Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS
Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Joseph E. Murray Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Program, Mass General Brigham
Director, Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center
Dr. Pusic is the chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Joseph E. Murray Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She is an internationally recognized thought leader in patient-reported outcome measurement and director of the Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The patient-reported outcomes measures that she and her team have developed for surgical patients have been widely adopted for research and clinical care (www.qportfolio.org). Dr. Pusic has been funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In collaboration with the American College of Surgeons, she currently leads an AHRQ-funded study that has expanded PRO collection to 64 hospitals nationwide through the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP). Dr. Pusic has authored and co-authored over 300 peer reviewed papers.
The MGB Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) program is the largest PROM program in the United States, collecting over five million validated clinical questionnaires annually; informing providers, researchers and quality analysts of our patients’ symptoms, mental health, quality of life and functional status. The program is active in most MGB institutions across a broad array of specialties, offers over 500 available questionnaires assigned, collected and integrated with the Epic health record. PROMs is also an active area of academic research, with investigators from both of our systems’ academic medical centers featured in the growing PROMs literature.
PROMs is a central feature of the system’s strategy for measuring, improving, and demonstrating quality patient care across the health system. Dr. Pusic will begin her work with MGB this month reporting to Rachel Sisodia, MD, chief quality officer at MGB, and will remain as chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and director of the PROVE Center at the Brigham.