Romsai Tony Boonyasai, MD

Professional Titles

• Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Patient Access Line

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
• Health Services and Outcomes Research, Center for

Research Interests

Care coordination at hospital discharge, Hypertension, Quality improvement for chronic disease

Lab Website

Romsai Boonyasai Lab - Lab Website

• Research in the Romsai Boonyasai Lab focuses on systems-based approaches for improving health care quality, including reducing harm during care transitions after hospital discharge and improving outcomes related to hypertension and other chronic diseases. We recently have focused on developing and evaluating practice-based tools for improving the accuracy of blood pressure measurement, overcoming clinical inertia to treatment, and engaging patients in self-management of their health.

Research Summary

Dr. Boonyasai’s research focuses on improving health care quality. He conducts research related to hypertension, quality improvement for chronic disease and care coordination at hospital discharge. 

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=boonyasai%20r%5BAuthor%5D&cmd=DetailsSearch

Selected Publications

• Abt NB, Sampah ME, Boonyasai RT, Pahwa AK. “Primary colonic adenocarcinoma diagnosed with cutaneous shave biopsy.” BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Jul 6;2015. pii: bcr2015210046. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2015-210046.

• Boonyasai RT, Lin YL, Brotman DJ, Kuo YF, Goodwin JS. “Characteristics of primary care providers who adopted the hospitalist model from 2001 to 2009.” J Hosp Med. 2015 Feb;10(2):75-82. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2269.

• Boonyasai RT, Steinberg DI, Schleyer AM, Mourad MM, Harte BJ, Sharpe BA. Update in hospital medicine for the general internist 2010-2011. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Dec;26(12):1492-7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-011-1874-7. Epub 2011 Sep 20. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 21932159 

• Brotman DJ, Boonyasai RT, Deutschendorf A. Hospital care and medical utilization after discharge. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Nov 15;155(10):720-1; author reply 722. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-10-201111150-00019. No abstract available. PMID: 22084342 

• Cooper LA, Marsteller JA, Noronha GJ, Flynn SJ, Carson KA, Boonyasai RT, Anderson CA, Aboumatar HJ, Roter DL, Dietz KB, Miller ER 3rd, Prokopowicz GP, Dalcin AT, Charleston JB, Simmons M, Huizinga MM. A multi-level system quality improvement intervention to reduce racial disparities in hypertension care and control: study protocol. Implement Sci. 2013 Jun 4;8:60. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-60. PMID: 23734703 

   

• Farnan JM, Burger A, Boonyasai RT, Leykum L, Harrison R, Machulsky J, Parekh V, Sharpe BA, Schleyer AM, Arora VM; SGIM Housestaff Oversight Subcommittee. Survey of overnight academic hospitalist supervision of trainees. J Hosp Med. 2012 Sep;7(7):521-3. doi: 10.1002/jhm.1961. Epub 2012 Aug 7. Erratum in: J Hosp Med. 2013 Mar;8(3):164. Boonayasai, Romsai T [corrected to Boonyasai, Romsai T]. PMID: 22956452 

• Hussain T, Allen A, Halbert J, Anderson CA, Boonyasai RT, Cooper LA. “Provider perspectives on essential functions for care management in the collaborative treatment of hypertension: the P.A.R.T.N.E.R. framework.” J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Apr;30(4):454-61. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-3130-4. Epub 2014 Dec 17.

• Leykum LK, Parekh VI, Sharpe B, Boonyasai RT, Centor RM. Tried and true: a survey of successfully promoted academic hospitalists. J Hosp Med. 2011 Sep;6(7):411-5. doi: 10.1002/jhm.894. PMID: 21916004