Brett Anderson MD MBA MS

Summary

• Dr. Brett Anderson is a pediatric cardiologist, NIH-funded investigator, and inaugural Director for the Center for Child Health Services Research in the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine. Dr. Anderson blends medical, business, and statistical backgrounds for the purposes of identifying modifiable drivers of outcomes, value, and health inequities associated with the management of pediatric heart disease. She has examined the effects of provider characteristics, surgical timing, social determinants of health, and various measures of healthcare access. She is the founder and Director of the NY State Congenital Heart Surgery Collaborative for Longitudinal Outcomes and Utilization of Resources (CHS-COLOUR), an interdisciplinary collaborative that brings together leadership and data from all congenital heart surgical centers in NY State, health services researchers, and the Department of Health, to examine etiologies of health inequities and to plan for programmatic interventions.
  
  Dr. Anderson joins Mount Sinai after a decade at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she served as Director of Clinical Research, Outcomes, and Quality for the Pediatric Heart Center and Co-Director of ASPIRE! Peer Mentoring.
  
  The Center for Child Health Services Research will serve as the primary locus for research on the impacts of the healthcare system for children at The Icahn School of Medicine. The Center seeks to promote the sharing of interdisciplinary ideas, methodologies, data, and mentorship, to enhance productivity and creativity for investigators—both within and outside the Center—for the purpose of improving quality and effectiveness of the healthcare system for all children. Partnering with existing departments, institutes, and governmental agencies, Center expertise focus on improving the function of healthcare Providers, Payers, & Policy; Value & Effectiveness; and Access & Equity for kids.