Dr. Karen Sheares

Biography

Karen Dorsey Sheares, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University, where she is also the Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) at Yale New Haven Hospital. Sheares' research career was launched in 2012 with a focus on the relationship between obesity and physical activity in children. She oversees the Quality Measurement Program at CORE, which is responsible for developing and implementing new quality measures and leading the digital transformation strategy that utilizes electronic health record data. Sheares holds an MD from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Investigative Medicine from Yale University, where she also completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia. Her academic training includes clinical research fellowships and clinical scholar programs at Yale, alongside rigorous residency and internship training at Children’s Hospital New York-Presbyterian. Through her work at CORE, she contributes significantly to quality improvement in health care research, developing innovative solutions informed by electronic health records.

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