PERLHS Academy Faculty

Core Leadership

Jodi Segal, M.D., M.P.H.

Jodi Segal is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has joint health policy, management, and epidemiology appointments at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Segal is internationally recognized as a comparative effectiveness researcher and pharmacoepidemiologist. She serves as the associate director of the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR) and the co-director of the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness (CDSE), both in the School of Public Health. Her research interests center on reducing low value healthcare in older adults. She practices as a general internist. 

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Jill Marsteller, Ph.D., M.P.P.

Jill Marsteller has been involved in health services research since 1993 and specializes in organizational behavior and theory, specifically in estimating the influence of organizational variables and contextual measures on quality improvement activities in learning organizations. She focuses her research on the determinants of successful implementation, dissemination, and sustainability of knowledge. She conducts mixed methods research in both inpatient and ambulatory health care settings.

She is jointly appointed in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, where she leads the Research Facilitation Council, and at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She also serves as an Associate Director of the Center for Health Service and Outcomes Research and as the co-leader of the Behavioral, Social and Systems Science Translational Research Community within the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.  uses organization and implementation science to evaluate and promote positive provider interactions, equity, quality and safety in care delivery. Her research interests include teamwork, organizational behavior, organizational theory, quality improvement, patient safety, disparities, implementation science, and organizational learning.

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Harold Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D.

Harold Lehmann is a professor of biomedical informatics and data science (Department of Medicine) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in Pediatrics and Health Policy and Management and in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His areas of clinical expertise include general pediatrics, although he is no longer clinically active. Dr. Lehmann serves as the informatics lead for the PaTH/PCORnet site of Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Lehmann's research interests include real-world evidence, evidence-based medicine and decision-making, decision analysis and Bayesian and computable scientific communication. Dr. Lehmann is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and Associate Editor of JAMIA. He is a member of the Society for Medical Decision-Making and the American Medical Informatics Association.

Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D.

Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna is a critical care physician and health services researcher whose research seeks to understand the context of critical illness, both how critical illness influences a patient’s life course, and how the organizational environment influences the effectiveness of the care that a patient receives. He aims to improve long-term health outcomes and quality of life for survivors of critical illness through social and health safety net integration.

Dr. Iwashyna’s innovative research has provided evidence of the long-term impact of severe acute infections in the United States, showing that patients who survive sepsis often have enduring cognitive and functional deficits that last for years and result in difficulties completing basic activities in daily living and that survivors are at higher risk for re-admission to the hospital and death. Iwashyna has worked with an international coalition to reframe advice on inpatient treatment of sepsis to incorporate explicit discussions of supporting family members and including neighborhood context and financial resources as key components in recovery. He currently is working on identifying modifiable social and contextual factors that shape functional recovery after a serious illness and investigating the roles of employment, financial toxicity, and caregiver burden as both outcomes of and contributors to recovery.

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Matthew Robinson, M.D.

Matthew Robinson is an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is interested in leveraging diagnostic innovation and precision medicine to reduce diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty for infectious diseases. His current projects include applications in global health, antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic stewardship, infection control, COVID-19, acute febrile illness, and tuberculosis. Since joining the faculty in 2019, Dr. Robinson has been supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration. The focus of his work in antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic stewardship and infection control has been to characterize drug-resistant Gram-negative infections in India. His work with the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for COVID-19 has included applying machine learning and causal inference techniques to predict COVID-19 outcomes. He has contributed to SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic development through the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative and the collaborative development of other novel diagnostics.

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