Lawrence Kleinman

Vice Chair for Research & Education
Deparment of Health Evidence & Policy

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Evidence & Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

President and CEO, Quality Matters, Inc

Dr. Kleinman is a pediatrician and health services researcher. His major areas of research interest include child health, the quality of health care, health policy research, and research methods and measurement.

His article that described a system by which lay researchers couold assess the physical health of homeless adults in the field (Kleinman LC, Gelberg L, Perlman J, Freeman HE. Homing in on the Homeless: Assessing the physical health of homeless adults in Los Angeles County using a novel method to obtain physical exam data in a survey. HSR: Health Services Research. December, 1996. 31:533-549) was recognized in 1997 as the Article of the Year for best science in the health services research literature in 1996 by the Association for Health Services Research (now Academy Health).

Current projects include:

• leading a consortium ( the Mount Sinai Consortium for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measuremes or CAPQuaM) as part of the AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program.
• developing and expanding upon a method to estimate adjusted risk differences and adjusted risk ratios directly from logistic regression equations; (Kleinman, L.C., and Edward Norton. 2009. "What's the Risk? A Simple Approach for Estimating Adjusted Risk Measures from Nonlinear Models Including Logistic Regression." Health Services Research, 44(1): 288-302.  http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs/6254. )
• evaluating a CDC funded effort (IMPACT Diabetes Center) to reduce racial and ethinic disparities in obesity and other diabetes related conditions among adults and children in East Harlem, NY and beyond; 
• developing a measurement model to guide the evaluation of health information technology interventions;
• describing a newly recognized bias in outcomes reporting; and,
• developing a more operational framework for assessing the quality of health care.

MD, MPH