HOMERuN Steering Committee Members

Marisha Burden MD, MBA is Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she serves as Division Head of Hospital Medicine. Her primary research interest focuses on building evidence-based work design to support workforce, patient, and organizational outcomes.

S. Ryan Greysen, MD, MHS, SFHM is Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research uses gamification and wearable technologies to increase physical activity for patients at risk for disability due to recent hospitalization, older age, stroke, cancer, surgery, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Disease. He also studies clinical operations to improve hospital-level and provider-level outcomes.

James Harrison, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor of Medicine, researcher, and implementation scientist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Harrison’s primary research focuses on developing and implementing interventions to improve the hospital care of older adults. The foundation to Dr. Harrison’s work is engaging with patients, caregivers and other stakeholders to include their perspectives in research, He also convenes the HOMERuN Patient & Family Advisory Council.

Sunil Kripalani MD, MSc, SFHM is Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he serves as Director of the Center for Health Services Research and Vice President for Health System Sciences. Dr. Kripalani is an applied implementation scientist whose research interests include health communication, medication safety, care transitions, social determinants of health, implementation of evidence-based practice, and de-implementation of low-value care.

Dr. Stephanie Mueller is a clinician-investigator within the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she works as a hospitalist and conducts research on hospital-based care transitions. Her primary research interests focus on improving the quality and safety of inter-hospital transfer. She currently is conducting several AHRQ-funded studies evaluating inter-hospital transfers, partnering with HOMERuN for a multi-site study. In addition to her research activities, she is actively involved in faculty development and mentorship, serving as the faculty development director of programs for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine, and as the Associate Director for the Harvard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine.

Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH, MHM is Research Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  His research focuses on improving the quality and safety of health care delivery for acutely ill medical patients.  Subject areas include safe and effective medication use, transitions in care, diagnostic errors, home hospital, and communication among health care providers and between patients and providers.  The quality improvement interventions that he studies include innovations in health information technology, more effective use of hospital-based personnel, and process redesign using continuous quality improvement and implementation science methods.