Gina Kruse, MD, MPH

Gina Kruse, MD, MPH is a clinician investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She trained in internal medicine and primary care at Mass General. She completed a Harvard Medical School General Internal Medicine research fellowship, earned her MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cancer Prevention from the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Kruse’s research examines technology-based interventions to improve the delivery of preventive services, particularly tobacco cessation treatment. She focuses on underserved populations at risk for tobacco-related illness in settings in the US and internationally. Gina is the Director of the Implementation Team and leads the coordination of the dual screening pilot studies and capacity building work with the health centers.

Select Publications:

• Implementation of an Electronic Health Record-Based Care Management System to Improve Tobacco Treatment
• Proactively Offered Text Messages and Mailed Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smokers in Primary Care Practices: A Pilot Randomized Trial