Kirsten Austad MD MPH is a hospitalist at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. She is the Medical Director for the HealthNet Inpatient Family Medicine service. She completed a fellowship in global women\u2019s health where she focused on improving delivery of reproductive health care in rural indigenous Maya communities of Guatemala. She is currently a fellow in the Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences at Boston University.<\/p>\n
Her research seeks to use implementation science to promote health equity and improve patient experience in safety-net settings, including for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Methodologically she is interested in intervention adaptation to reduce health disparities and facilitate linguistic and cultural concordance. Her current research focuses on improving the quality of hospital discharge care for patients with limited English proficiency.<\/p>\n
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