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Amy Rosen, PhD
Amy Rosen, PhD
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research
Bedford, MA
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Amy Rosen, PhD, is a health services researcher and recent HSR&D Career Scientist Awardee based at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research (a VA Center of Excellence in Bedford MA). She is Director of Risk Assessment and Patient Safety at the Center, and also holds an appointment as Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. She has a B.A. in political science from Boston University and a Ph.D. in sociology from University of Maryland. Her research interests include risk adjustment, quality of care, patient safety, and health care outcomes.
Dr. Rosen has served as Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigator on numerous federally funded projects. She is a national expert in risk adjustment, and was the first researcher to apply leading commercial risk-adjustment systems to national VA data to measure disease burden. She also developed a risk-adjustment model to predict decline in functional status in long-term care facilities, which has been used as a marker of quality in numerous studies. She recently led the development of a diagnosis-based psychiatric case-mix measure specifically for VA patients with mental health and substance abuse disorders. She has also become a national expert in the use and application of the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and has helped AHRQ revise their indicator definitions based on findings using VA clinical data. These measures serve as screens for potential patient safety events. In addition to assessing and measuring patient safety, she is currently co-Principal Investigator on a study examining the variation in safety culture across VA hospitals. This study will examine the relationship between safety culture and safety outcomes, including the PSIs. She also serves as a co-Principal Investigator on a study examining the effect of the change in resident work hours on quality and patient safety in VA hospitals. Dr. Rosen collaborates on several projects that need risk-adjustment consultation, methodological expertise, or that have a safety-related component.
Dr. Rosen is the author of over seventy peer-reviewed manuscripts, and serves as a reviewer for many journals, including Medical Care, Health Services Research, JAMA, and Journal of General Internal Medicine. She is a member of the HSR&D Scientific Merit Review Board, and serves as a senior mentor for fellows, junior faculty, and VA career development awardees.
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