Evan Benjamin
As the Director of Community Innovation at Ariadne Labs, Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP, provides oversight, guidance, and support to Ariadne Labs research faculty, ensuring that Ariadne’s findings are supported by rigorous evidence and result in clinically meaningful change. Evan mentors faculty and research scientists and works with individuals to enhance faculty research. In addition, Evan works to develop and expand Ariadne’s strategic partnerships, and to raise the Ariadne Labs profile as a global leader in health systems innovation. He also co-founded PACT (the Pathway to Accountability, Compassion, and Transparency), a program to help health care providers improve transparency and patient safety, specifically through their response to medical harm.
Prior to Ariadne Labs, Evan was Senior Vice President for Population Health and Quality, Baystate Health, a $2B revenue integrated delivery system in Massachusetts where he oversaw clinical quality, patient safety, population health, infection control, a 100 physician primary care practice, and Information Technology for the 5 hospital system. He was responsible for bringing reliability and efficiency to the health system using modern tools of improvement science.
He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School with a secondary appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is also an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Tufts University. He is active in scholarly research in healthcare delivery and speaks and consults nationally on issues related to improving healthcare delivery. Evan is faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) where he teaches leadership and improvement and sits on numerous national boards and healthcare panels including the National Academy of Medicine, the American Hospital Association, CMS and others. He currently serves as a board member for the UMass Memorial Health Care System.
Evan received a BA in Chemistry from Williams College, an MD from Case Western Reserve University, and an MS in Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College. He completed an internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
June 16, 2021 Loneliness can’t be diagnosed with a simple blood test or quick exam. Yet research shows that loneliness is as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness can increase the risk of premature death, heart disease, dementia, mental health issues and health care costs, according to the National Academies… Continue reading Ariadne Labs and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene team up to study and mitigate loneliness
PACT aims to improve implementation of Communication and Resolution Programs to compassionately respond to harm events June 8, 2021 – Ariadne Labs, in partnership with the Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement (CAI), and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) today announced the launch of the PACT Collaborative: Pathway to Accountability, Compassion, and Transparency, a Breakthrough… Continue reading The Nation’s Leaders in Healthcare Communication and Resolution Programs Launch PACT: Pathway to Accountability, Compassion, and Transparency, a Breakthrough Series Collaborative
Distrust of government, distrust of science, and distrust of the media is curtailing vaccination efforts in Maine. But “This reluctance to get vaccinated among certain U.S. populations could threaten to derail the progress and really prolong this pandemic,” said Evan Benjamin, Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Ariadne Labs.
Boston.com speaks to Dr. Evan Benjamin about the Vaccine Confidence Toolkit.
May 6, 2021 To help increase public confidence in being vaccinated against COVID-19, Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, today released the COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Toolkit. The toolkit – available in a free download here – is designed to support… Continue reading New Ariadne Labs Toolkit for Providers Aims to Boost Patients’ Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccine
Health care’s long-overdue transition to using communication and resolution programs when addressing harm By Molly Craig and Evan Benjamin, MD, MS Apologizing is hard, but doing it well is even harder. From the outset, we are predisposed to find reasons to delay or avoid saying we are sorry. Apologies can feel risky and uncomfortable! Our… Continue reading Can I get an “I’m sorry” with a side of accountability?
By Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH; Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP; Margaret Ben-Or, MPH Many K–12 schools in the United States are closing in on the end of their first term of the 2020–2021 school year, a year unlike anything we have experienced in recent history due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some schools have opened their… Continue reading Good News: In The Debate About School Re-opening, There Are A Few Things Schools Don’t Actually Need To Do
By Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP; Bozwell Bueno; Meghan Long, MHA; and Saranya Loehrer, MD, MPH Over the past several months we have had the privilege of supporting health care organizations across the United States as they respond to unprecedented challenges brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic. From policy and payment changes at the federal… Continue reading Guiding Principles for the “New Normal” in Health Care
Ariadne Labs and CRICO/Risk Management Foundation publish the Patient Safety Adoption Framework in the Journal of Patient Safety.
