pre-hospital Electrocardiogram Programs into Systems of Care for Acute Coronary Syndrome Writing Group | 2007 - 2008 |
Yale School of Medicine | MD-MHS Advisory Committee | 2007 - Present |
American College of Cardiology | D2B Alliance Steering Committee | 2006 - 2008 |
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association | Task Force on Practice Guidelines | 2006 - 2008 |
American Heart Association | Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee | 2006 - Present |
Yale School of Medicine | Advisory Board | 2005 - Present |
American Heart Association | Standards for Statistical Models Used for Public Reporting of Outcomes Writing Group | 2004 - 2005 |
Yale School of Medicine | Clinical and Population-Based Research Committee | 2004 - Present |
Yale School of Nursing | External Advisory Committee | 2003 - Present |
Yale School of Nursing | Committee Member | 2003 - Present |
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association | Writing Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction | 2001 - 2005 |
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association | Writing Committee to Develop Performance Measures for STEMI/NSTEMI | 2000 - 2008 |
American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine | Fellow | 1999 - Present |
American Heart Association | Fellow, Council on Clinical Cardiology | 1996 - Present |
American College of Cardiology | Fellow | 1996 - Present |
Departments & Organizations
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Center for Infection and Immunity
- Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Track
- Dean's Workshops
- Diabetes Research Center
- Health Policy & Management
- Internal Medicine
- Investigative Medicine Program
- National Clinician Scholars Program
- Yale Center for Genomic Health
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale School of Public Health