Leora Horwitz MD

Summary

• Dr. Horwitz is director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science at NYU Langone Health, director of the Division of Healthcare Delivery Science in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, tenured professor of population health and of medicine, and a practicing internist. Her work focuses on improving the safety and quality of healthcare delivery. She is co-PI of the Clinical Science Core for the NIH’s RECOVER program to study post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, for which she is responsible for the adult cohort study. She has conducted over a dozen rapid trials within NYU designed to improve patient outcomes in support of a learning health system. She also conducts federally-funded research on value in health care; has developed quality measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; and co-directs a T32 Training Program in Population Health and Healthcare Delivery. She was named an Emerging Leader by the National Academy of Medicine and is an elected fellow of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Horwitz received her undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She then completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, NY and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Horwitz was on faculty at Yale for 7 years before moving to NYU in 2014.