Lilly Dhillon Engineer, DrPH, MD, MHA
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Lilly Dhillon Engineer
Professional Titles
- Associate Director, Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program, Department of Health Policy and Management
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Background
Dr. Lilly Engineer is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also an assistant professor in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and associate faculty in the Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety.
She serves as associate director of the doctor of public health (DrPH) program in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Engineer’s primary research interest includes the quality and safety of medical care, especially in rural and underserved communities. Among her many accomplishments, she is credited with the development of the first anonymous intensive care unit safety reporting system (ICUSRS) in the United States.
Recently, Dr. Engineer received two grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and one from the National Institutes of Health. She is on the AHRQ-funded task force working to evaluate and provide recommendations on how to improve the AHRQ Quality Indicators and serves on a World Health Organization task force that created a practical curriculum guide for training patient safety improvement researchers and practitioners worldwide.
Centers and Institutes
Research Interests
Quality and safety of medical care in rural and underserved areas
Lab Website
Lilly Engineer Lab
- Research in the Lilly Engineer Lab examines the quality and safety of medical care, with a focus on rural and underserved communities. Our current research evaluates methods for improving immunization rates among inner-city populations of school-aged children. We are also exploring the effect of federal policy changes and health care market forces on rural hospitals in the United States.
Research Summary
Dr. Engineer’s primary research focuses on the quality and safety of medical care, especially in the rural and underserved areas.
Her four most recent research projects included two Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded grants and a National Institutes of Health-funded grant.
Current research projects examine the impact of federal policy changes and healthcare market forces on the organizational and management strategies, financial viability and clinical performance of U.S. rural hospitals. She is also studying ways to improve school-aged childhood immunization rates among a predominantly African American, inner city population, utilizing and comparing interventions.
Dr. Engineer is also on the AHRQ-funded task force working to evaluate and provide recommendations on how to improve the AHRQ Quality Indicators.
Honors
SOURCE Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/13