There are more than 60 million Americans with disabilities and many face barriers to accessing medical care and experience disparities in outcomes. Dr. Lagu described findings from more than a decade of work focused on understanding the mechanisms that lead to disparities for this population and explored potential solutions.

This event was co-hosted with the Division of General Internal Medicine and the National Clinician Scholars Program.

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Speaker

Tara Lagu, MD, MPH is a pharmacist, hospitalist, and health services researcher with a focus on using innovative methods to improve quality of care, access to care, and coordination of care for vulnerable patients, including patients with heart failure and patients with disabilities. With expertise in measurement of health care delivery quality, observational comparative effectiveness, implementation science, qualitative, and mixed methods, she has conducted studies that aim to increase implementation of evidence-based practice, advance health equity, improve population health, and reduce health disparities.