About Me
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- type 2 diabetes mellitus
- high blood pressure disorder
Learn more about conditions we treat at NYU Langone:
Type 2 Diabetes in Adults, Hypertension in AdultsCredentials
Positions
- Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
- Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
- Director, Division of Healthcare Delivery Science
- Director, Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine, 2003
Education and Training
- Fellowship, Veterans Affairs Med Center (West Haven, CT), Internal Medicine, 2007
- Residency, Mount Sinai Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2003
- MD from Harvard Medical School, 2000
Departments
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Edit profileInsurance Plans Accepted
This provider accepts the following insurance plans.
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Aetna
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Indemnity
- Aetna Medicare
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO/EPO
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Cigna
- Cigna EPO/POS
- Cigna PPO
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ElderPlan
- ElderPlan
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Emblem
- Emblem Select Care Exchange
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Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield EPO
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus Essential
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Indemnity
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield MediBlue
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Pathways, Enhanced
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Fidelis
- Fidelis Child Health
- Fidelis Essential
- Fidelis Exchange
- Fidelis Family Health
- Fidelis Medicaid
- Fidelis Medicare
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GHI
- GHI CBP
- GHI HMO
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HIP
- HIP Access I
- HIP Access II
- HIP Child Health
- HIP EPO/PPO
- HIP HMO
- HIP Medicare
- HIP POS
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HealthSmart
- HealthSmart (WTC)
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Healthfirst
- Healthfirst
- Healthfirst Essential
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Local 1199
- Local 1199 PPO
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MagnaCare
- MagnaCare PPO
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Medicaid
- NY Medicaid
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Medicare
- Medicare
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MetroPlus
- MetroPlus Child Health
- MetroPlus Essential
- MetroPlus Exchange Plans
- MetroPlus Family Health
- MetroPlus Medicaid
- MetroPlus Medicare
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MultiPlan/PHCS
- MultiPlan/PHCS PPO
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NYS Health Insurance Plan
- The Empire Plan
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Oxford
- Oxford Freedom
- Oxford Liberty
- Oxford Medicare
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Railroad Medicare
- Railroad Medicare
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Tricare
- Tricare
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UHC
- UnitedHealthcare EPO
- UnitedHealthcare HMO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare
- UnitedHealthcare POS
- UnitedHealthcare PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Top Tier
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UPN
- UPN Elite
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VNS
- Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) Medicare
Research My Research
Interests
quality and safety, healthcare systems, continuity and transitions, implementation science
Research Summary
I am an associate professor in the Departments of Population Health and Medicine at NYU Langone. I am the founding director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science and the Division of Healthcare Delivery Science in the Department of Population Health.
After receiving my AB degree magna cum laude in social studies from Harvard University, I earned my medical degree from Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where I also served as chief resident. I then received a master’s degree in health services research while a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale School of Medicine, and spent seven years on the faculty at Yale School of Medicine.
My research initially focused on systems and practices intended to bridge gaps or discontinuities in care. I have studied shift-to-shift transfers among physicians and among nurses, transfers from the emergency department to inpatient units, and the transition from the hospital to home. I now work more generally on healthcare redesign and learning health system transformation.
My work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the John A. Hartford Foundation, the American Federation for Aging Research, the Patterson Family Trust, the Quad Family Foundation, and the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation.
Under contract to the CMS, I led the development of the 30-day all-cause hospital readmission quality measure and the excess days in acute care measures that are endorsed by the National Quality Forum and are now publicly reported.
At NYU Langone, I am the principal investigator of the NYU Patient Imaging Quality and Safety Laboratory (funded by the AHRQ), the Greater New York City Practice Transformation Network (funded by CMS), the Enhancing the Role of Hospitals in Improving Population Health Learning Center (funded by the RWJF), and the Rapid Randomized Controlled Trial Laboratory (funded by the Quad Family Foundation). Finally, I co-direct the Population Health Science Scholars Program.
Academic Contact
Academic office
227 East 30th Street
Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone
Research Interests Timeline
Publications
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Kang, Stella K; Garry, Kira; Chung, Ryan; Moore, William H; Iturrate, Eduardo; Swartz, Jordan L; Kim, Danny C; Horwitz, Leora I; Blecker, Saul
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR. 2019 Nov ; 16(11):1587-1594
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Thiel, Cassandra; Horwitz, Leora I
JAMA. 2019 Oct 15; 322(15):1451-1452
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Weerahandi, Himali; Bao, Haikun; Herrin, Jeph; Dharmarajan, Kumar; Ross, Joseph S; Jones, Simon; Horwitz, Leora I
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2019 Oct 11;