Timothy Ferris, MD, MGH

Timothy Ferris, MD, MPH is a practicing general internist and pediatrician and a senior scientist in the Partners/MGH Institute for Health Policy.  He is a member of the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy and Vice Chair for Quality at Mass General Hospital for Children and Partners HealthCare.  Dr. Ferris directs disease management programs at Partners HealthCare with specific responsibility for design, oversight and evaluation of programs to improve quality and efficiency of care for high-risk patients such as those with heart failure. Partners Connection provides nurse case managers to over 5000 high-risk Medicaid patients in Eastern Massachusetts.  His research has focused on the measurement and improvement of health care quality for adults and children.  In addition to quality improvement interventions he has published studies on the effects of the organization and financing of care on the costs and quality of care, risk adjustment of quality measures, and disparities in health care.  Dr. Ferris has been a member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Health Care Quality and Effectiveness Research study section and has chaired two Technical Advisory Panels for the National Quality Forum.